Falling at the critical moment?

Hello, hi. How are you? I'm alright thanks for asking. So here is the promised second post. I don't want to spoil anything so let's get straight into it.

So we start out with the Caro Kann Defense (maybe I'll write a "Caro Kann" in depth article) 1.e4 c6 2.Bc4 they play the Hillbilly Attack d5 3.exd5 cxd5 obvious trade 4.Bb5+ Bd7 5.Bd3 Nf6 6. Qf3 Bg4 7.Qxd5 immediate blundering of a queen. Of course Qxd5 great move.

8.Nc3 Qe5+ not great, missed a free pawn. I seem to always miss pawn captures on the b2 an h2 squares. 9.Be2 Bxe2 10.Ngxe2 Nc6 thinking about castling long, and threatening M2 11. f4 Qc7 12. d4 O-O-O 13. Nb5 Qa5+ 14.Nbc3 Nxd4 15. Nxd4 Rxd4 16. O-O Ne4 17. Ne2 Rc4 good, but I had a chance to trade the rooks and win a pawn with a4.

18.f5 Qc5+ 19.Kh1 Nf2+ 20.Kg1 Nh3+ 21. Kh1 Qg1+ blundering the smothered mate. I had to get rid of white's knight before the queen sacrifice 22.Rxg1 blundering into mate. Nf2#

So, clearly I was lucky. Had my opponent noticed their knight, this game would have lasted longer. We both displayed a lack of understanding of the piece placement. It wouldn't be the first time I lost a queen because I failed to see my opponents piece. Clearly I need to work hard on my visualisation and knight understanding.  If you have any suggestions for visualisation training, I would genuinely appreciate it. Bye.

Announcements: I announced pretty much everything this morning, but I did forget to mention that I'm playing my first daily tournament in order to familiarise myself with the format for the CDCC. It's quite slow if I'm being honest.