we all make mistakes and blunders , but how many times one can be punished for a blunder (2 in fact) and face the somethered mate (philidor legacy), in a recent game with a friend OTB he tried to deviate from theory against the sicilian, the middle game seemed weird for both of us , tried to hold my aggressiveness when i play the sicilian, my opponent made 2 terrible errors which allowed me not just mate but to SMOTHER MATE HIM , a combination i only learned in books , possibly made live long time ago in my chess but i cant recall....i tried to annotate the game for u here, hope u enjoy it

He perhaps hoped to mate you the same way as you him. After 22. Nf7+ Kg8?? he could have done so !

But this may have been  wishful thinking! At that moment he had already a difficult position

Beautiful Leo. Bravo.

i consider it more of luck jg , 2 blunders in late middle game

i agree mauer, i was not in good shape myself.....its not much of an informative game , but i was truely excited i could make a smothermate in actual game

 i think i saw the smothered mate first in some game of paul morphy and was really intruiged.so far i was able to do it only once in a blitz game few weeks ago (like an idiot i didn't save the game). good game galal.

thats bad tushu , in 30 years i am playing chess i only didit twice...the first one was OTB when we were kids

Great Finish. You barely escape his brutal attack and I dont know what he was thinking but I have achieved that position only in Tactical Training so far never in practice. May be some day.....