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🧠 Seven Pawns on Dark Squares (Find the Blunder Exercise)

Feb 02, 2025•3 min
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Episode description

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:

  1. e4 f6 2. d4 Nc6 3. Nc3 b6 4. d5 Ne5 5. Bd2 d6 6. Bb5+ Bd7 7. Bxd7+ Nxd7 8. Nh3 g5 9. O-O h5 10. Ne2 Nc5 11. f4 g4 12. Nf2 a5 *

And the answer is...

  1. Qh5#
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