losing games to my own bad play

Training with someone can be a great way to improve, not just at chess.

thanks for the help---- i could use it ---play a game against me in 24 hours and then discuss between moves what i did wrong that would help me a great deal i think

i dont mind

It's interesting the narrative people write for games.

If I win, it's deserved; it was my smart tactics and patient defence.

If I lose, ah it was just a dumb blunder, really I deserved to win.

Now, don't get me wrong: there are different ways games get determined and I certainly have plenty of games where I move a piece, see I've left it en prise, and resign before my opponent has even moved.
But even in these situations, it can be worthwhile to analyze events prior to the blunder. Was my time management poor, thus putting myself under time pressure? Was the piece I hung a bit loosy-goosy and not well coordinated with the other pieces?
Etc

your words have some weight to them and i agree totally -- my case is i know i will lose no matter what ,so i have accepted that as a known fact -- the unknown is weather i can last 30 moves with my queen intact or not -- that,s what keeps me playing this addictive game

I highly recommend studying tactics. I used to think that if I play a lot I will improve but progress was very slow until I started on this but now my game is getting better and I think about my moves in different ways. I agree on this game being addictive. You can be delighted after beating a higher rated player and then be in despair after being destroyed by a lower rated one. Just keep on playing!

does studying tactics really do anything - i find that i never see the moves form those tactic games in any of my games -- but then maybe i should try some just to see

down to 430 now ---couple more games lost -couple of games over the 35 moves level and then some over the 30 and even a couple over 40 moves now

Re tactics .... imagine somebody set you to get a hammer from the toolbox and you had no idea what a hammer looked like. Would you find it? Tactics are similar, you won't see them until you know what you're looking for.

I also had a look at your recent win/loss stats. When you play folks around your own Elo rating you win and most of your losses come from games against people a few hundred points higher than you which is not surprising. Ya ain't doing to bad ;-)

that is strange as i have not won a single game 24 hour game, since i started playing them, iam now at 430 fast approaching 400 -- but thanks anyways for the input ,maybe i could play you a game and you could in between moves give me some advice as to what you see in my play

was sick last night couldn't play reaction to the new meds - but didn't lose any games last night -- but this saturday morning things are getting ruff couple of games iam all tyed up my opponents have me boxed in before move 12 in at least two games -- so trouble ahead for them i thinks

You should try a rapid game, now that you've played a lot of daily games. You don't have to do it a ton, but maybe 1 per week or something just so you get the experience of playing one game all at once, rather than cycling through 20 games

that is a good idea -- nothing to lose since iam at 100 anyways in 3/5 min types

tried a bunch of 5 min games did pretty poorly did't reach 30 moves in most games so back to 24 hr games i guess

I just analysed one of your games.

You are hanging many pieces, and not spotting the hanging pieces.

Just try to not hang your pieces, and try to find what your opponent missed.

You are still learning, use the analysis to figure out what you did wrong after a game to learn from mistakes.

And you are playing too fast; don't. Take your time and think more.

This is all I can do for now.

but i thought trolls on these forums are telling people not to chomp on hanging pieces?

once you get off to a bad footing in the start say after move 6 then its hard to correct course i find in the case you showed i started off on the wrong side tried something different and it didn't work about hanging pieces yes i do that alot -- playing fast is another problem i have too many 3 min games when i first started out under my belt i guess -- its hard to break a bad habit must work on that thanks for the advice - i will try to impliment them-- play a game??? maybe i can learn from you and discuss where i go wrong during the game

I started playing around the same time as you did so I'm probably in no position to give advice , but ..........

I don't think you can learn to play chess just by playing chess, you need to study too. Do you spend any time learning opening principals? I don't mean memorizing opening lines 15 moves deep but understanding what the purpose of the opening moves are. Do you know which are the most important squares on the board and why? Stuff like that.

I found Chess Vibes beginner courses by Nelson Lopez on YouTube very useful as his teaching style suited my learning style, ymmv.

Good luck