Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner
Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner
Don't Move Until You See It
🧠🧠 Buehl Blew It (Find the Blunder Exercise)
2 minutes Posted May 28, 2026 at 12:00 am.
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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?

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PGN for today's exercise:

Adapted from the game Cris Spencer vs Walter M. Buehl (US Open, 2004).

  1. 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...

  1. Ne5 Rxc1 14. Qxc1 Kd8 15. Bxd7