Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner
Don't Move Until You See It 799 episodes Nov 11, 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
🧠🧠 Devilish (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:
7k/2p1q2p/3p2pP/8/4bQ2/1BP5/1P4P1/6K1 w - - 0 1
Answer at the end of the
🧠 Sub-Optimal Start (Illegal Move Exercise)
Illegal Move Exercise: Somewhere in the game below is an illegal move. Find it and identify why it is illegal.
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PGN for today's exercise:
a4 b5 2. axb5 Bb7 3. c4 Nf6 4. Nf3 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. d4 O-O 7. Bg5 d6 8. Qd3 Nbd7 9. g
🧠 Not in This Line (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
👨🏫 The Four Things (Insight Rerun)
Welcome to the Friday insight. This is a rerun of one of the greatest hits as Aiden's been sick this week.
Every move does four things. Noticing all of them is critical for accurate calculations.
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🧠🧠🧠 Undercover Boss (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:
r5q1/5b2/2r5/1q5r/3b4/r4q2/2qbr1r1/1r6 w - - 0 1
🧠🧠 Aiden and Abettin' (Find the Blunder Exercise)
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.
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🧠🧠 Unwell Bird of Prey (Illegal Move Exercise)
Illegal Move Exercise: Somewhere in the game below is an illegal move. Find it and identify why it is illegal.
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PGN for today's exercise:
e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. d4 Bf5 6. Bc4 e6 7. a3 Nbd7 8. Bg5 Ne4 9.
🧠 Snug and Warm (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:
5Bnk/7p/7P/7K/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
Answer at the end of the episode.
Exerc
👨🏫 Diagnosing Muscle Mistakes (Insight)
Welcome to the Friday insight.
A step-by-step through the process I use with coaching students to find why certain mistakes happened.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Four Things
Dormant Ideas
Freezing, Forgetting, Framing, and Freewheeling
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🧠🧠🧠 Center Cannot Hold (Hybrid Exercise)
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.
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FEN for today's exercise:
2kr3r/pppbqpp1/2n
🧠🧠 As English as Bovril (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
🧠 Ain't No Sunshine (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:
5rk1/5p1p/6p1/7n/3BK3/5P2/8/8 w - - 0 1
Answer a
🧠 Suspect Sequence (Illegal Move Exercise)
Illegal Move Exercise: Somewhere in the game below is an illegal move. Find it and identify why it is illegal.
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PGN for today's exercise:
c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4 3. Nd5 Be7 4. d4 d6 5. dxe5 dxe5 6. Qxd8+ Bxd8 7. e4 Nf6 8. Bd3 O-O
👨🏫 Options Before Lines (Insight)
Welcome to the Friday insight.
A more efficient thinking process to turn candidate moves into clear decisions.
Mentioned in this episode:
Why Blindfold Series
Jessika's Review
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🧠🧠🧠 Shoot from Cover (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:
1n2kb1r/1pq2p1p/p3p3/3b4/4NPpn/1N2B3/PPP4P/R3K2R
🧠🧠 Naaaaasty (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:
Q7/p4rkp/8/2p1q1N1/P1P5/8/8/7K w - - 0 1
Answer at the end of the episod
🧠 The Road Less Traveled (Find the Blunder Exercise)
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.
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🧠 Grateful for Greco (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
🧠🧠🧠 Hakki Hari Abu Dhabi (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:
6k1/2p3pp/4bp2/8/1p2PP2/rPn5/1RN1BKPP/8 b - - 0 1
Answer at the end of t
🧠🧠 Geometrick (Find the Blunder Exercise)
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.
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🧠 Banana Kick (Hybrid Exercise)
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.
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FEN for today's exercise:
7k/7p/7K/8/8/7N/8
👨🏫 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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And to learn
🧠🧠 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 t
🧠 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
🧠 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
👨🏫 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
For more articles l
🧠🧠🧠 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?
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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)
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 to
🧠 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.
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PGN for today's exercise
🧠 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!
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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)
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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👨🏫 Frames on Demand, Conceptualization and Rating Part 5 (Insight Episode)
Welcome to the Friday insight (on Thursday this week because we're catching up). This is Part 4 of the Conceptualization and Rating series kicked off a few weeks ago. Under pressure, our brains simplify the position for us before we even get a chance to think about it for ourselves. These "frames" affect so much of our thinking, and breaking through 1500 is about breaking those frames.
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👨🏫 Challenge of Short Calculations, Conceptualization and Rating Part 4 (Insight Episode)
Welcome to the Friday insight (on Thursday this week because we're catching up). This is Part 4 of the Conceptualization and Rating series kicked off a few weeks ago. Conceptualization at 1200 is all about the short calculation. Here's the challenges of that and how to approach it.
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🧠 Zeroed In (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:
8/2R5/4pk2/3rN1p1/3P4/6P1/3n2K1/8 w - - 0 1
Answer at the end of the epi
🧠 The Rules Gambit (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 to
🧠 Left with Nothing (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:
8/8/5r2/8/3k4/8/PP6/K7 b - - 0 1
Answer at the e
🧠 Never or Now (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:
5Bnk/7p/7P/7K/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
Answer at the end of the episode.
🧠🧠🧠 Knaak For It (Hybrid Exercise)
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.
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FEN for today's exercise:
2r3k1/5pp1/7p/4q3/1R6/3Q2P1/2n
🧠🧠🧠 Never the Same Piece Twice (Find the Blunder Exercise)
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?
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🧠 Long Arm of the Law (Awareness Exercise)
Awareness Exercise: Listen to the locations of all the pieces in the position, then answer the questions to test your awareness.
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FEN from today's exercise:
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Listen to the episode for the questions and an
🧠 Natural Sprinters (Hybrid Exercise)
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.
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FEN for today's exercise:
5rk1/5np1/6p1/8/8/8/P5PP/4R2K
👨🏫 Patterns Don't Always Help Us (Insight Episode)
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)
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:
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🧠 Severed Heaven (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:
5qk1/R7/6pP/4B1K1/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
Answer at the end of the episode.
🧠 Help Center (Find the Blunder Exercise)
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?
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🧠 Bishop on a Bishop (Awareness Exercise)
Awareness Exercise: Listen to the locations of all the pieces in the position, then answer the questions to test your awareness.
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👨🏫 Building to 1000, Conceptualization and Rating Part 2 (Insight Episode)
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)
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
🧠🧠 Chances Come Once (Hybrid Exercise)
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.
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FEN for today's exercise:
7r/1k4pp/1pp5/2b5/3pB3/3K4/7r/
🧠 Jump the Gun (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 to
🧠 Stretched Further (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
🧠 Hopping Mad (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:
8/8/8/2k5/3p4/5R2/2K5/4n3 w - - 0 1
Answer at th
⚡️ What 1800s Are Missing (Quick Lesson)
In my work with 1800 and 2000 rated students, I've seen two common areas for improvement that seem to mark the difference between players at that level and the level above. Here's what they are and how to train them.
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👨🏫 Conceptualization and Rating (Insight Episode)
Welcome to the Friday insight. Today we kick off a new series walking you through key rating milestones and exactly what conceptualizations skills are most important to master at each one.
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🧠🧠🧠 One Anand Done (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:
2r3k1/2r2pp1/p3p3/1p2P3/2nPp3/7R/PP2NP1P/1K5R b - - 0 1
Answer at the en
🧠🧠 Hold a Candelario (Awareness Exercise)
Awareness Exercise: Listen to the locations of all the pieces in the position, then answer the questions to test your awareness.
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FEN from today's exercise:
2r2rk1/5Rp1/p4bQp/8/8/6P1/1qB1RPKP/8 w - - 2 1
Listen to the episode for the questions
🧠 One Point Down (Hybrid Exercise)
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.
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FEN for today's exercise:
8/8/1q6/3k1B2/8/3P1P2/3NK3/8 w
🧠 Grobtastic (Find the Blunder Exercise)
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?
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🚶♂️ Both Sides of the Move (Walkthrough)
Walk through a conceptualization exercise with Aiden from Don't Move Until You See It.
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🎉 Mate-in-2s for Quiet Moments (Saturday Fun Episode)
In today's I-do-whatever-I-want episode, I give you three "Meredith" mate-in-2 puzzles to memorize and chip away at through your day.
Here's the positions in human notation (rather than an FEN).
1 ->
White: Kb2, Qf3, Nb3, Nd3
Black: Kc4, Nf6, b5, d6
2 ->
White: Kc6, Nd6, Ne6, b7, c7, f7, g7. h7
Black: Ke7, Nb6, Nf6
3 ->
White: Ka4, Qc8, Ra1, Ba8, Bf1
Black: Ka6, Qb7, Rd7,
👨🏫 An All New Don't Move Until You See It
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🧠🧠🧠 Doom in Dunedin (Find the Blunder Exercise)
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?
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🧠🧠 Seventh Haven (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:
1r4r1/7p/1P5b/Nb3p2/6n1/1B6/1BP3PP/2R1R1K1 b - -
🧠 Data First (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
🧠 Rook Endings (Vigilance Exercise)
Vigilance Exercise: Follow the sequence of moves from a position and decide at the end which of two moves should be played.
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:
8/1R6/8/4pk2/r7/4K3/8/8 w - - 0 1
PGN from today's exercise:
Rf7+ Ke6 *
Answers at the e
🚶♂️Resisting the Obvious Move (Walkthrough)
Walk through a conceptualization exercise with Aiden from 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/
🎉 Models of the Masters (Saturday Fun Episode)
In today's I-do-whatever-I-want episode, I discuss the conceptualization spectrum and break down some of the most interesting models I've run into in my half-decade of researching this stuff. And I try (and fail) not to go on tangents about cool Chess conceptualization stories.
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⚡️ Aphantasia and the Visual-Verbal Spectrum
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
🧠🧠🧠 The Spice Melange (Vigilance Exercise)
Vigilance Exercise: Follow the sequence of moves from a position and decide at the end which of two moves should be played.
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:
2k5/5R2/1p5b/p3B3/3Pn3/1KP5/PP4r1/8 w - - 0 1
PGN from today's exercise:
Rc7+ Kd8 2. Rc6 b
🧠🧠 One Needle, Big Haystack (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:
5n2/5k1p/2b3N1/4Qp2/2p2P1q/7P/6P1/3B1R1K b - - 0 1
Answer at the end of
🧠 Splayed Out (Awareness Exercise)
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:
1k3b2/2p5/8/3R4/4K3/8/7P/3n4 b - - 0 1
Listen to the episode for the questions and answ
🧠 Jaws of a Draw (Hybrid Exercise)
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:
8/1q6/8/8/3k4/3P4/3KB3/2R5 w -
State of the Pod, and What's Next
Changing it up today to run you through my plans for the podcast from here.
To try the new Don't Move Until You See It website, head here: https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it
If you have feedback or ideas for the podcast, contact me here: https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/contact
See you on Monday where we launch our new daily structure!
🧠 Thinking with Portals (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.
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
🧠 Omnipotence (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:
8/4rn2/6p1/2Q5/8/KP1pk3/8/8 b - - 0 1
And the an
🧠🧠 Miss Zhu (Awareness Exercise)
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:
q7/6bk/P5p1/1P3p1p/2Q4P/1Np3P1/2R2P1K/3r4 w - - 3 1
Listen to the episode for the quest
🧠🧠 Slip of the Thumb (Find the Blunder Exercise)
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
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🧠 Two Rooks > Queen (Hybrid Exercise)
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:
2rk4/3rp3/8/
🧠 Development Is the Most Important Thing (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
🧠 Layers Upon Layers of Pressure (Game Exercise)
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 h
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