White has the 2 bishop edge. Black has a bad bishop.

& if 6...cd 7. cd

Result of black's imprecision at move four: among other options, 4...c5 5. a3 Bxc3 6. bxc3 Qc7 7. Qg4 can be answered by the poisoned pawn variation: Ne7 8. Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 cxd4, which now makes little sense to play a tempo down.

After trading his dark bishop for a knight black places 6 pawns on lite squares. Whites bishop protects 3 lite squares b7,d7 & e6. His pawns protect 11 lite squares a6, c6, c4, e4, d4, f5, e6, g6, f5, h5, & g6. They also block blacks bishop from whites queen.

Thematic move for white in the Winawer. I love to meet the Winawer

g6? must be some sort of positional blunder, Kf8!?

The best reply to 8...Nh6 (tempoing the queen) is Bxh6 IMHO.

If 8...Nh6 9.Bxh6? then 9...Qxc3+!

Yes his bishop!

I think I would have played Bd3, but I am certain you know better

Not to mention that your forces have a lack of communication between the king and queenside (only by one square! (c1))

perhaps b6-Ba6 should have been considered here, as black's own bishop is even worse than white's e2 one. Also, that plan would allow black to castle long, which seems a lot safer than not castling at all or even castling kings(uic)ide! On the other hand, maybe then white can suddenly open up the center with 10. c4 Qa4.

This move deserves at least one question mark; it is part of the reason I like to meet the Winawer and it surely cannot be mainline. This closes down the queenside (where all of blacks chances are) and white has all the time he needs to build and execute a brutal kingside assault. Regarding safin's comment: I agree, except that in my opinion the black king is safer in the centre than it would be on either wing, but as you say, castling kingside would betray a death-wish.

Of course the plus side for white is that black's king is awfully weak. The dark squared bishop will target the weaknesses easily.

I would have been very tempted by 11.Bh6 followed by 12.Nh4 or, if black replied with 11...Nf5 then 12.Qg5

An awkward move but a futre Qh6 is powerful... Nf5 g4! doesnt look appealing for black.

It is very dangerous to play such passive defense and allow white time to keep on coming. An interesting counterattack might be 11... Bd7 12. Ng5 (actually, Qh6 does not seem that threatening after Nf5). O-O-O!? 13. Nxf7 Rdf8 14. Nd6 Kb8 15. Qg4, when white might have to defend his own king for a change.

Black is scrambling to defend. Now white needs to bring EVERY piece into the attack. Since blacks pieces are not ready to defend.

! opening the kingside!

13. Bxh6 Rxh6 14. Ng5 Nd8?! (Maybe Bd7 is better?) 15. Qg7 Rh4 16. g3 looks hilarious, but needs some careful analysis

I too would consider the bishop sac on h6, I have taken to sacrificing a lot lately, with mixed results, but at the very least it produces beautiful chess