Blindfold chess
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you know how to play blindfold chess?.blindfold chess meants playing chess without a board or pieces using mind.How to play blindfold chess?players tell he played move.eg-e4 he tell that move then opponent say his move.This is a method for improve your mind.try it.It is easy or difficult?write a comment Share your ideas to me.Good Luck!😁👍🐍
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Apr 5, 2020
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MEMOIR updated 1/8/2020
Blindfold Chess
I have seen Geo Koltanowski play 30 games of blindfold chess without a problem. What an impression that did to me. In his book “Travels of a Chess Master” he explained the process he took to learn to play without pieces.
Geo said to both his parents, “Mom, dad, may I place a chess board on the ceiling above my bed?”
“What? Are you going to nail it up?”
“No, I will make a paper one, black and white. I will put it up with tacks. When I take it down there will be no damage.”
He never got permission to put it up. The way he remembered the moves was, every time he made one move, he would repeat all the previous moves. That made it easy to remember them.
I know most of you have a chess hero that you admire and George Koltanowski was mine.
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When I was 23 I was able to play a full game without the board or pieces against my co-worker Tim. We had to play like that so we wouldn’t get fired for playing chess while we were working.
We were caught playing with a regular set and warned once before.
We always had a chess board without any pieces on the workbench. Many times we were playing a game but nobody knew it. When one of us made a mistake we would have a discussion as to where the pieces were and we would keep the game going.
I believed that most every one can play a full game when they reach a "B" level. Tim and I learned out of necessity.
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Several years ago I taught and school chess at a elementary school. There were more students than I had chessboards. Of course, I improvised and doubled some of them up.
Two of the students had already played in my tournaments and they were eager just to play. I utilized the knowledgeable ones as tutors and they enjoyed that.
Most of the others were willing to learn since they were truly beginners. The class time passed quickly but I kept them trying new things that they never thought about in chess.
“Before you go home today I'll give you some homework to do.”
“Oh. No.” “Homework?” Were some of the comments I heard.
“It is going to be some fun stuff to do. It isn’t like math!.”
I gave them the homework to do. I showed them how to recognize the location that each piece is on.
I showed them the fool’s mate. I showed them how to avoid getting mated that way.
“Last thing I want to show you is how you can play chess blindfolded.”
“I can’t do that. I got to see this,” said one boy.
“Let me show you using this board. Look I move the white pawn to 1. e4 and the black pawn to 1. ... e5. Now I move the bishop to 2. Bc4 and then black to 2. ... Bc5. I move the knight 3. Nf3 and the black knight 3. ... Nc6. I castle 4. O - O and the black knight 4. Nf6. Thats all that are moved."
- e4e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. O-O Nf6
I pointed to each piece I had moved on my DEMO board ad I had the kids name the piece and the square they were on.
"Now I am going to cover the demo board. Ian come here and play black against me, making the same opening moves."
“Ok. But you might have to remind me what the move is.”
Now with just a empty boards between us and all the kids watching I said,
“I’m moving my pawn to e4. Ian can you picture that on the empty board.”
“I see it,” he said with a smile on his face.”
“Ok. It’s your move. Make it.”
Ian said, “Pawn to e5.”
“Ian, can you see both pawns? Where are the pawns?”
“Yours is on e4 and mine is on e5,” He said.
“All you guys can you see the pawns also?”
“Yes, Yeah, sure.” Were the responses.
“I know that you can't see them, but you know they are there. Ok my move. Bishop to c4. Your move Ian.”
“HUH . . . bishop to . . . c5 I think.”
“Perfect now my Knight to f3. Your move Ean, Look at the board.”
“Knight to hus . . c6.”
“Mine: bishop take pawn on f7 check. Your move.”
“hu . . . huh . . Hey You didn't show us that.“
"But can you see it Ean?"
"Yes I can. It was supposed to be the castle move."
"Ok that is enough for now. Ian I want you to tell me where are all the pieces that you and I moved. Where are they right now?”
Ian said, “Yours are, pawn on e4, Knight of f3, . . . bishop on f7 checking me. Those are all yours. Oh. . . Mine are, pawn on . . . e5, Bishop is on . . . c5, and the knight of c6 . . . Wait . . . I can see I am going to take your bishop with my king on my next move . . . ”
“Excellent, great job Ian. See? It can be done with some work. How about all you guys can you see them on the empty board? I know that it will take some practice to do that but you will be able to do some of it soon.”
I told them that by the end of the training in six weeks they would be able to do that also. You should have seen their eyes light up. Most of these were third graders. Ian was in the fifth grade.
I couldn't wait for the next lesson and see if their homework was done.
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Playing blindfold one chess game used to be considered akin witchcraft before the 19th century. Paulsen, Morphy and Blackburne did it regularly during the 19th century.
In the 20th century George Koltonowski and Najdorf played 30 and 40 games at a time and Fine played ten second moves, four blindfold games simultaneously.
Once the immortal British player Joseph Blackburn was playing a blindfold game and he announced, “I see a mate in 16.”
That astonished every one including the opponent. Of course it would be sooner if his opponent didn't make the best moves.
I know you do it. Actually you do it all the time when you make moves in your mind before making the actual move on the board.
Give it a shot see how far you can go.
Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.
Bye for now
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