h6: 1 vote (GoldTiger69)
What is the planned follow up to h6? I looked at Qf5 and f3 because it is hard to activate either knight without dealing with e4 first. I am worried about 25.h6 cxd5 26.cxd5 b5 which looks precarious for us.
h6: 1 vote (GoldTiger69)
Qf5: 1 vote (languagehasmeaning)
Well, after 25.h6 cxd5 26.Nxd5, menacing 27.Nxf6+ (forking King and Queen); and even if 26.Nxd5 Nxe4 27.Nxe4 Qxe4+ 28.Ka1 and that's all the attack for white, because if they do 28... Qc2 29.Nxf6+ Rxf6 30.Qxg5+ Kf7 31.Qg7+ Ke8 32.Rh8+ Rf8 33.Rxf8#
As we can see, the only piece defending good the black King is the pawn on f6. If we remove that defender, the game is ours.
So, I think h6 is way to good move, because it give us a mayor pivot point to make our definitive attack.
Edit: I just realize of my mistake on thinking that after 28.Ka1 that would be all. Now I see that black could do 28... Qd4+ leading to mate in the next move. And 28.Kc1 doesn't work either because of 28... Nd3+ with the possibility of winning the Queen in the next move.
Edit2: I'm wrong again; after 28...Nd3+, black doesn't wins the Queen if 29.Kb1; but then it would be a Queens exchange. So, after all, h6 wasn't that bad.
But I don't like Qf5 because of the resulting double pawn. So I'll change my vote to:
f3: 1 vote (GoldTiger69)
Qf5: 2 votes (languagehasmeaning, tifozi)
