in this game i carry an advantage in the opening through the middle game that i m very proud of, finally won decisive material...and then found myself drowning in a sea of black's counter attack...!   

Hey mate thats cool, my first game showcased! I love reading peoples annotations and especially interesting seeing your thoughts now. Was a fun game and a good fight indeed!

As ye say i was in near on 50 games at once and sometimes i was just firing a move out there which maybe wasnt that great (explains my "useless" moves sometimes heh) to just play a move which hopefully wasnt a losing one heh.

That said i was sure ye had me and i was waitin fer the hammer to fall. In the end i got lucky that ye got overconfident :P Thats the thing in chess, i wonder what the ratio is of someone losing the game vs their opponent winning the game...? (as in paving the way the game end result i mean) I know i often lose the game, but other times im simply outplayed by someone else winning the game. In this game it was probably a bit of both.

Ill try and annotate my side of it soon too and return the favour. Id love to do that with all my games but i just have too many atm :s 

Great game and a pleasure to play with ye again cheers :)

haha, this game remind me to never resign

Goodness! Although you seemed to have an advantage at first, I take it that they were sporadic moves, they didn't seem too strategically processed. Combine those pretty attacks and you may have a far greater advantage next time. You are a highly spirited and gutsy player which is a good thing, although it seems your ego got the best of you ;) I suppose the mind is like a small yet very complex machine. By having it run many programs at once (let's say...strategy and over confidence?) it may slow one or the other down. Believe me, my brain has crashed pleanty...

funny comentary, by the way! 

   Not so long ago I clicked thru 2 or 3 of Pistoleer's games while visiting in his site out curiosity about the flavor of the Irish tourney he was hosting or preparing to host or something.  Anyway, it was after reading his profile (the part about liking a good, early, strong attack) that I decided to check out a few of his games and hopefully learn something.  I remember repeating to myself, "wow" as I peeped thru a door into a world of chess in which my lack of knowledge and skills would be quickly and embarassingly exposed.  So it was with that memory I was able to share your excitement when it seemed you had the upper hand and your shock and "oops" attitude as it unravelled on you.  The gent from Ireland definitely knows "sic'em" from "come here" when it comes to his chess playing.  I thank both of you for sharing this gem of a game.   Oh yeah...waiting on Pistoler's  annotations  of this  game anxiously.

You were in the game totally until 25. h3? When the opponent drops his queen off the board, it's the central pawn of the castle that needs moving. 25. Qc4+! wins you the game then and there, since it double covers f1, killing the back rank threat and black loses much of his material

25. Qc4+! Rf7 26. g3!!

and I can't find a good move for black. I don't think there is one.

Qc4+ was also a handy bailout on move 27:

27. Qc4+ Kh7 (forced, there is nothing better) Qf7+ Rg7 Qxf4 and you're defended 

white could have held this game. Move 25, h3 was a poor mistake. I would suggest Rg3 to take control of the file and gain a tempo on the king. and then following with Qe1.

Or perhaps 25 Rf1. 

I think you probably got greedy, thinking you could win the knight too. 

After afew defensive moves to rearrange white's pieces, white's material advantage, passed pawn, and the exposed black king can pretty much gauranteed white a win. Remember, greed doesn't pay! 

good narration

I agree 25.Qc4+ looks winning to me. 

19. b6? was a really bad idea. You are pushing pawns with an attitude that seems something like, "who cares it's just a pawn move"  ... Ack! You've got to look at every pawn move carefully and think about what it does for you, good and bad. It's no exaggeration to say the whole logic of a postion stems from the disposition of the pawns. 

19.b6 ... weakens your a-pawn and completely unbottles black's bishop! (this is the fatal thing) and it prematurely advances the b-pawn so that it is a weakness needing defense or exchange... In return you get to chase the N (although as we see from the game, that doesn't actually work...) in short it's a dreadful move, and it wasn't hard to see it was a dreadful move, but you needed to look. 

Moreover, you had much better more pressing things to do with your 19th move.  Why aren't you trying to activate that wonderful bishop on b2? It is just waiting to slash across the black kingside.  

...and you really ought to ask yourself why the heck you think you should be chasing his N on c6 around when he's got a N sunk on f4! I mean he's got a N planted on your front door step -- doesn't it make sense to deal with that!?

The g6 square looks very weak to me (at the 19th move) ... the only thing keeping your Queen out of g6 is the N on f4... maybe exchange Knights.. sink your Queen on g6, you've got the pawn push to e6 opening the long diagonal for your black bishop while simultaneously attacking his rook. Hey a plan's starting to form... an attack, even... Fast forward to MOVE 19 for alternative to your moves.

This game was awesome to play through. Great commentary. It shows the true counterattacking potential of the Englund Gambit.

 The Gambit King

i had a good game like that too, i thought i had all his pieces defending my allmost mate and more pawns when he mated me.