This game is from the third round of the only 20 minute tournament that I have played at the FIDE Online Arena. It might also be the only 20 minute tournament that I have ever played but I am not sure about it. This tournament started well for me as I won first two games but then on the third round I started losing. I did not have all that much going for me in any phase of the game if I do not count the fact that I played with the white pieces and had a very small advantage because I moved first. For a while my correspondence games ended in a nice pace but now it seems to have stopped and after around a year playing actively correspondence chess, I would really need a longish break from it but unfortunately that is not happening anytime soon. I will not start losing games on purpose or anything like that but it would be really nice if my games would end in a fast pace. I am part of the reason that those games have lasted as long as they have as I tend to use a lot of time before I make my moves. Or I should say the time runs quite quickly in my games as I am not able to move even half of the games where it is my time to move during a day. The game deciding mistake appeared on the board when I played 17.d4.
My move completely failed due to the problems I had on e-file. Marcus64 was able to take advantage of my huge blunder in the game continuation 17...exd4 18.cxd4 Nxd4 19.exd4 f5. Had I not been lost before, I was when I then played 20.Qd2. A better try would have been 20.Nf6+, but even in that case I would have likely lost the game. I continued a few moves, but had to accept the loss when Marcus64 played 23...Rd2+ and I would have needed to give up my queen for free.
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