🧠 Find the Blunder (Find the Blunder Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner
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Show Notes
Find the Blunder Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. One player will blunder and the other will not punish them for it. Can you find the blunder and the best punishment?
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PGN for today's exercise:
- d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Nxd5 Nxd5 7. Bxd8 Kxd8 8. Qb3 Bb4+ 9. Kd1 N7f6 10. e4 Re8 *
And the answer is...
7... Bb4+ 8. Qd2 Bxd2+ 9. Kxd2 Kxd8