No! White’s king is in the middle, and in big trouble, because castling is impossible in view of mate on g2. Black brings on his reserves.

Without the rook on c7, White’s position clearly looks weaker, and in fact he is just lost. His king is vulnerable and lingering, and the h1-rook is out of play. Black avoided one more pitfall:

And not 28…Qb1+ 29.Kf2 Qxh1, in view of 30.Qf5, winning back material. The text move gains a piece.

White is clearly better. Both his bishops exert significant pressure on the black queenside on neighboring diagonals. Black has great difficulty in continuing his development. The exchange of queens has not brought any relief. The actual game went:

An excellent post on the edge of the board this time.

Desperately closing one bishop’s diagonal.

Are you kidding? There’s no way the rook will leave the seventh rank unless absolutely forced.

It’s good enough if you found this one. But 19.♘g5! was even better.

Here, 26.♘f4 was the strongest move, when White is about to reap a third pawn for the exchange. The text move eventually brought Ribli victory as well: …1-0 (62).