Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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.

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FEN for today's exercise:

6q1/3k4/1p3p1p/p1pPp3/P1P4P/1P1Q1n2/4NP1b/5K2 w - - 0 1

PGN for today's exercise:

guilded55 vs wabeka (Lichess, 2024)

Qxf3 Qg6 2. Ng3 Qb1+ 3. Kg2 Bxg3 4. fxg3 Qc2+ 5. Kh3 Qg6 *

And the answer is...

Qg4+ Qxg4+ 7. Kxg4 Ke7 8. Kf5 Kf7 9. g4 Ke7 10. g5 hxg5 11. hxg5 fxg5 12. Kxg5

Aiden answers your questions about conceptualization and making the adult brain better at Chess.

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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.

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PGN for today's exercise:

Fauris vs gioser093 (Lichess, 2020)

e4 e5 2. f4 d6 3. Nf3 Nd7 4. Nc3 Be7 5. d4 exd4 6. Qxd4 Ngf6 7. e5 dxe5 8. fxe5 Ng8 9. Bc4 a6 10. O-O Bc5 11. Bxf7+ Kxf7 12. e6+ Kxe6 13. Ng5+ Ke7 *

And the answer is...

Re1+ Kf8 15. Ne6+ Ke7 16. Nxd8+

Walk through a conceptualization exercise with Aiden from Don't Move Until You See It.

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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.

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PGN for today's exercise:

Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. g3 Bb4+ 5. Nbd2 O-O 6. Bg2 Nbd7 7. Qc2 dxc4 8. Nxc4 Be7 9. 0-0 c5 10. Rd1 Qc7 11. Bf4 Bd6 *

And the answer is...

White's move 8. Nxc4 is illegal because the Knight is pinned by the black Bishop on b4.