There’s definitely something to learn from the setting of the position. I actually took it from Strategic Chess Exercises, just taking one of the variations of one of the problems. There’s picking a position that it makes sense to debate over, but also a meta thing that you have raised, which I didn’t consider.
…Qc5 is the stronger move, but …Qxb5 still leaves black better off than white. It would probably have been better to have a greater discrepancy in the evaluation of the moves.
The mistake in your reasoning is that after …a4, d6 is not threatening, black can respond …Rac8. As I said in another comment, however, I would expect white to hold the draw in this position, where as after …Qc5, black has a decent advantage.
There’s definitely something to learn from the setting of the position. I actually took it from Strategic Chess Exercises, just taking one of the variations of one of the problems. There’s picking a position that it makes sense to debate over, but also a meta thing that you have raised, which I didn’t consider.
…Qc5 is the stronger move, but …Qxb5 still leaves black better off than white. It would probably have been better to have a greater discrepancy in the evaluation of the moves.
The mistake in your reasoning is that after …a4, d6 is not threatening, black can respond …Rac8. As I said in another comment, however, I would expect white to hold the draw in this position, where as after …Qc5, black has a decent advantage.