hi, 

@slates:  my habit is to look at the position with my own eyes first without referring to theory.. so perhaps in this way get more out of reading opening books.  No book is perfect, I am sure RIzzi's book is good (that it mentioned Rogozenko-Ibragimov is a sign that its a thorough effort). 

by the way, i think 11... Bd6 is superior to 11... Bb4. Main line after 11... Bb4 with queenside completely busted after 12. Qd3 Bd2 13. Bd2 Rb2 14. Rac1 (14. Bc1!? ) 0-0 15. Rc5 looks appealing for white because its much harder for Black to try something cheap on the kingside (which is his only plan ) Both Semkov and yours truly think 11... Bd6 is better. 

@john simmons: 11. b3 was played recently in Van Wely-Sasikiran and annotated by Ruslan on chesspub. The reason why i don't like 11. b3 so much is because i think White needs to seize more space on the queenside (ie. pawns on a3 and b4), so as to organise his major pieces to penetrate on the queenside. 

To be honest, I don't think that White has much of a "+=" in this whole 7. Be6 line, perhaps it should be "+==", ie. a very small edge.  Just out of curiousity, what do you guys hate to see most as Black, and what do you feel about 7. Bb3 and 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3. Personally i found the former has too subtle theory to remember, and the latter too much theory to remember!

Thanks Inn2 for the pointers.  Do you prefer 11...Bb4 to 11...Bd6, then? I've had a quick look and can't decide which move looks better, although the whole opening is very new to me.  Incidentally, I ran this ...Bd6 line through my computer and it thought that after your 14.Bb2 e5 15.Rfc1 that 15...Rb6 may have been a touch safer than ...Ne7, but I see your point. 
I would still say, though, that Rizzitano's book is most definitely one of the better chess books I've seen in terms of format, presentation and content - it's great to see someone here give their own opinion on a book line if it differs from that of the author, as I'm not really developed enough in terms of chess to make that kind of assessment yet, certainly in the context of openings I don't usually play.  It's set me to thinking, at the very least. Usually I just mindlessly accept the assessment given by the author - in fact I can only think of one or two previous occasions where I thought for myself that something was wrong with the position an author recommended, but I guess as you age and become more familiar with lines that awareness grows as well.

Here's what I found;

John S is right.  Rizzitano gives 13...Ng4 14.Qa4 a5 15.b5!? (15.bxa5 d3 16.Ra2 Ra8 17.a6 Nce5 18.Qxd7 Nxd7 19.h3 Nge5= Rogozenko-Ibragimov, Berlin 1995) 15...Na7 16.h3 Ne5 17.Qxd4 Nxf3+ (not 17...Rxf3? 18.Qxa7 Rff8 19.a4 and White is much better) 18.Nxf3 Nxb5=.

He considers 12.Qd3 to be the main line, but looks at other White 12th moves such as 12.Re1 and 12.e5!?.

There is plenty of analysis and a fair bit of explanation - it's all very well covered. 
Incidentally, in Chris Ward's QGA book (1999) he doesn't cover 11...Bd6, only looking at 11...Bb4 - he says that 'this looks like the best place for the bishop'. He mentions though that he 'wouldn't be surprised if in future we see the more cautious 12.Qd3' after the way the game pans out (Van Wely-Sutovsky Wijk aan Zee 1997).
Although Rizzitano doesn't give any analysis of 11...Bb4, he does say that it's a sound alternative to his repertoire choice of 11...Bd6.

I'll try to check Rizzitano for this when I get home later tonight, see what he says.

I can't help with any insights to this game because it's completely new to me!  Thanks Inn for bringing this plan to our attention!

Frankly,
I must warn you: there are many openings where computer evaluations even after long minutes of thinking are far from the truth (with more than 0.5 margin). In the QGA that is not really a problem, but in the Sicilian, or in some KID lines (four pawns) you better believe your eyes.

Frankly, I suppose that your Fritz was in a hilarious mood that day and liked everything. 1.d4 d5  2.c4 dxc4  3.e4 e5  4.Nf3 Bb4+  5.Nc3 exd4 6.Qxd4 Qxd4  7.Nxd4 Nf6  8.f3 Bc5 9.Be3 Nc6 10.Ndb5?! Be3 11.Nc7 Kd7! 12.Na8 Ne5 no wonder there are no canditates tro try this with White. Black's king goes to c6.