Should White Exchange the Queens or Not?

https://chessneurons.com/challenge/Z94EHiov67

Hello,
This is Grandmaster Ankit Rajpara here. I will be explaining this position in more detail.

Overview of Position:

Material is equal. White's pawn structure is not good because of doubled isolated e-pawns and black's king is quite weak.

Solution:

Due to white's not-so-good pawn structure and black's weak king, white should keep the queens to put pressure on black.

White should play Qf1, not allowing the exchange of queens and attacking the f6 bishop. After black's Ref8, white can shift the queen to the queenside by playing Qa6 and black's queenside will soon collapse.

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Grandmaster Tip:

Whenever you have structural weaknesses in your position and your opponent's king is weak then you must avoid exchanging the queens because the queen is one of the most important attackers and to compensate for your structural weaknesses, you need to create immediate counterplay!

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