Re: Curtains vs PoG
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Ne4 is ultra-easy and standard follow-up here.
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It's not a heavy piece you can just as easy move it to g4 or h5. Suggesting that it is a standard follow-up without anything to back it up is not very helpful. If Ne4 is standard so is Re6, Qd7 and most other random moves, cause I said so....
And from e4 what are you doing with the knight?
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e4 is a more natural square for this knight than h5 or g4. It can go to g5, which combined with a move like Qd7/c8 would be very nice for us. It can go to e6 quickly via c5, where it covers g7 and helps control d4 simultaneously. It prevents moves like 19.Rd1 because it clears f6 for the queen while also attacking f2 (18...Ng4 also does this but that would be met by Bb2 and h3, it's not a stable square, while on h5 the knight has no future but to go back to f6 at some point).
18...Ne4 is almost certain to be answered with 19.Bb2, so we should be looking at moves in that position.
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