Can Somebody Please Analyze My Games And Tell Me How To Do Better?

I don't know what i keep doing wrong. 300-400 ELOs are wiping the floor with me.

It looks like you resign most of your games before move 10. Even if you have made a serious mistake at that point, you can often come back if you play on.

I got forked here i knew i was gonna lose the queen

It was a braindead position i shouldn't have been in in the first place and any decent player wouldn't have gotten there to begin with. There's no bouncing back from that cause any competent player would've easily capitalized on that and won.

Or this one:

No. You could have moved your queen. You would have lost your rook on a1. You very likely could have recovered something for it.

Try playing those positions out.

Make people mate you.

I guarantee you will come back in a good portion of the games.

You lose 100% of the games you resign.

Guys, I am having the same problem he is having, though I am slightly higher ELO (450-550). I need help seeing my mistakes, and, if you can, some tips on how to improve.

You're playing classical time controls. This is a very good idea and something I never see on the forums. You need to use this clock for it to improve your skills. It appears you are still playing blitz speed, and avoiding blunders playing that fast is nearly impossible until at least >1200 Elo.

The important area to improve is Move Selection.

Each move

• Pick at least 3 or 4 candidate moves
• For each, look for 2-3 moves your opponent might play, if forcing/simple to calculate then you can calculate deeper
• Evaluate the resulting position you expect
• Rule out candidate moves until you decide on a move

Looking at some games

I'm sure this one in particular hurts, it's an extremely common trap that even >1000 players can fall for. However by applying a move selection process, you'll never fall for a mate in 1.

Here you resigned with 57 minutes on the clock, but the position is equal and your up material. You likely didn't see a way to save the bishop. Applying move selection here might go like this.

Shoot, my bishop is in trouble. Maybe I counter attack with Nxf2? Looks risky. Maybe I go Ke7, that does save the bishop for now but then my King is out in the open. Oh, Qe7 defends the bishop. What will white play though? Well if they trade down and I'm still up material. Otherwise they need to spend their next move defending against Nxf2.

As for what others have said about resigning too early, it's a game so if you don't enjoy the position you can do what you like, but know that whenever your down a single piece that any tactic will get it back to equal/winning for you. <1000 Elo they'll be a tactic every couple of moves. You can only expect to be winning throughout in maybe 20% of your games, the rest are gonna be long roller coasters where you have to stay as focused and confident as your were on move 1 if you want to find the tactics on move 40.

Thanks for the info, but can you look at some of my games? Like I said, I have the same problem, but I don't exactly know what I am doing wrong.

Also, with my most recent game, I just had to go, so yeah.

I'll take a quick look at some positions

Sacking a knight for 2 pawns is a common sac, but it works less well longer time controls and in this case doesn't actually put their king at risk, or win control of the center, which is usually the idea.

Taking the rook here is bad, but it's the inevitable consequence of making that move in 2 seconds. You should look at several candidate moves and responses for each move, this will almost fully eliminate these blunders.

Bxa3 here feels like you were looking for immediate attacking chances, however when your opponent is turtling their minor pieces around the king and queen, it's rarely a good idea to attack before developing all your pieces.

Engine likes trading queens here but that's only because engines don't try to make comebacks, you really want to keep queens on the board when you want to win back material, keep things complicated and dynamic.

You still have 2 minor pieces not developed, plus your rooks. Moving your already developed knight out to try a solo attack is not a good idea. There's a saying that 3 pieces are needed for an attack/mate, that's helped me stay disciplined on attack with more pieces.

Here we are 26 moves in and you still have nearly your full clock. Using your full clock will lead to massively better results, and combined with methodical move selection will help you realize when a piece is now hanging like your bishop is here.

Hope this is helpful!

Thanks.

Yes, a competent player. You're playing a 375 though, so give him a chance to blunder a few pieces as well. People will blunder at all levels, it's only less likely the higher you get. I'm at ~740 and ppl blunder their queens all the time so expect your opponents to do the same. Just because they took your rook your game isn't over. They may even blunder because they think they won and become careless, so give them the opportunity to blunder by not resigning.

Also you need to learn to fight back. especially when you're behind, can't do that if you always resign when you feel it's not going so well for you. Just try to do the best moves you can and who knows, maybe you learn something or even win the game. Stay calm in the face of adversity.

This is the wrong beginner's mindset. All your thoughts need to be at how you can win, nothing else. That way you create a winner's mindset and you will start winning because you see uncovered opportunities.

In this example of the fork, you will just sacrifice the rook but then focus everything on the enemy king and see if you can find tactics. Chess is much more complicated than you can imagine, it is all about finding winning chances. They're there if you look for them.

Yes

You’ll lose the rook but eventually win back the Knight.

You: Lost a rook, worth 5 points

Them, Lost a knight, worth 3 points. Not a bad deal, only 5 pawns

2*

I'm rated approx 1400 first game move 5-- bishop c4 totally unnecessary your pawn i defended take the pawn on e5. By move 6 you must trade knight and not castle

game 2 vs praj... move 4 definitely nned to attack horse with d5 not bg5

You could have moved the rook and saved the queeen