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Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

🧠🧠 Missed Opportunities (Hybrid Exercise)

Mar 6, 2024 · 3 min · 5.9 MB
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Hybrid Puzzle: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are, then read a series of moves from that position. When prompted, try to identify the best next move.

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FEN for today's exercise:
7k/8/3p3P/p1p3N1/8/4BK2/r5P1/8 w - - 0 1

PGN for today's exercise:

  1. Ne4 Ra3 2. Nxd6 Rc3 3. Nf7+ Kh7 4. Ne5 *

And the answer is...

4... a4 { White has wasted their chances, and now there's no way to stop the a-pawn! }