Possibly Worst Player Ever?

At what point do you resign from chess due to being terrible? I’m unbelievably crap despite being a systems engineer and somewhat prideful at my prowess at strategy games. Started chess a couple of weeks ago and I’m legitimately 100 rating. I can beat bots up to 600 without much trouble. I do the lessons on and off but they don’t seem beneficial. Nor do the opening guides as their 30 minute cram sessions that leave my head the second a match starts. Any advice ?

play e4 e5, not e6,

before you play a move, ask " can my opponent take it? "

bring your knights to c6 and f6, not to edge, bring out your bishops early, and castle early

you can watch this video of gotham chess teaching a complete beginner basic openings ( and the principles I just said ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubl5O3Lqi60

Don’t watch 30min vids of endless theory. You will and will forget it. I suggest you learn opening principles only and then learn an opening like the Italian. When you reach 400 start learning an opening. I suggest the Italian game for white and just opening principles with black only. When you reach 650, that’s the time when you need to make an opening with black.

How to study in chess.

Start with openings. they guide your plan into the midgame and it tells you what to do. If you like playing for long-term styles and aggressive things combined I recommend the Colle-Zukertort(it is a d4 opening) and if you want an e4 one the Italian game works best. For black you have to find openings against e4 and d4 and for the rest of white’s opening just use opening principles and the same goes for if you are white. For openings I would recommend for black against e4 is just either e5, the French defense, or the Caro-Cann and for against d4 I recommend the KID(King’s Indian Defense). Next in the midgame, focus on these and they are in no order, but please remember to study them all.
1. Stop blundering: do daily puzzles and trade off threats.
2. Positional play: control space, weak squares, and place pieces on active squares.
3. Attacking: use pawn storms, bring pieces in, and sacrifice when needed.
4. Defense: trade attackers, counterattack, and protect your king with a solid pawn structure. Endgames are also important and there are 2 types of endgames. Theoretical and practical. Practical endgames are ones that don’t have a clear path(in perfect play). Theoretical endgames are ones that have a clear path(in perfect play). Online is the best source and remember to check the free stuff.

Here are youtube channels for chess tips.

Chessbrah’s habits speedrun and the Colle-Zukertort speedrun if which you are interested in the Colle-Zukertort then you should watch that speedrun series and the habits series too.

Remote Chess Academy: This YouTube channel is where you learn the middlegame stuff I talked about in #4 and the GM here explains it well and don’t forget this channel has a vid talking about the Colle-Zukertort too and endgames. Here is the place where I recommend to search how to stop blunders.

Chess Vibes: Here is where you learn most of the small things that don’t matter as much as what Remote Chess Academy says, but all of the small things combined are more than what the YouTube channel Remote Chess Academy says combined and most endgame stuffs are here than other channels I have mentioned.

Just loss 5 in a row to 100 rank players lol. Thanks for the advice everyone

Chess has a lot to do with pattern recognition. I suspect that you simply don't have enough practice yet, which is why it takes you so long to recognize and understand the situation on the board - and this leads to many mistakes.

My advice:

1. Do not play Bullet or Blitz. Play only rapid games with a time limit of 10 minutes or more.
2. Do not ignore the moves of your opponent. Ask yourself, what is he trying to do and then try to defend against this and block his attack.
3. Do not ignore the empty squares. If, for example, you realize that it would be quite bad if your opponent put his knight to the e5 square on the next move, try to protect/defend that square.
4. Do not play random moves. Ask yourself what you want to achieve with the move and how the opponent might react to it.
5. Always (!) analyze your games afterwards. What could you have done better?

You have to be patient with yourself and give yourself a little more time. Youtube is full of people who do rating climbs up to 1000 elo by just playing 1 or 2 games a day. My point in telling you that is it's possible to play many chess games and learn nothing useful from them. Ideally, you want to avoid blitz and bullet like the plague - at least for right now. Those time formats will actually make you worse at chess. You might believe they'll make you think more quickly, but if you don't have time to think things through and calculate, you will learn nothing and worse you might learn bad habits. Once you've developed your calculation skills and chess instincts, then try blitz and bullet. But that has to happen first. And it can only happen by playing longer time formats.

Play a few rapid games each day and thoroughly review them. Tactical puzzles can help as well. But no matter what you choose, there isn't a quick fix for improvement. Do a couple games, review, sleep on it, let your brain process, then lather, rinse, repeat. You will get better. You just have to believe in yourself and have patience.