Thanks for the game. I wonder if it isn´t a possibility to play on the king side here. I mean the usual plan after Be7 e.g. g5-g4 and then Bg5? I was under the impression that this kind of play would lead at least to space advantage and some initiative.

When I entered the Stonewall structure, I was hoping to keep his knight from e5. Since he managed to get it there pretty quickly, it then became a question of how I could get rid of that knight, while keeping my development options open for the queenside pieces.

It's true that my knight had to make a couple moves to exchange off his Ne5 (...Ne4-f6-d7), but exchanging on d2 would have developed a White piece for free. With the closed center and the alternative free development for White, I actually didn't really lose much time with my knight maneuver.

thanks for showing your lose game at least not unlike others they want to analize won games only but this one of yours is good because you share also your ideas over the board and how you arrive in inferior position

Great article

HI, thanks as always for the detailed explanation it is very helpful.  I would like to ask if your knight moves to trade on e5 were planned when you entered the stonewall?  Obviously e5 is a perfect outpost I'm curious if you planned that exchange all along and why is that such a stong idea considering the amount of moves your knight had to make compared to his?

You didn't really get to attack in this game but were there some weaknesses you were hoping to exploit out of this stonewall set-up?

thanks I was looking at this line in the gm rep book.  Good to see a little more clear explanation of some different ideas. 

This style of prestentation is so conducive to deeply considering the position.  I probably spent 20-30 minutes going over it.  Really good job Vbhat.

Why did the rook eat the horse for, what was the motivation behind that?

Thanks for the article! I always appreciate your annotations - much better than seeing:

"Not 14...Bb7?!  15.a5! Rac8 16. Kxh8 0-0 17. d8=N +/- "

as the only insight.

Nice article! Thanks for sharing and good to see our brazilian GM is still going strong!

Thank you for the article, very instructive =)...

Great game!

Excellent article, very good analysis. Fascinating game, and Vescovi is no pushover.

Thanks for sharing. It's very good insight.

Still 2 minor peices for a rook is good.

Better than being down the exchange.

After 31...Rxd3 32.Qxd3 wins, the author says in his comments to the last position.

31. Bc5 He attacks your queen so what about 31...Rxd3 attacking his queen. 32. Bxb6 Rxd2 33. Bxa5 Rxd4.

Decent line? I am just a 1400 OTB though...

I think that an important task of any chess player is learning from mistakes.

That make us stronger.Thanks for the sharing, it's brave from your side.