Infamous h7 sacrafice

I recently finished a game where I got to play the infamous bishop to h7 sacrafice, also known as the greek gift. I annotated the game lightly with the help of chess.com's analyzing engine. The standard of play is admitably poor, but it illustrates the theme quite nicely.

The h7 sacrifice is a common tactic to open the opponent's kingside, when Qh5 or Ng5+ are common continuations.

The game starts with the Steiniz variation of the classical line of french defence.

I get the opportunity to execute this sacrifice every now and then in blixt or rapid play. Here's my lates one.

PS. My opponents rating is probably too high as he had very low number of games prior this one.

Interesting game!

Altough very typical and often correct this sacrifice has to be carefully calculated every time before execution. Here whites idea is refuted by 15... Kg8! 16. d6! (16. Qh5?? Nf6 and white can resign) Bxg5 (black also has a backup plan in 16... Nf6 17. dxe7 Qxe7 when he is a pawn up) 17. hxg5 g6 and with the plan Kg7 + Rh8 black seems to be defending succesfully.

15. d6 should be an improvement for white, but again black can just sacrifice the bishop back if there is nothing better. Also, earlier black plays better with 13... Nxe5 when 14. Bxh7+?? is just bad due to 14... Kxh7 15. Ng5+ Kg8 16. Qh5 Bf5!

I edited the captions according to your suggestions. It got a bit messy though. Thanks for the games and comments.

Suurkiitokset varsinkin Shakaalille.

Keep 'em coming.

Maybe I could defend "lates" with the fact that english is not my first language. Now I only need to come up with excuse for "blixt" since blitz is pretty much universaly used...