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See the Game Within:
Your Guide to Blindfold Chess and Visualization Techniques
This comprehensive Archive unlocks the secrets of chess visualization and blindfold chess, empowering you to see the board in your mind's eye and elevate your game to new heights.
Blindfold Chess BOOKS (Free)
Blindfold Chess: History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, World Records, and Important Games by Eliot Hearst, John Knott - 446 Page PDF -The book offers a deep and detailed exploration of blindfold chess, making it a valuable resource for chess enthusiasts and anyone interested in the psychology of memory and visualization.
Improve your chess now by Tisdall, Jon - 226 Page PDF
(Chapter 2 on Blindfold Chess)
Websites (With Visualization Trainers)
Listudy is a website to use spaced repetition learning on PGNs. The site runs a Tactics Trainer and an Endgame Trainer.
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
Visualization Videos Lessons
Chess Visualization Training | 2D | - 15 Video Playlist - IM Alex Astaneh - (Almost 3.5 Hrs of Videos)Chess Visualizing: How To Remember Squares - 19 Min IM Rozman (Gotham Chess) - a comprehensive guide on chess visualization, focusing on the skill of remembering squares and visualizing moves without the aid of a physical board. The instructor breaks down the process into three parts: understanding the chessboard, practicing visualization exercises, and applying these skills in real game scenarios.
How To Improve Your Chess Visualization - 12 min IM Rensch - provides practical advice, lists some of his favorite drills known to improve your full board awareness and calculation skills
Chess Visualization Training | Simple Exercise To Improve Your Skills - 11 Min - GM Igor Smirnov - teaches how to do an interesting exercise of visualizing 3 moves ahead. It is important an skill to be able to visualize 3 moves because most of the chess calculations and tactics involve at least 3 moves.
The Top 3 Methods to improve your Visualization | Beginner Level | IM Kostya Kavutskiy - 15 Min - will show you how to specifically work on your visualization skills and explain you several methods which help you to train your visualization abilities.
How to visualize and exploit Poorly Protected Pieces | Beginner Level | IM Kostya Kavutskiy - 20 Min - bringing to you the topic of visualization and how you can use it to identify and exploit poorly protected pieces.
IM Andrey Ostrovskiy: Chess Visualization Training Series Comprehensive tutorials focusing on chess visualization and calculation training for beginners, emphasizing board visualization and strategic move evaluation from a master games.
- How to Train Chess Visualization? | Part 1 - 12 Minutes
Explore techniques to improve your visualization abilities, focusing on calculating and visualizing optimal moves for white.
- Get better at Chess with Visualization Training | Black Perspective | Part 2 - 14 Minutes
Enhance your visualization skills from the black perspective, learning to anticipate moves and outcomes from different viewpoints. - Chess Visualization for Beginners | Part 3 - 8 Minutes
A comprehensive guide to visualization and calculation training for chess beginners, emphasizing the importance of understanding move implications.
- Training from Black's Perspective | Part 4 - 11 Minutes
Further exercises from the black perspective, aimed at refining visualization skills to calculate and visualize optimal moves for black.
Blindfold Chess Training:
Exercises and Resources
Blindfold Chess Exercises
Blindfold Trainer - NoirChess .com - This online platform provides 9 different games specifically designed to improve your board visualization skills.blubbie Blindfold Trainer - Another online option with 7 unique exercises to challenge your visualization in various ways.
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.
Blindfold Chess 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
Blindfold Chess Video Lessons
How to Develop Blindfold Chess Skill - 8 Min - Chess House - shows you how to develop a skill of playing "blindfold chess". First he demonstrates the fundamentals and then gives you the steps to forming the mental capability of visualization.The FASTEST way to learn BLINDFOLD CHESS, no one has ever mentioned or made a video on this method. - 6 Min - The speech feature on lichess was very useful to me while learning to play blindfolded so I decided to make this video
How to become a better blindfold player? Tips from the best blindfold player in the world! - 20 Min - Chessbase India - At the parents interaction session held by IM Sagar Shah, Timur Gareyev speaks about how blindfold chess helps one to become a stronger chess player. He also shares his story of how playing blindfold chess helped him improve at the game.
IM David Pruiss (Chess Dojo)
This series offers in-depth training on blindfold training and how to "read" chess books without a physical board, further strengthening your visualization skills.
- Blindfold Training | How to Read Chess Books Without a Board - 2.5 Hr
- Blindfold Training | How to Read Chess Books Without a Board Part 2 - 3.5 hr
By combining these resources and exercises with regular practice, you can strengthen your visualization abilities and take your blindfold chess skills to the next level.