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You have just started to play here. You have only played 14 games. But in those games, you have probably already established some patterns of play.

I can see that you have won all of the games you played as white and have lost most of the games you played as black.

Why is that? IDo you always open the game with the same move? Or do you play a lot of different opening moves?

When you are black, do you always respond the same way to an e4 opening? What was different about the way you responded when you won versus when you lost?

You will notice things like getting mated on the back rank.

And losing to certain openings repeatedly.

Hopefully, you will retain memories long enough to learn from some of your mistakes.

Analyse your lost games only.
You lost the game, so you made a mistake.
Identify the final mistake that made you lose.
What was the right move?
What candidate moves did you consider?
Did you consider the right move?
If no, why not?
If yes, why did you prefer the mistake over it?
How much time did you spend on your decisive mistake?
How much time did you have available on your clock?

I've had some rapid games recently where I abandoned the back rank with no escape square for the king.... just a temporary blind spot, hopefully. It happens.

with black I always play e5 if e5 or d5 with d4 then after that I improvise with what I know, some basic opening principles like control the center, develop your pieces, and king safety.

That's the thing, I don't.

I want to improve so therefore I do.

you have to seek for higher level ideas, and apply them to your mistakes.

A simple one: You learn about developing pieces to the center. Then, all you concentrate on when reviewing games is making sure you developed pieces to the center. You realize you haven't been developing, and when you did, it often wasn't towards the center. Then you start making an effort to develop quickly and to the center.

Basically if you aren't learning anything new you're not going to gain as much when reviewing games.

When reviewing games with the engine, it's fine to click "show moves". The key point here is to attribute reasoning TO the engine moves. It does not matter if you are objectively correct; what matters is that you practice chess reasoning and it will, more often than not, help you in similar situations in the future.

For example, if you (white) had a bishop on d3 and you played Qh5, trying for M1. The engine says this is bad, and recommends Qe4 instead. Why? You look at the engine line. After Qe4, black can play Nf6, attacking the queen and defending h7. However, he hangs a rook on a8. Meanwhile after Qh5 Nf6, white has no such double attack. Thus, you might conclude it is often better to look for moves that attack more than one thing at a time (centralization).

hmmm okay

I believe in you! hmm replaying games in game review and trying to see why you blundered could help!? or maybe play against difficult bots because they're are more predictable and won't harm your elo rating.

Backrank mate is something you get over as you grow stronger don't worry. It happens to every player at least once