Help!

I need some help. So far, I have done exceedingly well on Chess Mentor, watched lots of games, solved the Daily Puzzles and even stalemated the computer. But every time I play against another player, even one who is about 100 points lower than me, I lose! Why is this the case? Can anyone help me please?

P.S. My rating used to be 1400 something after doing Chess Mentor, but now it is 664 or something like that! What did I do wrong?

Maybe you are just like me. You are overconfident and underestimate your opponent. Always play your best and your strongest. Ignore your opponent's rating. (Don't worry, a lot of people are like that)

I am not sure chess mentor is going to help. I'm not sure where your rating was 1400, but reviewing three of your games, I see basic mistakes in the opening like trying to move your rook to the middle of the board and not developing pieces.

Review the principles of the opening (going to bed, or I'd give you a link) and perhaps study a few games of higher rated players. Understand the opening principles, play them and then get a lot of games under your belt. Stay away from blitz.

Here is your game I was referring to where you move the rook to e3...

Play Online (correspondence) chess instead of blitz.

Sorry for the terse reply yesterday.. I wated to reply but only had about two minutes.

1) Study the priciples of the opening. There is an excellent discussion here

http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-principles-of-the-opening

2) Stick with King pawn openings until you are rated at least 1200.

3) Stay away from blitz games, play at least 15-10 chess (15 minutes per game, 10 second increment).

4) Study some older games by strong players. Here is Paul Morphy's games. It is a good lesson in how to develop quickly and punish those who do not develop quickly.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=16002

5) Get a lot of games in. 40 or 50 games re-evaluate where you are at. I'd be happy to look at it with you at that point.

Your blitz rating is seperate from your chess mentor rating.

Play more games, get some basic experience.

At your level, doing the free trial lesson on Kasparov vs Deep Blue on chess mentor is not going to help very much.

Do not play blitz for a long time.Standard and online chess only.I kept playing standard,and my blitz rating quickly went up to about the same rating range as my standard.(blitz 1406 and standard 1422)