🧠 The Easy and the Hidden (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:
- c3 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Bf4 Nf6 4. e3 a5 5. Bd3 c5 6. Nd2 a4 7. dxc5 Ra5 8. b4 axb3 9. axb3 Rxa1 10. Qxa1 Nc6 *
And the answer is...
- Bxb8 Rxb8 8. Qa4+ and 8. Bxb8