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Trade queens, put the pawns on b6 and a5 to trade as many pawns as possible when White goes for b4 and c4-c5 (necessary as the position with the a pawns and a passed c5 pawn is losing). Keeping the qu…

< I could get this position with Black in my repertoire, should I exclude it?> Definitely. White doesn't need to know the actual evaluation to play the position correctly, then it will be prospectless…

I was wrong too. The c pawn is weak wherever it stands and Black cannot target any of White weaknesses.

After 7. Bc1 Black can try 7... Nc6 and if 8. f3 then 8... Qb6!? with a good fight ahead.

@userfriendly2 said in #3: > Thanks for the reply. I get how the evaluation works. But how do you go from being equal - at the start of the game - to +3 to my opponent if I didn't blunder. +3 is total…

Sometimes the eval drops at once because of a one move blunder. Sometimes it drops little by little because the setup as a whole is bad. This is such a case.

11. dxe5 plays against the Nh5. The knight becomes a very bad piece even after g6 and Ng7. The endgame is winning because the black king is cut from the pawns, so allowing 60... Ke5 is a mistake. R +2…

This is not an easy position to assess. When I saw e4 I knew it was dubious but I struggled to find a clear-cut explanation, this was just an intuition provided by years of experience in similar situa…

That's not the reason why Black lost.

After 25. Nc3 it's a threefold repetition.