[Quanttek]

Super fun so far, thank you!

Can someone explain to me why this was called an "excellent move"? https://imgur.com/a/Fyg4PuW I eliminated a night but I feel like the pawn could eliminate my bishop easily. See also the second picture for another (to me) inexplicable situation.

[vitomd]

In the first position that pawn can´t take the bishop because then you can move your rook attacking their queen and she is pinned (can´t move because is aligned with the king). The second position you can move the rook, attack the queen, and he must take it. The common value of the pieces are pawn:1, bishop,knight3, rook:5, queen:9 so winning a quen for a rook is an excellent trade.

You can use lichess.com to analyse the moves. Here is the position if you want to take a look https://lichess.org/analysis/standard/r3k2r/pb1pqppp/1ppb4/4... Also You can copy & paste the generated moves of the game (like 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 c6 )to the pgn text area.

If you want to learn more chess https://lichess.org/learn/ it´s a fantastic resource

[Quanttek]

Oh yes, right. Thank you for your help!