@imaxwell Well when you say "not decisive" mistakes... I don't know about that, maybe. I would say that these mistakes are "not immediately decisive", as in there is no forced mate in 5 or whatever. It's more like a long term wound with no chance to heal. A permanent strategic weakness that pressure can always be applied to. Look at it like "breaking your ankle alone in the woods". Is an ankle break fatal? No, it shouldn't be, but what do your hunting prospects look like after that? How are you going to escape from a predator? How are you going to change camps when this one runs low on berries or water? No, the broken ankle doesn't kill you on day 1, maybe not day 2 or 5 or 10 even, but a few weeks down the line it becomes clear just how bad that ankle injury actually is for survival prospects.
Best case scenario the position leads to an isolated pawn weakness, and the disadvantage of bishop pair vs bishop and knight so two weaknesses. Running the game engine vs engine now.... Okay the engine traded the bishop pair and isolated pawn advantage for 1 pawn up in a bishop and rook vs knight and rook endgame.... lets see how that goes... The engine finally managed to defend it and after the number of moves got into the 70s after lots of simplifications after a long battle it's finally equal and going to draw. Most players won't defend like an engine for 50 moves in a row from a position evaluated as somewhere between -1.5 and -0.5, not even grandmasters. Perhaps the engine wasn't strong enough and a stronger engine could turn that into a win. On second thought you were right about it being "not decisive", but even a strong engine will be miserable for 50+ moves after this lol
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