Take with e pawn or c pawn?

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MontecristoA

Hi! Would you have captured the white pawn with e or c pawn? I personally chose to capture with the C pawn and these are the pros and cons that I considered in game: a pawn on d6 reinforced by c7 will "blind" the F4 bishop. The rook on e1 won't have a concrete pawn to attack, perhaps only the square now. White will not be able to make an easy queen and two rook battery against my e7 pawn. Also I thought opening the king side diagonal(d8 h4) for my queen to be a good resource, and in fact it was used later in the game. 

So all these things considered, but the engine  still prefers slightly capturing with c pawn.

Any thoughts or advice?

Thank you for reading this

tygxc

Both recaptures are more or less equivalent. I presume a different engine and or a different calculation depth yield different results.
The pawn on d6 also blinds Bf4 when reinforced by pawn e7.
Yes with ...exd6 you remove pawn e7 as a target for Re1, but with ...cxd6 you make his pawn c2 a target for one of your rooks.
Yes ...exd6 opens the diagonal d8-h4 for your queen, but ...cxd6 opens diagonal d8-a5 for your queen.
The general rule is to recapture towards the center for the long term endgame advantage.

MontecristoA
tygxc wrote:

Both recaptures are more or less equivalent. I presume a different engine and or a different calculation depth yield different results.
The pawn on d6 also blinds Bf4 when reinforced by pawn e7.
Yes with ...exd6 you remove pawn e7 as a target for Re1, but with ...cxd6 you make his pawn c2 a target for one of your rooks.
Yes ...exd6 opens the diagonal d8-h4 for your queen, but ...cxd6 opens diagonal d8-a5 for your queen.
The general rule is to recapture towards the center for the long term endgame advantage.

Thank you for your answer and insights. I am just trying to improve my understanding of the game and I feel like at this point it comes from these small details like with which pawn to capture