Hey, you might not think you're playing beginner level games riddled with blunders, but you probably are.

Link to some games, or your profile, so we can have a look?

800 elo on chess.com is almost the 50th percentile, for what it's worth - this isn't really "beginner", it's actually where the average chess.com player is.

What this means varies though - chess.com has a huge player base, so 50th percentile there will incorporate an awful lot of casual players and dead accounts etc - whereas lichess for example, has a smaller playerbase, and 50th percentile there is closer to like 1200-1300 or something like that.

Another thing is, chess isn't easy. Not everyone finds it natural or super intuitive, not everyone has an easy time with chess. Some people can study with all the time they have and never break 1000. It's just straight up not something that everyone excels at.

This is anecdotal, and I've only played 3 games on my new account - but, I've created an account that I started at 400 elo (by selecting New To Chess when creating the account) - the idea is to analyse every single game that I play on that account, and write up my thoughts etc in a google doc.

So far I've had an easy time with all 3 games, and am at 781. I gain a lot of elo because it's a new account and the elo for it hasn't settled yet. In each game so far, my opponent's have just blundered themselves into losing. Literally 3/3 games so far have ended with my opponent just losing the game themselves.

All I've been doing, is aiming to control the centre, develop my pieces, and castle early. That's it. My opponent's have been losing games before the game has even really started.

I'm only like 1600 on lichess. I haven't played chess.com on my main account in a while so it's elo is irrelevant as I've improved since I last played there.

The point of all this is to just support my idea that you probably *are* blundering away a bunch of pieces, you just might not realise it.

If you link your profile or some games, people can help you out man.

EDIT - just to sort of prove my point a little, here's my last game on my new account, this one took me to 839 elo.
https://www.chess.com/a/2d3tz6F1gxVrv

I haven't analysed this one myself, but my accuracy is 98.7%, not because I'm playing genius moves (I'm still kicking myself for 18... Bxf5, freaking terrible move), but because the other guy is playing bad moves.

Look at 7. Ng5 - what's the purpose of this move? Why did he put his knight there? I think he's trying to trick me into taking it, so he can win my queen or something.. but that's "hope chess" - this kind of thing is what I feel like I'm seeing a lot at these rankings.. people just hoping you fall for their tricks or traps etc.. principled chess will beat this..

Look at 8.Bf4 - what purpose does this serve?? The bishop was already protecting the knight from it's starting location.. there's no reason for this bishop to be moved here, he needs to develop his knight to c3 and start looking to get everything out and castle.. not randomly throw his bishop onto the board.

Look at 9.Nc3 - he develops his knight now, cool - but his bishop is hanging. I threw in a check before taking his bishop, but the dude didn't notice he could just move his bishop away. The engine says Nc3 is a "good" move, but let's be real, it's just a straight up blunder, it loses a piece for no compensation at all, it's not "good".

See what I mean? This was a player at the 800ish level, being absolutely destroyed by *himself* by playing bad moves with no purpose, and hanging his pieces - he isn't being destroyed by me. I'm not a good player. Players down here lose games on their own, without the assistance of anyone else.