Game Review Please.

There are many helpful people here who will gladly comment on your games if you take the time to post them with your annotated thoughts. Additionally, posting losses, which are excellent learning experiences, is preferable to posting wins. Have a look at this sticky forum topic - www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/read-this-before-you-post.

If this is the game you are referring to, you definitely need to slow down and think. Under a 10 minute time control, you had 4.5 minutes left on your clock after playing 53 moves!

Here are some bite-sized recommendations I suggest working on first.

TIME MANAGEMENT

As you have identified, the lack of thinking time is a huge area for improvement. Quite a few big mistakes were made by taking less than a few seconds to think about your move, without there being any real time pressure on the clock. When playing under a 10 minute time control, you had 4.5 minutes left on your clock after playing 53 moves!

If you eventually find the 10 minute time control does not allow you to spend a sufficient amount of time thinking about your moves, try playing with a longer time control.

THINKING PROCESS 

It would be worth spending time researching a structured general thinking process. I am sure material on that topic can be found on this site, including the forums. I find anything by Dan Heisman on this topic to be quite good.

While I am not going to write a comprehensive thinking process for you, here are a few salient aspects you could start with (ignoring strategical positional considerations for the time being):

(a) Before thinking about your own move, make sure you have an idea what your opponent's most recent move is trying to achieve. What has changed in the position? Are there any threats (captures, checkmate etc.)? Is their move safe?

(b) When considering your candidate moves, scan the board for all checks, captures, hanging pieces, overworked pieces etc. A lot of tactics are found by performing such a check. At least understand where all the hanging pieces are on the board for both players.

(c) If you find a good move, look for a better one if you have the time. Sometimes it is difficult to resist playing the first move that instinctively comes to mind, but there is often something better available to play if you take the time to find it.

(d) Make sure your move is safe before you play it. A half-second check is too fast!

TACTICS

Do tactics puzzles. Take your time with each one and ensure you thoroughly understand the solutions of those you fail.

OPENINGS

Do not spend a significant amount of time memorizing opening lines yet.

GAME - CRITICAL POSITIONS

I did not look at your entire game in detail, but the following positions help illustrate why the recommendations above should help, particularly the short amount of time taken for each move.

Allows checkmate - game over on move #5 (make sure your move is safe before you play it):

Hangs a piece (make sure your move is safe before you play it):

Misses a material gain (scan the board for all captures & if you find a good move, look for a better one):

Went through the game, and a couple of other games that you played, and the one thing that's holding you back, is indeed your point on "making stupid blunders". Don't feel bad though, because though they may seem stupid, this is a phase every chess player went through. From the greats like Magnus Carlsen to people like me, to people at the lowest of lows in chess. 

To improve from your level, the only thing that matters right now is your ability to spot when a move is a blunder and stop playing them. By doing this, I can guarantee you will get over 1000, though not much over. At that point, other skills become important to understand. How do you do that?

My recommendation is by asking these two questions after EVERY single move. When I say EVERY single move, I mean EVERY single move. Will it be redundant? Will it become annoying? Yes and that is good. After a good number of times doing this, your brain will begin to ask them subconsciously and you will stop blundering. What are the two questions?

1. (After your opponent's move) What is my opponent doing? Is there a threat?

2. (After you think of a move you want to play) Is my move safe? Can my opponent capture it?

In the game you posted, if you had done that, your many pieces would be saved from the certain doom they were sentenced towards.

Check out this video, where it goes more in depth on getting over that 1000 threshold while also guiding you through the two questions until you master them. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jO8AcIP4c4)

Also, this video is helpful if you wish to analyze your own games without the help of anyone else and completely for free! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfG6xQvx_38)

You are welcome. You also got the benefit of a NM's input. It looks like Sneakiest_Of_Snakes and I effectively posted replies simultaneously.

Best of luck with your chess journey!

Agreed!

Can someone check out this forum on my game? Ot would be much appreciated!

I didn't see the free bishop either. Wasn't looking too hard 😂 

with, I didn't notice the free bishop until you mentioned it 

oh, I don't get it :\

I think you definitely need to play slower.  Its like how you practice the strokes when you are learning tennis (dont know about raquetball) before you can play fast.  If I looed at the right game, you played d4, d5, e4??? which just gives away a free pawn.  If you play slower, its like getting the strokes down, you will instantly see that isn't proper form.  

sometimes you need to follow a plan. Whether that plan is to set up a cheapo trap and hope your opponent falls into it or whether that plan is throw pieces at their king and capitalize on mistakes, it needs to be consistent.

If you lose even while executing the plan, then it would pay to review the game and see what happened. did you allow a tactical shot? Was your plan faulty from the beginning? etc.