I venture to guess that Fabiano was already out of book by this point. 9...Nf6 10.Rfd1 Qc7 11.Qa3 e5 12.Bg5 was a 2013 CC game that ended in a draw after few more moves. 10.Be3 Nf6 11.Bb6! This is very important. White plays for positional domination, so it's important ...
Both loved combinational play and leapt into a whirlpool of complications in game after game. No wonder that the games of this match were deeply studied and appreciated by great masters. They also lavished rich annotations on these encounters. Here I shall mention only a few of them:...