Dear Uberdeker,
I must congratulate you with having such a dispute with Castlerock. He is one of the most friendly, polite and tolerant posters at this forum
, more or less the opposite of me
. I believe it is the first time he is involved in dispute like this
.
Your most sensible remark was the last one: one with the discussion!
Giaccio,A (2505) - Claverie,R (2004) [C10]
ARG-ch74 Superior Buenos Aires (10), 20.10.2000
1.e4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d4 Nf6 5.e5 Ne4 6.Bd3 Nxc3 7.bxc3 Na5 8.Ng5 g6 9.Qf3 Qe7 10.h4 Nc4 11.Bxc4 dxc4 12.Ne4 Bg7 13.Bg5 Qa3 14.Bf6 Bxf6 15.Nxf6+ Kf8 16.h5 g5 17.h6 c5 18.dxc5 Qxc5 19.0-0-0 Ke7 20.Ng8+ Ke8 1-0
is not really an advertisement for Black's opening choice.
I suppose 8...Be7 is an improvement, but after 9.Nxh7 g6 10.Nf6+ Black has to say goodbye to his so important black squared bishop as well. Do you think, the half open h-file compensates for the defects in Black's position? White also has 9.Qg4 and 9.Qh5.
Not for the first time I get the impression, that you, like Nimzo (see eg Spielmann-Nimzovitsj, Semmering 1926), underestimate the importance of dynamics in chess.