Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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🚶‍♂️ Three Brain Random Position (Walkthrough) Mar 19, 2026

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Walk through a conceptualization exercise with Aiden from Don't Move Until You See It.

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

Try your own skills against the Don’t Move Blindfold Trainer here: https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/blindfold-trainer

🧠 Transposed (Illegal Move Exercise) Mar 18, 2026

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Illegal Move Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. Somewhere in there, a player will make an illegal move but the game will continue anyway. Find the illegal move.

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

PGN for today's exercise:

Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. g3 Bb4+ 5. Nbd2 O-O 6. Bg2 Nbd7 7. Qc2 dxc4 8. Nxc4 Be7 9. 0-0 c5 10. Rd1 Qc7 11. Bf4 Bd6 *

And the answer is...
White's move 8. Nxc4 is illegal because the Knight is pinned by the black Bishop on b4.

⚡ First Candidate Moves (Quick Lesson) Mar 17, 2026

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A quick lesson in conceptualization from Aiden at Don’t Move Until You See It.

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

🧠 Do-Si-Do (Position Exercise) Mar 16, 2026

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Position Exercise: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are and whose turn it is. Find the best move!

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

FEN for today's exercise:
8/8/8/8/2N5/PK6/1B6/1k6 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Nd2# *

🧠🧠🧠 Mi Castle Su Castle (Lost Piece Exercise) Mar 15, 2026

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Lost Piece Exercise: The audio will tell you the position of most of the pieces on the board. Can you work out where the missing piece is meant to be?

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

FEN for today's exercise:
r3k2r/ppp1pp2/2n2pbb/7p/1B5Q/PqP2NPB/1P3PP1/5RK1 w kq - 0 1

And the answer is...
Rd7

❓ Can Bullet Help? (Q&A) Mar 14, 2026

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Aiden answers your questions about conceptualization and making the adult brain better at Chess.

Send your questions to @AidenAtDontMove on Twitter, or aiden@dontmoveuntilyousee.it

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

🧠🧠 Borg Queen (Game Exercise) Mar 13, 2026

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Game Exercise: Close your eyes and follow along with an entire Chess game using the audio below. On each move, try to conceptualize the position clearly and understand how it has changed. Try to follow the game until the end to stretch the amount of moves you can see ahead.

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

PGN for today's exercise:
OLMEDO_23 vs giasson (Lichess blitz, 2025)

e4 g5 2. d4 g4 3. Qxg4 d5 4. Qe2 dxe4 5. Qxe4 Nf6 6. Qe3 h5 7. Nc3 Nc6 8. Bb5 Bd7 9. Bd2 a6 10. Ba4 b5 11. Bb3 Bf5 12. O-O-O Na5 13. f3 Nxb3+ 14. axb3 Qd7 15. Nge2 Bg6 16. Nf4 Bh7 17. Rhe1 Bh6 18. g3 Qf5 19. Qxe7# 1-0

🚶‍♂️ Two Brain Random Position (Walkthrough) Mar 12, 2026

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Walk through a conceptualization exercise with Aiden from Don't Move Until You See It.

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

Try your own skills against the Don’t Move Blindfold Trainer here: https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/blindfold-trainer

🧠 Sophisticated French (Illegal Move Exercise) Mar 11, 2026

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To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

PGN for today's exercise:

e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. a3 Bd7 7. Be2 Bb5 8. 0-0 Nge7 9. Be3 Nf5 10. Nbd2 Nxe3 11. fxe3 cxd4 12. exd4 *

And the answer is...
Black's move 7... Bb5 is illegal because the Bishop is blocked by the black Knight on c6.

👨‍🏫 The Struggle Is the Point, Why Blindfold Part Four (Insight) Mar 10, 2026

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Welcome to the Tuesday insight. Today's episode originally appeared as an article at https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/blog.

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

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