Trading two pieces for a rook and a pawn in the the opening is theoretically losing. The best you can hope for is surviving till the end game where it equalizes. The big problem is two active pieces are much more powerful in the middle game than a rook and a pawn which usually don't come in till later. It's not always easy to prove, but I will take two major pieces for a rook and a pawn in the early middle game any time.
Your opponent could have trapped your queen but didn't see the move. The outsider sees everything... And generally speaking it is not beneficial to trade a knight and bishop for a rook and pawn. Nice vision spotting the mate in 1.
Don't focus too much on tactics until you've developed your pieces. Going for an attack with 2 or less pieces is usually pointless without your opponent blundering. Other than that it's impressive to see you beating people who are way higher rated than you, great game! I think you're going to reach 1400 soon!
2:17 Exchanging bishop and knight for rook and pawn on f7 or f2 is something that happens a lot in chess. It is an equal trade in terms of material (6 points each). However, it is generally not a good idea to give up bishop and knight for rook and pawn. In the opening, the knights and bishops are more active than the rooks and the knights and bishops that can take part in this operation will have been developed (the knight will have moved twice already). So giving up knight and bishop for rook and pawn is ceding development and activity. It is really not a good idea. 7:23 You were very lucky here. Black has a discovered attack on your queen. They can use it by going Ne3 and exchanging on d1 next move. But black missed it. 8:03 wow!! This was such a ridiculous move by black. Opening up the position in front of his king and letting white attack along the f and h files. Shocking. Black should simply play Be6 and Rc8 and attack c2.
In general you don't want to attack the f7 pawn if your opponent can or have castled because once they have, the trade on f7 only loses as two pieces are WAY better than a single rook. Other than that, you played a great game! keep going I can't wait to see you get better!
at 11:23 I thought the best move would have been Qg4. This would have been threatening to take the pawn on g6 If the black queen moves to protect it we could take the bishop with the queen, when knight takes our rook, we could then take the knight. So we'd be getting a bishop AND a knight in exchange for our rook.
