Look at the position after Black's 10th move. White has three(!) loose pieces on the board. With that much floating around--almost randomly placed, the question of which pawn capture is best is really secondary. Something is bound to pop and end disastrously...as it does.
dxc5 or cxd5 ???
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Jan 10, 2011
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Thank you very much, people.
I was thinking Nxd5 was impossible because
on d5 square the materials are 3 to 3 and
it looked for me that I wasn't able to capture voluntarily.
BUT I was misunderstanding,
one of my 3 was not a piece but a pawn,
on the other hand all of opponent's 3 was pieces.
Good lesson for me,
thank you very much for your analysises! I'm grateful
My annotation is included in the diagram above.
My question is on 11th move.
Here c-pawns and d-pawns of both sides are facing at the center, keeping the tension.
My brain hung up about what to do.
I think I have 3 options, which are,,,
(1) cxd5 (I played this)
(2) dxc5 (computer recommends this)
(3) I don't capture any and let my opponent play cxd4 or dxc4.
The reason I played cxd5 was simple, a flank pawn is less valuable than a central pawn
so I thought the exchange of my flank pawn and opponent's central pawn would
nice for me.
I believe this way of thinking is partly correct(?) but actually it was wrong in this game.
Computer recommends dxc5 but I don't understand why.
I'm wondering that whether "dxc5-or-cxd5-problem" depends on
positional aspect of tactical aspect.
As I said I thought cxd5 was nice positionally, but I can understand it was not good tactically,
because I had to recapture my d4-pawn with my Queen and
the d4-square was aimed at by the opponent's Bishop.
But I'm not confident about whether I can choose the correct one in the next game...
I'd like to know HOW I should think...
Thank you for reading.
Thank you!