What should I have fixed in this game?

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GTchbe

Yeah, sorry the title of this topic is hardly specific, so thanks for clicking on it if you did!  Game is posted below - this is my first game I've posted on here for analysis.  I just finished playing and did not really do any analysis myself yet.  I did one check on my engine to find the black's best (what my engine said is best) 26th move, which I found, but it put me in a ton of time trouble.  My engine also said that at that point the position was EXACTLY equal (I'm using the free version of Rybka, but I should be upgrading to a better free engine very soon).  I thought I had a great attack going early, with pretty much all my pieces aimed toward the king.  It turned into a pretty sharp position, but once my time went down the game fell apart (right after move 26), as you will see.  Any comments and suggestions are appreciated.

(This is my second try!!!!!!!!!  My annotations will not be as in-depth - I hate it when things like this happen)

flanners

I'm no expert but enjoyed the game.

At Move 21 Bxf3 then a continuation of Bh2 ? irrespective of whether white takes the bishop with queen or pawn and a possible Queen exchange. I think that the resulting position allows your rook to attack g1 and move his king into an exposed position as well as threatening his king side pawns. At least it seems to keep you on the front foot. Perhaps someone better qualified could add something better.

GTchbe

Glad you enjoyed the game.  The reason I did not want to take the knight at any point in the game was to a) keep the bishop pair and b) keep my queen.  I was down in material and he had a passed pawn, and I wasn't so sure I'd be able to stop it if we went straight to the end game.

Frankdawg

29 BxH3 buys a little time, but I don't think u had a win

Ytse_Ham

Seems to me like you had a distinct advantage coming out of the opening. You had some risky ideas and I'm not sure where it went wrong.