A friend of mine once started to play chess in the net too, a little bit earlier then I started. His real rating was around 1600, yet in the net he soon reached a grandmaster's performance. The reason was clear, he admitted the (first) occasional, then more frequent and finally entire use of good old Fritz for almost every (except the first moves). Yet at least he was intelligent enough to recognize, that he had ended as a mere slave of an engine. As he did not like his own moves anymore and his mediocre performance in the real world after his spell as a 'Internet grandmaster', so have he gave chess up completely.
Well, I am not planning to give up on chess, yet on reducing my play within the virtual world of the net. People use engines here and they use them A LOT too. As I never use them (only for analysis AFTER the game), so I simply don't like to continue here as much as I did.
I want to see, which kind of performance you demonstrate in the REAL world out there and what you can do across a REAL board with real pieces, where you cannot use the aid of opening libraries and analysis engines.
Of course the chess in the net was an interesting experience, I played a few good games and sometimes I even learned something. Yet chiefly I learned, that I am not able and not willing to go into a competition with engines.
It is also very difficult to understand for me, what kind of dubious ego boost players get from winning their games while the key moves come from an engine. Not everybody has the insight of my friend, who finally found, that the world of chess was a better place without him... 