3 month noob needs your help

Hi. Thanks for clicking me. I've recently started studying chess for 3 months or so now. I see great progress but I need your help. I played this game recently and I would say it is a quite typical game for me so I would love to hear some comments on wich part of my game in general I seem to need improvement on and wich parts seem to be working for someone at my level. I want to improve on my weakest skills first so I'm not leaving anything behind. I do get the feeling though that it is the middle game that is causing me trouble. I think it is also important to learn from wins because mistakes in a winning game are not as clear as in a losing one.

I played BLACK in this 10min online game with a modern defence opening and he went out of book pretty fast:

With his Bishop fianchetto on g7 you should have looked to keep your pawn chain in the middle strong to restrict his movement. Don't just play en-passant because you can, in this case it makes his position stronger and yours weaker because he has effectively ripped open the centre which is of massive advantage to his Bishop on g7.

That's a basic strategic view of this game, but tactically you seem to be making a lot of mistakes too, even blunders. The nature in which you lost your Queen for instance was interesting because I think you assumed you would still be even on material being Queenless but you missed black's 17 Qh4+.  You should try to cut the simple mistakes out of your game and you will find yourself beating better players more frequently.

Thanks for the input mate. I might not have been clear enough but I am playing black, not white. How did I play as black? What are my mistakes eventhough I won? In wich part of the game do I need improvment?

LAWLZ. That comment two posts above was awesome. Anyways, why didn't you like 4. d6 where if he did take your fianchettoe would be so strong? Even after Nf3 you get a freed bishop and a Bg4 would a. win the pawn or b. make you're centre and bishop strong. On move 5. you had to then develop your knight to an inferior play and if he had just developed, played h6 to keep you're knight off, you'd be hopelessly passive until you a d5 or d6 advance. The d5 advance you did pull off brought your pieces to life and your opponent should have tried Be2. Seems passive for him, but no other square he's doing something. After that, Bg4 wouldn't have worked. 9. d5 wasn't the best, and seems like you don't have a plan in mind. Re1 would have made use of the semi-open file at least and after Nd7 adding another major piece to the e file would make the pin extremely strong. Move 13. f6 advance would win the knight and bring your knight to life. Move 14. f6 would still be great, manipulating the pin. For moves 19 to 22 moving Re8 would either win the open file or take out his only developed piece. The rest of the game needs no comment.

Hi, thx for commenting. Appreciated.

You're absolutely right about 4. ... d6. I shouldn't have missed that but I'm still learning the modern defence. I still have a long way to go on my opening theory for black.

Very true about the 13. ... f6 It would have easily won the knight. Thx.

Well I guess it is clear that my middle game is the weak link. Would you say my middle game problem is more strategic or more tactical or both?

ok ive been drinking, but i dont think ive been drinking this much.

71... Kc6

you cant do that

I think you have been drinking too much. White's pawns are going up.

I didn't :-)

Thx for reply. So you think I need more work with the tactics trainer then with the chess mentor?

Here is a game I lost. Im playing WHITE. I do know I made a blunder at the end and lost but you might see other things I consistently do wrong?

Improve your tactics, its the weakest point of those games.

Ok, tactics and middle game strategy ideas. Thanks guys. Noted.