Learning the Game


The usual advice...
Play slow time controls.
Slow down.
Why do people think they can improve by moving fast???

All the help I can provide is in this post:
https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/the-beginners-tale-first-steps-to-chess-improvement
I wish you the best of luck in your chess journey.
The usual advice...
Play slow time controls.
Slow down.
Why do people think they can improve by moving fast???
While you seem to mean in general, worth noting the OP is playing daily chess as their main time control.
Don't hang pieces. Pay attention to your moves and check nothing can just be taken for free in one move, for example. Looking at two of your lost games.
https://www.chess.com/daily/game/283334972 Move 10 you take a defended pawn with your queen and lose it.
https://www.chess.com/daily/game/284969306 Move 5 you hang your knight. You took 3 minutes to decide this play. Now, your next move showed some kind of plan, or you were just reacting and hoping you could get stuff back by d4, which attacks their bishop and launches a discovered attack on their queen. Even if they retreated with their queen and you took the bishop, they could recapture with the pawn and you lose a point. But this plan overlooked another hanging piece, or in this case, the pawn on g2 which leaves the queen attacking your rook for a capture and check, far more threatening than pawn takes bishop, so you have to waste a turn reacting to that and they get to just take your pawn next. At this point you are 5 points down, but you then undefend your pawn on c2 by moving your queen to h5 to attack 1 pawn? It's not checkmate, they could just run away, worst case scenario. Your opponent could easily just move pawn to g6 to drive away your queen with ease, or defend that pawn with bishop to e6 (the pawn on f7 may be pinned to the king and unable to protect it, but the knight on d4 still can. But these were just fast defenses your opponent could react with to push you away. Instead they brutalize you with a forcing knight check that forks the king and rook, and when you rush to d1 you open yet another fork by their bishop to your king and queen, decimating your plan.
I just told IMBacon how you were playing daily, but the time it took for you to make your key moves drive home their point about slowing down regardless. You have a full day to look at this, you don't have to use the full day, but you have a ton of time to carefully review your options, think about any reasonable plays you can expect your opponent to use, such as checks, captures, or attacks, and make a decision that avoids any such traps while still being good for your position.
Move 5: 3 minutes (hung knight)
Move 6: 4 minutes (hung g2 pawn)
Move 7: 2 minutes (you saved your rook, probably the most intuitive move to be fair, though it actually isn't your only option, computer analysis ranks it your third-best move behind taking their bishop anyways or moving your light squared bishop to f1. I still wouldn't blame a player for making this move anyways, but it just shows even here you could have spent far more time deciding your next move, even if you end up making that choice anyways.)
Move 8: 6 minutes (You hung a pawn and check. Always look for forcing moves from you or your opponents, checks being a big one.)
Move 9: 2 minutes (You handed them a queen fork. The square you put the king on to avoid check matters.)
So slow down. We all make mistakes, but when you screw up in a daily game, don't let it be because you moved too fast.

The usual advice...
Play slow time controls.
Slow down.
Why do people think they can improve by moving fast???
While you seem to mean in general, worth noting the OP is playing daily chess as their main time control.
If you look at how many moves the OP is making in his Daily games, you will see that just because they are playing daily chess, doesnt mean they are playing daily chess. The OP is moving fast even in the daily games.
I do my research before I post.
The usual advice...
Play slow time controls.
Slow down.
Why do people think they can improve by moving fast???
While you seem to mean in general, worth noting the OP is playing daily chess as their main time control.
If you look at how many moves the OP is making in his Daily games, you will see that just because they are playing daily chess, doesnt mean they are playing daily chess. The OP is moving fast even in the daily games.
I do my research before I post.
Indeed, lol. I ended up commenting on that very thing while digging through their specific games. I jumped the gun a bit when I noted they were playing daily before I set up my main response. I should have set up my reply to them first then done my replies to anything else.

The usual advice...
Play slow time controls.
Slow down.
Why do people think they can improve by moving fast???
While you seem to mean in general, worth noting the OP is playing daily chess as their main time control.
If you look at how many moves the OP is making in his Daily games, you will see that just because they are playing daily chess, doesnt mean they are playing daily chess. The OP is moving fast even in the daily games.
I do my research before I post.
Indeed, lol. I ended up commenting on that very thing while digging through their specific games. I jumped the gun a bit when I noted they were playing daily before I set up my main response. I should have set up my reply to them first then done my replies to anything else.
No worries...I think we all have been guilty of jumping the gun.

https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again
This blog article regarding opening principles should help you reach 1000+ chess.com rating with some practice.