Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

Train your Chess brain while on the go!

Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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

  • 🧠 Severed Heaven (Position Exercise)

    August 26th, 2026  |  7 mins 24 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!

  • 🧠 Help Center (Find the Blunder Exercise)

    August 25th, 2026  |  9 mins 11 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?

  • 🧠 Bishop on a Bishop (Awareness Exercise)

    August 24th, 2026  |  7 mins 13 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.

  • 👨‍🏫 Building to 1000, Conceptualization and Rating Part 2 (Insight Episode)

    August 21st, 2026  |  10 mins 22 secs
    chess, conceptualization, visualization

    Starting out with Chess is tough on the brain. Here are the key conceptualization skills you need to finally reach 1000.

  • 🧠🧠 Tasty Potshots (Opening Exercise)

    August 20th, 2026  |  9 mins 52 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.

  • 🧠🧠 Chances Come Once (Hybrid Exercise)

    August 19th, 2026  |  5 mins 44 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.

  • 🧠 Jump the Gun (Illegal Move Exercise)

    August 18th, 2026  |  7 mins 1 sec
    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.

  • 🧠 Stretched Further (Opening Exercise)

    August 17th, 2026  |  5 mins 32 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.

  • 🧠 Hopping Mad (Lost Piece Exercise)

    August 16th, 2026  |  4 mins 13 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?

  • ⚡️ What 1800s Are Missing (Quick Lesson)

    August 15th, 2026  |  14 mins 21 secs
    chess, conceptualization, visualization

    In my work with 1800 and 2000 rated students, I've seen two common areas for improvement that seem to mark the difference between players at that level and the level above. Here's what they are and how to train them.

  • 👨‍🏫 Conceptualization and Rating (Insight Episode)

    August 14th, 2026  |  8 mins 42 secs
    chess, conceptualization, visualization

    Today we kick off a new series walking you through key rating milestones and exactly what conceptualizations skills are most important to master at each one.

  • 🧠🧠🧠 One Anand Done (Position Exercise)

    August 13th, 2026  |  6 mins 7 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!

  • 🧠🧠 Hold a Candelario (Awareness Exercise)

    August 12th, 2026  |  5 mins 55 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.

  • 🧠 One Point Down (Hybrid Exercise)

    August 11th, 2026  |  4 mins 47 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.

  • 🧠 Grobtastic (Find the Blunder Exercise)

    August 10th, 2026  |  5 mins 27 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?

  • 🚶‍♂️ Both Sides of the Move (Walkthrough)

    August 9th, 2026  |  32 mins 44 secs
    chess, conceptualization, visualization

    If we only pay attention to what the piece is doing on its new square, we miss all the things it's no longer doing on its old. And that's where many opportunities are missed and blunders are made.