Trade them off or drive them back to less active squares.

---

<yalie: I hope you didnt spend too much time:). I doubt if you will ever get this position again. <<<As black, just play 20..Nc4 and you have equalized.>>>

By the way, I wonder why cg.com does not have this game in the database (played barely 10-12 days after kramnik-Anand):

http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/fil...

I just submitted this game to be added to the cg.com database.

Event "EU-Cup 23rd"
Site "Kemer"
Date "2007.10.03"
Round "6"
White "Eljanov,Pavel"
Black "Anand,Viswanathan"
Result "1/2"
Eco "D43"
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.0-0 Nbd7 11.Ne5 Bg7 12.Nxd7 Nxd7 13.Bd6 a6 14.Bh5 Bf8 15.Bxf8 Rxf8 16.e5 Qb6 17.b3 0-0-0 18.bxc4 Nxe5 19.c5 Qa5 20.Ne4 Nc4 21.Be2 f5 22.Bxc4 fxe4 23.Bxe6+ Kb8 24.Re1 Qc3 25.Rxe4 Qb2 26.f3 Rf4 27.Qc1 Qxc1+ 28.Rxc1 Rxd4 29.Rxf4 gxf4 30.g4 fxg3 1/2

GC: DO NOT LET YOUR OPPONENT HAVE STRONG PIECES! Anand's improvement 20 ... Ne5-c4! prevents Ne4-d6

---