First Rapid Chess Game

My first chess game played in the rapid format resulted in a loss on time. This was unfortunate as I had a superior position. Figure 1 shows the position after Black's 37th move where his Rook checked my King. I was already under time pressure and instead of simply taking his Rook with my Knight, I retreated my King to g1. Had I taken the Rook, Black would have captured my Knight with his Queen (not his Rook) and there would have been an exchange of Queens. Black's recapture with the Rook would have resulted in checkmate.

Figure 1

In any case, I was subjected to a withering Kingside attack early on that I managed to escape from using Black's own Rook pawn for cover. Figure 2 shows the final position when I lost on time. As can be seen I was a piece and a pawn up.

Figure 2

My rapid rating is now a tentative (because so few games played) $\textbf{1727}$ and so my future opponents will be weaker than Misterx47 who was rated at 1920. He gained 3 points and I lost a massive 88 points. So I'll now work on getting my rating closer to 2000.