Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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🧠 Pull the Pin (Hybrid Exercise) Jul 02, 2025

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Hybrid Puzzle: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are, then read a series of moves from that position. When prompted, try to identify the best next move.

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FEN for today's exercise:
8/3k2b1/2rn4/4P3/2BK1R2/3P4/8/8 b - - 0 1

PGN for today's exercise:
1... Bh6 2. Rh4 { What is the best move for Black? } *

And the answer is...
2... Nf5+

👨‍🏫 The Loyal Labrador, The Three Fs Part 1 (Insight) Jul 01, 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

🧠 The Trickier Rules (Illegal Move Exercise) Jun 30, 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 d5 2. e5 c5 3. c3 Nc6 4. d4 h5 5. e6 f5 6. exf6 gxf6 7. Bd3 e5 8. dxe5 fxe5 *

And the answer is...
White’s move 6. exf6 is illegal as that’s not how en passant works. White’s pawn needed to be on e5, and not e6, to capture on f6 with en passant.

🧠🧠🧠 This Carlsen Guy Seems Ok (Opening Exercise) Jun 29, 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:
Carlsen vs Harestad (Copenhagen, 2003)

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7. Re1 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2 Nc6 13. d5 Nd8 14. a4 Ra7 15. Nf1 g6 16. Bh6 Re8 17. Ng3 Nd7 18. Nh2 f6 19. Be3 Nb6 20. axb5 axb5 21. Bd3 Bd7 22. Qd2 Nf7 23. Rxa7 Qxa7 24. Qe2 Qa6 25. Ng4 Kg7 26. Bc1 Na4 27. Bc2 Ra8 28. Qe3 c4 29. Rf1 Nc5 30. Nh6 Ng5 31. f4 exf4 32. Qxf4 Bxh3 33. Qh4 Bd7 34. e5 dxe5 35. Nh5+ gxh5 *

And the answer is...

Qxg5+ fxg5 (36... Kh8 37. Nf7#) 37. Rf7+ Kxh6 (37... Kh8 38. Rxh7#) 38. Rxh7#

❓ Exercise Difficulties (Q&A) Jun 28, 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

🧠🧠 Nguyēn vs de Boer (Game Exercise) Jun 27, 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:
[White "Nguyen, Sang"] [Black "De Boer, Sipke"] 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 Nc6 4.e3 Bg4 5.Nbd2 e6 6.h3 Bh5 7.Be2 Bd6 8.Bxd6 Qxd6 9.c4 b6 10.Rc1 O-O 11.O-O e5 12.dxe5 Nxe5 13.Nxe5 Bxe2 14.Nxf7 Rxf7 15.Qxe2 d4 16.exd4 Qxd4 17.Nf3 Qf4 18.Qd2 Qe4 19.Ng5 1-0

⚡ Automatic Moves (Quick Lesson) Jun 26, 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

🧠 Tripped up Tihana (Find the Blunder Exercise) Jun 25, 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?

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 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. h4 h5 5. Bd3 Bxd3 6. Qxd3 e6 7. Bg5 Qb6 8. Qc3 Nd7 9. Nd2 Be7 10. Bxe7 Nxe7 11. Ngf3 Nf5 12. O-O-O O-O-O 13. Kb1 Kb8 14. Ng5 Rhf8 15. Nb3 *

And the answer is...
8... Bb4

👨‍🏫 Flip the Board (Insight) Jun 24, 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

🧠 Empty Church (Lost Piece Exercise) Jun 23, 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:
8/8/8/3k4/8/1r1P4/3K4/8 b - - 0 1

And the answer is...
Ba2

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