Not a bad game, but basically your opponent just dropped a rook for no reason. I don't think you can count on that happening very often.
I do agree with your premise though. Simple, unrelenting, solid moves throughout an entire game can be an amateur opponent's worst nightmare.
Dr, I understand where you're coming from with that, but the truth is, there is really a bit more to the story than just my opponent making a blunder.
Before I initiated the exchanges, his rook was protected by the queen.
My strategy was to lure the queen from off the back rank with the series of exchanges and then double attack the rook and pawn.
If you look at it closely, you'll see he moved his knight on the move before the rook was captured.
Now why would he do that when it protected his rook?
Exactly. To protect the pawn.
Because of the unexpected series of exchanges I initiated, he hadn't considered that when he recaptured, he left his rook undefended and so as a result, he was thinking only the pawn was under attack with the rook still defended.
Only, the rook wasn't still defended.
So the strategy worked.
Not just a simple blunder when you know the "why" behind it.
I think a simple Ra1, instead of Nf3, would have made things perfectly alright for white. Not a very hard move to see (unless I'm missing something), and my rating is around yours. I understand your strategy, you pressured him into making a mistake, but I can't help thinking that his blunder was something that a 1300 player would make. Certainly not typical of a 2000 player.
Really man, if you are going to use an engine, you should understand what the numbers mean.
Look at move 10, you have a value of 0.91, the next move, it increased to 1.21. That means you made an inaccurate move, otherwise the number would have remained the same or decreased. You can see plenty of these throughout the game.
The pawn sac you made gave your opponent 3/4 of a pawn advantage, the engine clearly does not agree that you gained something from it.
The move you are referring to was closer to a blunder, that is why it caught the engines attention.
By the time your opponent blundered away his rook, you were down 1.3. That means 1 1/3 pawns, so your idea that you gained something by the pawn sac is clearly not something the engine agrees with.
Again, I am not trying to take anything away from you.(except maybe your misunderstanding of engine analysis
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The sooner you understand what inaccuracies really are, the sooner you will be able to improve more.