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🧠 Ruy No-pez (Illegal Move Exercise)

🧠 Ruy No-pez (Illegal Move Exercise)

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

Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

January 20, 20262m 18s

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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 Nge7 4. O-O a6 5. Ba4 Bc5 6. d3 Ng6 7. Bg5 Be7 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 *

And the answer is...
Black's move 5...Bc5 is illegal because the Bishop is blocked by the Knight on e7.

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