That is exactly what happened.

...Kb8 followed by mate on h2 if White takes your queen, OR trading queens and then winning the knight if White prevents the mate by playing hxg3??

You have the right plan, but Black can answer b4 with ...h5! and White cannot force a passed pawn on the kingside.

Congratulations! I plan to start the Yusupov books in about 60 days and am glad to see someone working through them is getting good results.

1.Qxh4+,Bxh4 2.Bg7+,Kh5 3.g4# - very pretty!

Here's the final position.

We must stop the mate on f7, so 23...Qh5. (...Ng4 fails to h4 after this). We aren't threatening ...Qxh6 due to Nxf7#, so we must protect f7 TWICE, (...Qh5 and then ...Ra7), and then we do threaten ...Qxh6. White has nothing better than 23.Nxf7+,Qxf7 24.Bg6,Qg8 25.Bxe8,Qxe8. Black is winning. 😀

Also, there were actually a lot of wild lines in the game. See my next Bluesky post - that was what could happen if I played ...Bd8 after his Nf5 move.

Gus took me out of book early. I have an improvement ready if he repeats the line!

check on e1, check on c5, mate on f1 - I feel proud because I looked at all the available checks three moves in a row!

That is the next course I plan to get! I have recently retired - finally time to actually get better at chess - and I'm concentrating on calculation and visualization. Thank you for the content you are creating. I'll check out your YouTube channel as well.

Yes, exactly. BTW, your course videos are the best part - hearing the PROCESS you can go through to find the right move. I surprised my coach today in our lesson by finding solutions to about 6 "interference" motif positions where CCT would not work. I think I'm getting a little better :-)

Ha ha! Well, however you got there was a fine route.

Here is the full game.

And does that mean win or draw for White?