Gueler, could you give the exact move order which leads to your diagrammed position?
I disagree that White has problems with the safety of his/her king after your line ending with 16.Nf3 Qg4. The main problem is the coordination of the pieces and especially Rh1. If White could transfer it to the Queen's Wing (s)he would be clearly better. So Black has to play 17...Nf5 to prevent it, after which the position is more or less equal indeed.
So I wonder if 15.Qxb5 isn't better, eg Qxd4 16.Ne2 Qa1+ 17.Bc1 Qxe5 18.Qxc5 Nc6 19.Rxh6.

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11.Nf3 is a mistake . See Volokitin-Zhang Pengxiang, Feugen 2006 (chesspublishing, october 2006)

11.Bxf6 is better (Chipov idea is dark square bishop has strong value for White)  or even 11.Qc1!? one move played vs me by one chess engine...smart this silicon monster  ... now 11...Bd7 transposes to Ljubojevic-Hubner,Tilburg 1987 (improvment of ths game is 13...a6 instead of 13..Nf5)

Ametanoitos wrote on 09/16/10 at 17:39:35:


After 9...h6

10.Qg4 Bd7 (Watson) 11.Qxg7 ooo 12.Nf3 Qa4 13.Bd3 gives small advantage to White

for other lines I have some arguments for Black:

- 10.Nf3 Bd7 (instead of Watson's f6 ; or 10...Qa4 Wang Zili - Hoang Thanh Trang, Calcutta 2001) 11.Rb1 ooo!? (Watson) 12.Rb5 Qxa3 13.Qb1 c4 Wang Zili-Reefat,Calcutta 2001 (Watson)

- 10.Rh4 (Morozevich move in Morozevich-Pelletier,Bienne 2003 game, which was critized a lot by Mark Crowther analysis ; pov diverges sometimes with Chipov annotating 10.Rh4! and McDonald 10.Rh4?)

- 10.Rb1 a6 11.Qg4 Nf5 12.Bd3 oo

- 10.Bd3 Bd7 11.Rb1 (11.Qg4 c4 12.Be2 Nf5) 

- 10.Qg4 Nf5 (instead of 10...Bd7 ;  Tiemann gives 10...Nf5?) 11.Bd3 oo!

Moskalenko says after the Volokitin game that the plan with h4 gives White "an advantage in theory" but the game is very complicated etc....I agree with him. The whole Winawer seems to be incredible complex but generally slightly better for White in every variation (7.Qg4, 7.Nf3, 7.a4 and 7.h4). That is what Susan Polgar also says in her DVD. She analyses 7.Nf3 and says that she prefers White a bit that Black can also be happy with the unbalanced and rich position he has.

OK, lets be more concrete now. After 6...Ne7 7.h4 Qa5 8.Bd2 Qa4 i thought at first that strong is 9.Qb1!? after 9...c4? 10.h5 h6 11.Ne2! with Nf4+g3+Bh3 and White has an obvious advantage. So, Black has to play 9...Nbc6 with what seems to be a fine game. Maybe Mnb can help us here with a suggestion for White. Moskalenko gives an internet game of Psakhis after 8...Qa4 9.h5 h6 10.Qg4 Nf5 11.Bd3 O-O 12.Qf4 c4! I can point out that Williams recommends 8...Nbc6 9.h5 h6 10.Qg4 Nf5 11.Bd3 Nce7! 12.Qf4 c4! which is similar. The nice thing about this variation is that after 13.Be2 Black plays 13...Nc6! 14.g4 Nfe7! What a Khight dance!

And sorry for the typo about Milton and Miton 

I might look at 7...Nbc6 8 h5 Qa5 9 Bd2 Qa4!? which transposes to Moskalenko's Black Queen Blues line - he gives a main game Volokitin-Pengxiang, Fugen 2006.  It continued 10 h6 gxh6 11 Nf3 cxd4! etc etc, Moskalenko quite likes black there.

My thanks for pointing out the Morozevich-Lputian game, I'd totally missed that.

I was watching Williams' nice French DVD and i came across the variation 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3 6.bxc3 Ne7 h4!? which Williams says that it is underestimated and he likes it for White. In fact the variation he proposes for Black to meet it is += according to him but he says "nothing special for White" and i agree with him.

Watson gives two lines against this 7.h4 move. The first is an idea of Uhlmann with Qa5-Nbc6-Bd7 and O-O-O where Black allows h6 and plays gxh6 with the idea Ng8+f6. Williams shows the convincing refutation of this plan that was found by Morozevic (a Rb1 move) and he won Lputian with it. Impressive! Williams offers White a good advice in a DVD that was made for Black! I was very critical about his Dutch DVD but this one i like a lot (even though it is not perfect again!)

So, my real question is this "what about the other Watson proposal thas was given by Vitiugov also?".
This is the Kasparov Gambit continuation 7...Nbc6 8.h5 Qa5 9.Bd2 cxd4 (9...h6!?, Williams) 10.cxd4 Qa4 and now Kasparov has played 11.Nf3 Nxd4 12.Kf1 etc. I can say that i don't like this variation for White. Black can also play 11...h6!? where there are ideas of ...b6+Ba6 and of course ...Nxd4 is still an option. I imagine that Williams found something else here for White, that's why he didn't recommended this line for Black. I tried to find out what White can play and i found the following ideas:

1) 11.c3 Qxd1 12.Kxd1 and GM Knaak claims here a += with ideas like Bd3-f4-Nf3-g4-Nh4 etc. I don't think that Black has any problems here. What do you think? Can Knaak's evaluation be proved in this ending-variation?

2) 11.h6! is the move i like most. If 11...Nxd4 12.hxg7 Rg8 13.Bd3! Rxg7 14.Kf1 and White can claim a little something here. Best is 11...Qxd4 (else 12.c3! is strong with an improved ending-variation) 12.Nf3 Qe4+ 13.Be2 Nxe5! (else Rh4 gives nice comp) and now Milton-Shabalov, 1999 continued with the forced sequence: 14.Bc3 f6 15.hxg7 Rg8 16.Nxe5 fxe5 17.Qd3!? Qxd3 18.cxd3 d4 19.Bb4 Rxg7 20.Rxh7 Rxh7 21.Bxh7 Nc6 and now what about 22.Be4! White has the B-pair and a passed g pawn while Black's three center pawns are safely blockaded. According to my chess understanding White stands well here. Does he has an advantage? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. If he has it's a small one of course. But i think this is an interesting position for White. 

Thoughts?