What’s the best way to learn blindfold chess?

What is the best way to learn blindfold chess? I’ve always been pretty fascinated by it and would like to learn how to do it.

Probably by doing it, or visualizing a lot more in puzzles.

yeah I think you just do it thats bout it as long as you can visualize the board and every move and know chess notation I think you can do it

What should it have been under then. I can switch it if you would like

Idk I would still call myself a beginner and blind chess is pretty big to improve

You know, the idea of all these masters being able to play multiple games of chess blindfolded is one of the things that drew me to being interested in chess at such an "old" age of 31 (old for chess I mean, of course). I've been doing the "vision" exercises on here under the Learn section and I can say that really helped. Practicing visualizing the board and learning to see the diagonals and how knights can move (knights were the hardest at first for me). I'm not good at blindfold chess but now when I'm getting to where when 10+ moves are called out over audio commentary I listen to as I go to sleep I'll be able to visualize it in my head when I used to get lost within a few moves before. I'm still a beginner but I think the trick is just to keep practicing your visualization skills and familiarity with the board because I can tell from the practice I've done that you have to instantly be able to know all the squares any piece can move to from it's given square from any location on the board as pretty much second nature, without sitting there contemplating it too much, which takes a lot of practice for most of us I'm sure!

Just try. Pick an opponent who is much weaker than you, but not so weak that he makes illegal moves. Play the white pieces, easier to visualise. Arrange for a quiet environment to help you concentrate.

Thank you so much!

Maybe I can get my little brother to play with me lol

try to memorize up to 15 moves of your favorite opening. this exercise will help you.

Yes that's a very good idea!

I just played multiple blindfold games against lower-rated players and learned by trial and error (in unrated of course). 

It's also not as hard as you think it is, especially at your level

If u study chess enough ur gonna get to where u visualize the board and pieces mentally. It may be different for different people. 

i never consciously learned blindfold chess. i can visualize a board full of pieces and move them around. i find it harder to setup a specific position in my head to analyze, but still doable. i think mainly analyzing and solving will get you there even if you don't specifically train for it. that's what i did. i know there are lots of targeted lessons out there, but the visualization part you have to practice, and i think it's better to do that while analyzing instead of just practicing visualization per se.

I downloaded the app called "Blindfol Chess Offline" and it's really helpful. It teaches you to visualize the board 4x4 squares at a time (the colour and names of the squares and to visualize moving different pieces on those squares)

Yes I hope it is not super hard to do. It might be kinda a cool thing to show off to my friends lol!

Yeah ig as long as I keep studying over time I should be able to do it.

Yes I think analyzing positions should help a lot!