Please have a look at this game and let me know if you've seen this before please.

 

A sac of a piece for a pawn and one heck of an attack!!

 

Check the move list for variations and let me know if you see better lines or mistakes. Thanks in advance

 

By the way, I am playing as black.

A very intresting game. Lots of activity.

That is a pretty common piece sacrifice.  Your opponent wasted too much time to make it valuable, though.  After a sacrifice like that, it is imperitive that one goes on the offense immediately.  Moves like a3(??) and h3(?) are losing, as they allow you to solidify your position.  He shouldn't be worried about your attack.  He should be mounting his own.  If he insisted on pawn moves, h4 would have been much better, with h5 coming to allow his rook to penetrate on the h-file.  14. Na4(?) is miserable.  He wastes time on the queenside and, even worse, trades pieces.  Your idea of 14.Ne2 is much better as it starts the knight's journey to the part of the board where he is desperately needed.

 

My guess is that your opponent lost a game to a similar sacrifice and wanted to give it a try.  It's not usually a good idea to take on new sequences without understanding the concepts behind them.

The sac at the beginning?  I've been known to be sac happy abd done that sort of thing from time to time.  Sometimes I got away with it, sometimes not.

hey xevs,

firstly well done on winning your game, although looking back i think you might agree that you could have made a life a little easier for yourself.

i play a very similar move order as you so i know the feeling playing against this sac. Regarding the sac itself, it goes no further than blitz chess, and the players who play it against me are always lower rated than me.

There is absolutley no compensation for this sac and white just cant afford to be doing moves like ...bxf7+ so early, especially since you have played solid opening moves! understandable if black had set up poorly, but blacks setup with g6,Bg7,c5, and Nc6 is by no means weak. Generally speaking after a sac like that on black, white would want to open the position since the king is in the centre and cannot castle, but white has already chosen a closed set up with pawns on e4 and d3, so he would need to make more moves to open up the position, which is quite hard since black has control of d4.

6...e6 is playable of course, but i prefer 6...h6, preventing black from putting his knight (or bishop) on g5, its a simple move too. pawn structure with 6...e6 is fine but i prefer ...d6 set up a little better. ...d6 is preventitive measure incase white is planning to advance his e pawn. ...e6 also blocks your bishop on c8 which cant now develop on g4. remember that you gave up the exchange to eliminate a knight a f3. with ...d6 you could have later developed your light squared bishop on g4 and threathened to exhange for whites knight.

after a few more simple moves, the worry is over about falling into a mate or a trap and perhaps black even castles unnaturally (ie. reaches a castled position using a series of king moves). i have included diagram of some suggested opening help for next time, insted of worrying about whites Ng5+ and follow up threats. hopefully this helps you and answers the questions about the soundness of whites (premature) sac.

Note: Click 'Move List' for commentary and side variations. 

 

Hope this is some help at least regarding your opening prep for next time the sac comes up. you can shock your opponent then with some simple yet solid moves.