One of my better games against a much stronger opponent.
Very nice game! I have few questions though.
1) I do want to know what is the name of this opening. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 looks really interesting to me.
2)At move 21, why did your opponent decide to lose the rook instead of the knight. 21..Ra6(Let's say, maybe not the best) 22.bxc5 Qxc5 black is better off here than in when he played 22.Ne4. Or am I missing something?

Haha, I'm not the guy to ask for openings. I really like to just go with what I feel and I've never really bothered memorizing specific openings and their names.
I wondered that myself. If he plants his rook on a4, I grab his knight, he retakes with his queen, now instead of being down a rook with a few pawns to show, he's only down a knight and he's got a pawn back with a good shot at capturing the pawn on c3.
Maybe he was looking at developing something else that just didn't work the way it was supposed to.

Um..I think you got your notations messed up.. Because the sequence played is 1.e4 e5 2.NC3 not Nf3.
and is 2.Nc3 the most popular opening out there? Probably Not. I found out it is called the Vienna Game. Next time read with a little more attention.
Typo I was the ones that got my notations up then, apologies Ry888, well I meant 2.Nc3, I definitely don't want to sound like an idiot to ask people why they play 2.Nf3 after 1.e4 e5.
Apologies again.


Thought I'd share this one, it was a little while ago. I got down in material early but I somehow fought back and scratched out a win.