breaking 1000

Interesting. Being brand new in chess, is like when I was brand new in golf, you try to break 100 then 90, then 80 (which I have done).

In chess its breaking 1000.

The hard part is when you study the analysis of your games, with the exceptions of blunders and just dumb moves, being new sometimes, it is hard to to tell why the computers move which is subtle is better than yours, if it is marginally better. The computers does not say hey idiot you should have done this because it just tells gives you the star versus the thumbs up.

So what is the best way to get from 950 to break 1000 and stay there.  Because like anything you don't know what you don't know.

How does one study? Should one play non rated games for practice?

Try to watch 'Building Habits' from Chessbrah. You will understand relativly soon why some of your moves/setups are not correct. I would also stop with spamming e4/e5, maybe try the Queens Gambit/French Defense instead.

Thank you! I have tried French recently just to mix it up for sure. Will certainly check out the video. I appreciate it.  Gotta get out of this crappy 900, but no matter where our levels are we are never satisfied right, which is a good thing

Looking through some of your rapid losses, I think your biggest weakness that you have to work on is your queen blunders. There are tactics players in the 800-1200 level use a lot to try to win queens like forks, pins, skewers. For pins and skewers, always make sure your queen and king are not in the same line of sight of your opponent's rook or bishop. Before moving your queen or king, ask yourself: Am I putting my queen in the same line or diagonal of my king? Can my opponent attack both pieces the next move? Forks are even harder to recognize cause pieces can be forked in so many different ways. General rule of thumb is to not allow your opponent to put their knights near your territory to prevent them from ever seeing your king with another piece/s.

I am not concerned with rapid to be honest, quite frankly it’s more of the daily chess. Many times I am playing rapid late at night and I am distracted or tired there is the lesson. I DO appreciate the feedback and should maybe change my post heading to daily chess breaking 1000

You may want to use some tools available on some other websites to have "moves" explained to you... as if they were decoding the moves for you. *wink wink*

Can you suggest?

To break 1000 you only need to keep on playing nearly every single day for a while. Just keep playing & it will all start making sense. Good luck

I study with this book "Winning Chess" by Irving Chernev & Fred Reinfeld. I move physical pieces on a board. I don't learn well by watching videos or learning online. I have to move the pieces by hand. It took me a long time to go and stay above 1000. (After hitting 1100 I often got beat and went down below 1000.) But, every time after I study w/ this book there's a small yet noticeable improvement. 

I think there is something to moving physical pieces, good point. Should do that more often. Not sure if I can do a book though

Learn a gambit bruv. Do you know how many people you will absolutely maul by playing the Danish/Vienna/Englund gambits? Especially at 1000ish ratings, gambits completely rule the board. Don't give into the e4-e5 classical garbage trap.

Also, learn a different but easy-to-play opening against e4. I suggest the Scandinavian or Caro-Kann since it's super easy to set up and immediately puts the white player out of their comfort zone.

tl;dr: GAMBITS ARE YOUR SAVIOR

I have been playing gambits, love the stafford, and I have been experimenting with the French defense.

Thank you

Stafford is less sound than the Englund/Danish

I don't think any of them are sound lol. They're all refuted

Eh you have to know the mainline for the other two, I know one line for the Stafford and that's all I need.

Queen's Gambit (Some say it's not really a gambit), Evan's Gambit, some variations of King's Gambit, Benko gambit, Marshall attack/gambit, Max Lange attack, etc are all sound gambits. Stuff like Blackmar-Diemer, Englund, Danish, Stafford aren't sound. I say this not to ridicule you or whatever you're accusing me of but I worry about your improvement if you play bad gambits and expect to be able to use them at the upper levels. There's a ceiling for that kind of stuff. Someone tried an Englund gambit against me a few days ago (1600) and I ended up +9 by move 12. 

anyway, to answer your original question, just keep working on improving. Do puzzles frequently, analyze every game you play regardless of the result, review your opening lines once in a while and 1000 will come in no time

The easiest-to-learn and most off-putting gambit to play most often is the Vienna in my opinion. If they don't play along to the position you want, you can easily convert it and the main line is super short. Check Gotham's video and your rating should see an increase.