Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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.

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PGN for today's exercise:

d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 c5 4. Bh3 *

Answer at the end of the episode.

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!

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FEN for today's exercise:

kn6/p7/PP6/K7/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.

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.

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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.

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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. Conceptualization at 1200 is all about the short calculation. Here's the challenges of that and how to approach it.

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