Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner
Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner
Don't Move Until You See It
🧠🧠 Slip of the Thumb (Find the Blunder Exercise)
9 minutes Posted Jul 15, 2026 at 4:00 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:

  1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4 3. Nd5 Be7 4. d4 exd4 5. Qxd4 Nf6 6. Nxe7 Qxe7 7. b3 Nc6 8. Qc3 O-O 9. Bb2 d5 10. cxd5 Nxd5 11. Qc2 Rd8 12. e3 *

And the answer is...

10..Nxd5 is the blunder.

  1. Qc2 is the miss.
  2. Qxg7# is the correct punishment.