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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 · 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.
Friday · 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.
Wednesday · 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?
October 2 · 9 min
👨‍🏫 Throughlines, Conceptualization and Rating Part 7 (Insight)
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.
October 1 · 5 min
🧠🧠🧠 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?
September 30 · 5 min
🧠🧠 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.
September 29 · 5 min
🧠 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.
September 28 · 5 min
🧠 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!
September 25 · 10 min
👨‍🏫 Data Before Meaning, Conceptualization and Rating Part 6 (Insight)
The brain wants to filter our thinking down to a "point". Breaking through and beyond 1800 is in large part about resisting that.
September 25 · 8 min
👨‍🏫 Frames on Demand, Conceptualization and Rating Part 5 (Insight Episode)
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.
September 24 · 8 min
👨‍🏫 Challenge of Short Calculations, Conceptualization and Rating Part 4 (Insight Episode)
Conceptualization at 1200 is all about the short calculation. Here's the challenges of that and how to approach it.
September 23 · 5 min
🧠 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!
September 22 · 5 min
🧠 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.
September 21 · 4 min
🧠 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?
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.

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