how not to take advantage of a bad opponent's opening

I played these two on chesscube.com. I'm such a bad tactician... Can you please tell what I should have chaged? After first I decided to change in the move 8. I saw something that seemed to me like a dangerous attack, but it wasn't. Or was but I don't see it now. Both were 30 mins for a game.

I may or may not have advice for you but we'll never know unless you tell us what colour you were playing as 🙂

My guess, is that, he lost both.

16...c5 instead of 16...Qd7 might be a game one improvement
In game 2 sacrificing on c3 is highly speculative.

3...d5 may be stronger than 3...g6


I almost thought I was the player of the white pieces when i saw this thread it sure looks like a game of mine though i don`t recall it.

Originally posted by WanderingKing
Can you please tell what I should have changed?

Originally posted by National Master Dale
16...c5 instead of 16...Qd7 might be a game one improvement

I didn't see the move. I simply didn't notice that the bishop will be protected and it scared me so much I stopped thinking rationally.

Originally posted by National Master Dale
In game 2 sacrificing on c3 is highly speculative.
Again I didn't see the simple bishop move. I was so happy when I saw myself attacking f2 and c3 at the same time. It's just too much for me too take so many things into account... This maybe seems funny to you, but I simply can't do it.

Originally posted by National Master Dale
3...d5 may be stronger than 3...g6
I am thinking of it and I just don't see. For me it looks like it would transpose back to what I played.

Originally posted by heinzkat
In the first game you should not have let your King stroll off
I knew I'm going right into the gates of hell. But I didn't see any alternative. Save a rooks' trade. But I thought It's very bad to swap material when he has such an advantage.

Thank you everybody for your insight.

I actually was inspired by this thread ...hehe did you know that it was inspirational...

Anyways today at a coffee shop i tried it out and woohoo it worked really great.

I played 3.Bb5 instead of 3.Bc4 for all the games though but basically i just played like the thread and scored super well.

This is now a new secret weapon methinks.

I'm still too much disgusted to be happy with you finding new secret weapon 😕

I`m really getting most of secret weapons from these forums lately.

The vulture thread inspired me too so I play it now too.

The various forum posters are inspirational indeed.