Sac Attack

[Event "Open invite"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2012.11.01"] [EndDate "2012.11.05"] [Round "?"] [White "morgski"] [Black "SwissGambit"] [WhiteRating "1916"] [BlackRating "1762"] [WhiteElo "1916"] [BlackElo "1762"] [Result "1-0"] [GameId "9629136"] 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Ng8f6 3. Nb1c3 g6 4. Bc1g5 Bf8g7 5. Qd1d2 O-O 6. O-O-O c6 7. h4 {this wee guy ends up being my savior} b5 8. f3 Qd8a5 9. a3 b4 {the attack begins} 10. Nc3a2 c5 11. dxc5 dxc5 12. e5 Nf6d5 {building a small army to threaten my king, and leaves the first bait} 13. Qd2xd5 {I bite} Bc8e6 {offers the rook for continued tempo} 14. Qd5xa8 {I bite again} Bg7xe5 {and now the plan is becoming clear. bxa3 leaves very weak a and b files and lots of trouble for my king} 15. Rd1d5 {I decide saccing back is the only option to maintain advantage} Be5xb2 {the rook is ignored for yet another sac!} 16. Kc1xb2 bxa3 17. Kb2c1 Be6xd5 18. Qa8xd5 Rf8d8 {black has very promising options with threatening Qe1, Qb5 etc.} 19. Qd5e5 {I considered Bd2 here but thought the Queen might draw his focus back on to his own defences} Nb8c6 20. Qe5e3 Rd8d6 21. Bf1c4 {Finally some respite allows me to develop one more piece and hopefully shore up the a and b files} Rd6d4 22. h5 {desperate times, the plan now is checkmate before being checkmated} Rd4xc4 {I'm sure there is a rule about not using your queen as the sole defender...} 23. hxg6 {pawn to the rescue} hxg6 {first proper mistake by my opponent. Needed to be fxg6 because} 24. Bg5f6 {there is this get out of jail card, threatening Rh8# or exf6, Qe8+, Kg7, Qh8#} 1-0

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 {The Evans, banged out a few of these with great succes.} 4... Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O d6 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. Qb3 Qe7 10. Bd2 {Stopping Na5.} 10... Bg4 11. d5 {First stop them castling.} 11... Ne5 12. Nxe5 Qxe5 13. Bb5+ Bd7 14. Bxd7+ Kxd7 15. Bc3 Qg5 16. Nd2 Nf6 17. Nf3 Qg6 18. e5 {Open up the centre for the Rooks.} 18... Nh5 19. exd6 Qxd6 20. Qa4+ {A loose Knight on h5 for him to worry about and for me to use as the back drop to some fine trickery.} 20... Kd8 21. Ne5 {Threat Nxf7+} 21... Rf8 22. Rae1 {Wonderful wry smile playing this. It looks like the wrong Rook (I remember a thread about this a few weeks ago.) setting up the final combo and do not want to be distracted with and Bxf2+. I'm suddenly prone to rush move checks, probably because it does happene all that often. (wink!)} 22... Nf6 {Yes. I knew he would worry about that Knight.} 23. Nxf7+ {Back rank weakened with a sac.. (Opponent resigned.)} 23... Rxf7 24. Bxf6+ Rxf6 25. Re8 {Mate with the wrong Rook!.}