Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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🧠🧠🧠 Win-awe-r (Game Exercise) Feb 27, 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.

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PGN for today's exercise:
Winawer vs Riemann (Berlin, 1881)

e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qe3 Bb4+ 5. c3 Ba5 6. Qg3 Qf6 7. Bf4 d6 8. Bb5 Bd7 9. Nd2 h6 10. Nc4 Bb6 11. h4 Nge7 12. Nf3 Ng6 13. Nxb6 axb6 14. Be3 Nce5 15. Be2 Bc6 16. Nd2 O-O-O 17. h5 Nf8 18. a4 Qe7 19. b4 f6 20. b5 Be8 21. a5 bxa5 22. Rxa5 b6 23. Ra7 Ned7 24. O-O Ne6 25. Rfa1 Nec5 26. Bg4 Ne6 27. Nc4 Qf7 28. Qxd6 f5 29. Ra8+ Nb8 30. Nxb6+ cxb6 31. Rxb8# *

🚶‍♂️ Two Move 960 Win (Walkthrough) Feb 26, 2026

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

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🧠 Symmetry Sin (Illegal Move Exercise) Feb 25, 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.

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PGN for today's exercise:

c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. d3 d6 6. e4 c5 7. Nf3 Nf6 8. 0-0 0-0 9. Be6 Nd5 *

And the answer is...
Black's move 6... c5 is illegal because the pawn is blocked by the Knight on c6.

👨‍🏫 Keep It Tethered, Why Blindfold Part Three (Insight) Feb 24, 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

🧠 Cheeky Check (Position Exercise) Feb 23, 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!

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FEN for today's exercise:
8/8/8/8/kn6/8/1P6/1KB5 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

🧠🧠🧠 Church Closed (Lost Piece Exercise) Feb 22, 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:
r1r2nk1/3q2p1/pp1bp1Q1/3p2Pp/3Pn2P/1N6/PP3P2/K2NR1R1 b - - 2 1

And the answer is...
Be3

❓ Full Blindfold Goal? (Q&A) Feb 21, 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

🧠🧠 Nimble Knight (Illegal Move Exercise) Feb 20, 2026

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PGN for today's exercise:

Nf3 c5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. g3 Be7 8. Bg2 a6 9. Na3 Be6 10. O-O h5 11. Bg5 Qd7 12. h4 Ng4 13. Rad1 Bxg5 13. hxg5 h4 14. gxh4 Rxh4 15. c5 d5 16. Nxd5 *

And the answer is...
White's move 13. Rad1 is illegal because the white Queen is on d1.

⚡ Relationships > Locations (Quick Lesson) Feb 19, 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

🧠 Orangutango (Opening Exercise) Feb 18, 2026

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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.

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:

b4 e5 2. Bb2 Bxb4 3. Bxe5 Nf6 4. c3 Be7 5. e3 c5 6. d4 Nc6 7. Bxf6 Bxf6 8. d5 Ne7 9. c4 *

And the answer is...
9... Bxa1

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