Here I am playing bullet chess and had a hunch on a légals mate type of Queen sacrifice. Needless to say it worked out in my favor. If you want to get good at chess read everything you can on it, study tactics, end game and openings/opening principles.
When I was 19, I was getting serious about chess. I rented almost every piece of material on the game from the library, which included "Bobby Fischer vs the rest of the world", a giant book just on the Petroff, some crazy stuff including a VHS of Yasser Seirawan teaching an instructional chess video from 1986 or 1988, in one part of it he shows various mates, including "Scholar's Mate". I have done a Scholar's Mate years ago on chess.com but that was a speed chess game.
Here I was uncertain about Nxe5, but was sure there was some compensation if it didn't work. It became fairly clear after Bxe7 that black was in quite some trouble and my opponent took some 20 seconds to play Ke7, allowing the inevitable. Nf5 would have given him an escape square and I'd be down a queen but with plenty of time for a bullet game and my opponent down on time more than slightly.
I met Yasser later on in 2001 at the Paul Keres Memorial and some giant names attended, some living Legends, including a GM who wrote a book on pawn games or openings I had from the library, I was going to ask him to please sign it, but I realized that's against the libraries terms of use. I should have got him to sign it and kept it or sold it or just returned it. Well not sell it that's illegal. I played some speed chess against Yasser and obviously lost every game. Yasser appeared on the 2nd to last or last Day, he didn't participate in that tournament.