The Pirc defence is played against 1. e4, you played a variation of the Kings Indian Defence. In Chess Mentor IM Thomas Wolski has a course on playing (and playing against the KID) which is definitely worth looking at. The definitive book on it is by David Bronstein. It's a perfectly playable defence but you need to know the goals of its various lines (there are not a huge number to learn). Without this you will play moves such as 8. ... Be6 which don't fit well with the opening.
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Pointing out bad moves may help a bit - although some deeper analysis may be needed.
one such move that weakened your position was 12..h6.
First, don't worry Im in the same positio,n as worst player in the club. Second, you should just do tactics in a small scale and mainly pattern recognition. Chess is a positional tug of war. Third, since i am a bad player, feel free to disregard what ive said.
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Look at this page: http://www.chess.com/explorer/index.html?id=10906592&ply=15&black=0
It is a link to the chess.com database of master games from the position after 8. e4. This is the point at which you diverged from the opening theory. You can explore the different approaches various masters have taken to playing this position. By looking over master games you will start to recognise patterns and setups that they were playing for.
Good luck!
Another loss... Infact I've never won! I'm at club where I am the weakest player byfar; but I am trying to learn. Here is agame at a two hour time control.
I have been spending most of my time studying tactic but have noticed that in time controls like this one of 2 hours I'm not losing because of tactics but I'm losing because of poistional issues.
Should I beplay a more dynamic line? ( I play the pirc with black and the Torre with white though without much study) or should I continue with these types of poitional lines and just study endgames further??
Thanks,