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I lost, but I think I played well

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Psalt-in

Disregarding the g6, I think I played very well for a difference of a rook

what about my play? (im 400 elo)

Psalt-in

my king on a1 XD LMAO

Psalt-in

the match was tense from start to finish
I loved this
cinema (g6)
I think I loved the match just because of g6 lmao

Hripfria202

I don't think that you played THAT well, because you lost your rook already on the 4th move, but OK. Think as you think

Hripfria202

But just learn from your mistakes, avoid these moves like g6 in the future, and you'll be OK at your rating. It's natural to blunder if you're a beginner

Hripfria202

From move 2 in this game you never had a chance to come back and at least draw the game.

JamesColeman

It’s hard to disregard the …g6, the rest of the game was just it heading to its (I would say inevitable but nothing is at that level) conclusion

magipi

When you are down material, the way to try and save the game is to attack your opponent and make the game complicated where they can blunder. Meekly trading the queens and then all the other pieces (as you did) is just giving up without a fight.

Icspe_Yt

Hi

AngusByers

You got caught out in the opening. At 400 you will see that Queen move a lot and so should prepare for it. You know your opponent is going to try and bring out their Bishop to c4 and then try and scholar's mate you on f7, which would be a good thing to prevent. I suspect that was your reason for 2. ... g6, to try and force the Queen away to prevent all that nonsense. But you missed the fact that you drop a pawn with check and have opened the diagonal to your rook. Ooops!
So what to do instead? First, remember the Queen isn't threating f7 all by itself, but it is threatening your e pawn. You want to defend it, but think of opening principles too. Develop your pieces to good squares, develop a knight before bishop. And you can do all of those and defend your e-pawn by developing your Queenside Knight to c6.
White will probably persist, and follow up with bishop to c4. Now they are threatening mate on f7, and now g6 is fine (because they can't take your e-pawn as your knight protects it), and their Queen will have to retreat.

They may retreat to f3, threatening mate on f7 again! But just keep following opening principles and how do you cut off the mate threat threat on f7? Just bring out your Kingside Knight to f6. You've stopped the threat, White's queen is blocking their Kingside Knight from it's usual square on f3, and your Queenside Knight can always consider a move to d4, forcing White to make yet another move with their Queen, although you may want to keep that in reserve and just continue getting your pieces developed first, such as your Kingside Bishop to g7 for example and get castled, open up a diagonal for your Queenside Bishop and decide where it should go.

So short story, Queenside Knight first, then maybe g6, and then Kingside knight, continue developing to good squares, while White's pieces trip over each other.