Analysis on First Game Please

I'm new to chess.com and I just got through playing my first game on here.  I would love to either be critiqued or whatever since I'm always looking to improve my game.  If I did awesome, then you can let me know that too!  I play black obviously and I won after 17 moves.  I think I did well, but there's always something I could have done differently.  Thanks in advance. 

must be his first game too; i mean... his firest game ever:)

you guys both hung a lot of pieces :)

try www.chess.com/tactics and www.chess.com/chessmentor ;)

Hey here.

Your opening left you with a cramped position. It was difficult for you to get you pieces developed.

In the opening there are some general rules. These rules should not be followed to the letter, there is always times when they are not applicable, so think of them more as guidelines.

Fight for the centre of the boards, try to control the centre squares.

Develop your pieces before starting an attack.

Get castled early.

Don't bring the queen out too early, it can be chased around.

Try to find the best place for a piece, move it there, then get the rest of your pieces developed. Moving the same pieces alot in the opening losing tempi.

Same with pawn moves. Too many pawn moves slow down your development of pieces.

Don't attack until development is complete.

Find a weakness of your opponents and attack it with all your pieces. They are more powerful working together than as individuals.

There is obviously a lot more to be said on the topic. But those pointers may help.

besides losing pieces, I think that you played the closed game well.

There were too many mistakes for analysis to be useful, rather Its better to advise you on what to study/consider:

First: Play more games of chess.  Simply playing more chess will get you hanging less pieces.  Practice makes perfect, simple!

Second: When you make a move, you nearly always leave the defense of some pieces behind.  See the move 7... b6 to see how this gave up the defense of the c6 pawn.  If an expert thought of such a move, he would immediately think "OK, this move changes what the pawn is defending.  Are these formally defended pieces still safe?".  Soon he would find out that the c6 pawn was left without defenders (!) and that Nxc6 can take it (which your opponent played).

Third: If you have trouble seeing your opponents threats (like Nxc6) consider buying a book or program on beginner chess tactics.  Alternatively (although I think buying a book on chess tactics is a good idea to learn the basic patterns).

Alternatively chesstempo.com, or chess.emrald.net all offer free tactics training (at chess.com, if you want to solve more then 3 puzzles a day you need to pay)

You're opponent gave away pieces on the 10th and 14th moves.  

An improvement for Black would have been 15...Qc4 threatening mate and forcing 16.Qxa6 Rxa6.  Along similar lines, 16...Qxc3+ would have launched a strong attack on White's king and forked the unguarded rook on a1.  New players often fail to see the "holes" where a piece can land safely in the heart of the opponent's position and that might have been the case for you here.  Try to make it a habit, on every move, of knowing where all your opponent's unguarded ("loose") pieces are.  In the position after 16.c3 it was the pawn on c3 and the rook on a1. 

Any time you force resignation in 17 moves you have done very well.  Later analysis can nearly always find improvements and that's one of the best ways to learn.

I have commented the moves below. You missed a more dramatic win on the 16th move:

Wow...you guys are awesome!  Thank you.  That was a lot of help.