Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner
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🧠🧠 Turning Tables (Position Exercise)
🧠🧠 Nimzo-Indian Main Line (Game Exercise)
🧠 Needs a Bandage (Hybrid Exercise)
🧠 English Mischief (Illegal Move Exercise)
🧠🧠🧠 Maurizzi Mauls (Hybrid Exercise)
🧠🧠🧠 Looks Impossible (Position Exercise)
🧠🧠 Seitwärts (Opening Exercise)
🧠🧠 Grun-fell for It (Game Exercise)
🧠 Horse and Cart (Position Exercise)
🧠 Right Step (Hybrid Exercise)
🧠 Pull a Fast One (Illegal Move Exercise)
🧠🧠🧠 My Favorite Pattern (Position Exercise)
🧠🧠🧠 Can I, Can't I (Hybrid Exercise)
🧠🧠 Tom and Jerry (Position Exercise)
🧠🧠 Capa Plays the Morphy (Game Exercise)
🧠 That's Not How You Play the Dutch (Opening Exercise)
🧠 Minor Panic (Illegal Move Exercise)
🧠 Vienna Symmetry Mate (Game Exercise)
🧠🧠🧠 Rook Rebound (Position Exercise)
🧠🧠🧠 In Its Pocketses (Hybrid Exercise)
🧠🧠 Polgar vs Mecking (Game Exercise)
🧠🧠 Opposing Castles (Position Exercise)
🧠 A Magician's Own (Find the Blunder Exercise)
🧠 Party on the Sixth (Position Exercise)
🧠 Orangutango (Opening Exercise)
🧠🧠🧠 Sirkhay (Game Exercise)
🧠🧠 Almost Zero Captures (Opening Exercise)
🧠 Empowering Others (Position Exercise)
🧠 One Wing (Illegal Move Exercise)
🧠 Bent Fork (Hybrid Exercise)
🧠 Here's Johnny (Position Exercise)
🧠 Slapback (Find the Blunder Exercise)
🧠🧠🧠 Mama Weer All Crazee Now (Position Exercise)
❓Hit a Wall at 10 Moves? (Q&A)
🧠🧠 Anti-Draw (Hybrid Exercise)
🧠 Swing When You're Down (Position Exercise)
🧠 Not Fine (Game Exercise)
👨🏫 Jessika's Method (Insight)
🧠 Fool (Illegal Move Exercise)
🧠🧠🧠 I'm a Survivor (Game Exercise)
❓ Stretch or Conceptualization Muscle Growth? (Q&A)
Aiden answers your questions about conceptualization and making the adult brain better at Chess. Send your questions to @AidenAtDontMove on Twitter, or [email protected] 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
🧠🧠 More-ozevich! (Hybrid Exercise)
Hybrid Puzzle: 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: Morozevich vs Gelfand (Corr., 2009) 6k1/1p1r1pp1/5n1p/1R1p4/P4P1r/1P2B3/5P1P/3R2K1 b - - 0 1 PGN for today's exercise: 1... Rh5 2. Kg2 Ne4 3. Rd4 Rd6 * And the answer is... Rxe4
⚡ You Don't See Everything You See (Quick Lesson)
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
🧠 Call the Arbiter (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 today's exercise: Nf3 d5 2. g3 c5 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 e5 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bxc6+ Bd7 8. Bxa8 Qxa8 9. 0-0 Nf6 10. b3 Be7 11. Bb2 0-0 * And the answer is... White's move 7. Bxc6+ is illegal because there is a pawn on d5, blocking the Bishop's path.
⚡ When Life Has Other Plans (Quick Lesson)
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
🧠 Nestled (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: 8/8/8/8/r1k5/b7/P2r4/KN6 b - - 0 1 And the answer is... 1... Bb2# *
🧠🧠🧠 The Nosebleed Section (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: juvemostar vs paporro (Lichess, 2021) c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Bc5 4. Bg2 O-O 5. e3 a6 6. d4 exd4 7. exd4 Re8+ 8. Be3 Bb4 9. Ne2 Ng4 10. Bd2 Qe7 11. O-O Bxc3 12. Nxc3 Qd6 13. Nd5 h5 14. Bf4 Ne5 15. Qxh5 Ra7 16. Bxe5 Qg6 17. Qh4 Nc6 18. Be4 Qh6 19. Nf6+ Kf8 20. Nh5 Nxe5 21. dxe5 d6 22. e6 Bxe6 23. Rfe1 * And the answer is... 23... g5
❓ Blitz Hurts Slow Chess? (Q&A)
Aiden answers your questions about conceptualization and making the adult brain better at Chess. Send your questions to @AidenAtDontMove on Twitter, or [email protected] 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
🧠🧠 Red Yellow Blue (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 https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization PGN for today's exercise: Tricolor1899 vs tnkovalchuk (Lichess blitz, 2025) e4 c6 2. c4 d5 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. e5 Nc6 5. d4 Qb6 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Nc3 Bxf3 8. gxf3 Qxd4 9. Qxd4 Nxd4 10. Bb5+ Kd8 11. Bd3 Nxf3+ 12. Ke2 Nxe5 13. Nxd5 Nxd3 14. Kxd3 e6 15. Nc3 Bc5 16. Bg5+ f6 17. Be3 Bxe3 18. Kxe3 Ne7 19. Rad1+ Ke8 20. Rd6 Nf5+ 0-1
🚶♂️ Vacated Squares in the Dutch (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/conceptualization Try your own skills against the Don’t Move Blindfold Trainer here: https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/blindfold-trainer