Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

Welcome to the Friday insight. This is a rerun of one of the greatest hits as Aiden's been sick this week.

Every move does four things. Noticing all of them is critical for accurate calculations.

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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:

r5q1/5b2/2r5/1q5r/3b4/r4q2/2qbr1r1/1r6 w - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

Exercise audio generated with the help of AI to ensure clarity and to avoid human (that is, mine) errors in the exercise recording itself. Exercise design, music, show notes, answer explanations, and everything else were done by humans.

Find the Blunder Exercise: Somewhere in this sequence of moves, one player will make a serious mistake and their opponent will not punish them for it. Find the blunder and identify which move should have been played to punish it.

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PGN for today's exercise:

e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e5 d4 4. exf6 dxc3 5. Nf3 cxd2+ 6. Bxd2 exf6 7. Bc4 Bg4 8. Qe2+ Be7 9. O-O-O O-O 10. h3 Bxf3 11. gxf3 Nc6 12. Rhg1 Kh8 13. Qe4 g6 14. Bc3 Qe8 15. h4 h5 *

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

Adapted from the game AidenAtDontMove vs FlynnTheKing002 (Lichess, 2024)

Exercise audio generated with the help of AI to ensure clarity and to avoid human (that is, mine) errors in the exercise recording itself. Exercise design, music, show notes, answer explanations, and everything else were done by humans.

Illegal Move Exercise: Somewhere in the game below is an illegal move. Find it and identify why it is illegal.

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PGN for today's exercise:

e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. d4 Bf5 6. Bc4 e6 7. a3 Nbd7 8. Bg5 Ne4 9. Bd2 Nxd2 10. Qxd2 Be7 11. O-O c6 12. b4 Qh5 13. a4 O-O 14. a5 a6 15. Bb3 Rfd8 16. Ne2 *

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

Exercise audio generated with the help of AI to ensure clarity and to avoid human (that is, mine) errors in the exercise recording itself. Exercise design, music, show notes, answer explanations, and everything else were done by humans.

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:

5Bnk/7p/7P/7K/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

Exercise audio generated with the help of AI to ensure clarity and to avoid human (that is, mine) errors in the exercise recording itself. Exercise design, music, show notes, answer explanations, and everything else were done by humans.