?! Pointless, really. I should have been getting my defenses ready on the kingside.

I will follow with a3 to get space on the queenside.

f4 must be better to stop that f pawn advance.

Now at least I'm focused on the task at hand. My pieces begin to assemble for defense.

The rook defends while waiting for reinforcements.

I need that queen to completely remove itself from the attack.

The pawn on e3 is really weak and it's the 2nd problem I have in this position. I can't afford a breakthrough on the e file either.

It took me a while to figure out what to do with my knight. Eventually I found a path that lead it to e5 which turned the game around.

I think if he started to push his pawns on the queenside I'd have too many threats to defend and he wins fairly easily.

I was trying for g5 first but he shuts that off so I then swing my knight around to go to e5.