🧠🧠🧠 ...Isn't the Word (Game Exercise)

About this episode

This episode features a game exercise designed to improve chess visualization skills by following an entire game audibly.

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. 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: sirkhay vs giasson (Lichess blitz, 2025) 1. f4 g6 2. e3 f5 3. d4 Bg7 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Be2 d6 6. O-O c6 7. c3 O-O 8. Ng5 h6 9. Nf3 Qe8 10. Bc4+ d5 11. Bd3 Nbd7 12. Ne5 Nxe5 13. fxe5 Ne4 14. Nd2 Be6 15. Rf3 g5 16. Nxe4 dxe4 17. Bxe4 fxe4 18. Rg3 Qd7 19. Bd2 c5 20. Qe2 b6 21. a3 Rf7 22. h4 g4 23. Kh2 h5 24. Qd1 Raf8 25. Qc2 Bd5 26. c4 Bb7 27. Bc3 Rf2 28. Qb3 e6 29. dxc5 Qe7 30. cxb6 Qxh4+ 31. Kg1 Qxg3 0-1

People in this episode

Host: Aiden Rayner

Topics covered

• chess
• visualization
• game exercise
• conceptualization
• strategy

Keywords

• chess
• visualization
• game exercise
• conceptualization
• strategy
• audio chess
• Lichess

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Don't Move Until You See It

Books & works: sirkhay vs giasson

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