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Originally Posted by wlrs
goldaxe, could you elaborate on two moves that seemed weird to me:
12.Qb3: maybe set the pieces up in some other way?
So I need to defend c4 against the threat of ...c6, so I considered Qb3 or Qd3. I'm pretty sure I just decided on Qb3 intuitively, putting pressure on b7 and preparing to put a rook opposite his queen. I'm very willing to be convinced that my move was wrong, since it depends a lot on how I am going to resolve the tension in the centre, and I still don't know the right answer to this!
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Originally Posted by wlrs
16.dxe5 (as noted by Tex): possibly making things too simple. 16.d5 and try to work with the better bishop?
Delaying Qd7 seemed odd at first but I guess there's not much going on either way. You can even lose those Pirc type endings if you are sucky and careless like me.
I was quite happy with 16.dxe5 when I played it, because I was visualising the sort of position that happened in the game after my 21st move, and it looked VERY promising- complete control of the d-file, better bishop, his pieces on the back rank. To be honest I thought I would win easily. Obviously the big problem is that Qd7 is always met my the queen exchange and Kf8-e8.
So 16.d5 c5 and what next next? Black is going ...f5 and I'm kinda lost on the white side of these KID structures. It is certain that my queen in not optimally placed on b3 here
As a sidenote, one thing I have been considering is getting a GM coach, but just to help me with one specific thing- analysing my games positionally, and only after I have done a full annotation myself. I have some 3400+ friends to check my tactics
but positionally a strong GM seems much more useful. For example in this position the engine doesn't seem that useful since it appears to be thinking OMG SPACE ADVANTAGE, +1