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Audrie posted an update
I’m really enjoying the course, but I think I caught a tiny bug: In Lesson 4.16: Interference at frame 1:38, isn’t white’s knight move impossible because it resolves an existing check for black?
Seann, Bastian K and John5 Comments-
Hi Audrie!
I haven’t gotten that far into the lesson yet but I jumped ahead to see your question. Is the move you’re referring to Nc6? That would be whites last move before Nelson says “What should black play?”. If that’s the case, the assumption is that black had a piece on the square prior to white making the Knight move. So you can pretend, for example, that black had a Bishop on c6 and the Knight jumped in to capture it. Of course it could have been any piece, but we do assume that there was a piece there, even though we never actually see it.
You’ll find too that as you do puzzles you’ll often see indicators for the last move made (highlighted squares is common) but aren’t usually provided with context as to the moves that led up the position.
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Ok. Thanks. I would have expected Nelson to say Knight takes x on c6 but I didn’t hear him say ‘takes’ so I just assumed it was a move. When I play puzzles on lichess.org it’s easy to see the previous move as it’s indicated on the right. Thanks so much for responding and for clarifying this was a capture (that would be the only acceptable explanation too). 🙂
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John is correct in that there was a piece on c6 that the knight captured.
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@ChessVibes Thank you! I relistened and did hear you say ‘takes’ the second time, thanks so much for confirming! P.S. I had one more issue where two chapters won’t mark themselves done, so is there a way I can manually do that? THANK YOU for everything you’ve done to make us better players!
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For technical issues like that you can email team@chessvibes.net for help!
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Deal! Thanks again!
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