Please analyze my tournament game (1)

I went to the rackspace chess tournement in san antonio TX last saturday. I was not participating (I did not register fast enough), but was there as insanityfiler's coach.

I played 7 games while I was there though, and I would like my strengths and weaknesses anylized in all if possible (thouroughly).

This is game 1. I am including my thought process (or how I remember it)

Please tell me how you think, how my thought process was, or if I missed anything.

I want to anylize my games in depth to improve.

I would love to hear any of your anylisis on this, or a computers if you have that feture.

Please tell me if I missed anything in my anylisis, or made any mistakes.

More games to come.

Page that holds all of these games (without thought process) (and soon links to other blogs/forums with thought process):

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/rackspace-tournement

Blog Version:

http://www.chess.com/blog/logozar/tournament-game-for-analysis-game-1

Your play looks very good to me. I especially like your Zwischenugs (11. Re1+) and your willingness to let pieces fall due to important tactical considerations (12. Bg5, 14. Ne5) that override positional issues. For deeper analysis I'd have to study this variation of the Ruy Lopez, of which I'm not familiar. I wonder if 8. Nxd4 would have been any better than 8. exd4, since taking with the knight threatens a hanging bishop and multiple threats at c6.

Thanks for your input! I will have to look into that

I was curious whether there was something better than exf5 (d4 looking more natural to me) and looked over the game with stockfish.  Apparently, your play was essentially perfect (Stockfish prefers 14. qd4, but that hardly counts since your move wins easily enough), which is incredibly hard to do even in a short game against a weaker opponent.  Congrats.  Just dont expect to do that again anytime soon :)