Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

Welcome to the Friday insight.

I made a list of all the things the things the world's leading expert on Chess visualization should know, but that I don't. Now I'm going about learning it all.

Mentioned in this episode:

The List of Things I Don't Know

David C. Baker's "Getting to Know" article

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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:

7r/5pk1/6p1/3Pp1P1/p3PN2/Pp4n1/1P6/1KR5 w - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.

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:

c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bg2 Nb6 6. d3 Be7 7. Bd2 O-O 8. Qc2 Be6 *

Answer at the end of the episode.

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:

8/3n4/2k1b3/8/8/8/6PP/3Nb2K b - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.

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 rating, the sorts of errors we make, their causes, are the same. Gaining rating is a process of grappling with that.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Four Things

Vacated Squares

The Why Blindfold series

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