Did you have something in mind when you played 17...g5 ? As soon as I saw that I expected somewhere down the road that would be the undoing and provide the route to the King. ...g6 would have kept your pawn protection intact, or is there some reason for not playing it that I'm missing?
--Cystem
I wanted to play e5 to break his pawn chain and give me some space but needed to dislodge the knight from f3 I was going to follow up with g4. but never got the oportunity.
Just give a little perspective and to show that I do know how to play 
here is the game where I play white against the same player.
I wanted to play e5 to break his pawn chain and give me some space but needed to dislodge the knight from f3 I was going to follow up with g4. but never got the oportunity.
There was an undeveloped knight on b8 dreaming of going to d7 to help out with that plan :-)
I had considered that but didn't like the idea of tieing my pieces up even more.
With hindsight I can see now that it was needed before the g pawn move. Thanks for your comments, keep them coming.
Instead of his last move, 32.Qh6# was mate.
In the opening his 4.c5 really isn't very good, it lets go of the tension in the center, and you could have attacked it immediately with 4...b6 (and if 5.b4, then 5...a5). The only tricky thing he has is, I guess, 5.c6 Nxc6 6.Bb5, and then not 6...Bd7? 7.Qc2 losing a piece, but 6...Bb4+ and 7...Qd6 (no time to make a diagram)
you are opening up your K side when you dont have many pieces there cf your opponent.
then you exchange your only active piece (Bishop) and have no K side protection.
you are opening up your K side when you dont have many pieces there cf your opponent.
then you exchange your only active piece (Bishop) and have no K side protection.
I was worried about the white Q going to c2. If I retreat my B it has no way to defend the King on the white squares which is where the attack would be coming from. Maybe I'm being too clever but I think his intention was to mount an attack down the b1 h7 diagonal and deliberately played the Q to e2 first hoping I wouldn't see his intentions and retreat the B. In the end I decided it was wiser to take it.
This was my first game playing in my new group "play in a day".
My opponent opened with e4 and almost straight away I was on the back foot so to speak. I would welcome comments from our friendly and knowledgeable comunity.