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Ziryab

Your play is not bad, but you are missing a lot of simple tactics. In the first game, you hung your queen by placing it where it could be pinned by a bishop. You got away with that error because your opponent was weak and playing too fast.

 

In the second game, you had several opportunities to force the enemy's last piece--his rook--off the board. Also, when your king is running from checks, it can also attack the piece that is harassing it.

 

I've been coaching players at your skill level for seventeen years (beginners up through grade level state champions). Five years ago, I created 150 exercises to teach elementary tactical patterns. About fifteen of these are standard endgame positions that you will find in dozens of books. One is a composition by Paul Morphy, and another is derived from Morphy's. The others were created by me.

 

All of the exercises have ten pieces or fewer. Many of them are derived from actual games with the extraneous pieces stripped away. It is similar in this respect to Bruce Pandolfini, Beginning Chess, which I recommend also.

I recommend that you get this book. It is cheap and you can read it on your computer screen. The colored arrows in the solutions will help cement the patterns in your memory. Based on what I see of your skill from the posted games, I expect that you could go all the way through this book in a couple of weeks.

You can read more about the book and one of the games that one exercise is derived from at http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2017/04/one-from-greco.html

 

If you work through Pandolfini's Beginning Chess (300 exercises) and my Essential Tactics (150 exercises), you will not miss most of the easy tactics that you are missing now, or at least far less often.

The_4th_Stonewall

Learn to spell words correctly first.

YoyoPuppy

I'd advise you to read Silman's book Back to Basics: Tactics.

Monie49
Learn to spell.
archakra89
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