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If i was you i get an alarm system ......

..... he might have went a wall and completely lost his mind.

Those kind of people always take out some stranger

or somebody they had an arguement with (hint hint).

Hey i think i saw some guy with a semi automatic walking around in your backyard! lol

Here is my game with Expertise87. I don`t think Black had problems in opening. I made mistake in 32nd move (better was 32...Qe6, according to Houdini, with complicated and at least no worse play), but my opponent  missed his chances in 38th move - he probably missed 38...Qf6! which was the only move to save the game.

P.S. I`m amazed to see comments on this game by people with their engines turned on, unable to understand that positions were not so simple when you are using your own brains.

I'm just curious here - why is it that when masters are talking about a game, they always refer to the two sides as "white" and "black," even when they know who the two sides are (In your case, black was yourself, yet you still referred to yourself as "black")? Is that, like, common practice or something?

Pacifique, i do think white could have won with 36.Rf3, intending Qf8+ trading all pieces and going to an endgame with a pawn up. 

ponz111 commented your game so much.

I`ve pointed out already that I made mistake in 32nd move, which could be decisive, if White played the best moves.

Speaking on ponz - variations given by him seems to be copy-pasted from his engine. He would have no chances to beat me on equal terms.

8.Nxe5 something tells me that only master and above cand hold onto the pawn in OTB play.  Seems to give black a strong and lasting initiative and white plenty of chances to go wrong.  Even then it should be a forced draw assuming more pawns get traded down (forced win with extra pawn all else being equal if it's three vs. two while two vs. one is a forced draw.  I think or does the forced draw start at three vs. two?).

Anyway I really liked 12...Qh4! in your game provoking white to loosen his pawns so that you could provoke further weaknssess. 13...Qh3! and not only is the white king stuck but the h4 maneouver is illegal.

I don't care much for ...g5 though since i gives white clear targets of attack as there's no g-pawn to form a chain and support the h and f pawns.  Activity may compensate weaknesses but is of a fleeting nature.

22...Bf4! a wonderful defensive maneouver trading off white's most active minor piece and most dangerous attacking minor.

25.gxf4?!  would have lead to quite an unclear position with lots of potential.  Hard to evaluate this though black has some great activity. 

28...exd4! giving him a weak pawn on an open file with major pieces on and ...e5 in hindsight was part of this mini plan apparently.

Exactly! My opponent defended very well and I could suspect him in unfair play, if not his missed wining chances.

Yeah it's really hard to see all potental threats and something that seems reasonable can have a seemingly subtle and "harmless" refutation. The middlegame is all about transitioning into a superior endgame or at least an equal but not drawn one where both sides have chances.  It isn't pleasent when the other guy's initiative carries over to an endgame so the need for defense is obvious.  Is Starting Out: Defensive Play a good book?  I've been considering it for awhile. 

After the twelfth move the position reminds me of the Marshall Attack in the Ruy.

Indeed. Its very similar setup. Moves like Qh4-h3 and g5 are typical for Marshal Attack.

Yet it is interesting if any side could make use of the fact that black pawns still sit on a7 and b7 instead of a6 and b5. For black, it is good news that they have not created dark square weaknesses and for white, moves like c4 (to kick off the centralized knight) are possible. Such subtle differences could influence the resulting play and often lead to theory development.

I think I had looked up to about move 24 in that game when analyzing the position before even challenging you, so I knew how to defend Black's attack relatively well.

I missed some strong resources, but Black has perhaps more for the pawn than I initially thought. Certainly I am not a strong enough player to comment definitively on this, it was just my feeling that White was better there than in the Marshall, and like I said I play the Marshall for Black.

The difference is the position of the Black LSB on e6 allowing Re4 to be stronger than it is in the Marshall where it just leads to dull equality.

I missed that you could draw at the end, and should have played differently after sacrificing my pawn on d5.

Sorry, but I don`t believe you. These moves were not so forced.

Maybe. So 9...c6 (instead of 9...Be6) could be better, as I`ve mentioned already before our game was started.

Not forced, but certainly reasonable moves. I considered a lot of possibilities, and I had either a very similar position or that exact position set up on a board. Of course, there are a lot of similar positions. You didn't play any surprising moves in the first twenty-five.

I see you trying to pretend better than you actually are.  It was your mistake.

ponz111 is a boss

In the Dutch cup someone I known played the variation with Bc5 (based on the Analysis here) and beat an IM and the editor of the famous SOS series 

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