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🧠🧠🧠 Load of Pollocks (Opening Exercise)

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Opening Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. At a certain point, one player will make a mistake and it’ll be your job to find the move to punish it.

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PGN for today's exercise:

  1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. O-O Nxe4 6. Re1 d5 7. Bxd5 Qxd5 8. Nc3 Qf5 9. Nxe4 Be6 10. Nxd4 Nxd4 11. Qxd4 h6 12. b3 a6 13. Bb2 a5 14. Rad1 f6 { White to move. Mate in five. } *

And the answer is...

  1. Qd7+ Bxd7 16. Nd6+ Kd8 17. Nf7+ Kc8 18. Re8+ Bxe8 19. Rd8#

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🧠🧠🧠 Load of Pollocks (Opening Exercise)

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