Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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🧠🧠 O vs U (Find the Blunder Exercise) Oct 10, 2025

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Find the Blunder Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. One player will blunder and the other will not punish them for it. Can you find the blunder and the best punishment?

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PGN for today's exercise:
Adapted from the game Colborne vs Blackburne (Hastings, 1894).

e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qe3 g6 5. Bd2 Bg7 6. Nc3 Nge7 7. O-O-O O-O 8. f4 d5 9. exd5 Nb4 10. Bc4 Bf5 11. Bb3 Nexd5 12. Nxd5 Nxd5 13. Qf3 c6 14. g4 Be6 15. Ne2 a5 *

And the answer is...
13... Qf6 14. c3 (14. Bc3 Nxc3 15. bxc3 Qe7 with a winning position.) 14... Nb4 15. Bc4 Qa6 16. g4 Qxa2 17. Be3 Bxc3

🚶‍♂️ Tactic Building (Walkthrough) Oct 09, 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

🧠 Blom Blooms (Game Exercise) Oct 08, 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.

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PGN for today's exercise:
Blom vs Jensen (Odense, 1934)

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bd6 5. Bd3 Ne7 6. Bg5 O-O 7. Nf6+ gxf6 8. Bxf6 Qd7 9. Bxh7+ 1-0

👨‍🏫 Vigilance (Insight) Oct 07, 2025

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

To access the pack of Vigilance exercises I've prepared, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/ccn-vigilance

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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

🧠 Queen's Gambit Defiled (Illegal Move Exercise) Oct 06, 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:

d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bg4 4. e3 Nf6 5. Be2 0-0 6.Nc3 c6 *

And the answer is...
Black's move 3... Bg4 is illegal because it is blocked by the pawn on e6.

🧠🧠🧠 That's Wild (Opening Exercise) Oct 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:
Mackenzie vs Collins (Birmingham, 1893)

e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. a3 Bc5 7. d4 Nxd4 8. Nxd4 Qh4+ 9. g3 Nxg3 10. Nf3 Bf2+ 11. Kxf2 *

And the answer is...
11... Ne4+ 12. Ke3 Qf2+ 13. Kf4 g5#

❓ Audio > Written Notation? (Q&A) Oct 04, 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

🧠🧠 Lombardy's Trophy (Game Exercise) Oct 03, 2025

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PGN for today's exercise:
Gerusel vs Lombardy (Toronto, 1957)

d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 Nc6 5. Nf3 d5 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. Qxc3 Ne4 8. Qc2 e5 9. dxe5 Bf5 10. Qa4 O-O 11. Be3 d4 12. Rd1 dxe3 13. Rxd8 exf2+ 14. Kd1 Rfxd8+ 15. Kc1 a6 16. Qb3 Nc5 17. Qc3 Na5 18. e4 Nab3+ 0-1

🚶‍♂️ Chunking and Anchoring (Walkthrough) Oct 02, 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

🧠 I Swear It's a Rule (Illegal Move Exercise) Oct 01, 2025

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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:

c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. e3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. d4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bd6 7. Nf3 e4 8.dxe5 Bc5 9. Qxd8+ Kxd8 10. Ng5 Ke7 11. Be2 h6 12. Nf3 *

And the answer is...
White's move 8.dxe5 is illegal because en passant can be done only when the pawn moves two squares from its starting square.

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