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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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September 7 · 3 min
🧠 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!
September 3 · 6 min
🧠🧠🧠 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.
September 2 · 10 min
🧠🧠🧠 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?
September 1 · 8 min
🧠 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.
August 31 · 5 min
🧠 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.
August 28 · 10 min
👨‍🏫 Patterns Don't Always Help Us (Insight Episode)
Pattern recognition and intuition can be strengths, but left unchecked can override what we consciously intended to do.
August 27 · 7 min
🧠🧠 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?
August 26 · 7 min
🧠 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!
August 25 · 9 min
🧠 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?
August 24 · 7 min
🧠 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.
August 21 · 10 min
👨‍🏫 Building to 1000, Conceptualization and Rating Part 2 (Insight Episode)
Starting out with Chess is tough on the brain. Here are the key conceptualization skills you need to finally reach 1000.
August 20 · 9 min
🧠🧠 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.
August 19 · 5 min
🧠🧠 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.
August 18 · 7 min
🧠 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.
August 17 · 5 min
🧠 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.
August 16 · 4 min
🧠 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?
August 15 · 14 min
⚡️ 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.
August 14 · 8 min
👨‍🏫 Conceptualization and Rating (Insight Episode)
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.
August 13 · 6 min
🧠🧠🧠 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!
August 12 · 5 min
🧠🧠 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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