Podcast Episodes

🧠 Severed Heaven (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 Do…

7 hours ago

🧠 Help Center (Find the Blunder Exercise)

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…

1 day, 7 hours ago

🧠 Bishop on a Bishop (Awareness Exercise)

Awareness Exercise: Listen to the locations of all the pieces in the position, then answer the questions to test your awareness.

To get comfy with yo…

2 days, 7 hours ago

👨‍🏫 Building to 1000, Conceptualization and Rating Part 2 (Insight Episode)

Welcome to the Friday insight. This is part two for the ongoing "Conceptualization and Rating" series on the Friday Insight. Find the first part in l…

5 days, 6 hours ago

🧠🧠 Tasty Potshots (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 …

6 days, 7 hours ago

🧠🧠 Chances Come Once (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, tr…

1 week ago

🧠 Jump the Gun (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 ille…

1 week, 1 day ago

🧠 Stretched Further (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 …

1 week, 2 days ago

🧠 Hopping Mad (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…

1 week, 3 days ago

⚡️ What 1800s Are Missing (Quick Lesson)

In my work with 1800 and 2000 rated students, I've seen two common areas for improvement that seem to mark the difference between players at that lev…

1 week, 4 days ago