Train Your Chess Visualization

Most players do not calculate badly because they lack understanding.

They calculate badly because the position becomes unclear in their mind. After a few moves, they can no longer visualize the board accurately enough to trust their calculation.

Visualwize trains the skill behind clear calculation: the ability to keep track of moves and positions clearly in your mind.

The Training

Visualwize exercises require you to follow a short sequence of moves, visualize the position you reached, and then try to find the tactic from there. The moves are shown with arrows, not notation, so you can stay focused on the board.

This helps you practice:

• seeing moves ahead
• holding positions in your mind
• calculating without moving the pieces
• spotting tactics after visualizing a sequence

I have seen this type of exercise produce real progress again and again. If you work through the exercises with full focus, it can transform the way you calculate, visualize, and spot tactics.

Why It Is Different

Most chess puzzles ask you to find a tactic in the position already shown on the board.

Visualwize is different. First, you must visualize a sequence of moves in your mind. Then you have to hold the final position clearly enough to find the tactic.

You are not just solving puzzles. You are training the exact mental skill needed to calculate during a real game.

Two Levels

Visualwize exercises are arranged in two levels.

Level 1 builds the foundation with shorter move sequences.

Level 2 increases the challenge with longer move sequences, so you need to visualize more moves before finding the tactic.

Try It First

The best way to understand Visualwize is to try a few examples.

Get Full Access

The full training gives you many more carefully selected exercises in both levels.

Work through them seriously, and your visualization can become a skill you rely on whenever you need to calculate further ahead.

(Launch on Thursday, 27 August 2026.)