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🧠🧠🧠 Didn't Have to Draw (Find the Blunder Exercise)

December 14th, 2025

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. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. e3 e6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. Bd3 c5 7. O-O cxd4 8. exd4 Be7 9. Ne5 O-O 10. b3 dxc4 11. Ndxc4 Nd5 12. Bb2 Qe8 13. Qf3 b5 14. Nd2 Bb7 15. Qh3 N7f6 16. f4 g6 17. g4 Nb4 18. Bb1 Rc8 19. g5 Nh5 20. Ng4 Nc2 21. Nh6+ Kh8 22. d5+ Ng7 23. Ne4 exd5 24. Nf5 d4 25. Nxg7 Kxg7 26. Qh6+ Kg8 27. Nf6+ Bxf6 28. gxf6 *

And the answer is...
24... gxf5 25. Qh6 d4 26. Bxc2 fxe4