Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

869 episodes of Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner since the first episode, which aired on August 25th, 2023.

  • 🧠 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.

  • 🧠 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?

  • 🧠 Never or Now (Position Exercise)

    September 7th, 2026  |  3 mins 59 secs
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    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!

  • 🧠🧠🧠 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.

  • 🧠🧠🧠 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?

  • 🧠 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.

  • 🧠 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.

  • 👨‍🏫 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.

  • 🧠🧠 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?

  • 🧠 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.