Heroic Sicilian Knight

This is quite an interesting game I played recently online. In a bizarre and calamitous opening we both somehow managed to blunder away our b-pawns. However, from then on the game is ok. Black has a lethal Rook planted on the 2^nd rank. The black g8 Knight is particularly noteworthy; he rampages across the board and ends up delivering a pretty checkmate. Curiously, in a 25 move game, the neither side castles and the black Queen doesn’t move at all.

I’d be interested to hear any thoughts from strong players.

ED.

Can you double check the moves? 9. Bg5?? seems like an outright blunder to me (if you were worried about Nxg5 then e6 protects the f7 square).

After 8. d3 you actually could have won the queen.

8. ...Na5!

9. Qa6 Bb5!

10. Qxa7 Ra8 and the queen is trapped.

Nice checkmate at the end. Well done.

It was definately 9. Bg5. I think I saw the tempo I could gain on the Queen with the Knights and knew I had won the Bishop anyway.

8...Na5!

That's the kind of thing I just don't seem to see at the board.

Thanks for your comments, Mazera.