NEVER underestimate your opponent!
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Jun 12, 2008
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#2
Not sure what you are worried about after 52...Nxa3. In worse case can sac bishop for g-pawn.Black seems to have a hoplessly won position to me 
I certainly know what you mean and I think most players do. The moment I lose interest in a game, often because I am ahead, I let it get away from me. In a tounament, I drew against a master, then got 3 pieces ahead against a child, a few moves later, "This kid has a mate in 3 and I hope he doesn't see it." As you say, "luck". Of course, the "kid" saw it.
Jun 12, 2008
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#4
on move 43. you should have played 43.Nd7+! on 50, you should have played Nh5 and then 51. Bc2.
Yea, I do that too, it's always bad bussiness
Jun 12, 2008
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#6
Ya, more fun attacking than defending. That's something important to defend against.
Jun 12, 2008
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It's a mistake that i hadn't made in years...until about a half year ago in an OTB game. I was up the exchange against a weak player and all i had to do was force a passed pawn that was nearly unstoppable. It would probably cost him another piece to stop it. But no, i got bored, played it loose, and decided to eat pieces. I stopped thinking and took a pawn, then he took my rook. After that he played well for the rest of the game and went on to win it.
Your plan with 20. ... Nxd4 is somewhat dubious because after 21. exd4 Qxd4+ 22. Kh1 Qxa1 white has 23. Bg5 threatening checkmate and your queen.
21. ... Nxf3+ and you win the white queen on the next move.
Instead of 28. ... Bxe3+ you can play 28. ... Bxc5 and take the rook on the next move, it's pinned so it isn't going anywhere. This would have made pushing your pawns much easier later.
32. ... c6 there's really no point to this move, it just restrains your own bishop.
It's already been mentioned that there is no danger after Nxa3 since your bishop controls the queening square.
Early on it was clear that my opponent was outmatched, he made a number of blunders that I capitalised on. Eventually I started playing looser since I had such a material advantage. I started ignoring the other side of the board and focused on attacking trying to mate his slippery king. It's when I begin the process of queening that I realise I may have made a fatal error as all my material is on one side of the board and my opponent's pawns are closer to the queen line than mine are. I believe that if white played perfectly after I took the pawn with 52...Nxa3, he queens successfully. Luckily for me he goes after what he shouldn't and loses, but all that means is that dispite my massive material advantage, it was LUCK that won me this game - not any skill of mine. I got sloppy. I almost had to learn this lesson the hard way. Do not ignore ANY threat on the board, dispite how far ahead you are! One MUST be ruthless.