Can't win

I can't win. I can't think three moves ahead, those are all hypotheticals predicated on certain things happening. 

It's just pieces and a board, this shouldn't be hard to master. 

One of two things regarding your post:

1. You created this to show off games where you just play bad on purpose and resign. BTW, this has been done to death.

2. Youre serious. The answer to your problem. All you play is speed chess, and move too fast. Play slower or dont expect to improve.

"It's just pieces and a board, this shouldn't be hard to master."

If you believe chess is just a board and pieces then it should be easy to master. If thats so, then why are there so few GM's? Why isnt everyone a GM? or at least a IM? NM? or even Expert?

That frustration is the brutal paradox of chess; its simple rules create a game so complex that no human can ever master it. Forget trying to see three moves ahead and instead build the simple habit of only looking at the most forcing moves—checks, captures, and direct attacks—for both yourself and your opponent.

Your problem isn't that you can't think three moves ahead. You don't need to. Your problem is that you don't even think one move ahead.

Look at this game:

https://www.chess.com/game/live/141575775428?username=astropenguin12

On move 5, white blunder a piece with 5. Be3. You can win by forking 2 pieces with d4. Instead, you spent 1 second to "think", and played b5, which blunders a pawn instead of winning a piece.

2 moves later, white walks into the same fork with 7. Nc3, and d4 would win again.Instead, you spent 3 seconds to play a random move. Next, white takes a piece, and instead of taking back, you reigned for no reason. Why would you do that?

Don't play random moves. Use your time and think.

And don't resign.

Don't resign immediately after playing 8 moves, try to stick longer your opponents are also humans who make mistakes

Do you know all of the rules? I mean rules like promotion, castling, en passant, stalemate and that sort of stuff?

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All but stalemate I have a good understanding of. Promotion is what I strive for

Your last game. The longest you spent on any move was 57 seconds.

All the gentlemen or ladies who have replied save one have good ratings. I have low ratings and have fun. I don't fret a bad move but get excited by a good move. You can read all the books, watch all the videos, do the lessons and still not get it or improve greatly. My poor advice is have fun and enjoy the game. If played to your best and get smoked worry not. This loss will not or it shouldn't affect your life. Just my take probably not worth your time but so be it.

To all here a nice evening and be safe and well.

You understand more about chess then most. Have fun! That is the secret to enjoying the game and improving. Obsessing over a rating will lead to one thing. Youll quit.

Congratulations youre farther ahead than most.

That's practically impossible. If someone puts an effort into trying to improve from a very low level, that improvement will happen. It worked for millions of players.

Not necessarily. I know a guy that only uses an engine for chess training. All he does is try and remember every move an engine plays. He makes no effort to understand the "why" behind each move. When asked why he doesnt use books, etc.? "Why would I use a book when I have the best teacher ever." This has been going on for over 10 years and he is still a USCF D player.

What I responded to was "read all the books, watch all the videos, do the lessons". The guy you mentioned does none of that, instead he does the dumbest thing imaginable.

To Magill

When I wrote that I said if you don't see it your improvement will be minimal. Instead of trying to be like a GM which only a tiny amount of players achieve. It is better to play the game and enjoy it. With most endeavors in competition the better you are the less fun it becomes. If you fret losing at a very elo, think how you feel when you lose at a very high elo. Fun fun till your daddy takes the t bird away. This I admit is an old man way of thinking and since I am an old man I can do it.