Blindfold Chess, Anyone tried it, Any tips on how to improve!!?
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Bogopawn657
Apr 28, 2024
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Has anyone tried blindfold Chess, if so be interested how you visualise yourself during play, Any tips on how to improve!?
I do a little but find I struggle to do more than one game with quality play, have done two but then my quality of play suffers somewhat Any advice from others who have tried this!
1.) I tend to keep my eyes open when blindfold is on ...2.) I tend to visualise the board in my head in sections/Area's of play!?
I wonder if one should be viewing the whole board as a whole but struggle to visualise in this way?!
Anyone who has any tips who has been more successful than myself welcome your thoughts!!
'van Dam tried it in Blloodsport.
Now for def music. That's something else.
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"I do a little but find I struggle to do more than one game with quality play"
++ That is normal. If you play two normal games simultaneously seeing the boards,
it is more difficult than one game as well as you have to split your attention.
"1.) I tend to keep my eyes open when blindfold"
++ I close them. Eliminate sources of noise: as you do not see, you hear better.
"2.) I tend to visualise the board in my head in sections/Area's of play!?"
++ Yes, about 1/4 of the board.
"if one should be viewing the whole board" ++ No. When you see the board you also focus on part of it. Your eyes wander from one section to the other.
Likewise blindfolded your mental vision should also wander from one section to the other.
Begin by visualizing simple positions and gradually work your way up to more complex ones as you become more comfortable.
I won't try blindfold chess. It is a parlor trick. Gullible people follow these parlor tricks instead of relying on real cognitive psychology science.
Example: People learning Chinese characters by making up their own mnemonics instead of looking the real etymologies of the character.
However, I did play partial blind chess.
I played Chinese chess with the "checkers" faced down.
If you want to try it, try it in a progressive manner.
Play chess with checker pieces faced down.
Play like so with one side not having checkers on the board.
Play like so with the other side not having checkers on the board.
Play chess with an empty board.
Play blindfold chess.
Progression is the way to learn everything.
Blindfold chess has a flawed premise. It has a premise that our memory and visualization is like that of a computer.
We work on a different system, a much more sophisticated system.
I wanted to study cognitive psychology. The science is not born yet.
One of my friends can play blindfold chess, while you know someone tells him the move, she is very amazing for that and won every game of blindfold chess except some. She mentioned to me that it took one or two year to reach this goal of her. I am also sure that you can do it too.
So, my advice for you is to keep on practicing and you can do it.