🧠🧠🧠Who Needs to Castle? (Opening Exercise)
Jan 07, 2024•3 min
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Episode description
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:
- e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 e6 4. Nc3 c5 5. d5 Nf6 6. Nf3 a6 7. d6 Nc6 8. e5 Ng4 9. Bf4 f6 10. O-O g6 11. Ne4 Ncxe5 12. Nxe5 Nxe5 13. Bxe5 fxe5 14. Qg4 Bg7 15. Ng5 Qf6 16. Nxh7 Qf4 17. Qxg6+ Qf7 18. Qg5
And the answer is...
18... e4 19. Be2 Rxh7 *
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