Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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👨‍🏫 Seeing the Matrix Code (Why Blindfold), Part One (Insight) Dec 09, 2025

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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

🧠 Two on One (Position Exercise) Dec 08, 2025

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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:
8/8/8/8/8/pp6/P1k5/K7 b - - 0 1

And the answer is...
1... b2#

🧠🧠🧠 Kashdan Kashd-in (Game Exercise) Dec 07, 2025

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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:
Kashdan vs Taube (The Hague, 1928)

e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. Nf3 Nd7 7. Bd3 e6 8. O-O Bd6 9. Qe2 Ne7 10. Ng5 Nf6 11. N3e4 Ned5 12. f4 O-O 13. Nxd6 Qxd6 14. Bxg6 hxg6 15. Bd2 Rad8 16. Rad1 Qc7 17. c4 Ne7 18. Bc3 Rd7 19. Qe3 Qb6 20. Qh3 Nf5 21. c5 Qb5 22. d5 Qxc5+ 23. Kh1 Nh5 24. g4 Rxd5 25. gxh5 gxh5 26. Qxh5 Nh6 27. Bxg7 Kxg7 28. Rg1 1-0

❓ My Eyes Lied to Me (Q&A) Dec 06, 2025

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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

🧠🧠 Game or Sport? (Opening Exercise) Dec 05, 2025

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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:
dzaja69 vs games_sports (Lichess, 2022)

e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 d6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 g6 8. O-O Bg7 9. Rb1 O-O 10. h3 Nd7 11. f4 *

And the answer is...
11... Qb6+ 12. Kh2 (12. Kh1 Bxc3 13. bxc3 Qxb1) 12... Bxc3 13. bxc3 Qxb1

🚶‍♂️ The Opera Game, Part 2 (Walkthrough) Dec 04, 2025

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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

🧠 Reverse Ghosts (Illegal Move Exercise) Dec 03, 2025

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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:

e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7.Nxc6 bxc6 8.Be2 Be7 9.0-0 0-0 *

And the answer is...
White's move 7.Nxc6 is illegal because there is nothing to capture on c6.

⚡ Getting Unstuck in Calculations (Quick Lesson) Dec 02, 2025

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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

If you enjoyed this episode and want to explore some of the ideas further, here are two articles I mentioned:

🧠 Kickass Sermon (Lost Piece Exercise) Dec 01, 2025

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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:
8/r7/8/8/3k4/PK6/8/8 b - - 0 1

And the answer is...
Bb6

🧠🧠🧠 Zuggest of Zwangs (Position Exercise) Nov 30, 2025

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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:
6k1/7p/4p3/1p1n1Pp1/8/7K/Pr5P/3Q4 b - - 0 1

And the answer is...
1... Rg2 2. Kxg2 (2. Qxd5 Rxh2+ 3. Kxh2 exd5) (2. Qb3 Nf4#) 2... Ne3+

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