Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

🧠 Nailicis (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

🧠 Tower of Darkness (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

👨‍🏫 Throughlines, Conceptualization and Rating Part 7 (Insight)

Welcome to the Friday insight. This is the seventh and final part of the Conceptualization and Rating series. Human brains are human brains. Regardless of our Chess rati

🧠🧠🧠 Off Book Rooks (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

🧠🧠 Normal 'Til It's Not (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

🧠 Arms Too Long (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

🧠 Themistocles' Note (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

👨‍🏫 Data Before Meaning, Conceptualization and Rating Part 6 (Insight)

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 "poi

👨‍🏫 Frames on Demand, Conceptualization and Rating Part 5 (Insight Episode)

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. Und

👨‍🏫 Challenge of Short Calculations, Conceptualization and Rating Part 4 (Insight Episode)

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. Con

🧠 Zeroed In (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

🧠 The Rules Gambit (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

🧠 Left with Nothing (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

🧠 Never or Now (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

🧠🧠🧠 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