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At move 12 I was so happy. I was thinking I got this.
4 moves later I'm like WTF is going on?
Maybe when the opponent brings out an early queen, I need to stop and learn how to assassinate the queen? Shelf all other opening moves. Kill the queen?
It's impossible to trap the queen at such an early stage of the game. You should just keep developing your pieces with tempo. 3. Nf3 was a perfectly good move, kicking away the queen and giving you a huge lead in development. Why would you play 3. Nh3 instead?
Later you were completely winning (obviously, as you are up a full rook). Instead of playing the pointless 13. c4 that loses a piece (really, what was that about? was that a completely random move?), you could have played the obvious 13. Bc5+ Ke6. You don't lose the knight and black's king is toast.
Your queen and bishop can't protect f2 in the early game, and the bots like to line up a bishop and queen to attack f2 for an early game checkmate. I've had it happen multiple times. Moving a horse to h2 is a learned behavior to protect my weak f2 pawn from opponents who play cutthroat.
That's actually a move I feel good about. If I didn't do that, I'm pretty sure they would have taken my f2 pawn, causing me grief. Even if it wasn't checkmate, I would have had to capture with my king and lose the ability to castle.
13.c4 seemed like perfectly natural gameplay to me. I castled on the opposite side so I want to push my pawns on that side of the board.
Moving the bishop to c5 on turn 13 causes check, but not checkmate. I've been told not to cause pointless checks that just chase the enemy king around, without a goal in mind that leads to checkmate.
I don't see how I could get a knight to e6 without losing it. Or how I wouldn't lose it once I got it there.
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/computer/332394460/review
I had a good opening, developed my pieces, and was preparing to push on the left side. My king was castled behind a brick of pawns and bishops and a knight. I even thought "haha my king is safe behind this brick" and then the bot broke through my brick.
I've gone through the replay and don't understand how that even happened. What should I learn to stop whatever this was?