Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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🧠🧠 Dibai vs Brujin (Game Exercise) Mar 24, 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:
[White "Dibai, Jerry"] [Black "Brujin, Homero"] 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 e6 4.O-O Be7 5.d3 O-O 6.Nbd2 c5 7.e4 dxe4 8.dxe4 Nc6 9.c3 Qc7 10.Re1 e5 11.Qc2 b6 12.Nc4 Nd7 13.Ne3 Nf6 14.Nd5 Qd6 15.Rd1 Rd8 16.Bg5 h6 17.Nxf6+ 1-0

🧠🧠🧠 Shawshank (Hybrid Exercise) Mar 23, 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:
2b2rk1/1pr1qpbp/p1npp1p1/8/1PP1PP2/P3BN2/3QB1PP/2RR2K1 b - - 0 1

PGN for today's exercise:
Jauregui Andrade vs Fischer (Santiago, 1959)
1... Rd7 2. b5 Nd8 3. Qb4 Re8 4. Rd2 f5 5. c5 d5 { What is the best move for White? } *

And the answer is...

c6 bxc6 (6... Qxb4 7. cxd7 and White wins a lot of material.) 7. Bc5 Qf6 8. e5 Qf7 9. Ng5 and the black Queen is trapped.

🧠 Bail Out (Hybrid Exercise) Mar 22, 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:
3R4/8/8/8/3pk3/8/3p3r/3K4 w - - 0 1

PGN for today's exercise:

Ra8 Ke3 2. Ra3+ d3 { How does White save a draw here? } *

And the answer is...

Rxd3+ Kxd3 Stalemate.

🧠 Double Take (Illegal Move Exercise) Mar 21, 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.

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PGN for today's exercise:

e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nxd4 5. Qxd4 Nc6 6.Qd1 Nf6 7.Nc3 Bb4 8.Bd3 0-0 9.0-0 *

And the answer is...
Black's move 5...Nc6 is illegal because the Knight got exchanged on the previous move.

🧠🧠 First Thing's First (Hybrid Exercise) Mar 20, 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/kp6/p1p2p2/3r4/1P1b1pPR/P2R1K2/5P2/8 w - - 0 1

PGN for today's exercise:

Rh5 Be5 2. Rxd5 cxd5 3. Rxe5 fxe5 4. g5 d4 { What is the best move for White? } *

And the answer is...

Ke4, 5. Ke2, stopping the Black pawns before pushing their own.
g6 would be bad due to 5... d3 6. g7 e4+ 7. Kxf4 d2 8. g8=Q d1=Q and the game will probably end in a draw.

🧠 Two Step (Position Exercise) Mar 19, 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!

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FEN for today's exercise:
r5k1/5ppp/5q2/8/8/8/4QPPP/4R1K1 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Qe8+ Rxe8 2. Rxe8# *

👨‍🏫 Detached Interest (Insight) Mar 18, 2025

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

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🧠 Knife and Blank (Lost Piece Exercise) Mar 17, 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?

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FEN for today's exercise:
8/8/8/5k2/5p2/8/3R1K2/8 b - - 0 1

And the answer is...
e3

🧠🧠🧠 Diem-ed a Draw (Game Exercise) Mar 16, 2025

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PGN for today's exercise:
Diemer vs Trommsdorf (Bagneux, 1973)

d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. e4 d6 4. Be2 c6 5. g4 b5 6. g5 Nfd7 7. h4 b4 8. Nb1 d5 9. e5 e6 10. h5 c5 11. hxg6 fxg6 12. Bd3 Bg7 13. Rxh7 Rxh7 14. Bxg6+ Ke7 15. Bxh7 cxd4 16. f4 Qh8 17. Qh5 Ba6 18. Nf3 Nc6 19. Nh4 Nf8 20. g6 Kd7 21. Nd2 Kc7 22. Ndf3 Nd7 23. Bd2 Qf8 24. Ng5 Re8 25. Qg4 Ndxe5 26. Qh3 Nc4 27. Nxe6+ Kd7 28. f5 Nxd2 29. O-O-O Qf6 30. Nxg7 Re3 31. Nh5 Qg5 32. Qg4 b3 33. axb3 Nxb3+ 34. Kb1 Rd3 35. Qg1 Nd2+ 36. Ka1 Qd8 37. Nf6+ Kc8 38. Rxd2 Qa5+ 39. Kb1 Nb4 40. Rxd3 Qa2+ 41. Kc1 Nxd3+ 42. Kd2 Qa5+ 43. Ke2 Ne5+ 44. Kf2 Qd2+ 45. Kg3 Qg5+ 46. Kf2 Qd2+ 47. Kg3 Qg5+ { 1/2-1/2 } *

❓ How Long Should I Train Conceptualization? (Q&A) Mar 15, 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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