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This is a 0-0-0 game. But, on move 10, computer says white is +1.3. Why? And also, is it +1.3 from a human-eye?
9...exd4? leaves black with a bad pawn structure. Pawn d6 is backwards, isolated and on an open file. Square d5 is weak. White can play Nb1-c3-d5 to occupy an outpost in the centre. Better 9...Be7, more solid.

11 Nxc6? heals the black pawn structure. 11 Nf5 keeps the advantage.

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