🧠Thinking with Portals (Illegal Move Exercise)
About this episode
This episode guides listeners through identifying an illegal move in a chess game.
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. 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: e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. h3 Ne7 6. g4 Bd7 7. Bg2 c5 8. c3 Nbc6* And the answer is... Black's move 6... Bd7 is illegal because the e6 pawn blocks the bishop from passing back along that diagonal.
Topics covered
- illegal move exercise
- chess strategy
- game analysis
- visualization techniques
- chess education
Keywords
- chess
- illegal move
- exercise
- visualization
- game moves
- Bf5
- Bd7
- e6 pawn
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Don't Move Until You See It
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