Combinations Wanted

This game I played on FICS:
Lagal's mate! 🙂

Originally posted by woodworm
This game I played on FICS:
[pgn][Event "ICS unrated standard match"]
[Site "freechess.org"]
[Date "2010.08.14"]
[Round "-"]
[White "woodworm"]
[Black "GuestNXCJ"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2211"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[TimeControl "1200"]


1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Nxc3 e5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Bc4 h6 7. Qb3 Qe7
8. Nd5 Qd8 9. O-O d6 10. Be3 Bd7 11. ...[text shortened]... g3 mate}
14. Nd5#
{GuestNXCJ checkmated} 1-0[/pgn][b]Lagal's mate! 🙂[/b]

Awesome!
I'm literally turning green with envy

toet.

These examples are great, that last one was really tip top quality. Thanks for the discussion everyone, I think I'm going to try some gambits and be a bit more aggressive. I've tried the Cochrane's, Evans', and King's gambit but never really more than once or twice and so I'll see how it goes.

It's fascinating to me that a game that is so predicated upon logic can offer such abundant opportunities for self-expression. I suppose that's one of the reasons why it's so addictive even after playing hundreds of games.