Positional play exercise (FOURTEEN questions) (repost - click this one)

Fun fact my opponent in this game ended up winning all of his other games and won first place on tiebreaks, beating top seed who was 2270 NM.

Repost because I realized some annotations were off.

i think you should make each question its own puzzle, because it's really easy to accidentally see the solution by seeing the next move in the game

the next move in the game is not necessarily always the best move. We are not GMs.

11) Maybe c5 and after dxc5 u play d4 Bxd4 and b3 wins a rook

yeah but some of the next moves are, especially when you put ! after the move

Ok so Imma try although I am not that good with positional play I can find a few reroutes which are beneficial but I don't find anything other than that during a game could u give me tips while I try and solve this

(7) I guess it's bad as there is a weak square on c4 and blacks knight can go there in the future

13) Qb4 probably . I don't see Qxd5/Nxd5 as such a big threat.

finallyyy

(11) I found the tactic told u I was good with tactics black wants b3 forking rook and queen so he plays c4 e4 takes c4 black plays E4 and after bishop takes b3 wins material

Pls tell if I am correct

yes

d4 not e4 but yes

Yeyah I meant that yaaay I found it

Not really. This is about thinking about the position, not necessarily just positional play.

Yeah qb4 is best but why? what do you do after Nxd5?

Ok

Qe2+ and then  if Kh3 then Qf1+ and then if the mkng moves we bring  in the bishop and win. If king moves elsewhere apart from Kh3 we can bring in the bishop or give a queen check to force it into the dark squares

1. I imagine white should probably proceed with nc3 or bd3, or even playing e5 and then playing nc3 or bc4 instead of pushing g4. I would then probably play it like a Pirc as white, conglomerating on the kingside and launching an attack

2. g4 is a very overextending move from white, and once the knight retreats to g7 and white plays the natural follow up f4, the pawns will be extremely weak for breaks like d6 and h5

3. Black would probably stand better, I think the Light Squared bishop will find a home on g4 or f5, the knight has an outpost square on f5 in the future, and after e6 is played, black has some sort of Pseudo-Caro structure where he can build up c5 or even just play c5 right away, which will activate the Dark Squared bishop. +Black hasn't committed the king to either side yet. 

4. Black is probably playing for the c5 break

5. e6 wouldn't be my top move because white isn't developed enough to take advantage of the weaknesses that e6 creates in the black position. 

6. Playing g6 and h5 locked the structure on the kingside, so the pieces would be more useful on the queenside where black is trying to break through

7. I would say it's a good move as it prevents c5 right away and also grabs more space on the only open side of the board, the damage to the defense doesn't matter because the position is so locked

I'll do the rest later