🧠🧠🧠The Nosebleed Section (Opening Exercise)
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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:
juvemostar vs paporro (Lichess, 2021)
- 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Bc5 4. Bg2 O-O 5. e3 a6 6. d4 exd4 7. exd4 Re8+ 8. Be3 Bb4 9. Ne2 Ng4 10. Bd2 Qe7 11. O-O Bxc3 12. Nxc3 Qd6 13. Nd5 h5 14. Bf4 Ne5 15. Qxh5 Ra7 16. Bxe5 Qg6 17. Qh4 Nc6 18. Be4 Qh6 19. Nf6+ Kf8 20. Nh5 Nxe5 21. dxe5 d6 22. e6 Bxe6 23. Rfe1 *
And the answer is...
23... g5
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Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner — 🧠🧠🧠The Nosebleed Section (Opening Exercise). Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
The following is a conceptualization training exercise from don't move until you see it. Completely exercise using only your mental board, pause and repeat as often as you need to. From the starting position, 1, C4, E5, 2, Knight C3, Knight F6, 3, G3, Bishop C4, E5, 4, Bishop G2, Short Castle, 5, E3, A6, 6, D4, E takes D4, 7, E takes D4, Rook, E8, check, 8, Bishop E3, Bishop B4, 9, Knight E2, Knight G4, 10, Bishop D2,
Queen E7, 11, Short Castle, Bishop takes C3, 12, Knight takes C3, Queen D6, 13, Knight D5, H5, 14, Bishop F4, Knight E5, 15, Queen takes H5, Rook A7, 16, Bishop takes E5, Queen G6, 17, Queen H4, Knight C6, 18, Bishop E4, Queen H6, 19, Knight F6, check, King F8, 20, Knight H5, Knight takes E5, 21, D takes E5, D6, 22, E6, Bishop takes E6,
23, Rook F2E1, what is the best move for Black? 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, and if you want more exercises like this, head over to don't move until you see don't it. Here's to the journey.
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