why not continue but just give up your bishop?

Instead of 37...Rb3, (or any of your subsequent moves, for that matter), I would have tried 37...d5.

You get rid of your doubled pawns, remove one of your potential weaknesses, and further split his own pawns. If he doesn't capture, then after 38..dxe4 39.dxe4 you have a passed C-pawn.

What do you think about that? I agree with your other assesment; Black was definitely better for the majority of this game. Nice showing.

I should probably include this (the above) to make the idea behind the move I suggested clearer.

Thanks for the comments Dave and Bobby, though as I mentioned, I was pretty much just thrown off after move 35 because of the arbiter suddenly adding a time constraint that was  thrown on the game toward the end, It was more of a psychological loss rather than my ability to compute the moves (when the timer was suddenly added, I just as suddenly felt pressured and did not allow myself sufficient time to make smart moves).

HOWEVER, before this, i would love to see if anyone can find a way to take advantage of my game, because when I throw my moves on an engine, i don't seem to ever be down by even a pawn (though I am only using a GNU engine, which i think uses Rybka).

I love this opening for white.

what's an engine??

Sir Falcon: yeah, I play this almost exclusively for black, because It forces a very particular game on white which he has trouble avoiding.

Bobby: sorry, I mistyped "and engine" when I meant "an engine".

A chess engine is a great way to analyze games (it will often give you an evaluation score of any position and what it thinks the optimal continuation would be)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_engine

oh really wow...where would i get that?