Your opening on your last loss to Buffaloman was pretty bad, 1…na6. Follow principles…knight usually go to the center in the opening. Try to get all your pieces active and castle as fast as you can.
There is a video series by NM Robert Ramirez I like to recommend, it’s free, over 100 of them each about 15-20 minutes long. He has lots of good simple tips. Start on the first topic that is unfamiliar. I actually started at video 48 and learned mate with knight and bishop, which I never learned.
At this level tactics are most important.
so I watched queen's gambit and that led me to start playing chess. I've been hooked for the past 7 months and the highest rating I've achieved was only like 900. I feel as though, I'm making little progress. over the past two months, I've been hovering around the same rating and I don't know how to push past this rating barrier. I have some basic knowledge on openings, my tactics are okay and I can come up with great defensive plays but I feel very weak at times when it comes to attacking. Also, I would love to learn how to capitalize more often when I have a superior position advantage. if any of you would like to look at some of my games and give me tips I would appreciate it, thanks.