🧠🧠🧠 I'll Be Amazed If You Find This (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:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3 d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. Rxe5 c6 12. d3 Bd6 13. Re1 Qh4 14. g3 Qh3 15. Re4 Nf6 16. Rh4 Qf5 17. Bc2 Qg6 18. Nd2 Bg4 19. Nf3 Rad8 20. Kg2 Rfe8 21. a4 h6 22. axb5 axb5 23. h3 Bf5 24. Rd4 Qh5 25. Nh4 Qxd1 26. Bxd1 Bh7 27. Ra6 Nd5 28. Rxc6 Bb8 29. Nf3 Ba7 30. Rg4 h5 31. Rh4 Bxd3 32. Bg5 f6 *

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

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