Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

🧠🧠🧠 But Is It the Best Option? (Opening Exercise)

May 23rd, 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:

  1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 e6 4. Nf3 c5 5. Nbd2 Qa5 6. c3 Qd8 7. Nb3 c4 8. Nbd2 Be7 9. g4 Bd7 10. Ne5 h6 11. Bg2 Na6 12. h4 O-O 13. g5 hxg5 14. hxg5 Ne4 *

And the answer is...

  1. Qh5 g6 16. Qh7#