This game embodies the spirit of winning against all odds and costs. The irony of this game is that after computer analysis my opponent didn't seem to make any horrible mistakes as I did.

However I still won the game! Believe it or not.Your comments folks TIA!

Nice game

There's something here!  Lower rated players are not really novices in the game.  Perhaps, they have played while in the grades, high school or college then, when survival comes, you forget about chess or get hungry.  When we can afford to play, we make a come back for the love of the game!  At chessdotcom, like everyone, you begin the prescribed rating.  In the 70's, I happen to know 2 or 3 Filipino chess players who were at the Olympics in Lugano, Switzerland.  Then, I came to know one of them here at chess.com.  His rating zoomed in a short time to 2500+.  So, watch out for those rated lower for they have been playing quality chess for some time!  Of course not all!  Seleucid, your moves are not for 1400s, when you played in May 2009!

Actually a "Pyrrhic victory" is one where one side wins a battle a  such a high cost that he ends up losing the war.  So this isn't that, really.

Nice game anyway, though!

You're right. The goal of chess is to "kill" the king at all costs even at the cost of material advantage. I think that if checkmate is achieved, how many mistakes you made or your opponent made doesn't make much of a difference.