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Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

Don't Move Until You See It

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. Yours included.

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Today · 7 min
🧠🧠 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.
Yesterday · 7 min
🧠🧠 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.
Monday · 6 min
🧠 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!
Friday · 6 min
👨‍🏫 Diagnosing Muscle Mistakes (Insight)
A step-by-step through the process I use with coaching students to find why certain mistakes happened.
Thursday · 9 min
🧠🧠🧠 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.
October 28 · 8 min
🧠🧠 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.
October 27 · 4 min
🧠 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?
October 26 · 4 min
🧠 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.
October 23 · 5 min
👨‍🏫 Options Before Lines (Insight)
A more efficient thinking process to turn candidate moves into clear decisions.
October 22 · 7 min
🧠🧠🧠 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?
October 21 · 8 min
🧠🧠 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!
October 20 · 8 min
🧠 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.
October 19 · 7 min
🧠 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.
October 15 · 5 min
🧠🧠🧠 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!
October 14 · 5 min
🧠🧠 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.
October 13 · 4 min
🧠 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.
October 9 · 4 min
👨‍🏫 What I Don't Yet Know (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.
October 7 · 8 min
🧠🧠 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!
October 6 · 6 min
🧠 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.
October 5 · 4 min
🧠 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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