Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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🧠 Running Rampart (Lost Piece Exercise) Jan 28, 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:
5rk1/4qn2/8/8/3B4/P7/BP6/1K6 b - - 0 1

And the answer is...
Rh8#

👨‍🏫 Seeing the Matrix Code, Why Blindfold Part One (Insight) [Rerun] Jan 27, 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

🧠 Outside In (Illegal Move Exercise) Jan 26, 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:

h4 Nf6 2. Rh3 e5 3. e3 Bc5 4. Nh3 0-0 5. Bc4 d5 6. Bb3 *

And the answer is...
White's move 4. Nh3 is illegal because the white Rook is occupying that square.

🧠🧠🧠 Rubinstein T. Kirk (Game Exercise) Jan 25, 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:
Rubinstein vs Khan (Hamburg, 1930)

d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nbd2 c5 4. e3 Nc6 5. a3 cxd4 6. exd4 d5 7. Bd3 Bd6 8. O-O O-O 9. Re1 Re8 10. h3 h6 11. c3 a5 12. Ne5 Bxe5 13. dxe5 Nd7 14. Nf3 Nc5 15. Bb5 Bd7 16. a4 f5 17. exf6 Qxf6 18. Be3 Ne4 19. Qe2 e5 20. Rad1 Be6 21. Bb6 Rf8 22. c4 Nb4 23. cxd5 Nxd5 24. Qxe4 Nxb6 25. Rd6 Nd5 26. Rxd5 Bxd5 27. Qxd5+ Kh8 28. Qxb7 Qf4 29. Re4 Qc1+ 30. Kh2 Rab8 31. Qa7 Rbc8 32. Nxe5 Rf6 33. Rg4 Qc7 34. Qe3 Rcf8 35. f4 g5 36. Qd4 Kg8 37. Bc4+ Kh7 38. fxg5 hxg5 39. Rxg5 Rf4 40. Bd3+ Kh6 41. Rg6+ Kh7 42. Rc6+ 1-0

❓ Why Nonsensical Moves? (Q&A) Jan 24, 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

🧠🧠🧠 Intel Athlete (Opening Exercise) Jan 23, 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:

e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bg5 Bd7 7. f4 e6 8. Nxc6 bxc6 9. Bd3 Be7 10. O-O O-O 11. Kh1 h6 12. Bh4 Nxe4 *

And the answer is...

Bxe7 Nxc3 (13... Qxe7 14. Nxe4) 14. Bh7+ Kh8 (14... Kxh7 15. Qd3+ Kg8 16. Bxd8) 15. Qxd6

🚶‍♂️ Chasing the Queen (Walkthrough) Jan 22, 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

🧠 Ruy No-pez (Illegal Move Exercise) Jan 21, 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 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nge7 4. O-O a6 5. Ba4 Bc5 6. d3 Ng6 7. Bg5 Be7 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 *

And the answer is...
Black's move 5...Bc5 is illegal because the Bishop is blocked by the Knight on e7.

⚡ The Edges of Attention (Quick Lesson) Jan 20, 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

🧠 Bureaucracy (Position Exercise) Jan 19, 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:
8/8/8/8/1N6/8/p7/k1K5 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Nc2#

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