Importance of Squares
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To find the reason that this is inaccurate, consider that White may play cxd5 in the future, when Black would greatly prefer his knight to be on the then-available c6 square. Thus, Black should prefer to play ...a6 and ...b5 first, before commiting the b8 knight.
And now for our first puzzle: How should Black recapture?
In the game Black chose to play the inferior cxb4, which gave White a passed c-pawn and left a weak a-pawn. Nonetheless, Black used this a-pawn as a strong fighter...
And how should White recapture?
Instead, White played the inferior gxf3:
And which way to capture again?
Black instead chose to follow the principle "capture towards the center" but this missed an amazing opportunity to uncover a weakness!
After Black missed his chance, the game crumbled - but the result should not affect his opinion of the game, as it was quite a well played game!
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