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🧠 The Lasker Trap (Opening Exercise)

🧠 The Lasker Trap (Opening Exercise)

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

Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

August 26, 20242m 31s

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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:

  1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. e3 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 dxe3 6. Bxb4 exf2+ 7. Ke2 (7. Kxf2 Qxd1) 7... fxg1=N+ 8. Ke1 Qh4+ 9. g3 Qe4+ 10. Kf2 Qxh1 *

And the answer is...

  1. exf2

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