Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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🧠🧠🧠 Vulnerable (Position Exercise) Nov 14, 2024

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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:
1r1r3k/2nbbppp/1p1pp3/p7/1nPNPP2/1P2Q1P1/4N1BP/R6K b - - 0 1

And the answer is...
1... e5 2. Nf5 Bxf5 3. exf5 Nc2 *

🧠 Blom's Da Bomb (Opening Exercise) Nov 13, 2024

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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:

e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bd6 5. Bd3 Ne7 6. Bg5 O-O { What is the best move for White? } *

And the answer is...

Nf6+ gxf6 8. Bxf6 Qd7 9. Bxh7+ *

🧠🧠 Tie with Tarrasch (Position Exercise) Nov 12, 2024

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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:
8/6pp/5p2/3k1PP1/5K1P/8/8/8 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Kg4 Ke5 2. g6 h6 3. Kh5 Kxf5 { Stalemate. } *

🧠 Half Fianchetto (Opening Exercise) Nov 11, 2024

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PGN for today's exercise:

e4 d6 2. Bc4 Nd7 3. Nf3 g6 4. Ng5 Ngf6 { What is the best move for White? } *

And the answer is...

Bxf7#

🧠🧠 Outpost Lost (Position Exercise) Nov 08, 2024

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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:
7k/8/8/8/6p1/8/4K2n/R7 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Rh1 g3 2. Ke3 Kg7 3. Kf4 g2 4. Rg1 Nf1 5. Rxg2+ Kf6 6. Rf2 *

🧠 Crispy Technique (Position Exercise) Nov 07, 2024

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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:
6k1/5R2/6K1/2b5/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Rc7 Bf8 2. Rc8 *

🧠🧠 Machiavellian (Position Exercise) Nov 06, 2024

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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:
8/3b4/pkp5/1p6/P2qp2B/8/7Q/7K w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Bf2 e3 2. Bxe3 Qxe3 3. Qf2 Qxf2 4. a5+ Kxa5 { Stalemate. } *

👨‍🏫 Second-Order Effects, Seeing the Future Part 4 (Insight) Nov 05, 2024

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

Find the exercises from today’s episode here: https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/second-order-effects

Learn more about the Don’t Move Membership at https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/sign-up

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

🧠 One Step (Position Exercise) Nov 04, 2024

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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:
6kn/R7/8/6K1/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...
1.Kf6 Nf7, 2.Rxf7

🧠🧠🧠 He Shoots, He Scores (Game Exercise) Nov 01, 2024

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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:

e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. Be3 Nf6 8. O-O Ne5 9. h3 Bc5 10. Kh1 d6 11. f4 Ng6 12. Qe1 O-O 13. f5 Ne5 14. Qh4 Bd7 15. Rf3 Nxf3 16. gxf3 Kh8 17. Rg1 Qd8 18. e5 dxe5 19. Rxg7 Rg8 20. Rxg8+ Kxg8 21. Bg5 Be7 22. Ne4 Nd5 23. f6 Qb6 24. Nc5 Qxc5 25. Qxh7+ Kf8 26. Qh8# *

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