Are you a positional master? (More puzzles to come)

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Zaphys

The second puzzle is Short-Timman 1991, EXCEPT for the fact that in the game the rook was placed on d4 rather than d1; in your puzzle the queen can come to e4 and spoil White's elegant idea.

Fun fact: I actually played Timman yesterday in a simul, lol what are the odds (;