Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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Illegal Move Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. Somewhere in there, a player will make an illegal move but the game will continue anyway. Find the illegal move.

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PGN for today's exercise:

e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. h3 Ne7 6. g4 Bd7 7. Bg2 c5 8. c3 Nbc6*

And the answer is...

Black's move 6... Bd7 is illegal because the e6 pawn blocks the bishop from passing back along that diagonal.

Lost Piece Exercise: The audio will tell you the position of most of the pieces on the board. Can you work out where the missing piece is meant to be?

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FEN for today's exercise:

8/4rn2/6p1/2Q5/8/KP1pk3/8/8 b - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Qc5

Awareness Exercise: Listen to the locations of all the pieces in the position, then answer the questions to test your awareness.

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FEN from today's exercise:

q7/6bk/P5p1/1P3p1p/2Q4P/1Np3P1/2R2P1K/3r4 w - - 3 1

Listen to the episode for the questions and answers.

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:

c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4 3. Nd5 Be7 4. d4 exd4 5. Qxd4 Nf6 6. Nxe7 Qxe7 7. b3 Nc6 8. Qc3 O-O 9. Bb2 d5 10. cxd5 Nxd5 11. Qc2 Rd8 12. e3 *

And the answer is...

10..Nxd5 is the blunder.

Qc2 is the miss.

Qxg7# is the correct punishment.