Slowly trying to adapt into making longer, more comprehensive videos. This will hopefully be more enjoyable/informative than my previous, shorter videos. Cheers.
Very cool. Thanks for the video! I was looking at 14:14 and thought it seemed like we could just push to d4 right away, but ran it through an engine real quick and saw that loses the pawn to white queen side castle. Oops.
Thanks for watching! I had d4 in my mind when I first looked at this line too, but like you mentioned, 0-0-0 stops it, though it is a very tricky move to spot.