Since I don't want to interfer with the thread launched by lostHighway (great movie anyway !), I post here a topic about a move I had to deal with two weeks ago, and not with success
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I did know nothing about it, so I was rather in a punishment mood
during the game and that can explain my failure.
So the line is: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 0-0 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.g4
Ne5.
During the game, it seems to me that this was not good at all: it moves a second time a piece and with the move ...Bd7 to follow, Black will have some problems to face with white g5 push which would drive the knight to the rather ugly h5 square. I was quite surprised to find this move in Golubev "Easy Guide to the Dragon", and even more astonished when I found that it was playable (Golubev does not mention a refutation about it)
In the game, I played : 10.0-0-0 (waiting for the bishop to come to d7) Bd7 11.g5 Nh5 12.Nd5.
I was rather pleased by this move, because of the pressure on the e7 square - the black queen can't move - and if she wants to move, Black has to play e6, and the black pawn on d6 is weak. White will follow with f4 and get a strong hold on the center.
Is my plan right ? Is this the best continuation to counter the rather stange 9...Ne5 ? Then : 12...Rc8 13.f4 Nc4 14.Bxc4 Rxc4 15.Qe2 (to keep an eye on the black knight, thus enabling the f5 push to follow) 15...b5 16.f5
What do you think about that position ?