Queen's gambit #4: Black's central assault

I am now looking at the lasker defense for black. It achieves the desirable trades black wants so now black can develop all of his pieces now! White ends up getting more space, but black's position is annoyingly hard to attack. In this game white gets greedy with his center and ends up getting crushed by black's seemingly passive pieces! It's one of those strange times where it's a big mistake to create a pawn center, even after backing it up by rooks!

Move 7 by White is actually in contrast with the styles of Kasparov and Karpov. Im their first 2 matches, the Bishop generally captured the knight very early in the game because Black can have a stronger position with Ne4 down the line.

Bxf6 is certainly not too bad, since it's hard to take advantage of the two bishops here, but Bh4 is by far most common, probably because of its flexibility. Although the Karpov game I'm analyzing right now is in the Bh4 line . It has an excellent endgame by the way.