I am a beginner in Chess, need a little help with

I just started reading Gary Kasparov's book 'Kasparov Teaches Chess'. In Lesson 2 he analyzes a game between him and F. Gheorghiu. He stated the moves as below:

1 d4
1 ... Knight f6
2 c4

Now what I understood is that white moved its Pawn to d4 followed by Blacks night moved to f6. But after 2 c4 he wrote this:

"White impedes the free progress of d pawn to d5, as in this case after 3cd Black will have to choose between 3 ... Queenxd5 4 Knight c3, when White brings the Knight into play while Black has to make a second move with the queen, thus slowing down the process of bringing his pieces into action, or lagging behind in development, as it is customarily called."

In that paragraph, I can't understand the line "as in this case after 3cd". What does 3cd mean? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Originally posted by kamranpro
I just started reading Gary Kasparov's book 'Kasparov Teaches Chess'. In Lesson 2 he analyzes a game between him and F. Gheorghiu. He stated the moves as below:

1 d4
1 ... Knight f6
2 c4

Now what I understood is that white moved its Pawn to d4 followed by Blacks night moved to f6. But after 2 c4 he wrote this:

"White impedes the free progres ...[text shortened]... e line "as in this case after 3cd". What does 3cd mean? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Originally posted by kamranpro
I just started reading Gary Kasparov's book 'Kasparov Teaches Chess'. In Lesson 2 he analyzes a game between him and F. Gheorghiu. He stated the moves as below:

1 d4
1 ... Knight f6
2 c4

Now what I understood is that white move ...[text shortened]... 3cd". What does 3cd mean? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Originally posted by Dfthd
Might be a typo... I think it reads 3. cxd5 as in:


1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 d5
3. cxd4

Thanks a LOT for both of your help 🙂 I now understand what he meant by lag in development.