🧠🧠 Buehl Blew It (Find the Blunder Exercise)

About this episode

This episode guides listeners through a chess exercise to identify a blunder and the best response.

Find the Blunder Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. One player will blunder and the other will not punish them for it. Can you find the blunder and the best punishment? To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series , head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization PGN for today's exercise: Adapted from the game Cris Spencer vs Walter M. Buehl (US Open, 2004). d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 b6 6. Nf3 Bb7 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Rc1 c6 10. Nxd5 cxd5 11. Bb5+ Nd7 12. O-O Rc8 13. Qe2 * And the answer is... Ne5 Rxc1 14. Qxc1 Kd8 15. Bxd7

People in this episode

Host: Aiden Rayner

Topics covered

• chess
• blunder exercise
• game analysis
• strategy
• education

Keywords

• chess
• blunder
• exercise
• strategy
• game analysis
• Cris Spencer
• Walter M. Buehl

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