Bird Bird Bird ... Bird is the Word

I recently posted this in my Birds Team Forum but wanted to throw it out there for everybody else. Here is a typical game of mine. Please take a look and let me know how I can improve on it. I doubt my opponent knew what hit him but even so I wanted to show u my normal progression. What ya Think?

I have been practicing the Bird's Opening for the last month and I am still making silly mistakes. I want to improve but am stuck.  Please let me know where my biggest mistakes are in this game ... Thanks

after 1.f4 d6 2.e4  is best  it gives you strong control of the center but isn't really the style of Bird's opening. 2.Nf3 is fine

again after 2...b6 i still like 3.e4

4.d3 is kind of slow, 4.d4 might be better, but i seewhere going with d3

and again I like 6.e4 or 6.0-0

9. Rc1 doesn't serve much purpose, at the moment there's no need fo the on the c file

11. c3 blocks in your bishop and weakens your pawn structure

12. Na3 remember a Knight in the rim is grim

13. Qd2 was fine

14. Nc2  I don't quite understand your plan, you played Nc4, c3, Na3, Nc2, just simply playing Nc3 at some point would have put you knight in a move a active position in only one move.

And then you opponent basically gave you the game with 15.Ne7 But here's a slightly more accuarate way to play the opening:

Thanks Mike,

Do you play the Bird alot? Have you had much success with your setup? I will try a few of those moves out see if it helps. It looks nice but not likely to happen in a game. The Bird tends to get Black antsy and he'll want to attack rather than stay neutral. But with optimal conditions yes your setup on turn 9 looks good.

Thanks again for your comment!

Ok to help you understand my thinking here ... Line9 (Rc1) is the whole basis why the other pieces were moving ... I want my knight on c2 ... But why? To start pushing my pawns. I look trapped here but Black gave me breathing room. Because he was playing so I knew I could bring my knight to c2. With it on c2 I can push my pawns (which is pretty sick concidering I'm thinking 6 moves ahead) ... making me HAPPY cause then I have room to PLAY! There is some method to my madness I hope you can see that

but you didn't need you knight on c2 to push you pawns, you could have played e4 or d4 at almost any point in the opening 

e4 has no protection ... If played it can be compromised with ease

both players making major blunders.. which sort of evens out.

Please be more specific ... I want to learn from my mistakes.

2.e4 is fine it will most likely transpose into the pirc defense. 2.Nf3 is also fine but the games posted your opponent made almost no effort to take contorl of the center, and you just really have to take advantage of that at some point. If somebody give the chance to take control in the center take it. That is such a fundamental part of the opening, in alot of major openings systems white's entire opening play is based on being able to put a pawn on e4 and d4.

I don't play Bird's opening much myself but the opening is fairly straight forward. White is simply trying to control the e5 square. The more control you have in the center the easier it is to move your pieces from one side of the board to the other, thus making it easier to attack and defend. Bird's opening white makes a point to control e5.

that made that episode one of the most annoying of all family guy episodes (most are awesome btw)