Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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:

6k1/2p3pp/4bp2/8/1p2PP2/rPn5/1RN1BKPP/8 b - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

Hakki vs Harikrishna (Abu Dhabi, 2004)

Find the Blunder Exercise: Somewhere in this sequence of moves, one player will make a serious mistake and their opponent will not punish them for it. Find the blunder and identify which move should have been played to punish it.

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PGN for today's exercise:

Nf3 c5 2. d4 Nf6 3. Bf4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Bxe5 Bc5 6. Nc3 Bxd4 7. Qxd4 Nc6 8. Qf4 O-O *

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

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.

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FEN for today's exercise:

7k/7p/7K/8/8/7N/8/5r2 b - - 0 1

PGN for today's exercise:

1... Rf8 2. Ng5 Rg8 *

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

Welcome to the Friday 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.

Mentioned in this episode:

The List of Things I Don't Know

David C. Baker's "Getting to Know" article

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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:

7r/5pk1/6p1/3Pp1P1/p3PN2/Pp4n1/1P6/1KR5 w - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.