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Dark Knight System - Nc6 Defense, Question about a variation

@Hausierer Thank you for taking the time to do that and also for the follow! I really appreciate it! I will take a look now, thank you so much

@IAmMateCheckMate Yes the c5 pawn break is quite common in these positions and it's a little unfortunate black has to go to greater lengths to keep that c5 bishop (if it didn't have to go a7 then you could play b6)- maybe he doesn't! Maybe he can play Bb4+, although that bishop is really nice to have

In normal positions (positions with c4 and without h4 h5) black could postpone playing d6/a5/Bd7 to protect the Bc5 because Na4 would hang the e-pawn when black's knight is on f6 (but we can't do that here!)
I've just seen in a game that the knight on g6 can reroute Ng6-f8-d7-c5 (or b6), a much better square (d7 is better than e7 here)
@FunnyAnimatorJimTV No problem, took me 5 minutes clicking some buttons.You're welcome. If you need more games to some specific "exotic" lines drop me a message. Im happy when I can help out.
I was quite surprised. It found 6 games out of 8 millions. My bet was at least 50. So very rare move :-)

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