Hi Hannahdog22,
I reposted the game for you with the PGN provided:
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Interesting game! Definitely shows the power of retaining both bishops later on in the game. Looks pretty interesting, played quite aggresively as white and black seemed to be distracted by your rooks to fall for the mate. I'm not very good at analyzing chess games at all, so I'm not sure how much my oppinion helps though.
I do like the move 13. Rxf6 where you sacrafice the Rook for the Knight, it opens up black's defense a bit, and after 19.. f5 really sets the stage for the attack with both bishops... black is forced to make another trade, again getting a Rook but this time losing a Bishop. However by this point black seems in a pretty risky position, even with the distinct piece advantage. (Not to mention pawns..)
Who said you can't have a decent game?
It was a decent game.
You were just losing the game, down by the exchange and a pawn, when your opponent got carried away and blundered away his queen.
Oct 29, 2015
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On the negative side, both sides made many positional mistakes here. I'll just mention a few of White's positional mistakes to start:
5. Nxc6 is typically weak play for White in the Sicilian because it allows ...bxc6, which prepares for a nice, freeing ...d5 advance with a central pawn duo.
6. Bd3 turns your bishop into little more than a tall pawn. 6. Be2 or a later kingside fianchetto (Bg2) would be better.
7. Bg5 is a useless pin. See:
Breaking stereotypes Part - 1 by GM Igor Smirnov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_zWJHYWWJs
11. f4 was wrong because recapturing Rxf4 runs into the pawn fork you encountered, plus sets your rook up for attack from bishops even if that fork hadn't happened. It's too early in the game to be bringing out rooks to the center of the board. I think you needed to just recapture normally in the center with 11. exd5 or maybe defend with 11. f3.
On the positive side, your winning tactics were good, and it was a delight to see the game suddenly flip from losing to winning so quickly.
The position after 14. Bg3 white is down an exchange, and in addition the position is also worse for white as black has more space and easier development.
More noteworthy was black's play which was too greedy in general. Being an exchange up black does not really need to "win more". For example as black I would not have taken the b2 pawn with the queen as while that wins a pawn it also untangles white's position and gives white good counterplay. The simple 14 ..dxe4 15. Bxe4 Rd8! black is in control and I don't see what white can do with the knight and rook still on original squares.
After that the game was complicated as you made some good decisions and after some mutual blunders (21. Be1! traps the queen but you flipped in a check instead... good black blundered after that) you won. I think it was a good game but you need to know that you were worse most of the game and this is not a good way to play in general.
Is this a decent game? I reviewed a game where Nakamura defeated So in 2015, and forfeited his rooks in doing so. But when lower level rated players like myself do it and win, I still get slammed. Just the other day I was watching a game between two 2200's, and one missed taking the other's Queen (no, it was not a queen sac for a win, either). Can't us low level types occasionally have a decent game?
Sorry, posting on iPad so I'll have to just leave notation. Perhaps some generous fellow will repost game for me. (Thanks if you do!)
[Event "Live Chess"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2015.10.29"] [White "Hannahdog22"] [Black "gwads"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1307"] [BlackElo "1400"] [TimeControl "15|10"] [Termination "Hannahdog22 won by resignation"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.Bd3 Nf6 7.Bg5 Bc5 8.O-O h6 9.Bh4 O-O 10.Kh1 d5 11.f4 exf4 12.Rxf4 g5 13.Rxf6 Qxf6 14.Bg3 Qxb2 15.Nd2 Bg4 16.Qf1 Bd4 17.Rb1 Qc3 18.Nb3 dxe4 19.Bxe4 f5 20.Bd3 f4 21.Bc4+ Kg7 22.Be1 Qxc2 23.Nxd4 Qxb1 24.Ne6+ Bxe6 25.Bc3+ Kg8 26.Bxe6+ 1-0