I just noticed that the knight on a4 was so bad in game #2 that after I played 3...e5, all his escape squares were taken away and 4...b5 would have won the knight.
Short, instructive game.
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in response to "This bishop was already developed. You spent a move putting him on d2, and now another putting him here on g5. I feel like, again, I can't tell you not to move a piece twice in the opening, but here you really should have castled. Your king is vulnerable to attack without the bishop on d2, and by letting me play bc4+ you either have to give me a pawn, or lose the right to castle. lose-lose. May I ask what the motivation was to put the bishop there?"
There is a reason, though I doubt your opponent saw it given some of the mistakes made, and given the option of Bb4+ shouldn't have been played at that time, but it stops the threat on the queen from ..Bg4, since following Bg4 1. Bxf3 then either (..Bxf6 2. Bxd2), (..gxf6 2.Qxg4) leave white up a knight, while ..gxf6 also weakens blacks pawn structure and the white queen can quickly make it even worse, and ..Qxf3 2.Qxf3 gxf3 leaves even material but again weakens blacks pawns.
Also 15. ..Qc2 would have been mate
These games were played over the last few days. I am annotating them out of boredom and hopefully because they have some instructional value.
If you have something *constructive* to add, please feel free to post and make comments.