Visualization A Complete Guide for Tournament Players by CM Azel Chua Jul 18, 2025

See Up To 10 Moves Ahead With This
Intense 3-Tier Visualization
Training Program

Have you ever calculated the right line… only to reject it at the last second? Maybe you couldn’t find the finishing blow. Or worse, you found it, but the final position looked too “unclear.” That’s not a tactics problem. That’s a visualization problem. And in Visualization: A Complete Guide for Tournament Players, CM Azel Chua hands you the tools to fix it.

In this course, Chua blends a deep dive into visualization theory…

With 3 tiers of targeted exercises and near square-by-square guidance…

To sharpen every part of your chess vision!

Chua is a self-taught Candidate Master. He’s also the winner of the 4th Singapore Amateur Chess Championship.

As a Chessable author, he’s earned nearly 1,000 glowing reviews. Thanks to his pinpoint focus on the bread-and-butter skills that actually win games.

And today, Chua is here to do one thing:

Push Your Visualization Beyond
What You Thought Were Your Limits

Before you can achieve 20/20 chess vision, you first need to clear the smudges. You need to be aware of the mistakes and bad habits holding you back.

So in chapter 1, Chua zeroes in on:

🎯 Visualization Decay. It’s that creeping blur where tiny details start slipping from your mental board. A pawn grows fuzzy. Then a knight vanishes. You’ll see this decay in action — plus the right type of drills to combat this drop in picture quality.

🎯 The two types of memory that drive your ability to see ahead. One helps you map out plans and tactics. The other helps you keep track of the pieces, anchor them on their squares… and avoid blunders!

🎯 The myth of full board vision. Chasing it only burns your energy. Instead, you should build deep familiarity with these key connections on the board.

🎯 The 2 Kings Test. See for yourself if you’re actually visualizing or leaning on a crutch.

Now let’s be honest:

Most club players are yet to…

Experience Peak Chess Visualization

So in the 2nd chapter, Chua takes you on a guided session.

Only 4 moves deep. But you’ll see them with maximum clarity and barely a hint of decay.

He walks you through every change in the position.

From clear-cut captures to the shifting control of the squares — down to the subtle influence of the piece on the move.

Once you’ve felt this level of move-by-move mental clarity, your future training sessions will have a clear target.

Feel that sharp again!

To make that happen, Chua packs chapter 3 with 8 of his favorite training techniques, including:

🎯 Blind Tactics help you spot forks, skewers, and surprising shots hiding in lines which look harmless.

🎯 The Basic Piece Tour builds your ability to see every square a piece can reach.

🎯 Then the Advanced Piece Tour raises the stakes… adding an enemy piece, whose attacks you must avoid.

🎯 And to build your endurance in holding the board’s image in your mind, Chua teaches you how to play Assisted Blindfold Chess.

After trying them, you’ll be ready to visualize up to 3 moves ahead with minimal blur. But you’re just getting started!

Chapters 4, 5, and 6 hit you with guided exercises. So you cement the good habits you started, and stretch your vision to depths you never thought possible.

🎯 Beginner Exercises train you to see 4 to 6 moves ahead with confidence.

🎯 Intermediate Exercises push you to uncover tactics hiding 8 moves down the line.

🎯 And the Advanced Exercises raises you to oracle status, seeing lines up to 10 moves long!

By the end of this course, you won’t just “see a few moves ahead.”

You’ll map out the links between pawns, pieces, and squares. You’ll predict the flow of the game without touching the board.

And most importantly, you’ll trust what you see!

So instead of worrying if you’re chasing a pipe dream…

You play the winning move — confident that you’ve seen it through to the end.

Now don’t take our word for it.