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Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

Don't Move Until You See It 799 Episodes Sep 7, 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

🧠 Never or Now (Position Exercise)
🧠 Never or Now (Position Exercise) Sep 7, 2026 3:59 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: 5Bnk/7p/7P/7K/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1 Answer at the end of the episode.
🧠🧠🧠 Knaak For It (Hybrid Exercise)
🧠🧠🧠 Knaak For It (Hybrid Exercise) Sep 3, 2026 6:37 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 FEN for today's exercise: 2r3k1/5pp1/7p/4q3/1R6/3Q2P1/2n
🧠🧠🧠 Never the Same Piece Twice (Find the Blunder Exercise)
🧠🧠🧠 Never the Same Piece Twice (Find the Blunder Exercise) Sep 2, 2026 10:50 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 PG
🧠 Long Arm of the Law (Awareness Exercise)
🧠 Long Arm of the Law (Awareness Exercise) Sep 1, 2026 8:32 Awareness Exercise: Listen to the locations of all the pieces in the position, then answer the questions to test your awareness. 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 FEN from today's exercise: 8/5p1k/1bP3rp/8/6N1/7P/2R5/6K1 w - - 0 1 Listen to the episode for the questions and an
🧠 Natural Sprinters (Hybrid Exercise)
🧠 Natural Sprinters (Hybrid Exercise) Aug 31, 2026 5:54 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 FEN for today's exercise: 5rk1/5np1/6p1/8/8/8/P5PP/4R2K
👨‍🏫 Patterns Don't Always Help Us (Insight Episode)
👨‍🏫 Patterns Don't Always Help Us (Insight Episode) Aug 28, 2026 10:44 Welcome to the Friday insight. This is a quick aside for the ongoing "Conceptualization and Rating" series on the Friday Insight. You can find the first part on the pod a couple of weeks ago. Pattern recognition and intuition can be strengths, but left unchecked can override what we consciously intended to do. And, for example, cause you to write, record, and release the entirely wrong e
🧠🧠 Elimination Process (Lost Piece Exercise)
🧠🧠 Elimination Process (Lost Piece Exercise) Aug 27, 2026 7:04 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: r3r2k/2q1n2p/2n3p1/5p2/1p6/1B3P2/1P4PP/3Q1RK1 b -
🧠 Severed Heaven (Position Exercise)
🧠 Severed Heaven (Position Exercise) Aug 26, 2026 7:24 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: 5qk1/R7/6pP/4B1K1/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1 Answer at the end of the episode.
🧠 Help Center (Find the Blunder Exercise)
🧠 Help Center (Find the Blunder Exercise) Aug 25, 2026 9:11 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 PG
🧠 Bishop on a Bishop (Awareness Exercise)
🧠 Bishop on a Bishop (Awareness Exercise) Aug 24, 2026 7:13 Awareness Exercise: Listen to the locations of all the pieces in the position, then answer the questions to test your awareness. To get comfy with your square colors, spend a couple minutes each day in the Don't Move Square Color Trainer (free) 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
👨‍🏫 Building to 1000, Conceptualization and Rating Part 2 (Insight Episode)
👨‍🏫 Building to 1000, Conceptualization and Rating Part 2 (Insight Episode) Aug 21, 2026 10:22 Welcome to the Friday insight. This is part two for the ongoing "Conceptualization and Rating" series on the Friday Insight. Find the first part in last week's insight episode. Starting out with Chess is tough on the brain. Here are the key conceptualization skills you need to finally reach 1000. Mentioned in this episode: Don't Move Until You See It training tools The New Mantra Tech
🧠🧠 Tasty Potshots (Opening Exercise)
🧠🧠 Tasty Potshots (Opening Exercise) Aug 20, 2026 9:52 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

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