Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

🧠 Mistakes Were Made (Opening Exercise)

June 28th, 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 e5 2. dxe5 d6 3. exd6 Bxd6 4. Nc3 Kf8 5. Nf3 Bb4 *

And the answer is...

  1. Qxd8#