Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas. Here's a little Christmas chess gift. A very interesting game played yesterday in Qatar. Note that White starts with what looks like a Kings Indian Attack but changes course with d4 and then doesn't move his e pawn until move 36!

[Event "Qatar Masters Open 2015"]
[Site "Doha QAT"]
[Date "2015.12.23"]
[Round "4.9"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Naroditsky, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator ""]
[BlackElo "2628"]
[Classes "0"]
[ECO "D77"]
[GameID "0"]
[Remark ""]
[Source ""]
[WhiteElo "2796"]

{Game analysis^13 ^10 Processor: AMD A10-5757M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
(@2.50GHz)^13 ^10 Engine(s): stockfish^13 ^10 Analysis time: 0:10:55} 1. Nf3
d5 {[%t Val] 7} 2. g3 {[%t Val] 4} 2... g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. d4 Nf6 5. O-O O-O 6.
c4 dxc4 7. Na3 c3 8. bxc3 c5 9. Ne5 Nc6 10. Nac4 {[%t Shrt] N} (10. Nxc6 bxc6
11. Qd3 (11. Bxc6 Bh3 12. Re1 Rc8 13. Bb7 Rb8 14. Bf3 Nd5 {...0-1, Nikolic
Predrag 2638 - Polgar Judit 2700 , Moscow 2002 It "Grand Prix" (active)}
)11... Nd5 12. Rd1 Qa5 13. Bb2 Rb8 14. Qc2 Rxb2 {...0-1, Granda Zuniga Julio E
2475 - Kasparov Garry 2740 , Amsterdam 1986 It}) 10... Nd5 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12.
Bd2 Ba6 {[%t Val] 8}{[%t Shrt] N} 13. Ne5 Qd6 14. Re1 cxd4 15. cxd4 Bxe5 16.
dxe5 Qxe5 17. Rc1 {[%t Val] 4} 17... Rfd8 18. Qc2 Rac8 19. Qc5 Qd6 20. Qa5 c5
21. Bh3 {[%t Val] -} (21. Bh6 Qb6 22. Qa3 {+0.00}) 21... e6 22. Bg5 Re8 {[%t
Val] 0} (22... Rd7 23. Rcd1 Qc6 24. Bg2 Bb5 {-0.38}) 23. Rcd1 Qe5 24. Bd2 Qh5
25. Bf1 {[%t Val] -} (25. Qxa6 Qxh3 26. e4 Nb4 27. Bxb4 cxb4 28. Qa4 Qh5 29.
Qxb4 Red8 30. Rxd8+ Rxd8 {+0.00}) 25... Bb7 {?!}{[%t Val] 7} (25... Rc6 {!?}
26. f3 Qe5 27. e4 Qd4+ 28. Be3 Qb4 29. Qxb4 Nxb4 30. Bxa6 Nxa6 31. Rd7 {-0.18}
) 26. Qxa7 {[%t Val] 1} (26. e4 Nb4 27. Bxb4 cxb4 28. Qxb4 {+0.17}) 26... Rc7
27. Qa4 Ra8 28. Qc4 Nb6 {?!}{[%t Val] F} (28... Rcc8 {!?} 29. e4 Nf6 30. Bg2
Bc6 31. f3 Nd7 32. Bf4 Ra4 33. Qc3 Rxa2 {-0.02}) 29. Qc1 {?!}{[%t Val] 2} (29.
Qb3 {!?} 29... Nd7 30. e4 Ba6 31. Bxa6 Rxa6 32. Bf4 e5 33. Rd5 Ra8 34. Red1 c4
{+0.74}) 29... c4 30. Bg5 Qg4 {??}{[%t Val] V} (30... Nd7 {!} 31. e4 c3 {+0.00}
) 31. Bd8 {?}{[%t Val] J} (31. e4 {!} 31... e5 32. Rd6 Rc6 33. h3 Qc8 34. Rd8+
Qxd8 35. Bxd8 Rxd8 36. Qc3 Re6 {+1.72}) 31... Rc6 32. h3 Qh5 {[%t Val] M} 33.
Bg5 Rc5 34. Bf6 {[%t Val] J} 34... Qf5 35. Bd4 Rb5 {?}{[%t Val] W} (35... Qe4
{!} 36. f3 Qc6 37. e4 Rb5 38. a4 Rxa4 39. Bf6 Qc5+ 40. Kg2 Ra8 41. Re2 {+0.95}
) 36. e4 Qf3 {[%t Val] [} 37. Bg2 {[%t Val] W} 37... Qa3 {[%t Val] [} 38. Qxa3
Rxa3 39. Rb1 Rxb1 40. Rxb1 c3 41. Bxb6 1-0