Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

🧠🧠 Pasta Ala Pin (Opening Exercise)

February 6th, 2026

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:
Abdulraqeb vs Ibrahim2611 (Lichess, 2023)

  1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. cxd4 d6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Be7 7. Bd3 e5 8. Bb5 Bg4 9. d5 a6 10. Ba4 b5 11. Nxb5 axb5 12. Bxb5 *

And the answer is...
12... Qa5+