Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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 "point". Breaking through and beyond 1800 is in large part about resisting that.

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Welcome to the Friday insight (on Thursday this week because we're catching up). This is Part 5 of the Conceptualization and Rating series kicked off a few weeks ago. Conceptualization at 1500 is all about the short calculation. Here's the challenges of that and how to approach it.

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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:

8/2R5/4pk2/3rN1p1/3P4/6P1/3n2K1/8 w - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.

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:

d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O dxc4 7. Nc3 Nc6 8. Bxc6 bxc6 9. e4 Ba6 10. e5 Nd5 11. Nxd5 cxd5 *

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:

8/8/5r2/8/3k4/8/PP6/K7 b - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.