Blind Chess

I think blind chess is hard. Does anyone want to verse me in it right now??

Rules:

- Only 1 person can verse me

- We will keep writing down our moves until the game is over.

- Cheat if you want to, but try not to :L

Anyone?? (My Online Chess rating is 1217)

First person to reply with first move is the person I will verse.

I will be any colour of your choosing(: Gg

If you want to try to learn to play blind (and it is hard, IMO) then I think you should try it with a friend where you can play OTB.  Have him use a board, you play blind, he tells you his moves, you tell him, he controls the board and writes down all the moves for both players.

If you want to play against someone with both of you playing blind, you need a 3rd person to keep a real board, verify moves are legal, and keep a scoresheet.

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If you don't have a 3rd party mediating, then you don't have a scoresheet or a board to refer back to in case there is a discrepency.  One of you claims it's mate, one of you claims it's not mate, and neither of you has any way of proving it.  One of  you claims "My rook is on h1 and it can capture your queen at H5".  the other guy claims "No, you moved your rook to g1" - no way for either to prove it.

This may not be a problem if you have two strong players who are good at blindfold chess, but for lower level players, it's almost certain that at some point, someone is going to try to make an illegal move or something.  Someone is going to get lost.

If you have a referee, keeping a scoresheet and "working the board", you can resolve that kind of thing. 

Also, if you try to play "blind" chess online, by posting your move, then waiting for the other guy to post, do you get to go back and look at the posts, which will essentially be a scoresheet?  In a real OTB blind chess game, you wouldn't be able to.  But in a real game, you only need to remember the moves long enough to play that game, which might be 10 minutes or an hour or something.  Online, at the speed that "Online Chess" goes, it could be for a week, a month....

Even for blindfold-beginners, a reconstruction otb after someone has lost the position will settle things, so long as both are being honest.

Also, as someone who considers using a scoresheet as a not-quite-true-blindfold, one may have a voice recorder running during the game, and consulting it would certainly show what happened.

More convenient than keeping a third party throughout the game, anyway.

The voice recording might work.  Come to think of it, you could each have a notepad and write one move at a time, one move on each page, then flip the page. Not allowed to go back and look until the game is over, but that way you would be able to rebuild the game.

I have no faith at all that newer player would be able to reconstruct the game afterwards, and find it easy to believe that you would just end up with "No, I didn't do that, I did this" arguments.  Not because of anyone being dishonest, I just don't think that most players can remember a blindfold game move by move without mistakes.  Maybe that's because when I've tried it, I suck at it.  :)

Note that the 3rd party I recommend doesn't have to be a good player at all, they just have to know the basic rules and notation.

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