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🧠🧠🧠 I'm a Survivor (Game Exercise)

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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.

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FeykineCevapAlanAdam vs Miasnik2511 (Lichess blitz, 2025)

e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 Nf6 4. Bd3 d5 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bc2 Nc6 7. d4 cxd4 8. cxd4 Bb4+ 9. Nc3 O-O 10. O-O Re8 11. a3 Ba5 12. b4 Bb6 13. Na4 Nf8 14. Bb2 Ne7 15. Nc5 a5 16. b5 Qc7 17. Na4 Bd7 18. Nxb6 Qxb6 19. a4 Rac8 20. Ba3 Rc7 21. Ng5 Neg6 22. Bc5 Rxc5 23. dxc5 Qxc5 24. Bxg6 Nxg6 25. Qh5 h6 26. Nf3 Rc8 27. Qg4 Qc3 28. Rfe1 Rc4 29. Qg3 b6 30. h4 Nf4 31. Kh2 Nd3 32. Red1 Qc2 33. Ne1 Nxe1 34. Rxe1 Qf5 35. f3 Qh5 36. Kh3 g5 37. Kh2 Rxh4+ 38. Kg1 Rc4 39. Rac1 Qg6 40. Rxc4 dxc4 41. f4 Qd3 42. Qxd3 cxd3 43. Rd1 1-0

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Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner — 🧠🧠🧠 I'm a Survivor (Game Exercise). Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

What follows is the notation from a full game of chess. There's no puzzle for you to solve, just explore the game on your mental board and seek to understand it. Pause and repeat as often as you need to. From the starting position, 1. E4. C5. 2. Night F3. E6. 3. C3. Night F6. 4. Bishop D3. D5. 5. E5. Night F2D7. 6. Bishop C2. Night C6. 7. D4. C takes D4. 8. C takes D4. Bishop B4. Check. 9. Night C3. Short Castle. 10. Short Castle. Rook E8. 11. A3. Bishop A5. 12. B4.

Bishop B6. 13. Night A4. Night F8. 14. Bishop B2. Night E7. 15. Night C5. A5. 16. B5. Queen C7. 17. Night A4. Bishop D7. 18. Night takes B6. Queen takes B6. 19. A4. Rook A to C8. 20. Bishop A3. Rook C7. 21. Night G5. Night E to G6. 22. Bishop C5. Rook takes C5. 23. D takes C5.

Queen takes C5. 24. Bishop takes G6. Night takes G6. 25. Queen H5. H6. 26. Night F3. Rook C8. 27. Queen G4. Queen C3. 28. Rook F to E1. Rook C4. 29. Queen G3. B6. 30. H4. Night F4. 31. King H2. Night D3. 32. Rook E to D1. Queen C2. 33. Night E1. Night takes E1. 34.

Rook takes E1. Queen F5. 35. F3. Queen H5. 36. King H3. G5. 37. King H2. Rook takes H4. Check. 38. King G1. Rook C4. 39. Rook A to C1. Queen G6. 40. Rook takes C4. D takes C4. 41. F4. Queen D3. 42. Queen takes D3. C takes D3. 43. Rook D1.

Queen D3. 43. Rook D1. If you want more exercises like this, head over to Don't Move Until You See. Don't It.

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