Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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October 09👨‍🏫 What I Don't Yet Know (Insight)
Welcome to the Friday insight.
I made a list of all the things the things the world's leading expert on Chess visualization should know, but that I don't. Now I'm going about learning it all.
Mentioned in this episode:
The List of Things I Don't Know
David C. Baker's "Getting to Know" article
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5 min
October 07 🧠🧠 Find the Strengths (Position Exercise)
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:
7r/5pk1/6p1/3Pp1P1/p3PN2/Pp4n1/1P6/1KR5 w - - 0 1
Answer at the end of the episode.
9 min
October 06🧠 Nailicis (Opening Exercise)
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.
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PGN for today's exercise:
c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bg2 Nb6 6. d3 Be7 7. Bd2 O-O 8. Qc2 Be6 *
Answer at the end of the episode.
7 min
October 05 🧠 Tower of Darkness (Lost Piece Exercise)
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:
8/3n4/2k1b3/8/8/8/6PP/3Nb2K b - - 0 1
Answer at the end of the episode.
5 min
October 02👨‍🏫 Throughlines, Conceptualization and Rating Part 7 (Insight)
Welcome to the Friday insight. This is the seventh and final part of the Conceptualization and Rating series.
Human brains are human brains. Regardless of our Chess rating, the sorts of errors we make, their causes, are the same. Gaining rating is a process of grappling with that.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Four Things
Vacated Squares
The Why Blindfold series
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10 min
October 01 🧠🧠🧠 Off Book Rooks (Lost Piece Exercise)
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:
4R1R1/1R6/7R/3R4/R4R2/2q5/7R/1R3R2 w - - 0 1
Answer at the end of the episode.
6 min
September 30🧠🧠 Normal 'Til It's Not (Illegal Move Exercise)
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. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 Nd6 6. Nxe5 Be7 7. Bf1 Nxe5 8. Rxe5 O-O 9. d4 Bf6 10. Re1 Re8 11. c3 Rxe1 12. Qxe1 d6 13. Bf4 Bf5 14. Nd2 c6 15. Nf3 Qc7 *
Answer at the end of the episode.
6 min
September 29🧠 Arms Too Long (Opening Exercise)
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:
d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 c5 4. Bh3 *
Answer at the end of the episode.
6 min
September 28 🧠 Themistocles' Note (Position Exercise)
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:
kn6/p7/PP6/K7/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
Answer at the end of the episode.
6 min
September 25 👨‍🏫 Data Before Meaning, Conceptualization and Rating Part 6 (Insight)
Welcome to the Friday insight. This is Part 6 of the Conceptualization and Rating series kicked off a few weeks ago. The brain wants to filter our thinking down to a "point". Breaking through and beyond 1800 is in large part about resisting that.
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11 min

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Improve your Chess and master visualization while on the go! Featuring science-backed exercises, insights, and lessons designed to make your adult brain better on the 64 squares. Brains are awesome.…