🧠🧠 Selective Ignorance (Opening Exercise)

Opening Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. At a certain point, one player will make a mistake and it’ll be your job to find the move to punish it.

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PGN for today's exercise:

[Event "Postal"]

[Site "Postal"]

[Date "1853.??.??"]

[White "J Sutton"]

[Black "W Philipp"]

[Result "1-0"]

[Variant "Standard"]

[ECO "A28"]

[Opening "English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Quiet Line"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Bb5 Bg4 7. Qa4 Bxf3 *

And the answer is...

1. Bxc6+ bxc6 9. Qxc6+ Ke7 { Black resigns shortly afterward. }