Interesting Material Imbalance

In this game I had a rather interesting material imbalance, I got two Rooks and a Knight versus a queen (converted to two Knights and a Rook versus a queen)
found creative sacrifice that gave him enough problems to give me a win.

I played with the black pieces.

[Date "2017.11.01"]

[White "pitgo"]

[Black "mrbytes"]

[Result "0-1"]

[WhiteElo "1636"]

[BlackElo "1755"]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3

Supposed to be an easy to play attack.



4...Bg7 5.h3 O-O 6.Qd2 Nc6






This on the other hand gives black a little counterplay on d4.



7.Nf3 e5 8.d5 Ne7 9.Bh6 Ne8






This might look weird but I had some intention of capturing with the knight on g7 and push f5, or just push f5 and f4 to force him to capture on g7, a funny thing here is he is kind of giving up his good bishop to capture my bad one, although bishops are not so great in this structure to closed.



10.O-O-O f5 11.Bd3 f4






My point is still that he has to capture my bishop on g7, but now he is also left with a bad bishop on d3.



12.Bxg7 Nxg7 13.h4 h6 14.Be2 a6 15.Rdg1 b5 16.g4 Bb7 17.h5 g5 18.Nxg5 hxg5






This sacrifice is kind of interesting, but I don't think he has enough pressure to justify that sacrifice.



19.h6 Ne8 20.Rh5 Ng6






Perhaps this is to eager, Kh7 is probably a better move here.



21.h7+ Kh8 22.Rh6 Qf6 23.Rgh1 f3






again might have been a little over eager here, the next move is not so great either a better follow up is Ng7, to keep his Rook out of h5.



24.Bd3 Bc8 25.R1h5 Kg7 26.Rxg5 Kxh6 27.Rf5+






This gave a rather interesting material balance, I get the rooks vs the queen, I think it is harder to have the white pieces than the black pieces in this position black has a lot of pressure and can get very good coordination.



27...Kxh7 28.Rxf6 Nxf6 29.Qg5 Bxg4 30.Nd1 Rf7 31.Ne3 Bd7 32.Nf5 Bxf5 33.exf5 Nf4 34.Bf1 Rg8 35.Qh4+ N6h5






At this point I think black has a nice advantage, but perhaps it will require some creativity to make it a winning advantage, luckily I found a rather creative way to play.



36.Kd2 Rg1 37.Bd3 Rf6






Just locking f5 down so that he cannot move it forward, that would give white a lot of attack, no reason to give him that.



38.b3 Re1 39.Qg5 Re2+






This might look strange to give up the rook right here, but I do get a crushing passed pawn, and I will have two knights and a rook vs the lone queen, it should be a much better position for black.



40.Bxe2 fxe2 41.Ke1 Ng7 42.Qh4+






This is not the best way to handle the position, but it is kind of hard to play the white pieces.



42...Rh6 43.Qg3 Rh1+ 44.Kd2 e1Q# 0-1