🧠🧠 Normal 'Til It's Not (Illegal Move Exercise)

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   7 Oct 2026 · 8 min

   🧠🧠 Find the Strengths (Position Exercise)

   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! 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: 7r/5pk1/6p1/3Pp1P1/p3PN2/Pp4n1/1P6/1KR5 w - - 0 1 Answer at the end of the episode.

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   6 Oct 2026 · 7 min

   🧠 Nailicis (Opening Exercise)

   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: c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bg2 Nb6 6. d3 Be7 7. Bd2 O-O 8. Qc2 Be6 * Answer at the end of the episode.

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   5 Oct 2026 · 5 min

   🧠 Tower of Darkness (Lost Piece Exercise)

   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: 8/3n4/2k1b3/8/8/8/6PP/3Nb2K b - - 0 1 Answer at the end of the episode.

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   2 Oct 2026 · 9 min

   👨‍🏫 Throughlines, Conceptualization and Rating Part 7 (Insight)

   Welcome 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 sorts of errors we make, their causes, are the same. Gaining rating is a process of grappling with that. Mentioned in this episode: The Four Things Vacated Squares The Why Blindfold series For more articles like this, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/articles And to learn more about the Don't Move membership, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/join

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   1 Oct 2026 · 5 min

   🧠🧠🧠 Off Book Rooks (Lost Piece Exercise)

   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: 4R1R1/1R6/7R/3R4/R4R2/2q5/7R/1R3R2 w - - 0 1 Answer at the end of the episode.

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   29 Sep 2026 · 6 min

   🧠 Arms Too Long (Opening Exercise)

   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: d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 c5 4. Bh3 * Answer at the end of the episode.

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   28 Sep 2026 · 5 min

   🧠 Themistocles' Note (Position Exercise)

   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! 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: kn6/p7/PP6/K7/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1 Answer at the end of the episode.

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   25 Sep 2026 · 10 min

   👨‍🏫 Data Before Meaning, Conceptualization and Rating Part 6 (Insight)

   Welcome 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". Breaking through and beyond 1800 is in large part about resisting that. For more articles like this, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/articles And to learn more about the Don't Move membership, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/join

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   25 Sep 2026 · 9 min

   👨‍🏫 Frames on Demand, Conceptualization and Rating Part 5 (Insight Episode)

   Welcome 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 pressure, our brains simplify the position for us before we even get a chance to think about it for ourselves. These "frames" affect so much of our thinking, and breaking through 1500 is about breaking those frames. For more articles like this, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/articles And to learn more about the Don't Move membership, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/join

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    24 Sep 2026 · 8 min

    👨‍🏫 Challenge of Short Calculations, Conceptualization and Rating Part 4 (Insight Episode)

    Welcome 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. Conceptualization at 1200 is all about the short calculation. Here's the challenges of that and how to approach it. For more articles like this, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/articles And to learn more about the Don't Move membership, head to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/join