A Game I Played In The Reykjavík Open!

Hello! Here is a game I played in the Reykjavík Open against a fellow Icelander! I had black and we played the King's Indian! Move 28 and 29 are very interesting! Enjoy

that looked like fun

congrats, like a child playing the adult :D(rating difference)!

What is the finish if 38. RxB....

Just played it out....38....pxR 

@The_Ghostess_Lola, yep just take back and It's over!

Congrats on the very nice win!  I'm surprised by your opponent's random moves, starting with 22. Bd4, and even by move 27 he still underestimated the danger in the position.

What do you think about 27.Bd1 instead of Nd1? Does that save him?

Yes, that seems to work fine for him....but, I like 32. RxB followed by 33....e6+....to sharpen things up....

Good question.  I think after either 27. Nd1 Ne5 28. Bxe5 or 27. Bd1 Ne5 28. Bxe5 White might be able to avoid checkmate long enough to see a losing endgame.

But if that's the case, where did White lose this game?  What about 25. Bd1 or even 25. Nd1 (intending 26. Bc3 and 27. Qd4)?  These still look good for Black... White's attack is still very slow.

I think on moves 19-28, White make random moves while Black's pieces slowly closed in for the kill.  28. Ne3?? blocks the key defender of the f4-square; 20. a3 would have been better than 20. Bc2? a5 21. b3; 22. Bd4 looks aimless when followed by 23. a3 and 25. b4; even 27. Nb5 (intending Bb2 and Qd4, or simply Nxc7) is more aggressive than 27. Nd1.

It's not clear to me how White could have saved this game, but White could have tried something.

You're 1618? Haha, good joke! 

Thanks for a god answer! He said to me after the game that he played too slow and did not see the danger of the queen-bishop-knight and later on the rooks! He also said that more early in the game it would be better to take the e5 pawn because it get's kinda cramped after I play 18.e4 like I say in the game comments

Haha I really am 1618! But I'm taking some big rating jumps! :) Going for 1800 this year!

It seems suspect that White got to play 10. f4 this game before castling and survived the opening... especially since after 7. d5? White has moved two pieces twice (the d-pawn and g3-knight).

How about something like...

Maybe here playing f5 benefits you.  But in your game it seems that White can always answer f5 with f4 and only Black has problems?  I'll have to study this Ng3 line further to understand what's going on...
 

Yes, you are right about the opening. The thing is I was not so familiar with the moves Nd2 and Ng3 so I just "made" this f5 plan over the board not knowing the book moves. But my opponet didn't really play the best moves that would have give him a better position! 7. h5 is very interresting!

Fun game and great sacrifice!It is always nice to have a 1600 rating and play better than it!

My performance in the tournament was for 1950!