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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🧠 The Road Less Traveled (Find the Blunder Exercise)
October 20th, 2026 | 8 mins 49 secs
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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🧠 Grateful for Greco (Opening Exercise)
October 19th, 2026 | 7 mins 22 secs
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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🧠🧠🧠 Hakki Hari Abu Dhabi (Position Exercise)
October 15th, 2026 | 5 mins 33 secs
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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🧠🧠 Geometrick (Find the Blunder Exercise)
October 14th, 2026 | 5 mins 21 secs
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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🧠 Banana Kick (Hybrid Exercise)
October 13th, 2026 | 4 mins 10 secs
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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👨🏫 What I Don't Yet Know (Insight)
October 9th, 2026 | 4 mins 38 secs
chess, conceptualization, visualization
I made a list of all the things the things the world's leading expert on Chess visualization should know, but that I don't. Now I'm going about learning it all.
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🧠🧠 Find the Strengths (Position Exercise)
October 7th, 2026 | 8 mins 17 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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🧠 Nailicis (Opening Exercise)
October 6th, 2026 | 6 mins 48 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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🧠 Tower of Darkness (Lost Piece Exercise)
October 5th, 2026 | 4 mins 31 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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👨🏫 Throughlines, Conceptualization and Rating Part 7 (Insight)
October 2nd, 2026 | 9 mins 25 secs
chess, conceptualization, visualization
Human brains are human brains. Regardless of our Chess rating, the sorts of errors we make, their causes, are the same. Gaining rating is a process of grappling with that.
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🧠🧠🧠 Off Book Rooks (Lost Piece Exercise)
October 1st, 2026 | 5 mins 22 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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🧠🧠 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.