Visualization and Blindfold Chess

  BOOKS (Free)

Blindfold Chess: History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, World Records, and Important Games by Eliot Hearst, John Knott -  446 Page PDF

Improve your chess now by Tisdall, Jon - 226 Page PDF
(Chapter 2 on Blindfold Chess)

Websites

Listudy is a website to use spaced repetition learning on PGNs. The site runs a Tactics Trainer and an Endgame Trainer. The site is free open source software. 
    The Site also runs 3 Chess Visualization Exercise Apps.

     1.Blind Tactics

Blind tactics is about solving tactics while seeing the chessboard from 2 moves before. This means that you have to visualize for yourself how the chessboard has changed since then and how this enables tactics.

     2. Pieceless Tactics

Pieceless tactics go one step further. Here there are no pieces on the chessboard. It is indicated next to the board where the pieces should be.

These are small tactics with up to six pieces. The difficulty here is to place all the pieces correctly in your mind on the correct placed on the board.

    3. Lichess Blindfold Chess

You can play on Lichess in blindfold mode. You can set this in the game display settings. There you will find the setting “Blindfold chess (invisible pieces)”. With this setting turned on the pieces will be invisible during game play.

You will still see the history of moves and the outline of the last move. Although this makes it easier it is a good step towards being able to play completely blind.

ChessVideos.tv      (Visualization Quizzes)
Blindfold Chess Quiz - 30 Problems from Easy , Medium, Hard

Chess Colors Speed Quiz - Guess the colors of Squares (Get 25 correct in a row to get on leader-board)

Knight Moves Speed Quiz - Move a knight around the board with visualizing.

thechessdrum.net  ( Three 55 Question Tests on Board Vision)
Square Dancing #1 (10 questions, 10 seconds per question)
Board Stretch #1 (10 questions, 32 seconds per question)
Board Geometry #1 (15 questions, no time limit)
Blindfold Chess #1 (20 questions, no time limit)
Board Vision Test #1 (55 questions)  
Board Vision Test #2 (50 questions)
Board Vision Test #3 (50 questions)

Chess Board Visualization Training - 8 exercises to Practice

Videos 

15 Video Series on Chess Vision and Calculation Training - IM Alex Astaneh (Almost 3.5 Hrs of Videos)

Chess Visualizing: How To Remember Squares - 19 Min IM Rozman (Gotham Chess)

How To Improve Your Chess Visualization - 12 min IM Rensch

Chess Visualizing: How To Remember Squares - 20 Min IM Rozman

The Top 3 Methods to improve your Visualization | Beginner Level | IM Kostya Kavutskiy - 15 Min

How to visualize and exploit Poorly Protected Pieces | Beginner Level | IM Kostya Kavutskiy - 20 Min

IM Andrey Ostrovskiy
How to Train Chess Visualization? | Part 1 | Chess Visualization Training - 12 Min

Chess Visualization Beginners| Chess Visualization & Calculation Training - 8 Min

 Training from Black's Perspective | Chess Visualization Training - 11 Min

Get better at Chess with Visualization Training | Chess Visualization Training - 14 Min

Blindfold Chess Exercises (Many Overlap With the Above)

 Blindfold Trainer NoirChess .com
( 9 Different games here to help you work on visualizing a chess board)  **

blubbie Blindfold Trainer -  another trainer with 7 different Exercises

Blindfold Chess Program Online - Play a game against the computer. Real simple and easy to use Setup. Just go as far as you can and then look at board when you need to.

Articles

7 Levels of Blindfold Chess Exercises for Everyone - chess.com article

Learning to play blindfold with Fritz 16 - Chessbase Article

The benefits of Blindfold Chess - Chess Improver 

Videos
How to Develop Blindfold Chess Skill - 8 Min 

The FASTEST way to learn BLINDFOLD CHESS, no one has ever mentioned or made a video on this method. - 6 Min

How to become a better blindfold player? Tips from the best blindfold player in the world! - 20 Min