[replayer:99124]

http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game...r.php?id=99124

Was there a better way finish?

I love playing the Danish Gambit trying to open the position and get my bishops active castle and slide my rook over and march, e4, e5, and e6. Brutal! Queen pinned to King and rook lost with a chance to promote myself to a queen. Could I have promoted to a queen? Sack the rook!!? I couldn't figure it out so I went and took the pawn on d7 with check pinning the bishop. Felt I could have finished better/quicker!

15.Qd6 and mate in a few more moves.

The quality of your play is far better than I'm accustomed to from your correspondence games. Why don't you play like this all the time?

Gawd!!! I'm so bad at chess. I really want to get better.

Ballpark, what is your rating?

1100

Then you should not be spending your time on ANYTHING other than playing long games OTB and online, and doing tons of tactics on CT. Any other study of the game is going to miss it's mark on you since you simply don't speak the language of chess proficiently enough yet to understand it. Tactical chess is definitely very much a language. If you comprehend the language poorly and you continue to hang 4 points of material each game, there is absolutely nothing you can do to improve other than to eliminate these gaps in your game.

Start playing 20/20's, 30/30's, and 45/45's online and OTB and in addition to this, just spam a good 50+ ChessTempo problems a day. Basically, getting your tactical proficiency up to a 1400 level and eliminating hanging pieces/obvious blunders will bring you up to about a 1400 rating right there. If you played enough over the next month or two, and worked on you tactics, you could easily jump up a few hundred points in the next few months unless you simply have severe intellectual limitations.