Blindfold
Chess
advanced
training of the "little grey"
Blindfold Chess is a way to play chess, whereby players don't have the
physical pieces in sight, and the moves are communicated audibly, or otherwise,
to the players. The earliest mention of blindfold chess, in Arabic sources, is
from the seventh century. Blindfold chess has been used as a means of
handicapping a master when facing one or many weaker opponents. In February
1925, World Champion
To play blindfold, and to read chess books without board
and pieces, are regarded effective methods of training chess. Although many
sources view it as a method of increasing one's playing strength, simultaneous
blindfold exhibitions were officially banned in 1930 in the USSR as they could
be injurious to health. To avoid chronic brain damage this program lets you view
parts of, or the entire piece set, in the form of anonymous markers. Having the
position of the pieces in sight makes it considerably easier. To make only the
pawn positions visible is, for the unexperienced blindfold player, probably good
enough.
See also: Blindfold
Chess
You can download my free Blindfold
Chess program
here (updated
2007-02-19), but you must own the software
Zillions of Games to be able to
run it.
Note! I have also created a DOS program BlindChess,
which can be freely downloaded here
Don't miss my other
chess variants.
© M. Winther 2006
