me too jaller lol.  Just goes to show the power of the mind...and visualization.  There's all sorts of research into how visualization works - a basketball team scores more points per game when they visualize...it's another form of practice...actually like "muscle memory"...but with your "brain muscle" lol.

must be tremendously hard to play blindfolded, its hard for me to visualize the entire board on its one

thank you.

In Birmingham on 27, August, 1858 Morphy blinfolded on 8 chessboard all ot once.

The result after five hours and 15 minutes: win 6, draw 1, lost 1.

The opponent Dr. Jabez Carr was the secretary of Leamington Chess Club and uncle of later chessplayer G.S. Carr.

After 20.Bh6+! obviously that mat in 7.

On this thumbnail picture Morphy is playing in Paris Opera House the wonder-party. (painting)

You can find still one Morphy game at me in the blog.

 

My Morphy database has the game end with 23.Kf2. It is listed as played in Birmingham, but omits that it was a blindfold game. Incidentally, my notes show 15.Be3 Bxf6 (or Rg8) 16.Qh5 mates by move 22.

That was great. Thanks a lot Eric.

I'm new to chess and even I saw a number of very poor moves by black.

yea, 15 turn could be better

 

     Clinical.Good lesson.

AJDONLEY said:

"...I once played a match that went so wrong the opponent actually flipped the board. Pieces everywhere. I was speechless. He was off the team."

 

I believe that's called The Schmidlap Maneuver and it's a relatively obscure but highly effective tactic that I have found to be extremely useful in certain types of endgame positions in which the outcome is both inevitable and unfavorable.  I highly recommend it's use in OTB games.

pretty good

Look, some people are not geting the blindfolded thing here. Morphy was blind folded, and the other guy had to tell him his mooves out loud. The thing is he had to memorize de board. He didn't had the facility of vizualization.

If I would play against a blindfolded guy, I would place a bishop in an odd place, and go on with the game without it. The blunder would come sometime. I think the hardest thing to control are the diagonals. It's easy to simply forget where that piece was if it's not in the main action for a long time. So, another strategy would be to make the game last as long as possible, closing my defence and evoiding trades.

Fun stuff. I once played a match that went so wrong the opponent actually flipped the board. Pieces everywhere. I was speechless. He was off the team.

 

thanks for posting it...

he can't play 15 Qh5 because of 15... Qxd4+, 16 Kh1 Qh4.

What an amazing display of chess prowess by the brilliant chess champion Paul Morphy who was handicapped by a blindfold. Very impressive. Thanks so much, FM Eric Schiller, for sharing this very interesting game with the chess.com community.

blindfolded?....wow!.......

Well I understand his opponent tried to lay something completely different from he main lines so he wouldn't have pictured it before, but it was clearly underestimatin Fisher's mind abilities.  Maybe some  opennin more practical ould have been more interesting in terms of chance of winning against Fisher.

I find this game interesting because we all know how important it is to play for the center, nevertheless it isn't always easy to defeat a player who ignores that theoretical basic rule of chess. 

How do they play blindfloded games?How do players recognize pieces and pawns?

This is a general query ...unrelated to this game.

No, this game is played where Morphy is the only one blindfolded.