White did well to gain space in the Opening.
In middlegame seems 22.....Ne8 got Black in trouble How about trying to simplify Rooks off with 22......R(b) -e8 ? If White ever trades f5xg6 then fxg6. Black can not give White major control of the "f" file, which ultimately spelled his demise.
Black needed to play 10. ... bxf3 to keep up the stress on the white center. 10. ... bxf3 11. qxf3 nc6 12. nc3 and now 12. ... g6 makes taking the dpawn a real threat. White is still happy with the opening, but black has the sort of activity he was looking for.
White did well to gain space in the Opening.
In middlegame seems 22.....Ne8 got Black in trouble How about trying to simplify Rooks off with 22......R(b) -e8 ? If White ever trades f5xg6 then fxg6. Black can not give White major control of the "f" file, which ultimately spelled his demise.
Good point. I was thinking 23. Qb2 would raise the pressure on the Knight, and through it the Bishop, necessitating Qd8. Here his Knight and Bishop would be frozen. It is perhaps this pressure he was trying to relieve.
Black needed to play 10. ... bxf3 to keep up the stress on the white center. 10. ... bxf3 11. qxf3 nc6 12. nc3 and now 12. ... g6 makes taking the dpawn a real threat. White is still happy with the opening, but black has the sort of activity he was looking for.
I'm not sure. My light-squared Bishop eyes h7, so perhaps the strategy for Black would be manoeuvring his light-squared Bishop to g6 and looking to swap them off. If Black swaps his bishop for my Knight, which he did on move 13, I'd be very pleased having the bishop pair in an open position like this.
I'd say it's more the perilous placement of Black's knight that gives you the advantage (after 26... Nh5). On 27 Qf2 Black could try 27... Re8, hoping for 28 Rxe8+ Qxe8 29 g4 Nxf6 30 Qxf6 Qe3+. But White just has 28 Rf1, leaving Black in the same boat.
In the game continuation, after 27 Re7 Qc8 you would've had 28 g4. Or you could've played it a move earlier as well.
Yeah, if 27... Re8 then 28.Rf1 followed by 29. g4 and the Black Knight has nowhere to go.
However, maybe Black can survive e.g. 26... Nh5 27 Qf2 ... Qd8 (targeting pawn on f6 with Queen and Knight) 28. Rf1 ... Qe8, and now g4 can't be played as 29. g4 ... Nxf6 30. Qxf6 ...Qe3+ is trouble.
