Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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A more efficient thinking process to turn candidate moves into clear decisions.

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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:

1n2kb1r/1pq2p1p/p3p3/3b4/4NPpn/1N2B3/PPP4P/R3K2R b KQk - 1 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.

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:

Q7/p4rkp/8/2p1q1N1/P1P5/8/8/7K w - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

Petrosian vs Simagin (Moscow, 1956)

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:

f4 d5 2. Nf3 Bg4 3. Ne5 Nc6 4. Nxc6 bxc6 *

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.

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:

e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. Nc3 Qe6 5. Nf3 exf4+ 6. Kf2 Bc5+ 7. d4 Bd6 8. Bb5+ Kf8 *

Answer at the end of the episode.

Exercise designed by Aiden Rayner

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.