Help with the Scandinavian Defense

I learned the Scandinavian defense, and have been playing mostly the main lines for 40 games now. However, I have only won 35% of my games with it. What am I doing wrong?

I have games I can show as examples. I like the Scandinavian because it opens up the center and often neutralizes white's pawns in the middle of the board. I don't know if I am not playing the opening correctly, or if my problem is something else.

Thanks for any help or advice!

-Ushtar

Here is an example game where I lost using the Scandinavian classical defense:

[Event "Rated Rapid game"]
[Site "lichess.org/XSXvUYAF"]
[Date "2022.04.10"]
[White "Kirill_FUT"]
[Black "Ushtar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[UTCDate "2022.04.10"]
[UTCTime "11:46:12"]
[WhiteElo "1370"]
[BlackElo "1406"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "+6"]
[BlackRatingDiff "-7"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]
[ECO "B01"]
[Opening "Scandinavian Defense: Classical Variation"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. d4 Bf5 { B01 Scandinavian Defense: Classical Variation } 6. Bf4 e6 7. Bd3 Bg4 8. O-O Bd6 9. Bxd6 cxd6 10. h3 Bh5 11. Ne4 Nxe4 12. Bxe4 d5 13. Bd3 Nc6 14. c3 Qc7 15. Be2 g5 16. Nxg5 Bxe2 17. Qxe2 Qf4 18. Qh5 Nd8 19. g3 Qf5 20. Qg4 Qf6 21. Rfe1 h6 22. Nf3 h5 23. Qf4 Qg6 24. Ne5 Qg7 25. Rac1 Rc8 26. b3 b5 27. a4 a6 28. axb5 axb5 29. Rc2 f6 30. Nf3 Rh6 31. Qd6 Qh7 32. Rcc1 Rc6 33. Rxe6+ Nxe6 34. Qxc6+ Kf7 35. Qxd5 Qd3 36. Qd7+ Kg6 37. Qe8+ Kg7 38. Qxe6 Qxf3 39. Qd7+ Kg6 40. Qxb5 h4 41. Qe8+ Kg7 42. Qd7+ Kg6 43. Qg4+ Qxg4 44. hxg4 hxg3 45. fxg3 Rh3 46. Kf2 Rh7 47. Kf3 Kg5 48. Ra1 Rb7 49. Ra5+ Kg6 50. b4 Rc7 51. Rc5 Ra7 52. Kf4 Rf7 53. b5 Rb7 54. g5 fxg5+ 55. Rxg5+ Kf6 56. c4 Ke6 57. d5+ Kd6 58. Ke3 Kc5 59. Kd3 Rb6 60. g4 Rb7 61. Rf5 Rg7 62. Rf4 Rg5 63. Re4 Kb6 64. Re6+ Kc5 65. Kc3 Rxg4 66. Rc6# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0

@Ushtar said in #1:
> I learned the Scandinavian defense, and have been playing mostly the main lines for 40 games now. However, I have only won 35% of my games with it. What am I doing wrong?
>
> I have games I can show as examples. I like the Scandinavian because it opens up the center and often neutralizes white's pawns in the middle of the board. I don't know if I am not playing the opening correctly, or if my problem is something else.
>
> Thanks for any help or advice!
>
> -Ushtar

If you dont know,I hve a
Scandinavian Defence study.It might help you

Click here

Hmm The Scandinavian opening is a very aggressive opening when white starts with e4 you need to play d5 but remember to keep your king safe and develop your other pieces that's all.

@TheKingClash said in #3:
> In this game, king safety was your problem. By advancing the g-pawn, your King was left with nowhere to hide, which your opponent exploited by opening up the centre. You should probably have castled your King into safety and gone for a minority attack on the queenside to wreck White's queenside pawn structure.

Thanks for the feedback. The comment about advancing my g-pawn was helpful. Much appreciated.

@Ushtar said in #6:
> Thanks for the feedback. The comment about advancing my g-pawn was helpful. Much appreciated.
What about My comment

@Chess_Master7777 said in #7:
> What about My comment

yes, thank you for your comment as well. I appreciate it. Any other feedback?

@Ushtar said in #8:
> yes, thank you for your comment as well. I appreciate it. Any other feedback?
Thanks

Looking at my statistics in the last two months, I have played the Scandinavian Opening in 22 games with a 31.8% victory, 4.5% draw, and 63.6% defeat performance.

As with the comments above, it seems the Scandinavian opening creates a more open game which allows my opponents to exploit other weaknesses in my game (i.e. King safety, etc.). So my conclusion is perhaps I should study other openings as black against White e.4 that lead to a more closed game.

Any suggestions on other openings against e.4 that I should try? The Caro-Kann?

Thanks in advance for any advice.