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underworld (2016-10-30): For this game I hadn't prepped a lot of variations for the Snyder Variation. I mainly prepped against DarkVisions Caro-Kann with several variations to lead into an IQP position (Panov-Botvinnik) and the Armageddon Attack (which he has lost to). I figured he might go out of using the Caro-Kann in favor of the Sicilian Defense, and the Snyder is something I use for little prep time as I've played with it many times, and it is Anti-Sicilian. In this game DV didn't play e5, which is a must against the Snyder with pawns on c5 and d6. I've played against this many times. I didn't look at anything involved with e6, but the strategy usually stays the same with eventually playing d4. Since e5 was not played this allowed me to immediately play d4 to take the center, and start my attack early. I believe there were four moves that decided blacks fate after 5...e6. First one was 15...Rfd8. Rac8 was needed first IOT apply pressure on c2, c3 and stop h5 due to, b4, Bxg5. Since it wasn't played, I had no immediate pressure to deal with, and was able to play h5. Second one was 16...b4. This move should've only come after Rac8 in the above line. Playing it early only improved my position. Third one was 18...Qc7. This was an unnecessary passive move IOT retreat the knight to c6 to deal with Nd4. Better moves were a5 and Rac8 to create counter play to my king-side pawn storm. It enabled me to play the next moves that brought on a decisive attack. Fourth one was 20...fxg6. This weakened e6 and the a2-g8 diagonal considerably. If black had just played 5...e5 instead of e6 he wouldn't have had all the issues that he did. Although Rxh6 was the longer route (Bxg7 was faster), it proved to still be decisive.