An unpleasant surprise - I'd known since 13...Nd4! How crushing Black's positional advantage was, but it just wasn't letting up, especially after Black played this!

Here I might have tried the bloody-minded 18.Ng6. The knight's a condemned prisoner anyhow, but his attempt to break out of jail at least disorganises the guards. At that, isolated doubled pawns on an open file might prove a lucrative target.

I was hoping to target the isolated e5 pawn... i.e. Poisoned Pawn #2

I'm not so sure about Ng6, since it opens another file Black can use, for instance Rh8 and Rh3#!

i'd consider Bg5, to free the bishops and combine rooks

a good move? the light white bishop does no more protect the c1-h6 diagonale! N or B can go on e3, the rook can go back to d or f column and threats... I don't agree.

Sweet move!!

loses indeed.

22.Kf2 was preferable. Black's response to the move played is even better than 22...Nxc4+ would have been. A neat finesse.

Yeah, but after Nxc4 it's a pretty much resignable position anyway

Yes: 23...Nc2+ led to the classic two-bishop mate in two moves.

Good thinking> Sweet move!!! 

Nice entertaining game, from both of you. I think, however, with an opening like this, black has a disadvantage in the beginning, at least that is my opinion.

A good illustration of Black's resources in this line. White's policy seemed to be to give back material to reduce your mobility and activity - not a bad notion. Possibly the execution was faulty, as in the event, Black's tactical chances seemed hardly to diminish even after the Queens came off.

Very nice game, but i think the opening was too risky for black. When playing against a more defensive minded player the game could have ended in a disaster for black. However black showed great aggressive and attacking minded play and therefor won

@ doji and alexaand; funnily enough, when you run these games through GK's analysis machine, the score goes from 'book' to a -4 score for Black without any mistakes picked up... anyway, crushing positions like in this game seems to be Black's ultimate goal (other than mate, of course!) good game!

very entertaining! thanks, mates!

That is the Traxler for you..

Very nice.