So much for my trying to win all 5 games in this weekend's tournament. I suck too badly for that. I'm pretty good at getting decent positions out of the opening, but I don't know what to do with them once I'm there.

Case in point: Here's a position from tonight's game:



I was white. It was my move. I ended up losing this game. I'll post the moves of the game in a couple of days when I get a chance to go over the whole thing and annotate it myself first.

In the mean time, can somebody tell me what I should have done in this position? Black can't move his queen or e7 knight without getting checkmated instantly. Moving the d7 knight loses the queen. Obviously, I had an absolutely dominating position here, yet I managed to blow it because I wasn't sure how to carry out the attack.

I went for an attack on the king side which released the pin on his queen, so he was able to counter attack on the queen side. What should white's plan be here? What specific move should I have played at this point? Suggestions? Comments? Should I just give up and take up golf?

--Fromper