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About the game: blunders happen, but what you need to fix:
- Even if you didn't have the better position: The belief that you cannot come back. Your opponents are about the same level as you and blunder all kinds of nonsense. A pawn is literally nothing at your level so don't worry about that
- Learn about other factors of positional evaluation than material. In the position you have great compensation/initiative, because of your development advantage and the tempi you are about to gain. My instinctive reaction in a bullet game would've been Qc2, gaining tempo on the knight and then preventing castling with Ba3 => not the best idea in the position but still slightly better for White... so you often don't need to play perfectly, just look for your own chances!
- Don't resign EVER, before you are at least at 1500!
me vs Rashpiroert
where I blunders a pawn like a demented person and resigned. I played that opening with a horrendous 60% accuracy but I really feel like my moves were reasonable but on move seven I played Nc3 which is terrible bc of …e5, he missed, then on move 9 i played Ra2 which is terrible bc of Bb4 which he did play, then I played Qc2 because I didn’t want to commit my bishop to d2 where it probably end up moving again later, but this move is horrendous bc of …c5 which he missed then I played Nf3, falling asleep at the wheel and giving him Bxc3+ Qxc3 Nxe4 winning a pawn where I resigned, though the engine technically says I am winning and it is best if he takes pawn with knight first which he missed, for me this position is dead lost because I am no where near smart enough to win down a full pawn, I just don’t see how I am supposed to play this, I want to devlope but I also want to hold onto my material (yes I know I technically played the queens gambit who is a gambit for a reason, but it is accepted so infrequently that when it is I really just want to win my material back ASAP because I just cannot stand being down material unless their is an obvious tactic to win it back. I just don’t know what to do. I don’t really blunder that much (yes I blundered a pawn but I like to think that for the most part besides that game unless it’s a really complex tactic for my opponent I hold onto my material well) but just not blundering isn’t enough to win, good moves are also needed. think I’m just trash but does anyone have any tips so I could get better, info would be much appreciated thx. (Also note I mainly play 15|10 rapid, I do play some blitz but don’t care about my blitz rating, I only really care about my rapid rating)