Chess: The Triple Sacrifice

[eller]

I just played a late-night game of online chess and had something tactical happen! :D Just look at the following position... I'm Black. Black to move, after White has just played 25. Nb1. It looks like a perfectly calm early endgame, right? RIIIIIGHT. Not when Eller is playing...





25. ... Bxc4
26. bxc4

Pretty much forced: White has to capture the bishop back, otherwise they're simply a bishop down and will lose the endgame. But now for the kill... Do you see it? :D

26. ... Rb3LOL

LOL is my own notation here: usually, surprising rook sacrifices that actually work get the two exclamation marks for "really good move", but this was maybe a bit too obvious to deserve that. :D Still, Rb3 is a fun move, which is why I'm showing it here!

White can't capture the rook:
27. Qxb3 Qxg2# is checkmate. The queen has to protect the g-pawn. At the same time, she's under attack by that rook. What to do now?!?

27. Qg4

The last attempt at defense... If I now allow an exchange of queens, White is kind of okay again. (Okay, White would have a screwed pawn structure and probably lose the endgame - anyway. LOL) Except, of course, there were some deeper tactics to Rb3!

27. ... Rxh3LOL

Another LOL rook sacrifice, this time on h3. Also, one that made White resign, so, point for Eller.

0 - 1 black wins YAY

Let's look at the possible variations!

Capturing the rook is not an option:
28. Qxh3 Nxh3+ just wins a lot of material, because the g-pawn is pinned and can't capture the knight.
And
28. gxh3 Nxh3+ wins the queen that will be captured after the king moves out of the check. (The queen herself is pinned in front of her king and can't capture the knight!)

So, other defense attempts?

Capturing my queen doesn't work:
28. Qxg5 Ne2# is, maybe surprisingly, another immediate checkmate.

Moving the (attacked) queen away is also immediately punished:
28. Q-away Qxg2# checkmate.

The maybe most promising, that is, least-horrible-looking reply is to defend the queen:
28. f3 now the rook is really attacked!
28. ... Qd8LOL F*CK THE ROOK! Okay, this is now the third rook sacrifice in a row, which really makes this pretty d*mn funny!
29. gxh3 now the rook sacrifice is finally accepted, except now, suddenly... the white queen has problems! She doesn't have any good squares left!
29. ... h5LOL - and now the queen is lost, either by
30. Qg3 Ne2+ (with a fork), or by
30. Qf5 g6LOL which really leaves no way out for her.

I'm actually, kinda-sorta, a bit proud of finding this. :D I mean, it's not quite yet genius-level chess to see this one (and after doing an in-depth Mikhail Tal analysis earlier, I was forcefully reminded just what real genius-level tactics are and that I don't quite have them), but I got to find three rook sacrifices and one queen trap in a row when I played Rb3, so... I didn't do badly here, either. :D (Computer tells me my calculations were perfectly correct.) Yay for amusing tactics!