vs Stockfish 1200 ELO, please help analyze

Hello everyone. I played a 30 min game against stockfish rated 1200. I am still a beginner so I set the rating to 1200. Still I did not win. I thought I played rather decently up until the middle part, where I made a wrong move with the queen and my position blew into pieces. I annotated the game right after I played it with my thoughts (with Rybka's help).

But I need human guidance. Please tell me the parts where I  went wrong and how I can improve my play. Thanks.

I'm sorry if my english is bad, I tried my best to correct grammar and be understandable.

Hi LastImpression.  Your english is fine.  A general advice for you.  Do Tactics problems everyday, it helps a lot.

I go to chesstempo every day. I work on about 10-15 tactic problems daily. I'm a bit slow on those, it usually takes me somewhere from 1-5 minutes depending on the difficulty. So overall I spend about half an hour to 45 mins a day, and unfortunately that's all my schedule can let me.

I'm seeing *some* improvement, though. I started about a week and half ago or so at 12xx rating, now I'm at 1530 rating. Although sometimes I feel that I spend too much time on them. Well at least I get them right 

Extremely disappointed (again?). I played another game against stockfish 1200. This time I handled the black pieces.

Despite to losing to a tactical attack (again), I thought I was able to neutralize white's material advantage. I was able to gather my forces on the kingside, while black's bishops remain essentially in the shadows. However, I couldn't take advantage of my overloading strategy, and with my clock dwindling down I set myself up for a checkmate, which was rather dumb.

I haven't really sat down and dissected the game apart from some few thoughts so IDK if a legitimate attack was feasible. But I figured that with a queen, a couple of rooks, and a knight there must have been a way to break down that defense and I was just too dumb to see it. Any ideas? 

Hi Lastimpression.  I work my tactics at chesstempo (CT) too!  I think it is okay that it takes you more than one minute, the games at CT are actual GrandMaster and International Master games so it supposed to be hard.  A year ago I was like you working on 10 problems a day.  Then my CT ranking was really high buy my play did not reflect that.  So I decided to read Reasess your Chess by Silman (3rd edition, and skip the begining if you go for it).  After reading that book almost twice I slowly started incorporating elements of strategy in my play.  It helped me, so it should help you.  And don't worry about Stockfish, set it to play to your level, so it adjusts.  Play versus people too.  My ranking does not qualifies for me to give too much advice but at this point in your play I would study a little more than actually playing.  Hit the books!

Thank you for the advice. With me I guess I'm pretty good at spotting tactics when I'm the one doing them (like CT), but I am terrible at defending against them. I guess I just need to be more careful. Like when the 2nd game above White's d-pawn push kind of surprised me and so I made a hurried move, with exd4, which now I doubt whether it's a good move. The e-pawn was now hanging, but then if I take with knight, Re8 would have sent me scrambling to find a place for the knight. Or maybe if I moved Nxd4 that would've been slightly better? But then he would move Nxe5 with the intention of Nxf7. Agh.

Maybe I made a mistake even before that d-pawn push.

Anyways I still need help/ideas with my failed kingside attack.

I'll try to get books, but my best resource would be the internet. It's hard to find good quality books from where I am :(

I guess this thread can be my own personal thread where people can see my games, well mostly me getting my butt kicked by the computer and other people.

How did you play against Stockfish? Stockfish is a chess engine...

The only thing I don't understand is that Stockfish's strength settings are graduated with skill levels from 0 to 20, not by elo levels. Is the OP using some app that converts the settings from skill levels to elo levels?