WTF am I doing wrong!!?

https://www.chess.com/game/live/166434714212

Here is the link to my game. I was playing as black. I have been trying to get better but this is the crap I deal with the most when I lose. I always feel like there is NO MOVE I can make to gain an advantage. My opponents sees everything. I can't figure out how to gain advantage vs this type of play.

Im gonna tell you the same thing I tell every low rated player. Study tactics. Not openings not endgames not middle games.... TACTICS TACTICS TACTICS. White blundered on move 7. Bxe3 fxe3 Nxe3 forks whites queen and rook. Black will be up a pawn and the exchange.

I have reached 2000 in tactics before. That's something I already do.

Then you are failing to apply what you're learning from puzzles to actual games. It looks like you play mostly 30 min games which is good. That tactic i pointed out was very easy to see. When an opponent moves any piece, you need to check what their move changes about the position. Does their move attack any of your pieces? How many pieces of yours attack the square they just moved that piece to? How many defenders does that piece have on its new square? What squares was that piece defending on its previous square that it's no longer defending? Asking yourself these questions will help you spot more tactics in games.

Do you truly want to improve? 1. Secure your king by castling, 2. Try to secure the center four squares with linked pawns, 3. Development of each power piece to its best starting square with a emphasis on defense if your new, 4. Now begin to use light tactics to gain material to win the game. 5. Always play long time controls until you are comfortable with these steps. 6. Use only one opening for each color, until you are fully comfortable with them, don't try to study dozens of openings. 7. Limit your games play 3 to 6 games, if you lose 3 your done for the day, if you win 3 try for 4 if your feeling great, but also regardless your done for that day. Hope this helps. I also have other tips I could share over IM chat.

OK, I’m just going to say it. Drop the 30 minute games and start playing 10 minute games instead if you really want to play rapid (I prefer blitz for repetitive training). Don’t try to memorize openings, instead try to understand basic opening principals. Next, and I’ve heard that you say tactics are not a worry with you, but you are deceiving yourself. That’s on you if you can’t learn to translate tactical patterns in game. Finally, change your username… This may sound stupid but if your username is saying how trash you are, that is going to subconsciously tell your mind that is true, and you are going to play bad.

1 More tip…. Play on a computer and mouse if you aren’t already, and make sure distractions around you are minimal. This will skyrocket your rating if you’re really into playing chess.

other helpful links:

https://www.chess.com/article/view/why-blitz-is-the-best-form-of-chess-training

https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-convert-chess-advantage

https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-break-through-a-chess-plateau

https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-best-chess-openings-for-white-for-beginners

Great youtube channel for improvement: https://www.youtube.com/@GMIgorSmirnov

I agree, your user name being a negative does influence bad play from the start.

How can a joke name have anything to do with my ability to play chess? One's a skill. The other is just a joke lol

move 4 you could have played Nxe4 beacause after takes you also have d5

this is what i did: i went to a lichess analysis (NOT WHILE PLAYING LOL) and i studied and inputed openings which i played looking at each of those lines and study those

it helps with opening understanding a lot

you blundered both rooks in the endgame

Tactics are important. You missed the win of an exchange at move 7, and you gave away material in the ending.

But general positional concepts are also important. Solving tactical puzzles will not help you reach positions in which there may be a winning tactic.

in the game you linked to above, you moved pieces for a second time when you had not yet developed other pieces. You also exchanged pieces for no good reason. It looked like you had no plan and so just made random moves.

Develop all your pieces. Do not exchange pieces unless you have a concrete reason for doing so. If unsure what to do, improve the position of your worst piece. Keep trying to control the center with pawns.

These are basic positional ideas that will help you reach better positions in which there maybe tactical wins.

I get all that. The second knight move was because I thought I could get away with a tactic. Everything else was me developing but my opponent just started trading everything off. I can't really make a plan when I'm not in a position where I can formulate one. How can I make a plan when there are no available calculations or tactics? All the information you are giving me is known to me. So I'm not learning anything new.

Usually my main goal at this level I try to do is gain a material advantage then simplify.

You missed a tactic and then just hung pieces in the endgame. You say that you can't make a plan when there are no tactics? Just play positional chess. Take the center, attack weak pawns, advance ur pawns, solidify structure, make all pieces active, do prophylaxis, if endgame, engage ur king. And then just don't hang pieces. The person who spots easy tactics and doesn't make goofy mistakes wins every time. If you get every one-move & two-move tactics and don't hang any pieces you'll double ur elo

I don't understand positional chess.