Where'd I go Wrong???

Heres a game I recently played. I am not sure why I lost. I only made two blunders.

First off, I'd say you could have played for more of an advantage in the opening. It seems that at move 6 a little better would have been Nc3xd5 or Bd3xf5. Your opponent gave back some advantage at move 7 by not playing Nf6-e4 or a6. After this passive move by black's queen, 8. bxf5 is still a good idea. After 12 moves, things are about equal and here's where 13. 0-0-0 might have been good. 16.Ne5+ would've been productive because he must retreat his king or else your attack get's rolling via 16. Ne5+ Bxe5 17. d4xe5 Nf6-h7 18. Nc3-(b5 or xd5) or even 18.f4.

18.Nc3xe4 would have been better of course.  Your opponent could have played 19...Nb4xd5 for a larger gain. 22. Rh1-g1 is preferred. 23. Rd4 was critical, and the move you played really let your opponent secure a win. 26. Qd5 would also have been preferable. After 26.c2-c3 with best play it is now mate in 7. 28. Q-c4 would have dragged things out longer (mate in 6). Hope some of those ramblings make sense. I would say the general lesson is don't allow your opponent to build up strong forces so close to your king. Good luck!

Move 14 should have been the knight to check the king and continue the presure. Thats the losing point

Well... one "blunder" is one too many and is enought to cause a loss -- so I think you should stop thinking in terms of "only two" blunders.

Your opening was unusual and soft-edged, but didn't have to be terrible... but you ended up cramping yourself.  Developing Nc3 makes it hard to play c4, and that's a move you usually want in order to bring pressure against the center.  By your 7th move couldn't you feel your pieces interfering with each other?

13.Qxg6?! ... Condolences -- it's very hard OTB to see that is a bad move... you A) win a pawn and B) interfere with his castling -- what's not to like? ... but his response.Kd7! was great.  His king is safe, his rooks are connected and although you grabbed a pawn it left your queen deep in your opponent's position without support and with very few places to hide. Your opponent did a splendid job of attacking along white's weak f-file -- right on the money IMO... but he had his choice of plans at that point -- Your position at this point had very little going for it. 

16.g5? ...you don't seem to understand here that your position is one weakness after another... opening up lines for his pieces isn't a good idea.  The f-file is weak and his lurking rook will threaten both Nf3 and f2. You had a big problem and kicking his N with the pawn push didn't solve anything. Your opponent plays out his attack with the straight forward N fork and I don't see how you could keep all your material.  19.Nxd5?! wakes everyone up -- a nice idea, born of desperation I think, but it wasn't sound, as your opponent demonstrates...after this you were a goner... 23.Rf1? was bad... but what else? you were lost. At least Rf1 made him have to find the good move... but he found it. 

After 25.Rd1 your opponent missed 25....Rd8! with mate in 3

26.Rxf1? Qd2+

27.Kb1 Qd1+

28 Rxd1 Rxd1# (A mate straight out of Bobby Fischer teaches chess)

or

25.Rd1 25...Rd8!

26.c3 Rfxd1+

27.Kc2 R8d2#

Well... despite my long post saying I thought Qxg6 was bad (but was hard to see that it's bad...... well, that's cuz it's not bad! LOL!) , skwirlguts' move Ne5+ (he meant on move 15, not move 14 I guess) works. It pretty much forces black to exchange away all the cramp on white... and the white queen, rather accidentally, but what the hell, defends the c2 square from the N fork... the way I see it, when the smoke clears white is up a pawn. 

15.Nxe5+ Bxe5

16.dxe5 Ne4

17.Nxe4 dxe4 (Nxc2+?! and although black wins the exchange, there's no way to get the N back... it'll end up B and N for Rook, which isn't good. )

I am a terribly materialistic, and tend to think "He who wins a pawn and runs away, gets a won endgame", but you have always got to make sure can run away. So maybe 15a3 straightaway 15...Nc6 17.Qd3 Rf8 18Nh4 Qf7 black is getting quite a lot of play down f-file and 15..a5?! is a possibility. Umm, maybe the other poster's were right...

18. Nxe4! may have saved the game for white.

...........dxe4

19. Bxb4 Qxb4

20. dxe5+  Kc8

21. Qxe6+  Kb8

with a mobile Queen and strong attacking lines

Tonydal: White has the better position after 17 Nxe4 de 18 Qxe4. 

What about 17.Nxe4 Rxf3 -- and Black I think is better though I'm not sure the position gets quite tactical... with White's pawns on both f2 and g5 in dispute.

Ah of course, I was thinking Black's Queen defended Nb4... but no... that opens the door to white's Qxg7+ ... winning.