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First game, he traps his queen. So he should have just traded queens like I wanted lol. But he blundered it in an attempt to save it. TAKE THE TRADE!

Second game (rematch), I set up a mating net for a mate-in-2. He couldn't stop it. Rd7 was questionable though. The easiest mate to see was Qa7+ followed with Kc8 Qa8#. But he actually set that up for me. I figured he would have seen that. He was trying to protect Qxc7 because then I could have gotten his knight on f7. Or maybe he thought that if I played Qxc7, he would play Kc8 and then I would play Qxd8 for mate. But that wouldn't be mate because his queen protects d8. He might have just missed that. But to protect Qxc7, he should have just played Qe7 because that still protects his rook on d8 and my Qxc7 move. That was his best course of action. His worst would have been Kc8 instead of Rd7. I figured he would play that, thinking to get out of the Qa7 check, but I would then have played Kxc7 for the mate.

First game, he lost because he didn't castle (and a blunder). Second game, he lost because he castled lol. Or maybe it was just because he castled too late.