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🧠🧠🧠 That's Wild (Opening Exercise)

Oct 04, 2025•2 min
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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:
Mackenzie vs Collins (Birmingham, 1893)

  1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. a3 Bc5 7. d4 Nxd4 8. Nxd4 Qh4+ 9. g3 Nxg3 10. Nf3 Bf2+ 11. Kxf2 *

And the answer is...
11... Ne4+ 12. Ke3 Qf2+ 13. Kf4 g5#

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