666 elo looking for a mentor to analyze with

At our level, how much can the game have evolved in 15 years is very far away from being an issue, believe me. 

I guess I should say what used to be less common openings and defenses are played.. I guess 15+ years would've been my last real time spent with the game, as it was in 2001. As far as the first comment, there's actually 28 items to a premove checklist actually 😌 Most of my losses here are mainly early resignations from misplacing a piece because the stupid touch screen I have which is pretty embarrassing, but before the blunder, I have clear advantage.. in material and position. I'm not a novice, just struggling to get a hold of things, plus I want good players to play. I'm not going to learn at 600 elo any advanced theorys. I'd rather get spanked until my elo is zilch and take away better ideas and tactics from that experience, rather than play players in my elo; not because they are bad players, but rather I want to improve by seeing what openings are more frequent these days. I find myself drawing blank quite often on openings I haven't seen before because well... I didn't even see them back in 2001. Simple study online would suffice or some good ol Ben Finegold lectures, but I'm more of a hands on learner to retain things.

I don't hang pieces, nor unable to cap my opponents piece that's hung, and simple tactics today would be seen as pretty fresh and new from my outdated knowledge pool.. I also don't play blitz and I have been studying but like I said, it doesn't really retain because I'm used to hands on chess in person. Playing on computer, I can't see your facial expressions.. I can't read your eyes to see what pieces you're looking to develop or move or position.. or if you make a blunder or an inaccurate move.. in a sense, chess in person is like two teachers who are both each others students, which I think computers have kinda killed off for the game in my own insignificant opinion 😂

I guess one other note, the principles and checklist are just guidelines and can obviously be broken for the greater good of tactical positioning.. you can hang a piece if it leads to a mate in 1,2,3 etc, or you can botch and eachange if say the Kings castled and it's to open up a file for a rook your opponent didn't see or account for..

FishEyedFools is absolutely right. I took a look at your game against drewdavidson (one of your last games). Unfortunately, you do hang pieces, don't follow opening principles, do waste time pushing your edge pawns and do miss simple tactics. Your opponent made several pointless moves but you didn't take advantage of that. Improving your calculation skills and tactical awareness - I guess, that's what you should really be focused on.

In that game, I believe it was a bishop or knight I hung and it was because my touch screen is crap lol I meant to move a piece next to it. My last few have been better since well.. I've been winning so. started playing on PC. I'll continue on theory videos since people dont like playing and analyzing together. 👌

I know I'm bad. The point of the thread is clearly under the mentors section right? I'm asking for a higher elo mentor since I don't get paired with them due to the elo difference and I don't really wanna get crushed in tourneys mainly to avoid such rudeness.. oh well. It's the internet so what can one expect.

 I agree FishEyedFoos, but if you want I can give you a free lesson, just message me

Just because I said I don't hang pieces, doesn't mean I never do it if that's what everyone is so offended at. It's called sarcasm to kinda state that I know better, and with what little I remember from positioning, I try to avoid it. Oh well. Thanks for nothing I guess.

Truly if you are 600, you can just play in tournaments, do some tactics, and try not to hang pieces and you will be 1600 in no time. I feel that is hard to teach at a 600 level because they hang so many pieces. A mentor could get you to that level in little time, but doing it by yourself will help you learn more and cost less  

As IMBacon said, at our level, the most important part of the game is Tactics. You dont need to know long lines of opening, because your opponent wont folllow it. At opening, just follow main pinciples. Learn tactics and watch carefully at the board before move. I think daily games are the best to improve, as you have more time to think.

play slower games to avoid hanging pieces. GOOD LUCK

In one of your posts you said you resigned when you hung a piece. This isn't a good idea at your level because in most games both players will hang a lot of pieces.

You READ MY MIND 

Well done on your improvement from a below 700 rated player to an above 1400 in under a year. 

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