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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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August 5 · 6 min
🧠🧠 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?
August 4 · 5 min
🧠 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.
August 3 · 5 min
🧠 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.
August 2 · 45 min
🚶‍♂️Resisting the Obvious Move (Walkthrough)
Some moves seem so obvious they shut down our brain and cause us to play without thinking. Here's a walkthrough with a great example and some advice on resisting that.
August 1 · 34 min
🎉 Models of the Masters (Saturday Fun 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.
July 31 · 14 min
⚡️ Aphantasia and the Visual-Verbal Spectrum
If you can't create pictures in your head, does that mean you must use words instead? I break down some new insights I've run into, and suggest that may not be the case.
July 30 · 11 min
🧠🧠🧠 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.
July 29 · 6 min
🧠🧠 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!
July 28 · 6 min
🧠 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.
July 27 · 5 min
🧠 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.
July 24 · 14 min
State of the Pod, and What's Next
Aiden address the plans for this next phase of the podcast.
July 21 · 6 min
🧠 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.
July 20 · 11 min
🧠 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?
July 16 · 8 min
🧠🧠 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.
July 15 · 9 min
🧠🧠 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?
July 14 · 8 min
🧠 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.
July 13 · 1 min
🧠 Development Is the Most Important Thing (Opening Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
July 12 · 2 min
🧠 Layers Upon Layers of Pressure (Game Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
July 11 · 1 min
🧠 Pair o' Bishops (Position Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
July 10 · 1 min
🧠 Greco Beats the Philidor Defense (Opening Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.

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