Ok, I’ve gone over the game, so here is my analysis. Unfortunately WordPress doesn’t allow the pgn viewer in the page so you’ll have to go over the game with the notes seperately. I will have the game pop open in another window for ease of following along. The game pgn is here.
I normally don’t go over my thought process, I just analyze the game, without going too deep into what I was actually feeling/thinking at the time, so bear with me.
3)Bb5 - Sicilian Rossolimo my standby against all evil that is the Sicilian Defense. Positional in nature, but tactical shit can go down quickly, especially if your opponent fails to castle early enough.
3)…Nd4?! I know this isn’t the greatest, but like all things Sicilian related you can get your feelings hurt if you just brush it off carelessly.
4) Nxd4 This is a good move, he’ll have to recapture. This 1. doubles his pawns 2. Leaves me better developed.
5) 0-0 Makes sense to do it now especially since I know that he’s going to start kicking my bishop around a bit.
5)…a6 What did I tell you?
6) Bc4 I think this is a bit more flexible. I keep the Bishop pointed at the F7 square and if I get an opportunity I might be able to retreat it to f1. It probably won’t happen, but if I go to a4 it definitely won’t happen, so more flexibility is better.
6)…e6 My opponent doesn’t like the bishop looking at the f7 square.
7) Re1, Qc7 Developping my rook, giving the bishop a place to possibly redeploy from and putting pressure down the e file. Q e1 is possible as well, and what I would normally play, but given that I still have my bishop on the board, i chose the rook move. The Q goes to c7 in alot of Sicilians and here she does so with a tempo, not a bad deal for black 
Qe2, b5 I know I have to retreat the bishop, but I want to double the Q and R on the e file anyway and this defends the B. I didn’t see any sneaky tactics by moving the Q instead of just retreating the B so I thought it was ok. He kicks my B again, but seeing as I want to open the center, I think I’ll want the B on c2 shortly.
9) Bb3, e5 My B should be ok here for now. He locks up the pawns, but I think I see some possibilities down this file.
10) c3, dxc3 11) Nxc3, Bb7 Let’s get rid of some of these speed bumps! I capture with the N because it develops another piece. Normally P’s on c3, d3, and e4 are a pretty good thing, but I’m thinking I’m ahead in development so lets stick with this right now.
12) d3, Nf6 I took 14 minutes on this move. I see his K in the center, I’m better developed and castled, so I’m thinking d4 might be ok, but he doesn’t have to take the pawn, in fact I finally realized that after 12)…d6 the pawn structure woud be locked up and although I’m still ahead in development, I can’t really make anything out of it. So instead, I overprotect my e4 pawn and prepare my really inactive B to go somewhere.
13) Bg5, Be7 Ok I’m pinning the N to nothing but this B pretty much sucks anyway, and if I could trade him off and double the K side P’s I’d be happy. His B promptly goes to prevent the doubling, he doesn’t have any good squares for it anyway.
14) Rad1?! Well probably not dubious, but I pussed out here. I spent 11 minutes on this move. I have an advantage, I’d say I’m better, but it is all based upon 2 things. First he’s not castled, second I’m ahead in development. 14) d4! is probably better. After considering the responses…14)…d6 is probably best when I can push 15) d5 and lock his bishops completely out of the game. But it’s not the kind of advantage I think I know what to do with. Possibly follow up with f4, but the resulting positions weren’t clear in my head and past experience has shown that it’s best to play it safe when thats the case.
15) d4, exd4 Now if we trade off P’s my R is placed on the d file. I will own the center of the board.
16) …Qe5 Ooops, didn’t see that. Damn opponents they always seem to have their own plans…
17)Bxf6, Bxf6 I didn’t like that B anyway.
1 Rxd7, Bc6 P grabbing, old habits… Crap, I wish I would have locked that B out of the game now. My vision of getting doubled R’s on the 7th rank are done for the moment, advantage slipping.
19) Rdd1, b4 Double shit!! No place left for the R to go really, and now my good N is going to get traded for his less than excellent B and he’s going to try and take me to an endgame with opposite color B’s. Advantage almost gone, I’ll still have an extra P that I’m going to razz up the board and use that for counterplay.
20) Nd5, Qxb2? 21) Nxf6+ Triple shit!!! I took all of 5 seconds to play Nxf6. Purely gut reaction. All I saw is that I lost my extra P. It took me 18 moves to get it, now it’s gone. But what I should have seen is Ne7+! This is a forcing move. The opponent has to respond to the check and if he captures with the B, the Q drops for free. Anything else drops the white B. For example 21)…Kh8 22) Qxb2, Bxb2 23) Nxc6, Rac8 24) Bd5 OR 22) Nxc6, Qxe2 23) Rxe2, Rac8 24) Bd5 followed by Red2 and I’m A OK!
21)…Qxf6 Now it is complete, advantage gone. I’ve got an extra P in the center he’s got two connected P’s on the wing. The rest of the game will revolve around this imbalance.
22) e5 Might as well start taking advantage of my imbalance, push the pawn and kick the black Q at the same time.
22)…Qg6 Treatening mate at g2.
23) f4, Kh8 Protect the eP and protect against any annoying mate threats at once, seems like a good deal to me, but my Q is stuck defending g2. He moves his queen off of that diagonal which stops any discovered checks.
24) Rf1?, Bb5 Now this was done with good intention, I wanted to advance the f P and create some weaknesses on his K side. Unfortunately Bb5 skewer’s my Q and R and I was lucky to have had a B to intercede. This could have been the game loser for me.
25) Bc4, Bxc4 26) Qxc4, Qb6+ 27)Kh1, Rac8 Now I feel that old familiar feeling, I’m going to lose this game. The recapture was necessary, but now my K is just as unsafe as his. I guess it’s just the price you pay for advancing K side P’s for activity.
2 Qe4, a5 Let’s get back down to business, advancing my center P’s. He advances on the Q side.
29) Rb1, Rc3 Let’s try to slow these P’s up a bit. Although I’m not liking his R on c3, I have no way of getting it out of there. This is begining to feel bad…
30) Rfe1, Qe6 Overprotecting my e P He’s going to be my baby, my key to winning this thing and bringing glorious victory to the Patzer Boyz. Ok he’s blocking and threatening my a P.
31) f5, Qxa2 32) e6, fxe6 33) fxe6, Qc4 I took only 40 seconds to decide on f5. I decided I was playing for the win and I saw that taking the a P wasn’t going to be good for him my P’s were better, as I could Queen with mate threats, and he couldn’t.
34) e7, Re8 Sorry you can’t exchange Q’s yet 
35) Qf5, Qg8 36) Qxa5, Rcc8 37) Qxb4, Qf7 Let’s get these guys off the board now, because they have no oppostion to them, my opponent has to blockade my mighty P on e7, so he’s stuck defending for a few moves.
3 Re2, Qc4 39) Qb2, Rc7 Wrong R :) I think Rb2 would have been better and I wouldn’t allowed my opponent to get another shot in.
40) Rbe1, Kg8 Now my R’s are doubled up, I can concentrate on getting my K some luft with h3 and getting my Q safely on the h1 - a8 diagonal to prevent perpetual. He’s bringing his K over to win the e P.
41) Rf2? Playing for a cheapo. Fortunately for me my opponent played into it. He took the P and loses the game after that.
41)…Rcxe7? This drops a R
42) Rxe7 The R can’t be recaptured, because of 43) Qb8+, Qc8 44) Qxc8+, Re8 45) Qxe8#
42)…Qc8? There isn’t anything much better. Qc1?
Oh well that took a long time, but I analyzed my game, which is part of the improvement plan and I got to blog! So two birds with one stone and all of that.
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