Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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🧠 No Sermon Today (Lost Piece Exercise) Jun 02, 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:
8/8/6k1/3r4/8/5K2/8/8 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...
Be4

🧠🧠🧠 Beyen for Blood (Game Exercise) Jun 01, 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:
Beyen vs Filip (Ostend, 1971)

d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 c5 5. d5 d6 6. e4 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 e5 8. Bd3 Nbd7 9. Ne2 Nf8 10. O-O Nh5 11. f4 Nxf4 12. Nxf4 exf4 13. Bxf4 Ng6 14. Qh5 Qe7 15. e5 Nxf4 16. Rxf4 g6 17. Qh6 dxe5 18. Re1 f5 19. d6 Qf6 20. g4 Kd8 21. Rff1 f4 22. g5 Qf8 23. Rxe5 Qxh6 24. gxh6 Kd7 25. Rd5 Rf8 26. Re1 Rf7 27. Bc2 b5 28. Bxg6 hxg6 29. Re7+ Rxe7 30. dxe7+ Kxe7 31. Rd8 1-0

❓ Should You Revise Exercises? (Q&A) May 31, 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

🧠🧠 Looked Safe for a Bit... (Opening Exercise) May 30, 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:
[White "Zoltan Vecsey"] [Black "Herrmann"] 1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. exd5 Nxd5 4. Bc4 e6 5. Qf3 Nb4 6. Bb3 N8c6 7. Nge2 Na5 8. Ne4 Nxb3 9. Qxb3 *

And the answer is...
9... Qd5

⚡ Look Left and Right (Quick Lesson) May 29, 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

🧠🧠 Only Temporary (Position Exercise) May 28, 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:
1r4k1/3q1p1p/3p2p1/1p1Nb3/8/2P5/1P2QPPP/4R1K1 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Qxe5 dxe5 2. Nf6+ Kg7 3. Nxd7

👨‍🏫 Three Habits for Maximum Impact (Insight) May 27, 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

🧠 Schadd vs Raddatz (Game Exercise) May 26, 2025

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PGN for today's exercise:
[White "Schadd, Jan"] [Black "Raddatz, Michael"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 O-O 6.h4 c5 7.d5 e6 8.h5 exd5 9.exd5 Nbd7 10.hxg6 fxg6 11.Bh6 Bxh6 12.Rxh6 Ne5 13.Nf3 Qe7 14.Qd2 Nfg4 15.O-O-O Nxh6 0-1

🧠🧠 Except the Queen (Lost Piece Exercise) May 25, 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:
r4rk1/ppp1qppp/5n2/4p3/N1P5/1P3P2/PB3QPP/R2R2K1 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...
Be3

❓ Struggling to Get Started (Q&A) May 24, 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

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