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Game Exercise: Close your eyes and follow along with an entire Chess game using the audio below. On each move, try to conceptualize the position clearly and understand how it has changed. Try to follow the game until the end to stretch the amount of moves you can see ahead.
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OLMEDO_23 vs giasson (Lichess blitz, 2025)
- e4 g5 2. d4 g4 3. Qxg4 d5 4. Qe2 dxe4 5. Qxe4 Nf6 6. Qe3 h5 7. Nc3 Nc6 8. Bb5 Bd7 9. Bd2 a6 10. Ba4 b5 11. Bb3 Bf5 12. O-O-O Na5 13. f3 Nxb3+ 14. axb3 Qd7 15. Nge2 Bg6 16. Nf4 Bh7 17. Rhe1 Bh6 18. g3 Qf5 19. Qxe7# 1-0
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Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner — 🧠🧠Borg Queen (Game Exercise). Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
What follows is the notation from a full game of chess. There's no puzzle for you to solve, just explore the game on your mental board and seek to understand it. Pause and repeat as often as you need to. From the starting position, 1, E4, G5, 2, D4, G4, 3, Queen takes G4, D5, 4, Queen E2, D takes E4, 5, Queen takes E4, Knight F6, 6, Queen E3, H5,
7, Knight C3, Knight C6, 8, Bishop B5, Bishop D7, 9, Bishop D2, A6, 10, Bishop A4, B5, 11, Bishop B3, Bishop F5, 12, Long Castle, Knight A5, 13, F3, Knight takes B3, 14, A takes B3, Queen D7, 15, Knight G to E2,
Bishop G6, 16, Knight F4, Bishop H7, 17, rook H to E1, Bishop H6, 18, G3, Queen F5, 19, Queen takes E7, checkmate. How'd you go? If you haven't quite got it yet, that's okay. Go back, restart, pause as often as you need to. This stuff is hard, but when you're ready to check the answer, you'll find it in the show notes.
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