Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner
Train your Chess brain while on the go!
Displaying items 11-20 of 841 in total of Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner with the tag "visualization".
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🧠🧠 Seventh Haven (Lost Piece Exercise)
August 5th, 2026 | 6 mins 58 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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🧠 Data First (Opening Exercise)
August 4th, 2026 | 5 mins 3 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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🧠 Rook Endings (Vigilance Exercise)
August 3rd, 2026 | 5 mins 40 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
Vigilance Exercise: Follow the sequence of moves from a position and decide at the end which of two moves should be played.
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🚶♂️Resisting the Obvious Move (Walkthrough)
August 2nd, 2026 | 45 mins 37 secs
chess, conceptualization, visualization
Some moves seem so obvious they shut down our brain and cause us to play without thinking. Here's a walkthrough with a great example and some advice on resisting that.
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🎉 Models of the Masters (Saturday Fun Episode)
August 1st, 2026 | 34 mins 16 secs
chess, conceptualization, visualization
I discuss the conceptualization spectrum and break down some of the most interesting models I've run into in my half-decade of researching this stuff. And I try (and fail) not to go on tangents about cool Chess conceptualization stories.
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⚡️ Aphantasia and the Visual-Verbal Spectrum
July 31st, 2026 | 14 mins 53 secs
chess, conceptualization, visualization
If you can't create pictures in your head, does that mean you must use words instead? I break down some new insights I've run into, and suggest that may not be the case.
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🧠🧠🧠 The Spice Melange (Vigilance Exercise)
July 30th, 2026 | 11 mins 13 secs
chess, exercise, visualization
Vigilance Exercise: Follow the sequence of moves from a position and decide at the end which of two moves should be played.
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🧠🧠 One Needle, Big Haystack (Position Exercise)
July 29th, 2026 | 6 mins 19 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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🧠 Splayed Out (Awareness Exercise)
July 28th, 2026 | 6 mins 16 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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🧠 Jaws of a Draw (Hybrid Exercise)
July 27th, 2026 | 5 mins 50 secs
chess, 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.