Once again I find the whole thing quite unconvincing for White, though the two advanced pawns can look a bit scary. The idea is that after 15.f5 Qe7 White can't protect the e5 pawn anyway, and indeed Ashton could have transposed into this had he played 15.0-0. Radovanovic got a better result against Brenjo in Game 3 with 15.Qf3, but the queen doesn't look better placed here than on d2.īesides 14.Qe7 Black can also play the nonchalant 14.0-0 as in Andres Gonzalez - Rodriguez Fernandez: In Kovachev - Ashton White played this anyway, though in addition to 15.Qxe5 it isn't clear to me that 15.0-0 is so bad either.ġ5.Qd2 is a solid alternative to 15.f5 and helps control the dark square on the queenside, but didn't look at all bad for Black in Radovanovic - Pilgaard. This has in fact been played in a few recent games, though I can's say that it looks much better or worse than the older 13.Nd2.Īfter 13.Nxc3 14.bxc3 Black has usually played 14.Qe7 in order to inhibit 15.f5. ![]() 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.e5 d5 6.Bb5 Ne4:Īfter 7.Nxd4 Bd7 8.Bxc6 bxc6 9.0-0 Bc5 10.f3 Ng5 11.f4 Ne4 12.Be3 Bb6 Doug asks what Black should do about 13.Nc3, a suggestion of Dzhinzhischavili's on one of his videos:
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