Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner
Train your Chess brain while on the go!
About the show
Improve your Chess and master visualization while on the go! Featuring science-backed exercises, insights, and lessons designed to make your adult brain better on the 64 squares.
Brains are awesome. Yours included.
Episodes
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🧠🧠Miss Zhu (Awareness Exercise)
July 16th, 2026 | 8 mins 38 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
Awareness Exercise: Listen to the locations of all the pieces in the position, then answer the questions to test your awareness.
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🧠🧠Slip of the Thumb (Find the Blunder Exercise)
July 15th, 2026 | 9 mins 26 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
Find the Blunder Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. One player will blunder and the other will not punish them for it. Can you find the blunder and the best punishment?
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🧠Two Rooks > Queen (Hybrid Exercise)
July 14th, 2026 | 8 mins 10 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
Hybrid Exercise:Â The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are, then read a series of moves from that position. When prompted, try to identify the best next move.
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🧠Development Is the Most Important Thing (Opening Exercise)
July 13th, 2026 | 1 min 49 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
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🧠Layers Upon Layers of Pressure (Game Exercise)
July 12th, 2026 | 2 mins 47 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
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🧠Pair o' Bishops (Position Exercise)
July 11th, 2026 | 1 min 28 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
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🧠Greco Beats the Philidor Defense (Opening Exercise)
July 10th, 2026 | 1 min 58 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
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🧠Nepo Dismisses the Class (Game Exercise)
July 9th, 2026 | 4 mins 16 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
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🧠Light 'Em Up (Position Exercise)
July 8th, 2026 | 1 min 37 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
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🧠Piercing with the Pirc (Opening Exercise)
July 7th, 2026 | 2 mins 17 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
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🧠Dunkelsbuhler’s Day Off (Game Exercise)
July 6th, 2026 | 4 mins 57 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
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🧠Opening the Door (Position Exercise)
July 5th, 2026 | 2 mins 4 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
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🧠Piercing the Pirc (Opening Exercise)
July 4th, 2026 | 2 mins 1 sec
chess, exercise, visualization
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
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🧠Capa Bleeds (Game Exercise)
July 3rd, 2026 | 3 mins 27 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
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🧠One Woman Army (Position Exercise)
July 2nd, 2026 | 1 min 54 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
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🧠Ouch, That's a Big Mistake (Opening Exercise)
July 1st, 2026 | 1 min 54 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.