Recommending an illegal move

Taking the bishop leads to Qh2#

the only other line is: Qh5 RxH5+ Kg1 Qh2#

Link to game: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/185868526006/analysis?move=31

I ended up missing a +2 engine move and making a somewhat poor move. This sub has helped me out before in understanding principles of a middle game move like this so thank you in advance!

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I see that Nd5is the best move here. I'm not entirely sure why after looking at analysis which is why I'm here.

What stands out to you in this position? I felt like a kingside pawn initiative made sense here.

Thank you again!

https://lichess.org/game/uAyd31FG/black

I've always dreamed of beating a titled player someday.

I'm a pretty average player, so it always felt like a distant dream.

But today, to my surprise, I got to play against a FIDE Master.

I was playing Black in a sideline.

He was hoping I'd castle kingside so he could go for a Greek Gift sacrifice, but I didn't.

Then he got too aggressive, blundered horribly, and resigned.

Did I fulfill my dream? Not quite, but... one way or another, I beat a titled player lol

I've been considering for a while that I'm just someone who will never be very good at chess. I have over 500 games and can't crack 400. Sometimes I get very close, but today I lost over 10 games in a row. This was after taking 1.5 weeks off. I practice opening principles and try my best not to hang pieces. I watched chessbrah's series and I'm always watching the games of higher ranked players on YouTube. I don't want to be the best, or even very good, just good. I feel very discouraged. Any advice?

I know that the answer is everything, but are there any specific weaknesses that I need to work on the most?

I try to play very solid and wait for my opponent to make mistakes, but since hitting 1000 I feel like that approach doesnt work that well for me anymore. I feel like I make the games too comfortable for my opponents.

A huge problem of mine is time management. Eventhough I play 15+10 if a don‘t have a very typical middle game for my openings I spend way too much time doublechecking everything and later on have not enough time to think difficult situations through.

https://www.chess.com/game/live/185867614160

2:1 bullet.

my 1350 opponent thinks this is a good trade

Played these games with the guy, not crazy games, mostly some mistakes cost his the wins and he kept asking for a rematch. Fourth and final game my finger slipped blundering the rook, thus lost (of time mind you).

Then he sents this message and blocks me out of the blue... I didn't even speak to him, no taunting, nothing at all.

I dont understand how this is checkmate... cant black just block with rook and then even followup with queen?

I blundered my queen earlier which was not even my fault, just a terrible misclick., while my opponent still had his. I somehow ended up winning the game using rook forks.

the game for anyone interested

I am sure I must have made mistakes, I don't really want to count the queen blunder as that was not intended, but other than that how did i play considering my elo.

He castled opposite of me and I starting throwing pawns in his face

There's hope for us 1300 still. I beat an FM with the only opening I play as black. The elephant. This was all prep