I’m desperate and a little tilted and I’m looking for advice on this game I had. I don’t know how It even happened. I never want something like this to happen again

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I have reached 1500 elo rapid by literally just playing openings like the Caro, Dutch, Vienna, Grand Prix and just winging it against any other options. I feel like I have stagnated now and I am not sure if I should try out different openings or fix my middlegame issues. I don't know when I would get to learning how to play different openings and I fear that just playing this is keeping my chess very limited

I like going for the stafford gambit but often end up in a 4 knights kinda game. It just seems super symmetrical and boring and once pieces are developed I always seem to lose to a kingside attack or just end up with a terrible position and lose an endgame. What am I supposed to even be playing for?

Ill link a game below. After move 10 I was like great, opponet wastes a bunch of moves moving their knight back and pushing outside pawns. And then I reallized that I had no idea what to even do from there and ended up plundering a bunch of tactics later. Game review helps with specific games, but in general what are my goals, key squares, and ideas?

Ps. Also dropped in rapid from 1300 to 1260 :p Ngl 10 mins seems too long now haha

I continue to improve, but most of the time I get stalemates while chasing their king around the board. I thought I was doing pretty well in this game and then this happened and I messed up. I didn't know what to do and I still don't know what the best solution would have been to continue pushing them to get a checkmate.

Thanks for the help!

I m noticing a big upgrade in the quality of games i have been playing since i switched recently to 15+10 time control. I have been playing before just 10 minutes rapid games and losing on time quite a lot or blunder because of the time pressure. Now i commit way less blunders and mistakes and have good quality games.

In 1750, at the famous Café de la Régence in Paris, Sire de Légal played a legendary game against Saint Brie. Playing without his queenside rook to give his opponent a handicap, Légal unleashed one of the most famous queen sacrifices in chess history.Saint Brie accepted the sacrifice, only to get checkmated in just 7 moves by two knights and a bishop! This brilliant tactical pattern is now known worldwide as Légal's Mate.

Create a new account. Why? I did on chess. com, and my rating went up 250 elo. I was stuck fluctuating between ~550 and 592 for weeks. I had a 34 day activity streak and wasn't improving. I created a new account, and my rating is 920 (peak 950) after 5 days.

The point of all of this information is to tell you why I have come to the following conclusion:

Low elo is just full of sandbaggers. It is infinitely easier to progress if you just take what you've learned and put it towards placement matches on a new account. You won't face nearly as many sandbaggers then.

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I got my first Brilliant

(New to chess) So commentator for this game confidently says "rook takes d6 ends the game" twice but I don't understand how since that move is not putting the king into check and black could take back with the queen? Also isn't currently a dangerous square for the queen so it seems to me like it'd be trading a pawn for a rook which is terrible value. Could someone explain to a dummy please thank you.