Lol well played, it doesnt seem as though it is "slightly" lower rated though
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Zugzeit-
Thanks for the comment. 
Maybe I play too fast sometimes, or have a bad day, and that's why I have a lower rating, but I'm not lying to you, his blitz rating was only about a hundred points lower than mine. And considering how much mine goes up and down, that's not much. I've lost to seven and eight hundred rated players. 
-Leo
Move 20: don't do b5, you had a Royal Fork at Nc3.
I never bother telling people the mistakes made as usually people can tell. However, missed opportunities happen to all of us. Good catch on the way you DID capture the Queen though :)
WaterAlch-
Yeah, b5 was reflex for me... I saw the fork right after I moved, but it was then prevented (and my own queen was attacked!) by Nxb5. 
I considered myself pretty lucky after 23. Ke2. But, in actual analysis, not luck, I thought the sequence 24...Nc3+ 25. Kd2 Nxd1 26. Kxd1 was pretty clever, since it kept the king on the same diagonal I needed him on and won more material. Queen and Knight vs. Rook and Bishop is a little close. I was glad I saw it. But that's enough of me...
-Leo
couple missed opportunities but you still crushed him... nice!
mcdo0gal-
Haha, I'm not a great player so there's ALWAYS missed opportunities. 
Thanks!
-Leo
NM tonydal-
It does? But doesn't the queen have a4 as an escape square? If 19...b5, I get the old Nxb5 and if Nc3, that's good, I win a rook, but the queen still gets away. A little confused here...
-Leo
Gotcha. Thanks a lot!
-Leo
Hi Everybody,
I played a very tricky position in a Live Chess game the other day. The game it arose from was most interesting. I was playing black, against an opening I had never seen before. It was against a slightly lower rated player, but he made some funny moves that caught me off guard. Here's the game...
Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated. I haven't sent it off for computer analysis because that stuff annoys me... It always tells me what a bad job I did.
So, if anyone has any questions, comments, thoughts, concerns, hopes, dreams, or otherwise, please share it.
Thanks!
-Leo