Board Control

In this live blitz game, white pieces were very nicely coordinated. The key to controlling the board was the combination of diagonal control from the bishop pairs and pawn support from major pieces.

Two major observations (there could be more, but I'm currently not in a good shape to go beyond) were:

1. Instead of meeting the knight threat with 35..Bd5, a better move might be 35..Bf4 (as explained at the commentary section in the game above)
2. An improvement that I found necessary was 4.Be2 instead of 4.Bc4. I would not like to exchange bishops early on in the game, so the retreat to e2 was a waste of tempo.

It was an open game and I believe there must be some beautiful variation hidden somewhere along the road. Any building comments are very welcomed.