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  • 🧠🧠🧠 Lost Another Castle (Lost Piece Exercise)

    🧠🧠🧠 Lost Another Castle (Lost Piece Exercise)
    Jul 6 2025
    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? To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization FEN for today's exercise: r3k1nr/pp3ppp/2p1b3/1n5q/1bN5/1P4PP/PQP2PBB/5RK1 w kq - 0 1 And the answer is... Rd3
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    2 min
  • ❓ Easy Is Too Hard (Q&A)

    ❓ Easy Is Too Hard (Q&A)
    Jul 5 2025
    Aiden answers your questions about conceptualization and making the adult brain better at Chess. Send your questions to @AidenAtDontMove on Twitter, or aiden@dontmoveuntilyousee.it Read the series about mantras and taming your intuition here: https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/your-enthusiastic-friend To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization
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    10 min
  • 🧠🧠 Sneaky Scandi (Find the Blunder Exercise)

    🧠🧠 Sneaky Scandi (Find the Blunder Exercise)
    Jul 4 2025
    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? To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization PGN for today's exercise: 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd8 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. d4 e6 6. Be3 Be7 7. Bd3 O-O 8. Qe2 Re8 9. O-O-O e5 10. Rhe1 e4 11. Nxe4 Nxe4 12. Bxe4 Nd7 13. Kb1 Nf6 14. Bg5 Nxe4 15. Qxe4 f6 * And the answer is... 10. dxe5 Ng4 11. Bxh7+ Kxh7 12. Rxd8 Bxd8
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    3 min
  • ⚡ Leftover Stories (Quick Lesson)

    ⚡ Leftover Stories (Quick Lesson)
    Jul 3 2025
    A quick lesson in conceptualization from Aiden at Don’t Move Until You See It. To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization
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    8 min
  • 🧠 The Trickier Rules (Illegal Move Exercise)

    🧠 The Trickier Rules (Illegal Move Exercise)
    Jun 30 2025
    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. To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization PGN for today's exercise: 1. e4 d5 2. e5 c5 3. c3 Nc6 4. d4 h5 5. e6 f5 6. exf6 gxf6 7. Bd3 e5 8. dxe5 fxe5 * And the answer is... White’s move 6. exf6 is illegal as that’s not how en passant works. White’s pawn needed to be on e5, and not e6, to capture on f6 with en passant.
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    2 min
  • 🧠🧠🧠 This Carlsen Guy Seems Ok (Opening Exercise)

    🧠🧠🧠 This Carlsen Guy Seems Ok (Opening Exercise)
    Jun 29 2025
    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. To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization PGN for today's exercise: Carlsen vs Harestad (Copenhagen, 2003) 2. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7. Re1 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2 Nc6 13. d5 Nd8 14. a4 Ra7 15. Nf1 g6 16. Bh6 Re8 17. Ng3 Nd7 18. Nh2 f6 19. Be3 Nb6 20. axb5 axb5 21. Bd3 Bd7 22. Qd2 Nf7 23. Rxa7 Qxa7 24. Qe2 Qa6 25. Ng4 Kg7 26. Bc1 Na4 27. Bc2 Ra8 28. Qe3 c4 29. Rf1 Nc5 30. Nh6 Ng5 31. f4 exf4 32. Qxf4 Bxh3 33. Qh4 Bd7 34. e5 dxe5 35. Nh5+ gxh5 * And the answer is... 36. Qxg5+ fxg5 (36... Kh8 37. Nf7#) 37. Rf7+ Kxh6 (37... Kh8 38. Rxh7#) 38. Rxh7#
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    5 min