Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner
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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🧠🧠 Normal 'Til It's Not (Illegal Move Exercise) (opens the original)
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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: e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 Nd6 6. Nxe5 Be7 7. Bf1 Nxe5 8. Rxe5 O-O 9. d4 B
🧠 Arms Too Long (Opening Exercise) (opens the original)
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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: d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 c5 4. Bh3 * Answer at the end of the episode.
🧠 Themistocles' Note (Position Exercise) (opens the original)
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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: kn6/p7/PP6/K7/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1 Answer at the end of the episode.
👨🏫 Data Before Meaning, Conceptualization and Rating Part 6 (Insight) (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Friday insight. This is Part 6 of the Conceptualization and Rating series kicked off a few weeks ago. The brain wants to filter our thinking down to a "point". Breaking through and beyond 1800 is in large part about resisting that. For more articles like this, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/articles And to learn more about the Don't Move membership, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/join
👨🏫 Frames on Demand, Conceptualization and Rating Part 5 (Insight Episode) (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Friday insight (on Thursday this week because we're catching up). This is Part 4 of the Conceptualization and Rating series kicked off a few weeks ago. 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. For more articles like this, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/articles And to learn more about the Don't
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