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Move 29 is also a mistake. Your knights already defend each other. Look instead to move your queen and castle up.

Move 23 huge mistake. Why take your knight out of play? Nxf4 takes his knight and threatens his queen in one move. He can try countering with Qg2 to threaten your rook, but Be3 threatens his queen again AND protects your rook, forcing him to flee and giving you a free knight.

This is so brutal to have my king in front of my pawns. Never going to let this happen again.

Mine, I think, would have resulted in checkmate after giving away my rook.

well maybe not epic, but clever.

I think I will try my own epic sacrifice.