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🧠 Cast Haste on Self (Illegal Move Exercise)

🧠 Cast Haste on Self (Illegal Move Exercise)

An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.

Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

December 16, 20252m 56s

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Show Notes

Illegal Move Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. Somewhere in there, a player will make an illegal move but the game will continue anyway. Find the illegal move.

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PGN for today's exercise:

  1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 Bg4 8.h3 Bh5 9.d3 0-0 10.Nbd2 Re8 11.Nf1 d5 12.Ng3 Bg6 *

And the answer is...
Black's move 7...Bg4 is illegal because the Bishop is blocked by the black pawn on d7.

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