Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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🧠 No Matter What They Do (Lost Piece Exercise) Oct 02, 2024

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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:
8/4k3/2r5/3N4/1q6/7P/5PP1/6K1 b - - 0 1

And the answer is...
Nd5

👨‍🏫 "Weird" Moves (Insight) Oct 01, 2024

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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

🧠 English Overconfidence (Opening Exercise) Sep 30, 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:

c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4 3. Nd5 Bc5 4. Nf3 e4 5. d4 Bf8 6. Bf4 exf3 7. Nxc7+ Qxc7 8. Bxc7 *

And the answer is...
8...Bb4+ 9. Qd2 Bxd2+ 10. Kxd2

🧠 The Getaway Plan (Illegal Move Exercise) Sep 27, 2024

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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:

b3 a5 2. Ba3 a4 3. Bxe7 Kxe7 4. c4 Ke8 5. d4 Bb4+ 6. Nd2 Nf6 7. Nf3 O-O 8. a3 Bxd2+ 9. Nxd2 axb3 10. Qxb3 b6 *

And the answer is...
7...0-0

⚡ Types of Mistakes (Quick Lesson) Sep 26, 2024

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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

🧠🧠 Wait For It... (Position Exercise) Sep 25, 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:
[FEN "8/8/7p/pp2pKp1/3kP3/1P4P1/P6P/8 w - - 0 49"]

And the answer is:

g4 b4 50. h3 Kc3 51. Kxe5

👨‍🏫 "Obvious" Moves (Insight) Sep 24, 2024

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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

🧠 Seven Pawns on Dark Squares (Find the Blunder Exercise) Sep 23, 2024

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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 f6 2. d4 Nc6 3. Nc3 b6 4. d5 Ne5 5. Bd2 d6 6. Bb5+ Bd7 7. Bxd7+ Nxd7 8. Nh3 g5 9. O-O h5 10. Ne2 Nc5 11. f4 g4 12. Nf2 a5 *

And the answer is...

Qh5#

🧠🧠🧠 No Other Option (Position Exercise) Sep 20, 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:
1q5k/4R3/8/8/1p6/1B6/5R2/1K6 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Ra2 Qc8 2. Rh2+ Qh3 3. Rxh3# 1-0

⚡ Remembering Your Chess Games (Quick Lesson) Sep 19, 2024

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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

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