Today we are going to focus on an interesting moment from the opening of a different game in the USA-North Macedonia match. This game was played on board 3, between Igor Novikov (USA) playing White, and Dragoljub Jacimovic (North Macedonia) as Black.
I will give the opening moves without comment or annotation.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 e5 4.d5 Be7 5.e4 0-0 6.Nge2 Nh5 7.Ng3 Nf4 8.Be3 a5 9.Qd2 Re8, with the following position.
What would you play here for White?