How do I stop giving my pieces away?

I am a relatively new player (started playing a few months ago). As you can see by my 3 minute blitz rating and win record, I am not a strong chess player by any means. I have the basic e4/e5 strategy down but that's about it. I also have this tendency to put pieces on a square that, 9 times out of 10, gets them captured on the very next move. I don't really think about what comes of it until After the piece gets captured. Sometimes I'm able to get a trade of pieces, but more often I "give" mine away. I know it sounds very odd and all, but I believe its a legitimate problem of mine that causes me to lose.  Any advice on this?

Also, Its unrelated, but if you could offer any sort of chess strategy or general advice for beginners, I would appreciate it.

Play longer time controls, that way you have time to check if your move is safe.

In your bracket, it would be nice to learn playing aggressive. Not many players there know how to counter your attack. Is like typical of the Computer competitive game, people still learning with the moves, had you Mastered the attacking well, no chance for opponent to defended the piece

You should be playing NO blitz games--unless, of course, you're having fun and have no interest in improving. All your games should be AT LEAST 10 minutes, and preferably 15/10. That way you have time to think. I see from the two games you had the computer analyze, that your accuracy in both was under 10%. Without looking at the games, that suggests to me that you and your opponent were just throwing out moves, trying to beat the clock and not each other. When you see that So, Nakamura, and Carlsen are playing amazing blitz games, that's the result of thousands and thousands of games at much slower time controls. Only after perfecting their skills and pattern recognition do they have success at blitz.

As to advice, I would suggest you slowly play over at least 5-10 master games per day, really thinking about what's going on and trying to predict what comes next. A great place to start is with the games of Paul Morphy, available here on More>Master Games. Good luck.

the funny thing is it's quite difficult to get better at 3-minute chess by playing 3-minute chess over and over. the same thing could be said of other time controls but it's more prominent at faster ones. 

the way you get better is by analysing your games and figuring out where you went wrong. you won't do that in fast time control games since there is no incentive for you there. instinctively, you would reason that you can't apply everything you've learned from analysing in a matter of 3 minutes, and that's true. and so you go through a cycle of playing without knowing what mistakes you made and why, maybe apart from what the engine tells you after a cursory analysis, which in itself can be more harmful than helpful.  and if you lose many games you think you're hopeless. that's not necessarily true. you just don't have the foundation of good chess habits you can count on when you don't have time to think and have to rely on intuition. you build that foundation by playing long games.

I won't repeat the same advice about longer time controls, but it is great advice.

Make sure you take the time to actually analyze your play.  Don't just go into the next game, which I know is tempting when you lose (and when you win).  Find those key moments where you (or your opponent) made a key move, good or bad.  The beauty of analysis is that there is no time control.  Early on, I've improved more by playing less chess and focusing more on analysis.  

Also, flip the board and analyze youtr moves from your opponent's perspective.  Try and see if your move makes sense.  Was there a plan?  Even a bad plan is better than no plan because you can analyze and break down a bad plan after you play and figure out what didn't work, and why.

It can take me 3 minutes to solve a puzzle. Not sure how you manage a whole game. I guess there's not much time for strategy, planning, positional evaluation (yours and opponents), tactical evaluation (yours and opponents), blunder and mistake checking (yours and opponents). No idea how you could improve though. Maybe someone else can see it 🤔.

As one newbie to another (I've only been playing for a month):

Slow down. Take your time. I've been playing 20 minutes games but I'm starting to feel cramped for time. In my last game I was in a strong winning position and lost on time. I'm switching to 30 minutes games for now, but I can see me going to 60 minute games sooner or later. FWIW: I'm mostly losing lately because I adjusted my challenge setting to only play against stronger opponents. I'm losing more, but learning more too. (My rating is trending down too, but I'm not worried about that right now. I'm worried about learning, and lower rating is the price I'm paying for a better education.)

When you analyze your games afterward (you DO analyze them, right?) when the engine says "blunder" make sure you understand exactly why that move was a blunder. Don't play "guess chess". or as I heard a few days ago "Don't move until you've got it."

I posted earlier that I was going from 20 min to 30 min games because I lost a winning game on time when I had only 30 seconds left and my game fell apart. Here's a good example: in my first 30 minute game just now I won with 10:32 left on the clock. If I had been playing 20 min I would have had only 32 second left and I'm sure I would have fallen apart under time pressure.

Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I am a chess coach based in California. 

First of all, I recommend playing with a slow time control, such as, game in 30 minutes.  

Before every move, ask, "If I move here, is it safe?"  Look at all the pieces on the board.  This will help you to not make any silly blunders. 

  I hope that this helps.