My game of the day

I  learned chess many years ago. I was attracted to the tactical ideas of many players.  As I have grown older, my taste for tactics has tempered a bit and I am now exploring positional ideas.  Even still you can see my old self  coming out in some of my moves. 

 

Here is a game I played on chess.com  (live beta) recently against a player calling himself "Soviet".  There are some suspicious moves being made on both sides of the board in the opening, please pardon those for this was a speed game.