Thanks for your very interesting insights - as always a pleasure to read and a valuable contribution to this tournament! Of course we're here also talking about an alternative white system - as opposed to the system black shows us here.

Edit: This is one of my favorite games in this round, will be very interesting to follow... i'm not as pessimistic about black's chances as i was already earlier... ;-), still i think the likelyhood of generating position-improving moves is still with white short- and mid-term...

For me, it's been very straightforward because I am playing within my preparation and possibly tempo or two up relative to a few lines in my preparation, in which d5 is played with a few other moves inserted.   Nevertheless the assessment of the position is likely still +/=/=.  Will have to make some decisions starting with my next move.  Thanks for your interest.

I think the idea behind the text-move was maybe the awareness that the opponent is highly attracted by KID-structures and e5 was highly expected :-)...

We're too far out on the tree to consider the statistics definitive.  All we can say is that this position has worked for white before.

I'm happy with my position.  I played ...e5 a while back but the move has not been posted on the forum.

That's fine.   I'm going to try analyzing the current position with a few different free engines I downloaded (Critter, Komodo, Houdini 1.5, Stockfish) and test how well they get through the complications in the key positions.  Rybka does not seem to see quite so quickly long tactical lines as a few others on my old laptop computer.  In the current position, he chess engines are suggesting Bb7 and c5 for Black, for many moves now, which really doesn't make sense to a human, and it is as suicidal as it looks because White has more space on the queenside and Black's pawn structure is weak there.  Good news is, my opponent, too, will have to play through many of the lines for White and Black manually, which I am doing and using DPA at key points if necessary when I'm doing other stuff.

I would have played 10...h6 almost on any White move. 11.Nh4 I thought was slightly problematic, with the idea of g3 and f4 and discouraging f5.  On that Kf8-g7, Bf6 (threatening Bxh4), and h5-h4 would be my likely plan, and Black looks to be doing quite fine. The text 11.Ne1 is more standard however.

It's what I expected also.  I probably would have played ...gxf5 with the idea of f4-f3 and sacrificing a pawn, given that I find something convincing after gxf5 f4 (and I think e4, followed Bxc3 in some positions and attack Nf6-g4 Qe8-h5 or h5-h4 etc is very acceptable)  The engines like the position after ...gxf5 for White, but given time and some moves, I've analyzed that Black has excellent compensation for a pawn in some lines.  White has many tries, but none seem to lead to anything - I'm not going to outline White's plans at the moment and Black's counters, and there are many possible plans, although nothing seems particularly good for White, of course given that I play correctly.