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hello i would like get improve my calculation and tactical skills playing blindfold but i have difficulty to memorize board and pieces.It is better to memorize board and pieces 2D or 3D and is better white and black or yellow and brown? How do u view pieces and board in your mind? Thanks in advance!
hi no what are side effects?
Aug 25, 2016
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There is a study that playing excessively against 32 chess player at once blindfolded may cause hallucinations
Please do a google search before you waste your, and everyone else's, time. The internet is magical, and stores nearly all of the world's knowledge. No need for duplicates.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/3uz1y7/visual_board_in_blindfold_chess/
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-much-can-you-visualize-blindfold
http://superconscious1.blogspot.com/2008/01/learning-blindfold-chess-playing.html
http://www.thechessdrum.net/chessacademy/CA_VisionBlindfold1.html
Thank you a lot!
DARKOBSCURITY wrote:
Thank you a lot!
Please feel free to come back to this thread in the future and post any progress you've made. I've heard blindfolded chess is a lot easier than most people realize. But it makes for a good parlor trick among people who don't play. I've noticed it's easier for me to set up positions from my games without looking at the reference because I've gotten better at analyzing positions. Maybe doing some tactics would help? They do a good job at teaching you how to see the board.
while its true thats there IS a lot of insight contained on earlier threads, there's nothing wrong I think with asking questions- especially one's that are Very specific and unique and my not be well answered in earlier threads.
I think the whole question of asking about colors and qualities of a chess board is an interesting discussion in regards to blindfold chess- because so far my understanding is that with many strong player- they are not "exactly" Seeing a chess board at all. more like a bunch of visual associations. squares are stitched in files and diagonals, and the peices are murkily imagined onto "chess board" that allows enough associations to roughly play a whole game of chess.
I have myself, played a whole game, with my favorite opening and won against a week computerized opponent. and that game was "half blindfold" with me seeing a blank board, and getting chess peices from the console and entering them in.
in this "half blindfold" game, I did not feel I 'saw' the exact appearance of any of the peices but was able to be aware of where they were and understand their placement well enough for tactical play.
I don't know that extra effort in imaging something of the peice's appearance would be useful. but I could imagine , associations being useful perhaps- if your were playing more than one blindfold game.
for example if you played 2 games at one time, perhaps you could imagine one set of peices are being wooden and the other as being metal. you could distinguish between games this way, as an example.
@TRex.
regarding benefits of it.
its IS a cool parlor trick oc. but also some people claim that it is an excellent way to improve in chess, and that efforts to learn the board and to visualize chess positions, accelerate people's ability to improve in chess.
in times past I've spent quite a lot of time doing chess tactic puzzles and I think that tactics drills offer only modest improvement in playing blindfold. Instead like so many things, blindfold play seems most improved by actually trying to play blindfold- which includes reading chess books without a board.
I have a theory that while day in and day out slowly working on chess might help with many skills, its does less for improvement- rather than constant obsessively living, playing and sleeping for chess- which I think might help a persons ability to visualize much faster.
this is just a theory however. call it me, but in times past where I've but in dramatically More time into chess, I think my powers at seeing the chess board increase.
on the other hand, I think the opposite happens to, which is if efforts slacken and I'm playing a lot less visualization decreases and I'm seeing less tactics and have reduced ability to play blindfold.