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:

7k/2p1q2p/3p2pP/8/4bQ2/1BP5/1P4P1/6K1 w - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

Ivanovic vs Popovic (Yugoslavia, 1973)

Exercise audio generated with the help of AI to ensure clarity and to avoid human (that is, mine) errors in the exercise recording itself. Exercise design, music, show notes, answer explanations, and everything else were done by humans.

Illegal Move Exercise: Somewhere in the game below is an illegal move. Find it and identify why it is illegal.

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PGN for today's exercise:

a4 b5 2. axb5 Bb7 3. c4 Nf6 4. Nf3 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. d4 O-O 7. Bg5 d6 8. Qd3 Nbd7 9. g3 Bxh1 10. O-O-O a6 11. bxa6 Rxa6 12. Kb1 Qa8 *

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

Exercise audio generated with the help of AI to ensure clarity and to avoid human (that is, mine) errors in the exercise recording itself. Exercise design, music, show notes, answer explanations, and everything else were done by humans.

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. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d5 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Bg5 c5 7. dxc5 Ne4 *

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

Exercise audio generated with the help of AI to ensure clarity and to avoid human (that is, mine) errors in the exercise recording itself. Exercise design, music, show notes, answer explanations, and everything else were done by humans.

Welcome to the Friday insight. This is a rerun of one of the greatest hits as Aiden's been sick this week.

Every move does four things. Noticing all of them is critical for accurate calculations.

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Lost Piece Exercise: The audio will tell you the position of most of the pieces on the board. Can you work out where the missing piece is meant to be?

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FEN for today's exercise:

r5q1/5b2/2r5/1q5r/3b4/r4q2/2qbr1r1/1r6 w - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

Exercise audio generated with the help of AI to ensure clarity and to avoid human (that is, mine) errors in the exercise recording itself. Exercise design, music, show notes, answer explanations, and everything else were done by humans.