its black to move btw. i forgot to mention that
Analysis on a choice of mine
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Jan 12, 2017
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Yeah, not sure why you'd purposefully go into an endgame that's worse for you!
In the position above, I didn't look at the computer, but I think you're better, because you traded your dark squares bishop to mess up his structure, and he doesn't have adequate compensation because his attack isn't strong enough.
But Nxc4 is a mistake for sure, I'm really confident, because it loses material and also removes white's weakness! When your opponent has a weakness, you should try to win it, not lose material while getting rid of it for him.
Nb3 is playable, because if white takes, and sacs an exchange to repair his structure (axb3), I don't think he has enough compensation. Nc5 is "thematic" but doesn't do much in this position. Although Nc6 I think just wins the e5 pawn? So looks good too.
But yeah, to fix your calculation, you need to know about candidate moves. It's basically the idea that in complicated positions, or even positions that just aren't totally quiet/theory, you consider all reasonable possibilities, including forcing moves.
Like there are other possibilities in the position, like ...b5 which could be good! You don't know what moves are good if you don't even consider them.
Sometimes I check all my legal moves in really tough positions to make sure I don't miss anything (in slow time controls obviously). Obviously you should practice slow chess to get better at thinking! Good luck!
i played Nxc4 and it lead to a variation where i was the exchange down but the opposite colored bishops gave me drawing chances and the pawn up plus slight pawn weaknesses in whites position gave me some compensation for the exchange. in my own analysis i kept running into draws. i just want peoples opinions of my choice was correct or not. i know its a pessimistic choice but when i calculated i didnt consider many other moves like Nb3!? or Nf8 or Nc6!?. what can i do to help repair my calculation or intuition? ideally id like to play for a win all the time, its weird how i didnt see the slight advantage variations.