Just like in the classical "Steinitz's sacrifice," for the price of a pawn, White got an open e-file and the beautiful d4-square for his knight. However, sometimes you sacrifice your central pawn for other benefits. Look at the following position. GM David Bronstein annotates it this way: "The d4-pawn blocks the diagonal for their own bishop, so Black's position looks quite solid. But let's see what happened in the game."
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