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Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

Don't Move Until You See It 799 Episodes Oct 14, 2026

This podcast helps adult chess players improve their visualization skills through science-backed exercises and lessons. Hosted by Aiden Rayner, it offers insights designed to enhance mental imagery on the chessboard. The show emphasizes that brains are awesome and can be trained to master the 64 squares.

Episodes

🧠🧠 Geometrick (Find the Blunder Exercise)
🧠🧠 Geometrick (Find the Blunder Exercise) Oct 14, 2026 5:21 Find the Blunder Exercise: Somewhere in this sequence of moves, one player will make a serious mistake and their opponent will not punish them for it. Find the blunder and identify which move should have been played 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/conceptualizati
🧠 Banana Kick (Hybrid Exercise)
🧠 Banana Kick (Hybrid Exercise) Oct 13, 2026 4:10 Hybrid Exercise: 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. 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/7p/7K/8/8/7N/8
👨‍🏫 What I Don't Yet Know (Insight)
👨‍🏫 What I Don't Yet Know (Insight) Oct 9, 2026 4:38 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 For more articles like this, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/articles And to learn
🧠🧠 Find the Strengths (Position Exercise)
🧠🧠 Find the Strengths (Position Exercise) Oct 7, 2026 8:17 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: 7r/5pk1/6p1/3Pp1P1/p3PN2/Pp4n1/1P6/1KR5 w - - 0 1 Answer at the end of t
🧠 Nailicis (Opening Exercise)
🧠 Nailicis (Opening Exercise) Oct 6, 2026 6:48 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
🧠 Tower of Darkness (Lost Piece Exercise)
🧠 Tower of Darkness (Lost Piece Exercise) Oct 5, 2026 4:31 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: 8/3n4/2k1b3/8/8/8/6PP/3Nb2K b - - 0 1 Answer at
👨‍🏫 Throughlines, Conceptualization and Rating Part 7 (Insight)
👨‍🏫 Throughlines, Conceptualization and Rating Part 7 (Insight) Oct 2, 2026 9:25 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 For more articles l
🧠🧠🧠 Off Book Rooks (Lost Piece Exercise)
🧠🧠🧠 Off Book Rooks (Lost Piece Exercise) Oct 1, 2026 5:22 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 Ans
🧠🧠 Normal 'Til It's Not (Illegal Move Exercise)
🧠🧠 Normal 'Til It's Not (Illegal Move Exercise) Sep 30, 2026 5:39 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 to
🧠 Arms Too Long (Opening Exercise)
🧠 Arms Too Long (Opening Exercise) Sep 29, 2026 5:44 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
🧠 Themistocles' Note (Position Exercise)
🧠 Themistocles' Note (Position Exercise) Sep 28, 2026 5:23 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.
👨‍🏫 Data Before Meaning, Conceptualization and Rating Part 6 (Insight)
👨‍🏫 Data Before Meaning, Conceptualization and Rating Part 6 (Insight) Sep 25, 2026 10:09 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. For more articles like this, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/articles And to learn more about the Don't Move membership, head to https:

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