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🧠🧠🧠 Herding Pieces (Hybrid Exercise)

Author
Don't Move Until You See It
Published
Sun 03 Aug 2025
Episode Link
https://dontmove.fireside.fm/487

Hybrid Puzzle: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are, then read a series of moves from that position. When prompted, try to identify the best next move.

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FEN for today's exercise:

1rbr1k2/2R2ppp/4p3/8/1p2B2P/1P4P1/P4P2/2R3K1 b - - 0 1

PGN for today's exercise:

1... h6 2. Ra7 Bd7 3. Rc4 Be8 4. Kg2 Rd2 5. Bc6 Rc8 *

And the answer is...


  1. Ba4 Rxc4 (6... Rdd8 7. Rxb4) 7. Ra8

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