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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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- 👨🏫 Remember Your Games (Insight) · 5 minWelcome to the Friday insight. The steps to learn one of the most coveted skills in Chess. Mentioned in this episode: • Learn more about the Conceptualization Club • Free…
- 🧠🧠🧠 I'll Be Amazed If You Find This (Find the Blunder Exercise) · 11 minFind 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…
- 🧠🧠 Devilish (Position Exercise) · 7 minPosition Exercise: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are and whose turn it is. Find the best move! To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It…
- 🧠 Sub-Optimal Start (Illegal Move Exercise) · 7 minIllegal Move Exercise: Somewhere in the game below is an illegal move. Find it and identify why it is illegal. To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free…
- 🧠 Not in This Line (Opening Exercise) · 5 minOpening 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 Four Things (Insight Rerun) · 11 minWelcome to the Friday insight. This is a rerun of one of the greatest hits as Aiden's been sick this week. Every move does four things. Noticing all of them is critical for…
- 🧠🧠🧠 Undercover Boss (Lost Piece Exercise) · 9 minLost 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? To learn more about Don't…
- 🧠🧠 Aiden and Abettin' (Find the Blunder Exercise) · 8 minFind 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…
- 🧠🧠 Unwell Bird of Prey (Illegal Move Exercise) · 7 minIllegal Move Exercise: Somewhere in the game below is an illegal move. Find it and identify why it is illegal. To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free…
- 🧠 Snug and Warm (Position Exercise) · 6 minPosition Exercise: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are and whose turn it is. Find the best move! To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It…
- 👨🏫 Diagnosing Muscle Mistakes (Insight) · 6 minWelcome to the Friday insight. A step-by-step through the process I use with coaching students to find why certain mistakes happened. Mentioned in this episode: • The Four…
- 🧠🧠🧠 Center Cannot Hold (Hybrid Exercise) · 9 minHybrid 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…
- 🧠🧠 As English as Bovril (Opening Exercise) · 8 minOpening 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…
- 🧠 Ain't No Sunshine (Lost Piece Exercise) · 4 minLost 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? To learn more about Don't…
- 🧠 Suspect Sequence (Illegal Move Exercise) · 4 minIllegal Move Exercise: Somewhere in the game below is an illegal move. Find it and identify why it is illegal. To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free…
- 👨🏫 Options Before Lines (Insight) · 5 minWelcome to the Friday insight. A more efficient thinking process to turn candidate moves into clear decisions. Mentioned in this episode: • Why Blindfold Series • Jessika's…
- 🧠🧠🧠 Shoot from Cover (Lost Piece Exercise) · 8 minLost 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? To learn more about Don't…
- 🧠🧠 Naaaaasty (Position Exercise) · 8 minPosition Exercise: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are and whose turn it is. Find the best move! To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It…
- 🧠 The Road Less Traveled (Find the Blunder Exercise) · 9 minFind 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…
- 🧠 Grateful for Greco (Opening Exercise) · 7 minOpening 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…
- 🧠🧠🧠 Hakki Hari Abu Dhabi (Position Exercise) · 6 minPosition Exercise: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are and whose turn it is. Find the best move! To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It…
- 🧠🧠 Geometrick (Find the Blunder Exercise) · 5 minFind 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…
- 🧠 Banana Kick (Hybrid Exercise) · 4 minHybrid 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…
- 👨🏫 What I Don't Yet Know (Insight) · 5 minWelcome to the Friday insight. 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…
- 🧠🧠 Find the Strengths (Position Exercise) · 8 minPosition Exercise: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are and whose turn it is. Find the best move! To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It…
- 🧠 Nailicis (Opening Exercise) · 7 minOpening 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…
- 🧠 Tower of Darkness (Lost Piece Exercise) · 5 minLost 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? To learn more about Don't…
- 👨🏫 Throughlines, Conceptualization and Rating Part 7 (Insight) · 9 minWelcome to the Friday insight. This is the seventh and final part of the Conceptualization and Rating series. Human brains are human brains. Regardless of our Chess rating, the…
- 🧠🧠🧠 Off Book Rooks (Lost Piece Exercise) · 5 minLost 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? To learn more about Don't…
- 🧠🧠 Normal 'Til It's Not (Illegal Move Exercise) · 6 minIllegal 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…
- 🧠 Arms Too Long (Opening Exercise) · 6 minOpening 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…
- 🧠 Themistocles' Note (Position Exercise) · 5 minPosition Exercise: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are and whose turn it is. Find the best move! To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It…
- 👨🏫 Data Before Meaning, Conceptualization and Rating Part 6 (Insight) · 10 minWelcome to the Friday insight. This is Part 6 of the Conceptualization and Rating series kicked off a few weeks ago. The brain wants to filter our thinking down to a "point"…
- 👨🏫 Frames on Demand, Conceptualization and Rating Part 5 (Insight Episode) · 9 minWelcome to the Friday insight (on Thursday this week because we're catching up). This is Part 4 of the Conceptualization and Rating series kicked off a few weeks ago. Under…
- 👨🏫 Challenge of Short Calculations, Conceptualization and Rating Part 4 (Insight Episode) · 8 minWelcome to the Friday insight (on Thursday this week because we're catching up). This is Part 4 of the Conceptualization and Rating series kicked off a few weeks ago…
- 🧠 Zeroed In (Position Exercise) · 5 minPosition Exercise: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are and whose turn it is. Find the best move! To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It…
- 🧠 The Rules Gambit (Illegal Move Exercise) · 6 minIllegal 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…
- 🧠 Left with Nothing (Lost Piece Exercise) · 4 minLost 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? To learn more about Don't…
- 🧠 Never or Now (Position Exercise) · 4 minPosition Exercise: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are and whose turn it is. Find the best move! To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It…
- 🧠🧠🧠 Knaak For It (Hybrid Exercise) · 7 minHybrid 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…
- 🧠🧠🧠 Never the Same Piece Twice (Find the Blunder Exercise) · 11 minFind 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…
- 🧠 Long Arm of the Law (Awareness Exercise) · 9 minAwareness Exercise: Listen to the locations of all the pieces in the position, then answer the questions to test your awareness. To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It…
- 🧠 Natural Sprinters (Hybrid Exercise) · 6 minHybrid 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…
- 👨🏫 Patterns Don't Always Help Us (Insight Episode) · 11 minWelcome to the Friday insight. This is a quick aside for the ongoing "Conceptualization and Rating" series on the Friday Insight. You can find the first part on the pod a couple…
- 🧠🧠 Elimination Process (Lost Piece Exercise) · 7 minLost 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? To learn more about Don't…
- 🧠 Severed Heaven (Position Exercise) · 7 minPosition Exercise: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are and whose turn it is. Find the best move! To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It…
- 🧠 Help Center (Find the Blunder Exercise) · 9 minFind 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…
- 🧠 Bishop on a Bishop (Awareness Exercise) · 7 minAwareness Exercise: Listen to the locations of all the pieces in the position, then answer the questions to test your awareness. To get comfy with your square colors, spend a…
- 👨🏫 Building to 1000, Conceptualization and Rating Part 2 (Insight Episode) · 10 minWelcome to the Friday insight. This is part two for the ongoing "Conceptualization and Rating" series on the Friday Insight. Find the first part in last week's insight episode…
- 🧠🧠 Tasty Potshots (Opening Exercise) · 10 minOpening 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…
