Does Qa4 always win?

National Master Dale

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13 Sep 09 13:03

National Master Dale

Joined: 29 Aug 09
Moves: 1574

13 Sep 09 13:03

Black to play
Is that a free e pawn?
It looks like white can play d5 followed by Qa4+
However black does get a free e pawn here because he can play Qa5+ after white plays d5🙂

heinzkat

Joined: 25 Apr 06
Moves: 5939

13 Sep 09 13:05

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Originally posted by National Master Dale
[fen]r1bqkb1r/pp2pppp/2np1n2/8/3PP3/5N2/PP2BPPP/RNBQK2R[/fen]
Black to play
Is that a free e pawn?
It looks like white can play d5 followed by Qa4+
However black does get a free e pawn here because he can play Qa5+ after white plays d5🙂

Does not seem too convincing to me

Kristaps

Kerfufflecopter

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Joined: 09 Sep 09
Moves: 347

13 Sep 09 15:34

Originally posted by National Master Dale
[fen]r1bqkb1r/pp2pppp/2np1n2/8/3PP3/5N2/PP2BPPP/RNBQK2R[/fen]
Black to play
Is that a free e pawn?
It looks like white can play d5 followed by Qa4+
However black does get a free e pawn here because he can play Qa5+ after white plays d5🙂

Hmm... The bishop on f8 is stuck which will delay castling, so the king is for a moment stuck in the center so I don't think that grabbing pawns now is a good idea.