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From a 4 board blindfold exhibition in Almeria, Spain 1945, Alekhine - Gambino, 1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.h3 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 d4 6.Bc4 dxc3 7.Qxf7+ Kd7 8.dxc3 Kc8 9.Bf4 Nf6 10. Be6+ Nbd7 11.0-0-0 b5 12.e5 Nd5 13.Bxd5 cxd5 14.Qxd5 Kb8 15.e6+ 1-0 Black grabs a knight and is subjected to a scholars mate type of attack out of the opening. Black resigns before White can play 0-0-0 and exd7+ winning the queen and king or Qc4+ and checkmate in two moves.
Please take no offense, but you posted 47 out of the last 50 messages on this thread. I'm sure you are a great blindfold player and you really enjoy blindfold chess, but I just don't know if there are enough interest among the readers in this forum.
Please take no offense, but you posted 47 out of the last 50 messages on this thread. I'm sure you are a great blindfold player and you really enjoy blindfold chess, but I just don't know if there are enough interest among the readers in this forum.
Thanks,
Josh
I am enjoying these posts...
If you are not, simply cease reading this thread.
Although a new thread would make it easier to read them!
Ok, sorry I apologize. It just seemed like Hans was the only person posting.
Please, lets just keep everything in this thread. Thanks
Yes, one thread is preferable even though the vBulletin software makes navigating through very long threads very painful... one reason why I have almost given up on the Climate change thread.
At least one can click on the little "go to last post" icon to get to the most recent post! Unfortunately, even doing that does not make it easy to move back up the thread from that point...
Yes, one thread is preferable even though the vBulletin software makes navigating through very long threads very painful... one reason why I have almost given up on the Climate change thread.
At least one can click on the little "go to last post" icon to get to the most recent post! Unfortunately, even doing that does not make it easy to move back up the thread from that point...
I've enjoyed this thread (and other ones) as well, & would prefer to see it in a single thread. However, I read my threads in a mode called "hybrid", and occasionally when a thread has been "replied to" too deeply (into the leaves of the tree, in the computational sense) in that mode, I've sometimes had a script warning message that pops up ( www.chesstalk.info /forum/showthread.php?t=2575&highlight=climate ). It might be that limiting the depth of a tree might slow down how often the warning appears.
To get around this in the hybrid mode, one can use a choice of a couple of reply buttons to (usually) choose where in the tree-node to insert a message for easy following. One can also open a particular sub-thread of a thread, and later choose options to reply within there as well.
If the help pages were interpreted accurately, there might also be an option to jump into the "next-unread" message of a thread line (hybrid mode doesn't seem to be very co-operative in that respect).
A person can even edit a title, as above.
Hope that helps!
Last edited by Kai G. Gauer; Friday, 3rd June, 2011, 04:44 PM.
Reason: added link to another thread
Please take no offense, but you posted 47 out of the last 50 messages on this thread. I'm sure you are a great blindfold player and you really enjoy blindfold chess, but I just don't know if there are enough interest among the readers in this forum.
Thanks,
Josh
I used to be a great blindfold player but now Im just a great blindfold enthusiast:) I mentioned before on this thread why I was posting but I'll sum up again: 1. I wanted to create a chess thread amongst the many non-chess threads on this board. 2. to show that blindfold chess was a part of chess culture 3.to show the amazing gems played by great blindfold players 4. to promote the book "Blindfold Chess" and help sell a few copies (one of the very few threads on this board that has done that) and 5. I really enjoy coming up with games and posting. I have managed to keep this thread running for 2 and a half years and I am almost at the end of Alekhine blindfold games and still want to post some Koltanowski and Flesch games. After that this thread will probably come to an end.:(
I'm interesting in one aspect of your posts: how fast can you read a chess notation and follow a game?
Let say this game: "1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.0-0 d6 7.Bxc6+ bxc6 8.d4 exd4 9.Nxd4 Bb7 10.Nf5 0-0 11.Re1 Re8 12.Qf3 c5 13.Bg5 Bf8 14.Nh6+ 1-0 (Nh6+) "
How easy/fast did you figure out what were threats after Nh6?
However, I read my threads in a mode called "hybrid", and occasionally when a thread has been "replied to" too deeply (into the leaves of the tree, in the computational sense) in that mode, I've sometimes had a script warning message that pops up ( www.chesstalk.info /forum/showthread.php?t=2575&highlight=climate ). It might be that limiting the depth of a tree might slow down how often the warning appears.
I'm interesting in one aspect of your posts: how fast can you read a chess notation and follow a game?
Let say this game: "1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.0-0 d6 7.Bxc6+ bxc6 8.d4 exd4 9.Nxd4 Bb7 10.Nf5 0-0 11.Re1 Re8 12.Qf3 c5 13.Bg5 Bf8 14.Nh6+ 1-0 (Nh6+) "
How easy/fast did you figure out what were threats after Nh6?
How fast? Depends on the game. The one above is very short so I timed it. (two minutes) - its a Lopez with Nc3 and Bxc6+ then the odd Bb7 and Nf5 (covers the first 10 moves very quickly) The threats after Nf6 are a combination of remove the defender, the can opener (opening the g file or demo of kingside position) and knight fork (actually classic threats after Nf5 against castled king). Very obvious at master level (so a few seconds). However normal games with more than 25 moves take much, much longer.
I actually bought the book as a result of this thread.
As did I. It is an excellent book.
My blindfold exploits are rather limited. I did play two simultaneous blindfold games way back when I was an A player in my early twenties while imbibing quantities of alcohol one night at a party. I played against some fairly weak players who had view of the boards. I won fairly easily in twenty or thirty moves. Everyone was overly impressed.
Alekhine's blindfold play also encouraged other masters to play blindfold chess. An example (and the best blindfold player ever from Spain) was Francisco Perez, a young master who spent time with Alekhine and was later Spanish Champion and on Olympic Teams. The year after Alekhine died Perez did 15 boards blindfold (in 1947) and then 20, and 25 in March 1956 (10th anniversary of Alekhines death). Perez did many blindfold exhibitions in his years in Spain. Alekhine - Perez, Bilbao, Spain 1945 (both blindfold) 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 d5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.cxd4 Nc6 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Be2 0-0-0 8.Nc3 Bb4 9.0-0 Qh5 10.h3 Bxf3 11.Bxf3 Qg6 12.Qa4 Nge7 13.Bxc6 Nxc6 14.d5 Bxc3 15.dxc6 Bd4 16.cxb7+ Kb8 17.Bf4 Qf6 18.Bg3 Rhe8 19.Rac1 Bb6 20.Bxc7+ Bxc7 21.Rxc7 Kxc7 22.Qxa7 Rb8 23.Rc1+ Kd7 24.Rd1+ 1-0 An exciting game between two blindfold greats. Alekhine sacrifices a rook to draw out the king and Black abruptly resigns to avoid a miserable endgame with two helpless rooks vs queen and connected passed pawns.
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