Any chess concepts to reach 1400? (chess.com rating)

You can look up my username on chess.com, its the exact same as my username here, but can someone give me tips on how to get better?
(Btw I use lichess for the free game analysis, but chess.com mainly because of the more accurate rating system.)
Also does someone have an explanation why my blitz rating there went from 1140 to 1010 with a huge losing streak?
Any suggestions?
chess.com/stats/live/rapid/thatrandomperson111

First of all, forget about the rating.

You probably lose a bunch of games because you either miss some tactics or hang pieces. So try to focus on the safety of your pieces before you make a move and solve tactics, tons of tactics. If you fail one, you need to try to understand why you failed it before moving on to the next one.

Yes, commander, at your serve.
(Maybe buffer is a good vampire slayer:)

@bufferunderrun said in #2:

First of all, forget about the rating.

You probably lose a bunch of games because you either miss some tactics or hang pieces. So try to focus on the safety of your pieces before you make a move and solve tactics, tons of tactics. If you fail one, you need to try to understand why you failed it before moving on to the next one.
I'd say a handful of my losses end from me making a tactical mistake. But most of my losses are from either an attack on my king or endgame mistakes.
If someone has the time, could you analyze the games and tell me what I really did wrong? I see a bunch of computer evaluations for some of my games but I don't know what some of them mean (especially in the opening).

Myself, in nearly every game, or in half of them, my main theme is to arrest enemies king.
Or queen. King will follow.

There are plenty of chess lecture available online. There is one called "Guess the ELo" that provides good tips for players of our level..

@ThatRandomPerson111 said in #4:

If someone has the time, could you analyze the games and tell me what I really did wrong?

A better bet is for you to post a position/game on the forums yourself.

@ThatRandomPerson111 said in #1:

Any chess concepts to reach 1400?

Many in fact.

Any chess concepts to reach 1400?

By move 19, you didnt had a queen, but you already moved it 9 tines. Nine, with 3 pieces on the backrank.
Lets overlook the fact that you lost the queen. There was no benefit from moving the queen that many times.

I have seen a couple of games. They come with blunders, but That is not the reason you lose. The reason you lose is that you often make several moves with pieces, just for the opponent exchanging in 1 go.

In other words, you lost a lot of tempos doing nothing, just to exchange that piece for another that has barely moved. Develop first.

Say move 13. It clearly demonstrates you dont understant the game. The e pawn is gone already. But the real problem is that f2 is under fire with the king in the middle. He made you a favor. He closed the diagonal, at least for the time being.
What do you do? "Hey, let me open that diagonal so you can attack me".

We all play bad games. We fall for tactics, thats the nature of the game. But at least we put some effort on stopping threats. You are enabling them yourself.

The knight is pinned. It would be a shame if a pawn attacks it. Let me force him to attack the knight.

Why you move a pawn that you just moved and has no bussiness moving again for the time being?

Why do you trade the only developed piece you have for a pinned piece that couldnt move? That pin is a problem that your opponent has to solve himself, either by covering the pin, moving the king or challenging you. None of those happened. Do you really want to double the pawns so the rook can attack a pawn that you cant defend, but its safe if the diagonal is open?

I am consistently castled at most, by move 15, unless i actually cant. You deliberately keep the king in the middle until you wasted many moves doing nothing.

Make your moves worth something. Even if its just developing.

Ok let's see some fundamental concepts :

• For all non tactical moves make sure that your piece is protected by something. This simple tip saved me so many games, it's not that easy to apply because it makes games a little less interesting at first but it will save you from a lot of blunders.
• In the opening try to control the center, d4, e4, d5, e5; controlling a square means having a piece or a pawn aimed at it.
• Your king safety matters, castle very early and do not moves the pawn in front of it without a solid plan
• If you want to blindly attack the opponent king it's better to castle on the opposite side (your opponent castle queenside so you go kingside)
• Open files and semi open files (a file with only an opponent pawn for exemple) are important, try to always put a rook on them
• The advice about open file, do it systemically, I think at your level it will help a lot
• Pins are gates to tactics, so don't relieve them too fast, keep the pressure as long as possible, eventually your opponent will blunder
• Also learn to be confortable with pressure, personally it took me quite some time to resist the urge of taking anything I can, even without any good reason behind and I still do it sometimes albeit rarely.
• Try to not use the queen too fast, it's a powerful piece but it's also quite vulnerable, better to first develop minor pieces
• If you can put a piece in a square protected by a pawn but not attackable by an enemy piece, this piece will gain strength, don't move it again too fast, let it dominate the board for a bit
• Learn one opening idea (on chessable for instance), it doesn't matter which one but just having the main idea in your head will help
• Have fun!

Folks, I have done it! 1400 chess.com rapid rating
chess.com/stats/live/rapid/thatrandomperson111
Now to get a decent blitz rating.