🧠🧠Sneaky Scandi (Find the Blunder Exercise)
Jul 04, 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:
- e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd8 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. d4 e6 6. Be3 Be7 7. Bd3 O-O 8. Qe2 Re8 9. O-O-O e5 10. Rhe1 e4 11. Nxe4 Nxe4 12. Bxe4 Nd7 13. Kb1 Nf6 14. Bg5 Nxe4 15. Qxe4 f6 *
And the answer is...
- dxe5 Ng4 11. Bxh7+ Kxh7 12. Rxd8 Bxd8
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