Someone please help me.

I know there's likely little point in asking for any help from better chess players, but I'll do it anyway, because I'm at a loss of directions.

I've been playing chess for quite some time now. Learned way back, started taking it seriously about 6 months ago. Yesterday, I won a game pretty well, rating skyrocketed. Today, I lost 4 in a row. Resigned all of them. Rating went down a good 300 points in 30 minutes. The first loss, I made stupid mistakes. The other three I lost in the opening. You can check them out on my profile, because I really don't know how to share games in posts.

I've never been good at chess. I accept that. I can't climb over 500 no matter how bloody hard I try, no matter what I watch, read, no matter how much I play. I suppose it isn't really my thing, I probably shouldn't keep torturing myself with this game (I lose 9 out of 10 games, literally). Still, I'm not willing to give up. I want to be good.

Someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, because I just don't get it anymore. I feel like total trash (because that's what I am), and I want to get better.

Expecting a wave of insults right now. But it was worth a try.

 I enjoy helping people with their chess. But please don't post a sob story like this where you've played only FIVE games and somehow this makes you depressed.

Also, you just joined this site... yesterday?

This isn't a sob story. Exactly what I was afraid people would see it for. No, I've been playing chess for ages now, taking it seriously for 6 months. I play and lose, even elsewhere, even IRL. My actual rating is hanging around 500 ELO and hasn't risen since.

I played dozens of games, won maybe ten. I'm honestly screwed, that's why I'm asking for help. If you know of anything, anything at all, you'd be my savior. I want to be good at this.

OK, play some more games - and do this differently: you can't ever resign, and you only lose if you checkmate. And you can't offer draws either.

Play 10 games, and your rating will go up.

Alright. I'll do it as you say. As I said, I'm willing to do anything to improve, so if you think this'll help me, I have faith.

Should I report in after the 10 games are complete?

@AlkinKing I do, I really do. Except for a few mistakes which then send me spiraling down to a loss. I always think about multiple possible outcomes of a move, sometimes 5 moves deep, and yet it doesn't do me any good when I blunder a rook. The single win I have is how I play on a good day, except for that last queen blunder, which actually turned out to be in my favor. Now, why do I always seem to have bad days?

But I'll keep trying.

Sure, after the 10 games are done...

The reason I said this was because you resigned the last 2 games on move 7/8, which is ridiculous.

I wouldn't even have resigned in those positions.

But I lost my rook for free in one of them. Isn't that a cause for resignation? Honest question.

You could've played Bc4 and then 0-0 and tried to trap his queen if he took the rook.

The fact is, you didn't try anything, which is the worst thing you can do in a chess game vs. another human. Especially at the lower levels - if you can lose a rook, I'm sure your opponent can too.

Which game was that? If it was the game I won, I may have done it on purpose for a trade or forcing a piece to move. I know I only blundered once in that one, and that was my queen.

I wish I could avoid hanging pieces, but my opponents always seem to find a way to place a possible threat on another piece, and I cannot find the time or position for my pieces to assume.

Endgame is the worst for me.

@Cherub_Enjel Perhaps, but I looked at the game and he would have gone on to take my knight, which is pinned to the king, and then I'd be in check and two pieces down. In a game like that, I just can't see any way out. The effect it has on morale is enough on its own.

In fact, in the game where you "lost a rook", you didn't even lose. Qb3, and if he takes your rook, you play Nd4 and the queen is trapped or black has to sacrifice back material, and the queen is still stuck.

You need to stop resigning games, period. Work on that before anything else.

and if you 0-0, then white cannot take your b1 knight.

You can't see a way out because you're not good enough... yet. You need to stop resigning when you have no idea whether or not you are winning or losing.

Oh, that's right. That would have been a good move. But even if the queen was trapped, how would I have finished it off? That would have taken at least 3 moves, right? Plenty enough for my opponent to come up with something, no?

Edit: Oh goodness. Why did I not play on? I could have checked him, and gotten damn near close to a mate. Why didn't I see that? Why?

@AlkinKing I did on the winning one, didn't waste my breath on the others. I know my mistakes, or at least the worst ones, but I can't seem to avoid them live.

So bottom line - since you are not a strong player yet, you don't know whether you are winning or losing. And even if you do know, your opponent may not know. Just forget that the resign button is there, and play until checkmate or stalemate or time on the clock.

In the last two games you resigned, the 7 move game you resigned when you were much worse, but your opponent had to make the right mvoe. In the 8 move game, where you "lost" your rook, you were actually in a BETTER position, according to my engine (so you resigned when you were slightly better). 

You can't complain about your rating being low if you resign when you're equal or better!

Your opponent is not a strong player. Even if he was a strong player, he has to "come up with something" (which there is nothing to come up with, if he takes the rook). 

Why would you just believe your opponent is perfect? And why resign before making him prove himself.

Stop arguing with me, and just stop resigning.