Mystery chess position II

The game started with some pretty normal development moves with me playing white. The diagram on the right shows the position after black playing 4. ... e6. Being a correspondence chess game, I consulted a database and found that the most popular moves among master-level chess players in this situation is 5. Qb3. The games with this move looked interesting, so I decided to go with this (Sometimes, I spend a tremendous time to prepare a single move in a correspondence chess game, but more often I mess it up with a thoughtless move).

The game continued pretty well for me winning a rook for a knight with a fork. The diagram on the left shows the position after 31. ... Ne4. I continued with 32. Qf7 which I though would be a pretty good move. To my dismay, however, my trusty computer chess engine Crafty found an even better one in the post-mortem computer analysis. Does anyone see the winning combination? The complete annotated game can be found here.
6 Comments:
Excellent game, you had a very nice lead from start to finish.
What about Rxg8.
hm Rxg7 :-)
Montse: Rxg7 is exactly what the computer prescribed. How did you come to this conclusion? I still don't understand how one can see this without calculating many moves ahead, which I am not really able to do (yet).
Hey.
Do you have a USCF rating? I wonder what it is.
No, no USCF rating here. But it definitely wouldn't be high ;-)
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