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basketstorm
Black to move. What would be your move, explain without using the engine. I'm interested in real human reasoning, not in engine evaluation. I need this for my little research.

TheNameofNames

take the dsquared bishop

basketstorm
TheNameofNames wrote:

take the dsquared bishop

WHY

Mannequin08

Rf1

Mannequin08

No no Rf3

basketstorm

@Mannequin08 , delete your comments please, there's X button

NitroOneX

NxBe3 because the problem with Rc1 is that it's being defended by Be3, if you remove the defender, he's forced to take with pawn and you can slide Rc1, pinning the queen

Asnitte

1...Nxe3 2.fxe3 (otherwise lose a queen) Rc1

basketstorm

Idk I understand that the engine prefers Nxe3 and that might be good strategically but to me Nc3 looks much more interesting and straightforward - making a fork, winning a rook