Thanks for sharing. I often get plagued by Bf5, too. It's nice to see that Rudel's advice for handling it works so well. I have both "Zuke 'Em" and "The Moment of Zuke". Perhaps I should read them someday. 
Nice game!
Not a C-Z, but...
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Sep 8, 2014
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...a variant that I am now incorporating in my C-Z repertoire. I struggle from quite a fair share of early bishop moves disrupting the "bishop on d3" strategy. Particulary the line d4, d5, Nf3, Nf6, e3, Bf5 has annoyed me for a while. So in "Zuke 'em" by David Rudel I found a complete chapter devoted to this bishop move, advocating the use of the "Elista slav" (I think this is Davids own name of the variation).
So equipped with my newfound knowledge I threw myself at the laptop, started a new correspondance game and to my astonishment (and happiness) my opponent obliged and followed my prep up until move 14
Admittedly, my opponent didn't put up the best of fights (and he did play terribly fast, I often got more or less instantanious replies) but I thought I'd share the game with some brief annotations.