trying to get to 1000 Elo! advice, friends, playing partners

What you're doing is great but you don't mention analysing your games which is very important. Learning and understanding why your moves are bad or good is very crucial to getting stronger. Keep solving puzzles and basic endgames and don't worry about openings at all because you only need to know opening principles at your level - so refresh those constantly and check if you broke opening principles when you review your games, and if you did why? Did you have to?

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Thank you. I have been analyzing my games, especially the losses, but I have to admit its not always clear to me why the engine move is the correct one. Apart from showing me my obvious blunders, the big picture of why a move is superior sometimes goes over my head.

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Your Elo graph looks sweet. Nice steady upwards trajectory. Just keep doing what your doing!

Yes, try to memorize tons of lines of play in the most complicated system ever!

Opening play should be kept as simple as possible until you get generally better at chess. Then you can start looking into openings.

Learn and apply the most important principles of chess.
Always blunder-check your moves.
Solve tactics in the right way.
Analyze your games.
Study games of strong players.
Learn how to be more psychologically resilient.
Work on your time management skills.
Get a coach if you can.

What you're doing sounds great:

15 min. is a good time control, since it gives you enough time to think through your moves, and its good that you analyze them afterward.

Puzzles are also good, but make sure you understand the ones you get wrong. You can even redo them after a two week or one month break, kind of like the woodpecker method.

Finally, its also good that you haven't overdone it with openings yet, and watch rating climb videos. (I really like the ones Daniel Naroditsky does)

It seems like it's paying off, looking at your rating graph, and it will probably continue to.

Eventually, it might be a good idea to get books. This Jeremy Silman article has really helped me pick them out.

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I will offer a few pieces of advice for your improvement: When it comes to analyzing games I would not worry about always finding the engine best move, or know why the computer recommends a move. They are often, but not always, an idea that can be 5 or moves away which is hard to see typically. Especially for sub 1000 players, but even much stronger players miss them too (I often miss those). The important thing about analyzing your games is to find out why you lost that game and compare that to your other games. This can help you identify a pattern on why you are losing your games. This pattern is something you can fix with study, and focusing on seeing them in your games before they happen. This analysis also does not focus on using a computer. If you use a computer then I would first go through the game without it first and create your notes on what you think you could have done better. Then go through it with the computer to make sure you did not miss anything obvious. Like not taking a free piece, or dropping a piece (for free or to a simply tactic).

I went through a few of your recent loses, and the main thing I saw was that you don't see that your move is a blunder because you move too fast. You made these blunders with plenty of time left on the clock and did not ask yourself what my opponent's best response to this move is.

Here is some analysis of your game against WoodyHunter4:

Here is another one of your games. This one against nimallan:

Here is your game against GabeMiami10:

There are two things you should be asking yourself every move. 1. Is why did my opponent make their move. This is especially so if the move seems odd. 2. What is my opponents best response to my move. I can tell based on how much time is left on your clock when you lose that you do neither of these. You should also assume that your opponent will know why you made the move you made. Keep that in mind when deciding what move you are wanting to play. If your opponent knows what you want to do, and it is a good move in spite of that then that is a good move. If the move relies on your opponent not seeing the purpose behind the move then it is probably not a good move.

Beyond blunder checking keep doing tactics. Also you will need to learn the basics of endgames. The principles, and king and pawn endgames is what you need to know to get to 1000. Learning the basics of strategy (and how to evaluate a position) will also be good. For openings you can get away with just knowing the principles, and the first two to three moves of your opening (sounds like this is what you already do). In the opening just focus on three things. These are 1. Opening principles 2. Tactics 3. Not blundering. This will get you in playable positions, and give you chances for the middle game. If you choose to focus on openings then make sure learn the ideas behind the opening, and why you make the moves you are supposed to make. This will be far more beneficial than memorizing the moves which go out the window when they make a different move.

Hope this helps.

Here are some resources to help your development:

Chess Vibes Blunder Check video

Chess Vibes Tunnel Vision Video

Chess Vibes Tactics and Strategy Playlist

Chess Vibes Endgame Playlist

Endgame principles