Can one learn blindfold?

 Im a weaker player than you but i think i can play an OK blindfold game against weaker players , heres a pretty terrible example idk if it would be good or bad by your standards but i would think as a 1800 player you should be able to with some practice 

my opponent was pretty weak so that was the only reason i got away with it. Post an example maybe?

Here is a blindfold i lost against the same guy 

This article might help:

http://www.chess.com/blog/Samantha212/playing-blindfold-chess-with-your-mind-wide-open

I haven't actually tried it, but if you were looking to learn, this approach looks quite promising

I've been able to pay a couple of games blindfold but start losing the thread around move 20. Though,  both games were in openings I know a little about and my opponent also played a standard line that was easier to keep in mind.  

If I played against someone that left book earlier I would probably have a harder time. Though,  playing on here, with the necessity of seeing the move lost,  it might be a little easier.

I think it is something that can be practiced and you can get better.

I have frequently heard the advice that I should get to know the color and brother square of every square on the board. And if you give me about two seconds to think about it, I can figure it out for any square. But clearly that's not good enough, and I don't know how to really get to a point where I know it as opposed to just being able to figure it out situationally. I know for most IMs and GMs they don't think about it, they just know intrinsically which squares are which colors. 

I think that some players just have better visualizing skills than others. And this is part of a chessplayer's overall skillset (helps with calculation), but only one among many. Most players of my level are better than me at post-game analysis off-board, too. Don't care much, as long as I beat them in the actual game. 

Today I gave it another shot, facing off against a 1000 in an unrated 5/2 game. My goal was to play 20 moves blindfolded without getting a losing position, and I did that easily because my opponent blundered a piece. 

Awhile ago, I came across a web site, about a book, about blindfold :

http://www.blindfoldchess.net/

I occasionally play blindfold against much weaker players (works like material odds for equalizing chances, but with an added benefit of keeping the standard starting position), and I think it can be a useful exercise for visualization. I wouldn't try to practice it for its own sake, what's the point? And there's no way I could have ever played a blindfold game at blitz tempo.

Following games in books without a board is an exercise that also helps visualization and probably also incidentally improves blindfold skills.

You are diamond member. Go to videos and watch Danny's 2 part video for blindfold chess. It helps a lot. It is called Full board Awereness and Board Nirvana something dont remember. About the part if the abillity playing blindfold is a gift , i must point out that - me as online bullet player (no OTB at all) my calculation and visualization skills are close to zero. Yeah. And i have not good memory. I tried to play blindfold and lost track on move 4. It was a pain. Not to mention i could not picture more than like 3-4 squares. Then watched 10 times the videos and read 10 times the Samantha article and started to practice. I was soo lazy i did not even finished. Did just half of the things they recomment. And boy i improved a lot. Took me a while but now i knew every color, could see almost whole board and move pieces. I tryed to play blindfold vs weaker opponent and lost few times but scored 2 wins also (but those were when he also played blindfold vs me) it was not clean wins but very promising. I havent practice since then but should continue. It really helps calculation. And every one with a lot of practice will be able to do it. Some will learn it quick some slow but is not like impossible.

To me it's like watching a movie.

I'm sorry to bump up thread but i have to admit after watching this video.. it just blow me away. What the hell.. 5 games blindfolded simul and he won them all and was up at the clock a lot. It was so confusing to me how he can keep track specially there is no Game 1 Game 2 .. but random switching to board only by nickname of the players. And all that he moved so quickly in every single one of them. This is just out of this world... Now i definetely believe this is not normal thing  that average chess player can do. You really have to have talent about this. Some special memory...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0fBvIc1T0

Magnus did this and i i was like.. okay he is wonder boy.. no wonder he can do it.. but Regular GM too?

Yeah some GMs are amazing at this. I really enjoyed watching Jon Ludvig Hammer's videos. He played a lot of blindfold bullet.

I've been trying more blindfold lately and doing a lot better. Actually, I play a lot of games against one of my friends from school (he's about 1000 level...on a good day) on the condition that I am always blindfolded for the whole game. I haven't lost yet. 

I am really lazy... i just gave up when i try to practice. Keep in mind that most of my chess games are bullet and blitz so i did not developed strong vizualization skills like many players, who play slow chess for years. I just started like half year ago.  But i just wanted to try it now and this is what i managed to do using blindfold option in live chess:

It's really hard for me to keep track on everything after move 15 or so but i managed to win somehow. Time control was 3/2 and he was playing normally. I wish i could play whole game vs little stronger opponent. But that is a start... i just saw my bishop was hanging.. tc tc tc..

please tell me how to play blindfolded chess  3d or2d chess board