BAD PLAYERS PLAYING BAD PLAYERS

Especially in low Elo, Queen's will come and go. If you focus on making threats and keeping your pieces protected, you may find that you can still win some games

Dude, if u lose ur queen, keep in mind that they are 100 elo people and can make blunders and WILL make blunders after they get haughty about the queen u lost

It happens in our elo ranges only, too much ego my opponent got, i checkmated him in 1 move, with a rook

don't quite understand what beastara123 is saying ? I am missing his point I think

I am quite sure that was not needed, perhaps it is because when he asks for advice on how to get better, people like you think trolling is more fun.

Then practice defending losing positions, Gotham's advice for people like you is to never resign, your opponent could very well blunder theirs.

I looked over your loss to akash64436224. Here's things I noted; I hope this will help.

By your second move you had lost a pawn and had brought out your Queen as the first developed piece. The danger in doing that is what you pointed out: losing such a powerful piece is a losing event. But you swapped Queens early. I used to do that; in recapturing, my opponent lost the castling privilege. BUT in the endgame, when you have to centralize your King, my opponent's King was already closer to the center than mine. I had to use two or more moves to get mine in the game, giving my opponent time to go on the attack.

You need to use center pawns and minor pieces to control the center. Knights must be closer to it in order to do that. But by developing your Knights to the second rank they 1) couldn't affect the center as well as if they'd been played to the third rank. The center pawns had disappeared early, leaving a gaping hole in your position. 2) When the Knights are developed to the c6 and f6 squares they help guard the a7 and h7 ones. This relieves the King from defending h7 and taking a move to guard a7 when castling long (putting him in danger both times).

White's play wasn't flawless. The moves 5...Qxe1+; 6 Nxe1 and 7 Nc3 meant White spending three moves to put the Knight back on c3 starting with 5 Nc3

Your 15...Rad8 left a Knight unprotected. Both players overlooked 16 Rxe5.

Gradually White's ability to attack was greater than your ability to defend.

I've never played anything other than Daily Chess so I have no experience dealing with this kind of time pressure. If there are any typos in here I offer my apologies. I was doing this after 3:00 a.m.5/26/25. I work third shift.

Your observations were spot on, and you are correct, I was, however, trying an opening I saw on u tube about bringing out the queen early to protect the king and well, like you said, it didn't work.it seems what you see on u tube by excellent players never translate in to usable play for lowlifes like me , they never seems to go as is shown by them, always a misstep or mistake. thanks for the input and advice i will read you post just before my next game - i take the 24 hour games serious when i play the five min games are just throwaways to wait for another move to been on one of my 24 hour games i really try different things there as more of a fun thing -- then apply what i think will work into my 24 hour games ------ how ever most times it doesn't work maybe one of these days something will work --- who knows

You're welcome. There's a player with an avatar (blue, with I think two vertical yellow bars in it-he probably posted in this thread) who gives great advice in his post.

Post #8.

OK THANKS

If bringing out the Queen early is a "Book Move" - part of known good opening theory - then it's perfectly fine. In the Scandinavian Defense, Black captures back early with the Queen on move 2, for example. But the general rules like "Don't bring your Queen out early" work very well once you run out of memorised moves and don't know exactly what to do next.