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You may not want to hear this, but you might not be right that you are actually the better player. Its only one game, I have no idea who is better, but your opponent played better overall in this one game. But so what, who cares if your buddy is a little better right now? Your here, trying to learn. You can pull ahead and start crushing him with a little work. Anyway, here are a few comments.
6. save that bishop, it is entirely controlling that diagonal preventing white from castling kingside. So bb6. Its true that white can grab the bishop if he really wants it with na4, but that will take time.
9. not sure what you were hoping to accomplish with f3, but you spend a move to force him to take the pawn which he would have done anyway. You have lost a move, called a tempo, unless forcing bxf3 is better than having him do bxf4. It isn't, your follow up of nxb is bad; you gain nothing by trading the powerfully placed central knight for a bishop currently doing nothing. The computer likes 9. ... g5, but castling would be fine.
12. ... c5, 11. ... h6 was already too slow when behind in development, but 12. ... c5 is really where you lose. Your way behind in development, you haven't castled, and you have basically forced white to line up his heavy pieces on the f-file. You are already doing quite poorly, but survival looks unlikely after this.
16. Taking queens off is usually great when you are defending. White gave you a major break, and hasn't conducted the attack in the best way. Trade queens, and maybe you can draw a pawn down, or at least survive long enough for him to make a mistake. After 0-0 you could lose very quickly to qxh6 with rf3-g3 being one way for white to close the deal.
Overall lesson, develop faster, be cautious of pawn moves before you are fully developed and castled safely.
I play mostly vienna, and i must say You made quite an ugly ( and pretty typical for one unfamiliar with vienna game) opening inacurency - 3..Nc6. Your opponent failed to capitalize on it.
The move allows 5. fxe5, Nxe5, 6. d5, winning space, classical pawn centre and open f file. The e pawn can then andvance winning even more space and chasing away the Knight on f6.
There is a particaulary buetiful miniature Najdarof vs NN, when an amateur have played like that, and was crushed.... spectaculary.
The right move is 3. ...d5 and 3. ...d6 is playable. If you indend to play vienna game, You should watch some movies on it, this inacurrency is shown in most if not all of them.
What in the world am I doing wrong?
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 Nc6 4.a3 Bc5 5.Nf3 d6 6.b4 Bd4 7.Nxd4 Nxd4 8.Be2 exf4 9.d3 f3 10.Bxf3 Nxf3 11.Qxf3 h6 12.O-O c5 13.Nd5 Be6 14.Nxf6 gxf6 15.Qxf6 O-O 16.Bb2 Qxf6 17.Rxf6 Kh7 18.Raf1 b6 19.R1f3 h5 20.R3f4 c4 21.Rh4 cxd3 22.Rxh5 Kg8 23.Rh8 Kxh8 24.Rh6 Kg8 25.Rh8# {christiankmartinez won by checkmate}