My first decent Sac

Hello all, just wanted to post my first decent sac game. Here it is below. I'm black. I was tempted to truncate the pgn to hide my silly error on my 23rd move...I gave it about 10 seconds thought...poor excuse but hey.... I still ground out the win but playing 23 ..Qb1+ would have been much more gratifying. None the less, this patzer is proud.

Surely there are other mistakes but just wanted to toot my horn.

btw, am I the only one that finds it particularly gratifying to see the abc & fgh pawns unmoved (even if I blew the 23rd move)?

Originally posted by MrHand
Hello all, just wanted to post my first decent sac game. Here it is below. I'm black. I was tempted to truncate the pgn to hide my silly error on my 23rd move...I gave it about 10 seconds thought...poor excuse but hey.... I still ground out the win but playing 23 ..Qb1+ would have been much more gratifying. None the less, this patzer is proud.

Surely ...[text shortened]... 3 Ra3a1 28. Kf1g2 Ra1xh1 29. Kg2xh1 Bg3xh4
30. b5 Kg8f8 0-1
[/pgn]

Originally posted by MrHand
Hello all, just wanted to post my first decent sac game. Here it is below. I'm black. I was tempted to truncate the pgn to hide my silly error on my 23rd move...I gave it about 10 seconds thought...poor excuse but hey.... I still ground out the win but playing 23 ..Qb1+ would have been much more gratifying. None the less, this patzer is proud.

Surely ...[text shortened]... 3 Ra3a1 28. Kf1g2 Ra1xh1 29. Kg2xh1 Bg3xh4
30. b5 Kg8f8 0-1
[/pgn]

On the subject of sacs, there's nothing sweeter than good Queen sac. My 11th move here was an attempt, but my opponent did not succumb to greed. Unfortunately, they were undone by the backup plan as the attack on the rook was a little more subtle.