Defending a difficult position against a grandmaster

Sometimes the mundane losses are as impressive as the spectacular wins.  Earlier today, ten-year-old Awonder Liang held out for forty moves against GM Mesgen Amanov.  Not just forty moves... forty moves after a monster knight landed on d6.

Soundness never tasted so good

In this blitz game, I blundered a pawn with 8.Nf3?, but mated my opponent off the board after he thoughtfully gave up his fianchettoed bishop with 16...Bxe5? In the final position, Black resigned in light of 24...fxg6 (24...Kh8 25.Bb1#) 25.Qh4+ Kg8 26.Qh8+ Kf7 27.Qg7+ Ke8 28.Qe7#.