How Practicing Blindfold Chess Boosted My Visualization

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I honestly do have plans for this actually! Because I see the point, you're trying to visualize a board, with a set amount of pieces, constantly. This is my problem too, whenever I go into a puzzle, I try to solve it visualizing just like that, and then I find myself stuck because I can no longer visualize from there, I have to restart over.

Honestly this makes sense and I would be eager to try it: do you have any blindfold tutorials or a step-by-step guide to this?

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This is another game in which I played blindfolded, this time with an increment, and I am quite surprised in how well I am doing in the opening, even blindfolded, in this game I blundered an easy tactic, that of course playing normally I am quite sure I would have seen, but that's why we train to be able to see this tactics even blindfolded.

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If you want to look at the game, normally without being blindfolded:

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@Flan I will do an step by step guide for this type of training it will be posted in 3 or 4 hours

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This is the guide, to play blindfold chess: https://youtu.be/0VuQhJT7iDk

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Another analysis

I did about a blindfold game, I have introduced this into my training plan in a consistent way: it was a bit dissapointing the disconnection of my opponent since I play just 1 blindfold game in my training plan

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a game I played blindfolded: I still have trouble to visualize correctly the board, and I get confused where my pieces are, but I am slowly improving in it: https://www.chess.com/game/138826304790

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another blindfold game, of my training plan, I blundered a pawn in the opening and it just went from bad to worse, and I could not make a comeback, I even hung mate in the end:

https://www.chess.com/game/138883562322?action=createLiveChallenge&move=52

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@bunchofZs(I’m not counting them sorry)44, that’s still a pretty good game though! Impressive, for blindfold. Do you try to play more unrated games/are your opponents also playing blindfold?

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@bunchofZs(I’m not counting them sorry)44, that’s still a pretty good game though! Impressive, for blindfold. Do you try to play more unrated games/are your opponents also playing blindfold?

I play a normal rated game and I put my pieces in blindfold mode, I have in my training plan 3 days that consist in 1 hour of tactics and then a blindfold game

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I usually analyse games, then after having finished my study session I learn the game by heart. When I am travelling I replay the games blind. The advantage is that one needs to figure out the reasons behind the moves, so everything makes sense.

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Would this work with the blindfold chess variant on chess.com?

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Piglin151 wrote:

Does this work with the blindfold chess variant on chess.com?

i wouldnt say it would be as efficient, since you can still see the layout of the board

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True, ok

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Some time ago, I stumbled upon a web app called "Chess Memory Trainer" which allows you to practice visualization.

I haven't used it regularly but I think it could be very useful. Chess.com could incorporate such training tools.

Related forum topic:

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-memory-trainer-1

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ok struggling with long calculations will try this!