🧠 The Scotch, Tape Variation (Illegal Move Exercise)

Feb 27, 2025 · 2 min · 2.7 MB

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Illegal Move Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. Somewhere in there, a player will make an illegal move but the game will continue anyway. Find the illegal move.

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PGN for today's exercise:

e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 Nxd4 4. Nxd4 exd4 5. Qxd4 Nf6 6. Qe5+ Be7 7. Bc4 Ng4 8. Qxf7# 1-0

And the answer is...
The move Qxf7# is illegal as the White Queen cannot reach the f7 square.