My 1st on-line game help please!

Well, here’s my first on-line Chess.com game.   Please scrutinize it.  Since it was the first game for both players, I have no idea where my rating will end up after a few more games with others on this site.  If you would be so kind, please let me know what I missed, how many blunders I made and escaped, poor tactics and strategy I was party to, and maybe even a brilliant move or two.  LOL.  Maybe even some of the more experienced players will find some entertainment in it.

Thanks in advance for you help!

Well it looks like you pretty well crushed your opponent.  Usually when someone wants help it is more of ..."at which point did I lose this game".  I should preface by saying that I am only a moderately strong player myself.  I think that there are numerous places where you or you opponent could have played better, but that is part of the learning process, and on the plus side you also recognized several good double attacks and capitalized on them.  In a general sense, I feel that you relied too heavily on you queen for much of the game.  The queen is a powerful piece with its ability to move almost effortly about the board, but this is also its greatest weakness...it is so powerful a piece that you can rarely exchange it for anything other than another queen without compromising your ability to win the game.  Because of this your opponent was able to parry most of your queen moves and counter attack your queen at the same time.  Developing more of your pieces and coordinating the attack of your queen with the other pieces will strengthen your game. 

By move 23 your opponent was probably already lost unless you performed a gross blunder, but 23...Nb4 offered up a piece.  Your opponent declined to exchange queens, when he would have netted a knight in the process which may have not won him the game but would have vastly improved his game at the time.  Did you realize this as you moved toward an endgame? 

Also in the Sicilian, 2Nf3 usually leads to the closed sicilian, with white pawns on e4, d3 and c2 and black pawns on e7, d6 and c5.  I'm no expert on the sicilian but an early ...e6 in a closed sicilian tends to be anti-positional and this is probably why you didn't find any references for it.

5.Na4???

if he wants to go for a trick at Kd6+, then 5.e6 6.Ne5 is a safer route. but it still sucks if black plays well.

7.Nf3???

both moves are howlers

21...Qa3! with 22.Qc2 the only out is a backbreaker, but you were decisively ahead anyway.

hold on a second...

after 24.RxQ, NxQ and the knight makes a discovered attack on the rook with the bishop. if 25. RxN, then the Rook at a3 dies.  i thought this was the best deep tactic of your game and why the Queen xchange sucked. Am i missing something?

You're right!  I completely missed the discovered attack on the other rook with my bishop.  Thanks for that insight.  I would have been up a rook and a bishop after that exchange.

hmmm....

if white went 23.Ra1 then Nb4 as well. with a monster chain reaction trade-off after R(at a1 this time)xa3.

also, Qg4???? is a horrible move to throw away the rook and expose back-rank mate. obviously you aren't going to fall for an easily defendable mate-in-2

I really like the monster trade-off chain reaction!  I wonder if any games in history had them???  Hmmmm???  i.e.  What game in history had the longest attack chain? ...

You played a very weak player who made lots of bad moves at the beginning. I would say that you were up 2 pieces and didn't swap queens was bad technique. You didn't drop any pieces and you were pretty active. You still were reactionary alot of the game, it was fortunate your opponent forced you into easy choices. Part of chess is not being forced to make moves, but forcing your opponent to make them. That is called initiative.

I did not like 3...Nd7 and would have been tempted to play 4e5 and then stake out d6 as a weakness. I think a better plan of attack as Black would be 3...d6 then 4...Nf6 with a more traditional Sicilian springboard (Be7, then b5 and Bb7) and white would have been no better than equal.

4...a6 was ok, white was lost at 5Na4 so I lost interest.

I think you need to look at mobilizing and coordinating better and you will be a fine player. I think I would have tried to do less queen dancing and tried to mobilize the queenside quicker.

Thanks, very constructive.  Did you see an appropriate time to exit the queen?  i.e. quit after move 8? move 11? or when?

Nice!  This was one of the things I was looking for.  I was wondering where that mate was!  I knew it was in there somewhere...  Maybe fearing loss of my guarding bishop clouded my thoguhts.  I guess I have to learn that there is a very fine line between win and loss in chess if you want to be good.  In this case 1 move.