I read somewhere that when you are down in material a good strategy is to get all your opponents pawns off the chess board...In this case I did the exact opposite and kept them on the board, to reach the end position...which is a draw! Comments, are all appreciated!
James
I guess White took too long to realize what was happening.
yes...I think that a draw never entered his mind.
btw it wasn't that "terrible blunder" (The way you say it!)
It was just a mistake and sometimes knight can be better then the rook 
and guess what i know what were you thinking at move 9 i.e to run away his knight. 
Actually I think you could probably have won this game. For example 36... hxg3 e.p. gives you a very dangerous passed pawn. There are so many things that can happen after this that it's difficult to give any conrete variations but there are ideas like Rb6+Rh6, penetrating with king (Kxf3 is possible in many continuations) and in addition white's rook has to watch the second rank so that you cannot play g2 and support this pawn with something like Kg3+Nf4.
Even the final position may well still be winning - white's rooks are very passive here whereas your knight and king are very active.
not so bad
wow! I never even thought that I could win...I just played to draw. it is crazy how psychological chess is. ;)
This was a good game...I thought for sure it was a draw. Then the pawn sacrifice to improve king position. I learned a lot from this lesson today! Thanks everyone! ;)
I like that game wilsonwong... your opponent played very simple chess, clear straightforward chess!
@Jamesrook...
You should buy your opponent How to Reassess Your Chess, if he'd read Silman's book he'd never let you close up the position like that when he had two rooks vs. your N and rook. The rooks hate a board cluttered with locked pawns they need files and ranks to work on. You did exactly the right thing and he did the wrong. You wanted to look at that e.p. that Shakaali suggested -- but you'd want to calculate it pretty exactly -- R+R v R+N is a significant advantage if the board gets opened up -- you're right to be happy to get out of there with a draw IMO.
But the bottomline on that game is learn from your opponent's mistakes -- when you have a rook vs n situation make sure you don't let your opponent close up the board!
Yes...I learned very much from the game.
I am going to post an incredible dynamic game I just played...it will be posted 20 min. from now...I suggest everyone see it...it was an exciting game.
yes...my mindset for about 25 moves was to close the position...close the position...and when I got there, I thought my job was done! lol...I learned a good lesson from this match, the thought of winning...actually did not enter my mind. Once I lost the exchange, in my mind It was eithor draw or lose. From now on...I will be more open minded!
It happened to me the same some time ago with the difference that I had the material advantage. The opponent had time advantage and there was no time increment so he could had made casual moves and won on time, but he didn't understand what was going on and gave me five tempi to prepare the breakthrough ...
very interesting...I think I am understanding how to use space with this lesson.
Instead of 57... Kh6, why not just promote the g-pawn? :)
C
heck out how i manage a draw after a terrible blunder!