13 first moves your and your opponents soldiers are in about equal good positions. After that your opponent is active with soldiers to get them forward. Your soldiers are passive, not moving forward.
Playing closed positions with knights on e4 e5
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The problem isn’t due to ‘concrete variations’. The problem is that you were playing on the wrong wing and playing without objective /plan.
By move 13, the centre is fixed. You have one opportunity for pawn break (f5-f4) on the kingside. However this is difficult to achieve. A pawnstorm on the kingside without the f-pawn isn’t going to work since you can’t open lines with a 2-vs-2 situation. Therefore you should be looking at the queenside with breaks like c5.
What happened in the game is the natural conclusion where you are crushed on the wing that you neglected while failing to make headway against a solid defense on the other wing.
By move 13, the centre is fixed. You have one opportunity for pawn break (f5-f4) on the kingside. However this is difficult to achieve. A pawnstorm on the kingside without the f-pawn isn’t going to work since you can’t open lines with a 2-vs-2 situation. Therefore you should be looking at the queenside with breaks like c5.
What happened in the game is the natural conclusion where you are crushed on the wing that you neglected while failing to make headway against a solid defense on the other wing.
I lost this game I need a lot of help analyzing it as I lose very often in positions like these. Before the pawn breaks on the queen side I was certain that I was winning in an endgame as I had the dark sqaured bishop and his pawns were locked on dark squares. It would be helpful for anyone who has advice to give me concrete variations as well as general principles it would be very appreciated.