🧠🧠 Aiden and Abettin' (Find the Blunder Exercise)
Find the Blunder Exercise: Somewhere in this sequence of moves, one player will make a serious mistake and their opponent will not punish them for it. Find the blunder and identify which move should have been played to punish it.
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PGN for today's exercise:
- e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e5 d4 4. exf6 dxc3 5. Nf3 cxd2+ 6. Bxd2 exf6 7. Bc4 Bg4 8. Qe2+ Be7 9. O-O-O O-O 10. h3 Bxf3 11. gxf3 Nc6 12. Rhg1 Kh8 13. Qe4 g6 14. Bc3 Qe8 15. h4 h5 *
Answer at the end of the episode.
Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic
Adapted from the game AidenAtDontMove vs FlynnTheKing002 (Lichess, 2024)
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.