Please Analyze!

Here's a recent game I've played.  I think I did pretty well in it.  I'm sure there were a few mistakes though.  Please take a look and leave comments.

 1.  In ur 18 th move u left the pawn undefended.......He took it with his queen that made his queen to advance in the king's line.....Its somewhat dangerous to allow opponents queen to move freely in or aroung king's line

  2.my opinion is, try to keep check before posing threat to a coin.....it might give u an advantage......

                     This game is pretty good......

Yeah, I rushed the second bishop trade.  Impatience can cost you in chess.  it almost cost me the game here.

that was a nice surprise ending

Very interesting ending.

i havnt seen the game yet, but please note that you can get chess.com to analyse your game, once per week at 2000 strength. don't forget it =)
it sorts through just EVERYTHING (i think. well lots of move list thingy, which i don't bother looking through. i just look for mistakes and inaccuricies (i know if i'd blundered lol) after the games over. Just click "analyse my game", or something of the sort, analyse? dunno, option below add to friends and stuff on when the game is over, and your at that page of you know, get lots of options like give a trophy and stuff. some options anyway. and click analyse.

oh right, and when the analyse comes back, when you click a move, it sends you to the top of the page (for me anyway). annoying! =(.

I thought you did a good job.

But, I didn't like either of the exchanges you initiated. You were solving problems for him rather than creating problems with those exchanges. You were exactly right when early in the game you commented that he was exchanging an active N of his for a passive one of yours... Yet you did something similar with your exchanges later. So you outplayed your opponent nicely, only to exchange away your advantage rather than build on it.  Take a look at both bishop swaps... put yourself in your opponent's shoes... in each case, which piece of yours is causing him the biggest headaches, which piece would he most like to see come off the board -- in each case it's the bishop. And what are your other pieces doing? Not much... .  In the case of the first bishop swap, i thought d5 was an interesting alternative that deserves a closer look, (although it hangs you b pawn I don't think that matters). In the case of the second exchange: rather than trade off your one active piece, activate/improve one of your slackers -- Bring your N up into the game is one alternative. In both cases you wanted to give him the option of initiating the exchange with your bishops, thereby fixing your pawns for you, which would be awful for him. Leave tempting bad moves for your opponent to make whenever possible.

You deserve credit for finding the mating combination that wins the game. You  set a nasty trap that would catch a lot players higher rated than your opponent, probably including me...  but there was luck involved I think. You didn't deliberately hang that pawn for his N knowing that it was poison and he had to lose the piece or get mated if he took, did you? If so, well... dang. Just keeping your head and seeing the mate qualifies as a job well done IMO.

Because the ending comes where it does, the game looks and feels like you beat up your opponent for a bit, and then finished him off... it's a false impression IMHO... you got him against the ropes but let him recover fully and then he suddenly stumbled into an fatal error you accurately prosecuted.

Thanks.  I'm just a novice.  Only been playing 9 months.  Not even a year.  Look's like God gave me a great talent for chess!

Looked like you played well. Keep it up.