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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🧠🧠 Normal 'Til It's Not (Illegal Move Exercise)
September 30th, 2026 | 5 mins 39 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
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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🧠 Arms Too Long (Opening Exercise)
September 29th, 2026 | 5 mins 44 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
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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🧠 Themistocles' Note (Position Exercise)
September 28th, 2026 | 5 mins 23 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
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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👨🏫 Data Before Meaning, Conceptualization and Rating Part 6 (Insight)
September 25th, 2026 | 10 mins 9 secs
chess, conceptualization, visualization
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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👨🏫 Frames on Demand, Conceptualization and Rating Part 5 (Insight Episode)
September 25th, 2026 | 8 mins 57 secs
chess, conceptualization, visualization
Under pressure, our brains simplify the position for us before we even get a chance to think about it for ourselves. These "frames" affect so much of our thinking, and breaking through 1500 is about breaking those frames.
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👨🏫 Challenge of Short Calculations, Conceptualization and Rating Part 4 (Insight Episode)
September 24th, 2026 | 8 mins 23 secs
chess, conceptualization, visualization
Conceptualization at 1200 is all about the short calculation. Here's the challenges of that and how to approach it.
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🧠 Zeroed In (Position Exercise)
September 23rd, 2026 | 5 mins 8 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
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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🧠 The Rules Gambit (Illegal Move Exercise)
September 22nd, 2026 | 5 mins 50 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
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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🧠 Left with Nothing (Lost Piece Exercise)
September 21st, 2026 | 4 mins 19 secs
chess, conceptualization, visualization
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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🧠 Never or Now (Position Exercise)
September 7th, 2026 | 3 mins 59 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
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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🧠🧠🧠 Knaak For It (Hybrid Exercise)
September 3rd, 2026 | 6 mins 37 secs
chess, conceptualization, exercise, visualization
Hybrid Exercise: 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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🧠🧠🧠 Never the Same Piece Twice (Find the Blunder Exercise)
September 2nd, 2026 | 10 mins 50 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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🧠 Long Arm of the Law (Awareness Exercise)
September 1st, 2026 | 8 mins 32 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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🧠 Natural Sprinters (Hybrid Exercise)
August 31st, 2026 | 5 mins 54 secs
chess, conceptualization, exercise, visualization
Hybrid Exercise: 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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👨🏫 Patterns Don't Always Help Us (Insight Episode)
August 28th, 2026 | 10 mins 44 secs
chess, conceptualization, visualization
Pattern recognition and intuition can be strengths, but left unchecked can override what we consciously intended to do.
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🧠🧠 Elimination Process (Lost Piece Exercise)
August 27th, 2026 | 7 mins 4 secs
chess, conceptualization, visualization
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?