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:

8/8/8/8/2q5/1k6/1P6/KB6 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Ba2+

Game Exercise: Close your eyes and follow along with an entire Chess game using the audio below. On each move, try to conceptualize the position clearly and understand how it has changed. Try to follow the game until the end to stretch the amount of moves you can see ahead.

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PGN for today's exercise:

Fine vs Yudovich (Moscow, 1937)

d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 c5 5. Bg5 cxd4 6. Nxd4 e5 7. Ndb5 a6 8. Nxd5 axb5 9. Nxf6+ Qxf6 10. Bxf6 Bb4+ 11. Qd2 Bxd2+ 12. Kxd2 gxf6 0-1

Welcome to the Tuesday insight. Today's episode originally appeared as an article at https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/blog.

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

If you want to dive deeper into how to analyse your games the right way, make sure to check out the following video by GM Noël Studer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shma5hsckww

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:

f4 d5 2. e3 Nc6 3. g4 Qh4+ 4. Ke2 Bxg4+ 5. Nf3 Bxf3+ 6. Kxf3 *

And the answer is...

Black's move 3... Qh4+ is illegal because the Queen is blocked by the pawn on e7.

Game Exercise: Close your eyes and follow along with an entire Chess game using the audio below. On each move, try to conceptualize the position clearly and understand how it has changed. Try to follow the game until the end to stretch the amount of moves you can see ahead.

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

PGN for today's exercise:

FeykineCevapAlanAdam vs Miasnik2511 (Lichess blitz, 2025)

e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 Nf6 4. Bd3 d5 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bc2 Nc6 7. d4 cxd4 8. cxd4 Bb4+ 9. Nc3 O-O 10. O-O Re8 11. a3 Ba5 12. b4 Bb6 13. Na4 Nf8 14. Bb2 Ne7 15. Nc5 a5 16. b5 Qc7 17. Na4 Bd7 18. Nxb6 Qxb6 19. a4 Rac8 20. Ba3 Rc7 21. Ng5 Neg6 22. Bc5 Rxc5 23. dxc5 Qxc5 24. Bxg6 Nxg6 25. Qh5 h6 26. Nf3 Rc8 27. Qg4 Qc3 28. Rfe1 Rc4 29. Qg3 b6 30. h4 Nf4 31. Kh2 Nd3 32. Red1 Qc2 33. Ne1 Nxe1 34. Rxe1 Qf5 35. f3 Qh5 36. Kh3 g5 37. Kh2 Rxh4+ 38. Kg1 Rc4 39. Rac1 Qg6 40. Rxc4 dxc4 41. f4 Qd3 42. Qxd3 cxd3 43. Rd1 1-0