This game was played at Red Hot Pawn on the second of a tournament called 2014 October Long Haul Split I. The second round was played between the two group winners of round one, me and caissad4. The second round was not enough to decide the winner of the tournament, since both players won with the black pieces, so third round was needed. I was only able to draw the game where I controlled the white pieces and lost the other game on round three, which meant that caissad4 was the winner of the tournament. The game started to go a bit wrong for me already on move 5, when I moved my queen to d3, which I thought to be a good move at the time...
Soon it became clear that I was going to lose a pawn. The game continued with the moves 5...Nxe4 6.Bxe7 Qxe7 7.Nxe4 dxe4. Then I realized that I maybe do not want to take back on e4 due to the answer Qb4+ and my position would collapse. I did get an opportunity to get back into the game when caissad4 played 9...c6. The move 9...c6 is bad because the bishop is best positioned at the long diagonal and the pawn would just block the path of the bishop.
I should have then moved my queen to e3 and attack the undefended pawn on e4. Instead I played 10.g3, thinking that my bishop would be best placed at g2 and attack the pawn on e4 from there. It is, however, a bit slow move and allowed my opponent to fix his or her pawn structure with the move 10...e5. After that I was going downhill again until I got another chance to get back into the game after the blunder 16...Bf7.
In order to use my chance, I should have played the obvious looking move 17.Qc7. I completely missed my chance, of course, I did add pressure to the knight on d7 with 17.Rhd1, but that was easily dealt with 17...Nb6. I lasted a few more moves, but I had to resign after the beautiful move 24...Na3+!! After that it was completely certain that I was going to lose eventually, so I did not want to prolong the agony.
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