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Still in shock after running the post game analysis on this one. While I was able to break through with an attack on Black's Kingside and go up a Bishop and stay comfortably ahead for the game I was still worried I was gonna f*** it up and get mated on the back rank. There's some games in my archive vs this Black setup where I've struggled when I haven't gotten the King off of the g1 diagonal so I'm not sure if that move was necessary but that's why I played Kh1 early.
But towards the end, my backwards Bishop at e3 and Rook at e1 was making me very uneasy. I was trying to keep the attack going but with the g file open I started worrying about both getting back ranked on e1 or a Q+R combo on the g-file. I played h3 then regretted it b/c I thought Black could play Rg3 putting more pressure on the Bishop at e3. But in the end I was able to get the breakthrough at h6, and I was really proud of finding Re6 and Black just sort of collapsed at the end.
I usually analyze my games and even when I play well there will be a few misses even when I'm way up on material, but both here and SF17 say this was a near perfect game by White, although it didn't feel like that when playing!
So I guess near perfect games are possible without outside interference. I will say this though, doing chess puzzles daily has probably been the biggest boost to my game, but now I get a little too aggressive sometimes thinking I can wizard my way out when there just isn't something there.
But this game? I'll take it?