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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:
2k5/1pQ5/pP1pq3/8/8/7P/5PP1/6K1 b - - 0 1
And the answer is...
b6
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👨🏫 Five Sentences (Insight)
Welcome to the Tuesday insight. Today's episode originally appeared as an article at https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/blog.
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🧠 Seven Pawns on Dark Squares (Find the Blunder Exercise)
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...
9. Qh5#
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🧠🧠🧠 Just Applaud (Opening Exercise)
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:
Kurnosov vs Dzhumaev (Tashkent, 2008)
1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. Qd2 a6 6. O-O-O b5 7. e5 b4 8. exf6 bxc3 9. Qxc3 e6 10. Re1 Nb6 11. d5 Na4 12. Qc6+ Bd7 { What is the best move for White? } *
And the answer is...
13. Rxe6+ fxe6 14. dxe6 Bg7 15. exd7+
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❓ Ghost Pieces (Q&A)
Aiden answers your questions about conceptualization and making the adult brain better at Chess.
Send your questions to @AidenAtDontMove on Twitter, or [email protected]
Read the series about mantras and taming your intuition here: https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/your-enthusiastic-friend
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