Rc5 ended up giving the Rook an entrance to the 7th. One of those long-term brilliancies. Anyhow, Black started a dubious countergambit and was still behind in development when you started kicking his Queen around. But once you got into his position with your Queen, it should have been pretty much over. However, his push with the Rooks & Bishop looked not that bad. Your only esecpe square for the King (move 32) was a dark square, so it could have turned out a little worse had he played Be5 and not offered a Rook Trade.
The big question is, why did Black trade off when a piece down?? You may as well just resign.
This is my first turn-based win over a 1700 player. There is still a lot of room for improvement but I managed to keep the pressure on my opponent after a blunder and tried my best to never let go after that.
The game is from a Benko Gambit themed tournament.
Looking back at this game I think I my weak spots are still:
In my game comments I noted that I thought my position looked pretty decent after 21. Qxd7, but I seemed to have ignored the fact that Black had a Bishop pointing directly to my g2 square and that he has a Rook on the open e-file. Thus a move like 21. ..Re2 could have been somewhat problematic for me.
Any comments or thoughts would be much appreciated. Thank you all!