Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

🧠🧠🧠 Knaak For It (Hybrid Exercise)

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 bes

🧠🧠🧠 Never the Same Piece Twice (Find the Blunder Exercise)

Find the Blunder Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. One player will blunder and the other will not punish them for

🧠 Long Arm of the Law (Awareness Exercise)

Awareness Exercise: Listen to the locations of all the pieces in the position, then answer the questions to test your awareness. To learn more about Don't Move Until You

🧠 Natural Sprinters (Hybrid Exercise)

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 bes

👨‍🏫 Patterns Don't Always Help Us (Insight Episode)

Welcome to the Friday insight. This is a quick aside for the ongoing "Conceptualization and Rating" series on the Friday Insight. You can find the first part on the pod a

🧠🧠 Elimination Process (Lost Piece Exercise)

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? To learn more abou

🧠 Severed Heaven (Position Exercise)

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 S

🧠 Help Center (Find the Blunder Exercise)

Find the Blunder Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. One player will blunder and the other will not punish them for

🧠 Bishop on a Bishop (Awareness Exercise)

Awareness Exercise: Listen to the locations of all the pieces in the position, then answer the questions to test your awareness. To get comfy with your square colors, sp

👨‍🏫 Building to 1000, Conceptualization and Rating Part 2 (Insight Episode)

Welcome to the Friday insight. This is part two for the ongoing "Conceptualization and Rating" series on the Friday Insight. Find the first part in last week's insight ep

🧠🧠 Tasty Potshots (Opening Exercise)

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

🧠🧠 Chances Come Once (Hybrid Exercise)

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 bes

🧠 Jump the Gun (Illegal Move Exercise)

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

🧠 Stretched Further (Opening Exercise)

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

🧠 Hopping Mad (Lost Piece Exercise)

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? To learn more abou

⚡️ What 1800s Are Missing (Quick Lesson)

In my work with 1800 and 2000 rated students, I've seen two common areas for improvement that seem to mark the difference between players at that level and the level abov

👨‍🏫 Conceptualization and Rating (Insight Episode)

Welcome to the Friday insight. Today we kick off a new series walking you through key rating milestones and exactly what conceptualizations skills are most important to m

🧠🧠🧠 One Anand Done (Position Exercise)

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 S

🧠🧠 Hold a Candelario (Awareness Exercise)

Awareness Exercise: Listen to the locations of all the pieces in the position, then answer the questions to test your awareness. To learn more about Don't Move Until You

🧠 One Point Down (Hybrid Exercise)

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 bes