Thanks Anthony. But 4.dxc5 Qa5+ safely wins the pawn back, i think.
Black Play Against Colle - OR - Computer Analysis At My Playing Level? Nah
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Just played against hiarcs from 4.c3 and came up with 4.... Qc7 5. Na3 a6 which it gave black a slight advantage to.
-0.4 isn't that big a drop. Plus, computers typically judge things in seemingly strange ways to lower rated players (I've seen it in some of my games) . My guess is that if dxc5 while you get the pawn back white might get a slight development lead. Also, not sure if d5 followed by c4 is what the computer fears as that looks to impose a squeeze on your position.
I played 2...d6 in an attempt to reach a Pirc without the possibility of white playing f4 at some point for an austrian attack. Honestly, the Colle was that last thing I expected or feared (and I still don't) - and against c4 I was still planning on playing g6 where it would've transposed into a KID.
I'm a new tournament player and have been trying to make a habit of analyzing all of my games afterwards on my own and then running them through hiarcs to see what it thinks.
The following game is one which I won as black in a recent tournament against a Colle-type position. I felt good about my whole game in my own analysis afterwards, but the computer hated my position after 3 moves giving me a score of -.40 after:
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d6 3. e3 c5
I still don't see any concrete problems with this. And even when I made the computer play itself from the position it came up with ...
4. Nc3 Qb6 5. d5 e5 6.dxe6EP Bxe6 for equality.
I'm wondering a few things. 1 - At the fundemental level, is this a solid move or not? If even hiarcs can't capitalize on the perceived advantage, shoudn't a club level player be able to consistently play for an advantage as black?
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2- I'm feeling like computer analysis might be counter producive at sub-master level play in cases like this. If the position is solid except for some 7 move tactical threat a computer thinks it found, can't that effectively be ignored on the grounds that nobody I will be playing in the forseeable future would EVER see the combination?
The full game if you're interested is.... (GM play this ain't, and admittedly I mostly just put this here because wanted to play with the chess diagram wizard)