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What's happening to my strength?

I've been able to beat and tie a 2200 FIDE rating person OTB (most of the time I lose though), and I do pretty well.

However, my first tournament is coming up and I decided to practice chess a lot for the next 2 weeks. The more I practiced the more I started to suck. I made a lot more mistakes that I didn't do with the 2200 rating person, and I can bearly beat a 1200 player on chess.com

I started lichess not too long ago and I am hovering around ~1500 to ~1600 but I'm not doing much better. What's happening?
Send me an invite to a casual game I can give you some pointers. Make it 5+5 or something like that. Did you save your game with the 2200 I would like to see it.
In your last game you have played the Italian instead of the Spanish. Try the Spanish.
I had a look through your recently lost Classical games, and you're simply throwing pieces away - moving a knight to a square where it can simply be taken by a pawn, threatening a knight which then moves to make the obvious fork on your king and rook, or hanging your queen. I got the impression you play much too hastily, without considering all aspects of your move. So my advice would be: take more time and think more about your opponent's threats!
There could be any number of reasons. You might be playing too much and not resting between so you are getting exhausted from playing too much.

You could also start losing and instead of taking time to figure out why you are losing your games, you keep pressing forward and frustration starts to mount as you feel you could play better.

Beating a person at 2200 could have been a fluke. The person might have been sick and could not focus. They might have been thinking about a real life issue ( a family member in a hospital) and not focusing on what they are doing on the board.

I once beat a person who was 800 points higher than I was because I kept being aggressive and I eventually created two linked past pawns that tied up his defense into knots until I was able to break through.

This does mean that I am as good as that person. It could be he was tired since it was towards at the end of a tournament.
#8 Not necessarily the higher rated player has to be tired, not focused, etc. It's possible to beat a higher rated player, even a lot stronger than you in his best shape. He can blunder, you can be lucky to end up in some complicated tactic that favor you, or you just have a great game.
Also the obvious answer is your friend was going easy on you. When a strong player plays against his friend who is a beginner, he's usually not out to crush that person.

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