🧠🧠 Find the Strengths (Position Exercise)

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   15 Oct 2026 · 6 minNew

   🧠🧠🧠 Hakki Hari Abu Dhabi (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: 6k1/2p3pp/4bp2/8/1p2PP2/rPn5/1RN1BKPP/8 b - - 0 1 Answer at the end of the episode. Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic Hakki vs Harikrishna (Abu Dhabi, 2004)

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   14 Oct 2026 · 5 minNew

   🧠🧠 Geometrick (Find the Blunder Exercise)

   Find 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 identify which move should have been played 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: Nf3 c5 2. d4 Nf6 3. Bf4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Bxe5 Bc5 6. Nc3 Bxd4 7. Qxd4 Nc6 8. Qf4 O-O * Answer at the end of the episode. Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

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   13 Oct 2026 · 4 minNew

   🧠 Banana Kick (Hybrid Exercise)

   Hybrid 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 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: 7k/7p/7K/8/8/7N/8/5r2 b - - 0 1 PGN for today's exercise: 1... Rf8 2. Ng5 Rg8 * Answer at the end of the episode. Exercise designed by WFM Tihana Ivekovic

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   9 Oct 2026 · 5 min

   👨‍🏫 What I Don't Yet Know (Insight)

   Welcome 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 learning it all. Mentioned in this episode: The List of Things I Don't Know David C. Baker's "Getting to Know" article 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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   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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   30 Sep 2026 · 6 min

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

   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: e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 Nd6 6. Nxe5 Be7 7. Bf1 Nxe5 8. Rxe5 O-O 9. d4 Bf6 10. Re1 Re8 11. c3 Rxe1 12. Qxe1 d6 13. Bf4 Bf5 14. Nd2 c6 15. Nf3 Qc7 * Answer at the end of…