Chess Visualization with Don't Move

• 👨‍🏫 The Loyal Labrador, The Three Fs Part 1 (Insight)

  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

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• 🧠 The Trickier Rules (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 will continue anyway. Find the illegal move. 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: 1. e4 d5 2. e5 c5 3. c3 Nc6 4. d4 h5 5. e6 f5 6. exf6 gxf6 7. Bd3 e5 8. dxe5 fxe5 * And the answer is... White’s move 6. exf6 is illegal as that’s not how en passant works. White’s pawn needed to be on e5, and not e6, to capture on f6 with en passant.

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• 🧠🧠🧠 This Carlsen Guy Seems Ok (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 to find the move to punish it. 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: Carlsen vs Harestad (Copenhagen, 2003) 2. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7. Re1 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2 Nc6 13. d5 Nd8 14. a4 Ra7 15. Nf1 g6 16. Bh6 Re8 17. Ng3 Nd7 18. Nh2 f6 19. Be3 Nb6 20. axb5 axb5 21. Bd3 Bd7 22. Qd2 Nf7 23. Rxa7 Qxa7 24. Qe2 Qa6 25. Ng4 Kg7 26. Bc1 Na4 27. Bc2 Ra8 28. Qe3 c4 29. Rf1 Nc5 30. Nh6 Ng5 31. f4 exf4 32. Qxf4 Bxh3 33. Qh4 Bd7 34. e5 dxe5 35. Nh5+ gxh5 * And the answer is... 36. Qxg5+ fxg5 (36... Kh8 37. Nf7#) 37. Rf7+ Kxh6 (37... Kh8 38. Rxh7#) 38. Rxh7#

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• ❓ Exercise Difficulties (Q&A)

  Aiden answers your questions about conceptualization and making the adult brain better at Chess. Send your questions to @AidenAtDontMove on Twitter, or [email protected] Read the series about mantras and taming your intuition here: https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/your-enthusiastic-friend 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

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• 🧠🧠 Nguyēn vs de Boer (Game Exercise)

  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: [White "Nguyen, Sang"] [Black "De Boer, Sipke"] 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 Nc6 4.e3 Bg4 5.Nbd2 e6 6.h3 Bh5 7.Be2 Bd6 8.Bxd6 Qxd6 9.c4 b6 10.Rc1 O-O 11.O-O e5 12.dxe5 Nxe5 13.Nxe5 Bxe2 14.Nxf7 Rxf7 15.Qxe2 d4 16.exd4 Qxd4 17.Nf3 Qf4 18.Qd2 Qe4 19.Ng5 1-0

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