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Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

🧠 Suspect Sequence (Illegal Move Exercise)

October 26th, 2026

Illegal Move Exercise: Somewhere in the game below is an illegal move. Find it and identify why it is illegal.

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PGN for today's exercise:

  1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4 3. Nd5 Be7 4. d4 d6 5. dxe5 dxe5 6. Qxd8+ Bxd8 7. e4 Nf6 8. Bd3 O-O *

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

Exercise audio generated with the help of AI to ensure clarity and to avoid human (that is, mine) errors in the exercise recording itself. Exercise design, music, show notes, answer explanations, and everything else were done by humans.