A little fooling about

When I do take the rare opportunity to play at Street Chess, often the game is more about experimentation than the result. I tend to either try off beat openings or gambits, and my attacks are a little more speculative than at longer time controls.
Today I played 1 game (in round 2) and I may have taken the above a little too far. Sacrificing my knight on move 3 is certainly ambitious, although this line had been introduced to me by GM David Smerdon back in 2006 (NB this was an introduction, not necessarily a recommendation). In fact I was doing all right up until move 10, when I captured on c3 rather than just keep the big centre intact by moving my queen. Fortunately my opponent did not see the drawing idea I cooked up around move 20, which I figured was the best I was going to get out of this game. So inventive yes, sound no, successful maybe.


Patterson,Mark - Press,Shaun [C26]
Street Chess, 09.04.2016

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Nxe4 4. Nxe4 d5 5. Nc3 d4 6. Nb1 Qd5 7. Qf3 e4 8. Qg2 Nc6 9. c4 dxc3 10. Nxc3 Qa5 11. Qxe4+ Be6 12. Bg2 O-O-O 13. Nge2 Bb4 14. O-O Rhe8 15. Qh4 Ne5 16. a3 Bxc3 17. Nxc3 Ng6 18. Qe4 c6 19. Qb4 Qh5 20. Ne4 Bd5 21. Nc5 Re7 22. d4 Bxg2 23. Kxg2 Nh4+ 24. gxh4 Qg4+ 25. Kh1 Qf3+ 1/2-1/2