"How many pieces do you want to lose" "yes"
When you go into a game knowing that your opponent has a higher rating than you, you know that the odds of you winning go down. But it's not impossible, everyone has the ability to make a great move and sometimes it's just one move you make that can change the outcome of a game. And maybe you play a game where your opponent just keeps on making bad moves.
In this game, my opponent leaves all their pieces undefended, allowing me to just take them, eventually abandoning their Queen, which leads to them resigning. And the worst part was it was a rapid game, it wasn't a bullet or blitz, there was time to make our moves. We were less than a minute into the game before they resigned.
What should have been done differently?
I played Pawn d4, a book move, and Black played Knight c6, another book move. We were both off to a good start with Black threatening my Pawn.
Next I played Knight f3 to defend my Pawn. Black played e5, threatening the same Pawn. This was a bad move because they didn't really have any good defence. I played Pawn e5, taking the pawn. They only had the Knight on c6 to take back my pawn, but I had my Knight f3 defending e5, so if we started trading pieces, I would be up by 3. Their best choice would have been to develop a piece. Moving a pawn to d5 or e6 to free the Bishops or getting their other Knight out.
I played Pawn e5. In response, they played Bishop d6, losing their Bishop and gaining nothing. A better move, but keeping to d6 would have been moving their Pawn, the same idea but an equal trade. I would have played Pawn f6, so when white takes I could develop the Knight to f6.
I played Pawn to d6 because they just handed their Bishop to me and they took back my Pawn.
My Queen could see the Pawn so I decided to take it. They moved their Queen to c7, leaving it undefended.
