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that was helpful...

It must be difficult to find a "hot" girl in a place called Iceland.

Hope you get a beautiful one, anyway.

Icelandic girls are quite hot btw. I still don't see the purpose of your posts here - are they funny or do they have a hidden point or?

NN28 posts never have any point, don't care about them.

About your game, I would not resign in that situation, black still had some resistance and, as you said, they were young, so it was a good chance for them testing their endgme skills.

Isn't Iceland greener than Greenland?

Yes. And Greenland is icer than Iceland.

Your problem is that after he took on c4 with his d pawn you needed to play for e3-e4 and use the strong center to your advantage to develop an attack. Eventually the goal is to play d5 or e5 when you have everything set up for maximum tactical benefit.

Instead you just kind of ran your pieces around , but that's alright you will improve. I have found most plans involve pushing pawns to either attack a chain or gain space, so keep that in mind in your future games. Studying the Kings Indian Defense will definitely show you the power of pushing pawns.

I'm white, like most people in Iceland. But why the racist question? :)

Sorry I couldn't help being off-topic :D

Yes I was actually white here. I did sort of just move my pieces around. :)

It seems to me without going into specific analysis that you're right in that black flopped around quite a bit and you just took advantage.  Quick inspection looks like you had some chances to shorten black's resistence and he certainly good have played out the game for a while.   It certainly would have been an unpleasent chore to try to hold that final position as black. 

But to answer your question about finding a better "plan", I think the fact is that when your opponent wastes so much time it's best to do what you actually did and just take the gifts that he keeps offering. 

Lol, nah I like d4 much better. But e4 isn't bad... if you don't mind playing sicilians all day everyday.

Pick your poison I suppose. Personally I don't mind the QGD.

Thanks for the contributions, and I must admit that now I miss the NN28 posts that have mysteriously disappeared overnight! I guess I have to look at some more games in the QGD orthodox and semi-slav stuff - I know the main lines OK (from the Botvinnik and the Anti-Moscow) but my opponents seem to play for quieter things and then I'm usually clueless.

If all of NN28's posts have disappeared it probably means his account has been closed... that's my guess. 

okay?

there was a request for me to show some hot Icelandic girls, so I complied. I suppose I should now delete that post since now it looks odd.

I thought you played the opening quite well (I know very little of Queen pawn openings).

Looking at the position after 16. .... a5: you have better development, more space and a bind on the dark squares (centre and Queen-side). Rather than break the tension with 17. bxa5 (you don't mind him opening the a-file, his Rooks are not connected), I think you should have "increased your position" by either:

playing 17. e4 intending the brutal d5 in the near future (analysis required).

or

playing a useful developing move like Rfe1 or Rfc1

Normally, whoever "blinks first" and dissolves the tension is the poorer for it.

p.s. 17. h3 (intending to own the h2-b8 diagonal forever) has a charm.

sorry which tasty diagonal you mean? b8-h2?

 Yes, of course I know "some", that's why I wrote "very little".

I never reply 1. .... d5 to 1. d4 so I'm very quickly out of my book knowledge.