First completed blindfold chess game, improvement

I've practiced blindfold chess for some time now and I finished my first complete game of blindfold chess yesterday! (see comment below). I still have a problem to see the whole board simultaneously and keep track of where all the pieces are. For instance, in the game below I played 10.Kh1 to prevent Bh3, because I forgot that there was still a pawn on d7 (19...d5 came as a shock, I thought I'd pick up that rook).

What would be the best way to improve my visualization skills, just continue trying to play blindfold chess?

Here is the pgn of the game:
[Event "?"]
[Site "Chess.com iPhone"]
[Date "03/05/2017 07:45em"]
[Round "?"]
[White "jonathanpiano13 (0)"]
[Black "Dator (Nivå 3) (0)"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nxd4 5. Qxd4 Bd6 6. Qxg7 Qf6 7. Qxf6
Nxf6 8. Bd3 a6 9. O-O Rg8 10. Kh1 b6 11. Nc3 Ke7 12. f4 a5 13. e5 Bc5 14. exf6+
Ke6 15. Re1+ Kd6 16. Ne4+ Kc6 17. Nxc5 Kxc5 18. Be3+ Kc6 19. Be4+ d5 20. Bf3
Kd6 21. Rad1 c6 22. c4 Bg4 23. cxd5 Bxf3 24. gxf3 a4 25. dxc6+ Ke6 26. c7 b5
27. Bc5+ Kf5 28. Re7 Rac8 29. Rxf7 h6 30. Rh7 Rh8 31. Rxh8 Rxc7 32. Rxh6 Rf7
33. Be7 Ke6 34. Rg6 Kf5 35. Rg7 b4 36. Rxf7 Ke6 37. Rg7 b3 38. Rd6+ Kf5 39. f7
a3 40. f8=Q#
1-0

Awesome! Yes, keep practicing!

Thanks! Although the opponent played very poorly (computer level 3), it still felt great to being able to finish the game.

 

That's awesome. I couldn't finish that game. I can do openings and the beginnings of the middle game in my head, then lose track. I can beat my son doing it. It's pretty hard, I'm impressed.

Edit: I should be better at it because I'm very quick at vision. Also last year I memorised which squares are black or white as well as the diagonal names (a6 - c8 for example) on the advice of Danny from one of his videos. I know the board well in my mind. Still suck at blindfold.

If you can manage to improve your visualization, then by all means keep going for it.

I believe that it is the main difference between talented and non-talented players. Both can improve their chess with hard work, but I've never seen a GM who wasn't excellent at visualizing positions in his mind.

@Slow_pawn thanks! I also think it's really difficult, but I find it fascinating and I think I'm slowly improving.

@Graf I definitely think it helps to improve visualization. When I started practicing blindfold chess I couldn't visualize 5 moves ahead and now I somehow managed to play a whole 40 move game.