Interesting Checkmate

This is an interesting game I played online.  It's real short (only 16 moves), but I think the checkmate in the end is very pleasing.

Let me know what you think.

It's better than the checkmates that aren't pleasing

Nicely played, and I enjoyed your annotations too. It's always better to read the player's thoughts than just "engine said ___ is better" etc. I doubt your opponent would have fallen for that on a correspondence game, but was a pretty checkmate regardless!

Thanks,

What's funny is that I just ran this game through Chessmaster... and I'm surprised with the results.  Chessmaster said I made absolutely no errors and it agreed with every move I made in the game.

For my opponent... Chessmaster didn't even have a problem with g3! (which is what I annotated as his blunder).  Chessmaster acknoweledges that 0-0 would have been slightly better... but it stated that g3 was not a major error... and white still could have had a reasonable game afterwards.

The only move Chessmaster did not like at all was Kf1 (triggering the forced mate)

If White had made Kg1 instead... his position would still be a tenable one.

You mean the ones where my king is checkmated?

@ tamanchi: You should post that game in the thread "Post your best miniatures here"