A game I just played

Hey all, I wanted to share a game I just played, to see if any of you big brain chess peeps have any further insights. I recognise the blunder I made that nearly cost me the game, I didn't even think about Re8, as a move to avoid back rank mate, but I suppose this is why analysis is so valuable. I was pleased with my endgame as I think I'm usually weak in this area, even if my opponent messed up a little with getting his knight pinned. Any comments appreciated, currently trying to get back over a thousand, I took a few months off chess and my rating slipped but back on the rating grind.

A few remarks:

15. b4 is insane. White is opening up his own king, just asking to get checkmated. I wonder what was his reasoning for that.

17. - Qc8 is a very bad move. You should develop your knight somehow, then put the rooks on c8 and b8 and get a devastating attack. Instead you decided to exchange queens, which kills your own attack, loses the d6 pawn immediately and gets you in a really bad endgame. I have no idea what you had in mind.

23. Nd3 was a very weird move by white. 23. Nc6 would win an exchange (or a piece) and the game. Still, that endgame seemed hopeless with your pinned and paralyzed pieces, but you persevered and he blundered, that's very good.

yeah Qb4 was very bad and I'm not sure why I played it honestly. I don't usually trade so happily like that, moment of madness I guess but thanks for the tips. I did see that he could win the Knight by force long before he did, I was hoping he didn't see it, when he did finally see it, he ended up blundering his Knight right after anyway.

Ra7 on move 31 was a big blunder

same things as magipi

Ra7 is actually the top engine move, I just accepted that I was losing the knight and got my rook more active.

A decent game from you, some mistakes on both sides but you did alright 

The worst move imo probably isn't even h6 but 17. qc8. I would almost consider that a blunder based on how large black's advantage was before the queen trade

Wow, you really went in depth there with the comments, I appreciate that a lot. Bxg2 was a big miss also which I saw in analysis. Thanks again for taking the time.

No problem I'm not as good as some of the other players here but I'm happy to analyze other games if you want

Thanks so much, if I get anymore interesting games I would gladly accept your input. Your rating is still a lot higher than mine so your advice is valuable!

Woo, just hit 1000 rapid again.

Not the most interesting game, but opponent played a 'brilliant' move (9. c6), after analysis I saw that if the opponent knew what they were doing they could have trapped my queen after

I foolishly took the poisoned pawn. But alas, they hung mate in 1.

I sent you my annotations in PMs