🧠🧠 Minor Trio (Opening 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
Opening Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. At a certain point, one player will make a mistake and it’ll be your job to find the move to punish it.
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PGN for today's exercise:
NN vs Blackburne (London, 1884)
- e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. Bxf7+ Kxf7 5. Nxe5+ Nxe5 6. Qh5+ g6 7. Qxe5 d6 8. Qxh8 Qh4 9. O-O Nf6 10. c3 Ng4 11. h3 Bxf2+ 12. Kh1 Bf5 13. Qxa8 { Find a checkmate in two moves. } *
And the answer is...
13... Qxh3+ 14. gxh3 Bxe4#