Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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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PGN for today's exercise:

e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nd5 Bc5 5. Bc4 0-0 *

And the answer is...

White's move 4. Nd5 is illegal because the Knight cannot jump there from f3, and the other Knight is still on b1.

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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FEN for today's exercise:

8/8/8/8/2r5/kBr5/P2N4/1K6 b - - 0 1

And the answer is...

1... Rc1#

Game Exercise: Close your eyes and follow along with an entire Chess game using the audio below. On each move, try to conceptualize the position clearly and understand how it has changed. Try to follow the game until the end to stretch the amount of moves you can see ahead.

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PGN for today's exercise:

Tal vs Hjartarson (Reykjavik, 1987)

e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3 d6 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2 Bd7 13. Nf1 cxd4 14. cxd4 Rac8 15. Ne3 Nc6 16. d5 Nb4 17. Bb1 a5 18. a3 Na6 19. b4 g6 20. Bd2 axb4 21. axb4 Qb7 22. Bd3 Nc7 23. Nc2 Nh5 24. Be3 Ra8 25. Qd2 Rxa1 26. Nxa1 f5 27. Bh6 Ng7 28. Nb3 f4 29. Na5 Qb6 30. Rc1 Ra8 31. Qc2 Nce8 32. Qb3 Bf6 33. Nc6 Nh5 34. Qb2 Bg7 35. Bxg7 Kxg7 36. Rc5 Qa6 37. Rxb5 Nc7 38. Rb8 Qxd3 39. Ncxe5 Qd1+ 40. Kh2 Ra1 41. Ng4+ Kf7 42. Nh6+ Ke7 43. Ng8+ { 1-0 } *

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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PGN for today's exercise:

d4 d5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 e6 4. Nf3 c5 5. Nbd2 Qa5 6. c3 Qd8 7. Nb3 c4 8. Nbd2 Be7 9. g4 Bd7 10. Ne5 h6 11. Bg2 Na6 12. h4 O-O 13. g5 hxg5 14. hxg5 Ne4 *

And the answer is...

Qh5 g6 16. Qh7#

Game Exercise: Close your eyes and follow along with an entire Chess game using the audio below. On each move, try to conceptualize the position clearly and understand how it has changed. Try to follow the game until the end to stretch the amount of moves you can see ahead.

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PGN for today's exercise:

[Event "FCC - Nordic Chessboxing Fight Night"] [White "Tuukka Repo"] [Black "Sakari 'Horse Attack' Lahderinne"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bb4 5. Nge2 O-O 6. O-O Re8 7. f4 d6 8. a3 Bc5+ 9. d4 exd4 10. Nxd4 Nxd4 11. Kh1 Nc6 12. b4 Bg4 13. Qe1 Nd4 14. bxc5 Nxc2 15. Qg3 Nxa1 16. Rd1 Bxd1 17. e5 dxe5 18. fxe5 Rxe5 19. Bh6 Qe8 20. Qxg7# 1-0