Chess games

[bennyboy]

Here's the PGN of my game, I was playing white:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Bc4 Bg4 5. Nxe5 Bxd1 6. Bxf7+ Ke7 7. Nd5#

I admit I screwed up because after Bg4, I should have played h3 to prevent his knight from capturing my knight, which would have put me down a piece. If after h3 he plays Bh5, then you can play Nxe5 and let him take your queen. But luckily he got greedy and took my queen, and apparently didn't see the Legal's mate coming.

It depends on the opponent's suspicion level, or his opinion of you. If he wonders why you're willing to drop your queen, he might take the time to calculate and realize it was a deliberate sack of the queen. He's very likely to think you're burned out from too many blitz games and fall for it, even without the prep move.

I can say in my case, if I ever see more than 1 piece aiming at my King's Bishop pawn, I'm going to think long and hard before taking anything but the attackers.

The nice thing with h2 is even if he sees it and refuses the queen, you still end up a pawn and development up.

At any rate, good job. It's always gratifying to put someone in that kind of pain.