🧠 Phili-Do It Anyway (Illegal Move 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
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:
- e3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nf3 e6 4. Bd3 c5 5. c3 Nc6 6. Bf4 Bd6 7. Bg3 0-0 8. Nbd2 b6 9. Qe2 Qc7 10. Bxd6 Qxd6 11. e4 dxe4 12. Nxe4 *
And the answer is...
- Bf4 is illegal because the Bishop is blocked by the pawn on e3.