Was my sacrifice a blunder, eventhough I won?

                            Interesting & Daring Sacrifice or Blunder?

This game may be interesting to those in my rating range (live standard -1454). I always love to break castle of the opponent king by pawn storming and thus win. In this game also, I did the same and sacrificed a bishop too in the process.

My question is whether my sacrife was correct or not? (I mean while playing with a stronger opponent - will it work?). 

The game:

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=57715280

Yes. 14 Rf1 was a blunder made by my opponent; so that I won in the 15th move. I think the correct move was 14 Bf3. But then, my sacrifice seems futile. So was my sacrifice a blunder?

Hello !

I will begin to say you proved great attacking skill in this game ! Attacking along the h-file when the opponent "fianchettoed" a bishop here is a typical pattern (Sicilian Dragon , KID Sämisch...).

In my opinion, the sacrifice isn't sound, as I can't calculate the mate, but I would feel very bad in such a position with White pieces. Many grandmasters launch such sacrifices even without seeing the end, just because it's really hard to defend against.

I give you a few analysis of the game, especially after the sacrifice (also opening ideas, if you've time to look at it).

Dear Tigranlinflexible,

                                thank you very much for your time and effort. You are really a good person. I will definitely go through your analysis later (It is now 2:05 am in India) and I have to do a lot of things tomorrow morning. 

Bye the bye, could you please explain how to post a game as you did, instead of giving the link of the game? Thank you for the compliment also.

Regards,

Sreejish

Time control was 30 0. And what do you mean by calling my opponent a fish? Hello, we are both beginners. I had a rating of  1448 and he had a rating of 1300 before the game. That means we didn't have much rating difference. And to tell the truth, I think that your remark is offensive for both of us.

Hello !

I edited my comment (october 13th), and definitely, the sacrifice was unsound, even if it gives "practical chances" (losing against a computer, but hard to defend for a human).

To insert a game : in the posting menu, left from the bold type button, there is a chessboard symbol. The menus in there are very well explained, with a lot of options. You will have to open the PGN file and copy-paste it.

The lessons you might get from this game are :

1-when the opponent neglects development, attack immediately, even if yours is not perfectly completed ; open the game, i.e. exchange as much pawns as you can. Consider castling on the opposite side to storm pawns (launching pawns against the ennemy's ones) (that's a cheaper pawn-protection destruction, compared to sacrifices) without weakening your own position.

As you can see in my analysis, you could have a similar good attacking position without sacrificing, by this plan.

2- with the structure pawns f7/g6/h7 , bishop g7 , a standard attack plan is to open the h-file or the f-file by h2-h4-h5 (f2-f4-f5) and to exchange the bishops.

3-that's my advice, but I am anyone except an attacking player : under 1800+, dont sacrifice huge amounts of material without a full overlook on the following.

As you don't seem familiar to the 1.d4 opening, you should have a look on the KID (King's indian defense) (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.e4) ; at your level, you only need the ideas and not long lines, and it fits your attacking nature. Against 1.e4 , try the French (1...e6) or the Sicilian (1...c5 , but there is lots of lines here).