Bh6 confusing the audience and myself

18. Bxg7+ !!

Brilliant I say so..

• Nice game GG

Had your opponent spent more than 1.28 seconds after 13. Bh6, it is likely that they would have realised that capturing the bishop is a winning move.

why did you move 13. Bh6? was it a provocation or a part of some plan?

@steel-apron to open up his king and later add pressure via rooklift and attack.

@MixiTheKing said ^

@steel-apron to open up his king and later add pressure via rooklift and attack.

what i mean is, i don't see any obvious way to continue the attack. did you have a specific line in mind?

@steel-apron Rf3 with the idea of Rg3+ is scary on the first sight, but engine says he has various ways to meet it like Bg5. Engine says black is chilling but it looks unpleasant for black. White could continue adding pressure with Raf1, then improving knight's position like Ne2 Ng3 Ne5. With knight on e5 white would have some real threats like Nxh6+. Of course objectively black is better because engine has refutations to these ideas, but to human to go for this in a bullet game with 54 seconds left on the clock is like throwing yourself into fire. It was a bullet game trick / psychological bluff, not a real masterpiece where I calculated actual lines. Still it was fun and brought me victory against a 2300 elo player.