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Thanks, sorry about our game. I have a badly infected foot (antibiotics) which has caused me to have only a couple of hours sleep since Friday. On move 14 I had already committed to sacrificing the rook (and the initial fork) to take H3 with the bishop. Which would have left your king naked, but then thought I had overextended and brought things back, but I had committed too much to that before I pulled out. So I should have just continued with it.
Yes, which is why I didn't commit, but I had gone too far down the rabbit hole to see it. and typically, when the knight takes the rook (which is ALWAYS a uncommitted rook) it rarely gets out alive so it typically isn't a massive sac, as it usually works out (with the bishop untaken) as an unmoved rook for a pawn and very developed knight and an open H file. Not bad for the net cost of a pawn. But I had over committed before developing my king's side. Then abandoned it, which I should never do unless there is a pending mate threat.
On the queen side king-rook knight-fork Kasparov vs the world, he took the rook, and then immediately took the pawn on A3 sacrificing the knight. He said afterwards, entire games can be wasted trying to save the knight after it has taken the rook, better to just kill it, take a pawn and continue the game. You knight though, was in a position to link with its fellow knight, which could have presented a danger. What an outpost. Two knights linked there.
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- I went Rb3 instead 
Thinky chippy has him, then me, you can join a queue haha
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