In the recent game between Anand and Gashimov in Nanjing, Gashimov came up with
10.. Bc8! which looks like an important improvement.

Avrukh only gives 10...Bxf3 leading to usual white b-pair advantage.

A point with the move is that it saves a tempo on the normal ..b6 variation due to white playing h3.

Anand seemingly made the logical moves but still black had it quite easy. Is the line practically dead?

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[Event "Nanjing Pearl Spring Tournament"]
[Site "Nanjing CHN"]
[Date "2010.10.24"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Viswanathan Anand"]
[Black "Vugar Gashimov"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2800"]
[BlackElo "2719"]
[ECO "D10"]
[EventDate "2010.10.20"]
[PlyCount "50"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 g6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.Be2 0-0 7.0-0 Bg4 8.cxd5 cxd5 9.Qb3 b6 10.h3 Bc8!
11.Bd2 Nc6 12.Ne5 Bb7 13.Nxc6 Bxc6 14.Rfc1 Qd7 15.a4 Rfc8 16.a5 bxa5 17.Rxa5 e6 18.Rca1 Bf8 19.Qa2
Rcb8 20.Nd1 Ne4 21.Be1 Rb7 22.Ba6 Rb6 23.Bd3 Rb7 24.Ba6 Rb6 25.Bd3 Rb7
1/2-1/2