Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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🧠 Corner Case (Position Exercise) Oct 23, 2023

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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:
6R1/8/1P5p/8/8/2K5/7r/6qk w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Rxg1 Kxg1 2. b7 Rh3+ 3. Kc2 Rh2+ 4. Kc1 Rf2 5. b8=Q *

🧠 Cloudy with a Chance of Mouseslip (Position Exercise) Oct 20, 2023

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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:
8/8/4K3/5P2/6k1/4P2R/P6p/8 b - - 0 1

And the answer is...

1… Kxh3 2. f6 h1=Q

🧠🧠 King Season, FIRE (Lost Piece Exercise) Oct 18, 2023

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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:
8/1Q6/1B6/6RB/8/8/K7/2R5 b - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Kf1 or Kf2 or Kd8

👨‍🏫 Aphantasia and Visualization: A Guide (Insight) Oct 17, 2023

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Welcome to the Tuesday insight. Today's episode originally appeared as an article at https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/blog. See the full article, including tools and techniques for conceptualization with aphantasia at https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/aphantasia.

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

🧠 Slaughtered On The Light Squares (Game Exercise) Oct 11, 2023

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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 e5 2. Nc3 Qe7 3. Bc4 c6 4. Qf3 h6 5. Nge2 g5 6. Ng3 d6 7. Nf5 Bxf5 8. Qxf5 Nf6 9. Qc8+ Qd8 10. Bxf7+ Ke7 11. Qe6# 1-0

👨‍🏫 Tilt is a Traitor (Insight) Oct 10, 2023

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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

🧠 f3 (Opening Exercise) Sep 17, 2023

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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:

f3 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. b3 d5 4. g4

And the answer is...

4… Qh4#!

🧠 Long Time Gone (Position Exercise) Sep 15, 2023

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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:
8/6k1/P6p/4np2/4p3/7P/7K/8 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

a7, as Black has no way of preventing 2. a8=Q!

🧠🧠 Never Ignore Noël (Find the Blunder Exercise) Sep 13, 2023

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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:
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nge7 4.Nc3 g6 5.d4 exd4 6.0-0 Bg7 7.Nd5 0-0 *

And the answer is...

White blundered by playing 6. O-O, leaving their knight hanging. Black should have played 6… dxc3 to punish it.

👨‍🏫 Knowledge and Muscle (Insight) Sep 12, 2023

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Welcome to the Tuesday insight. Today's episode originally appeared as Part One of the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series.

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the Conceptualizing Chess Series for yourself, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

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