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🧠 Fianchetto Showdown (Illegal Move Exercise)

🧠 Fianchetto Showdown (Illegal Move Exercise)

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

Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

October 28, 20252m 9s

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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. g3 b6 2. Bg2 Nc6 3. Nf3 Bb7 4. O-O Nf6 5. d3 d5 6. Nbd2 g6 7. Bg5 Bg7 8. Re1 0-0 9. e4 *

And the answer is...
White's move 7. Bg5 is illegal because the Bishop is blocked by the Knight on d2.

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