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Rook f1-e1

Looks like Nb5 to me.

[QUOTE=henryzz;399584]Looks like Nb5 to me.[/QUOTE]

Me too, following richs's earlier analysis, but we are in no hurry :wink:

[QUOTE=paulunderwood;399585]Me too, following richs's earlier analysis, but we are in no hurry :wink:[/QUOTE]

Yes but there is no point in waiting 7 days for the sake of it.
Once richs has posted we could probably post at weekend.

[QUOTE=henryzz;399586]Yes but there is no point in waiting 7 days for the sake of it.
Once richs has posted we could probably post at weekend.[/QUOTE]

Okay :smile:

This follows my analysis in move 12:

12. a4 Ba6
13. Nb5 Rfc8
14. Nc4 Qd8

thus driving their queen back to her starting position.

I agree with Nb5.

Retina, moving our knight to b5 blocks the bishop exchange, thus we don't have to move our f1 rook now.

I was just envisaging the bishop taking the knight (a6-b5) and then either the pawn or the bishop takes the bishop (a4-b5 or e3-b5). Black doesn't appear to need to move the queen at all.

A bishop is worth (or valued) slightly more than a knight, so black would hesitate to exchange their bishop for a knight which we would take with our a4 pawn. Our e2 bishop prevents their queen from then taking the pawn.