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.

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PGN for today's exercise:

1. 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

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.

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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

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

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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!

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FEN for today's exercise:
7r/5pk1/6p1/3Pp1P1/p3PN2/Pp4n1/1P6/1KR5 w - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.

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.

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PGN for today's exercise:

1. 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.

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?

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FEN for today's exercise:
8/3n4/2k1b3/8/8/8/6PP/3Nb2K b - - 0 1

Answer at the end of the episode.

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

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.