Originally posted by DeepThoughtDeep Thought - you are as always, a sound bloke. Thanks for the engine analysis. As I said my first moves (10 in less than 5 minutes) were done blitz style. Maybe with more time I would have played 8. Ng5. I'll look again to see if I like 7. Bxf7+ As you know from our games I do like to sac!
I just went through this with an engine. My initial suspicion that you didn't need to sacrifice on move 8 (8. Ng5 gives a triple attack on f7) was confirmed by Crafty, although it did want to sacrifice the bishop the move before. You are comfortably ahead after the sacrifice anyway, but 8. Ng5 is devastating. 11. Qf3 puts you in a lost position, but b ...[text shortened]... anything more than about 5 minutes on the clock, once you could stop worrying about your car.
I think after Rxf6 I am well on top. That could be because I thought his play was poor. I played 1 terrible move that blundered a piece but he played lots of weak moves throughout the game and with benefit of lots of time.....