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Thanks Peter. I knew Pillsbury's words but not the article. Good read. Alekhine had the best chess imagination of those portrayed but thats an entirely different area. Is there an article on that?
Pillsbury used a memory system, maybe the first of the blindfold greats to use one.
I came across the new online radio show on women in chess by Jennnifer Shahade. In the second episode she interviews Adia Onyango, 1958, and about half way through she talks about playing blindfold and getting her students to try it:
“GM Vidit Gujrathi visited the ChessBase India studio in Mumbai in the last week of April. One of Vidit's excellent qualities is that he likes to share his knowledge with aspiring chess enthusiasts. After years of hard work he has been able to reach a rating of 2700+, a rating which only a handful GMs all across the world can boast of. Vidit is also a fine blindfold player and this is precisely the knowledge he wanted to share. So, we tied a blindfold around Vidit's eyes and gave him five tough compositions to solve. He tried to solve them without looking at the board and the result of all of this was a 46-minute blindfold video!”
https://www.chess.com/article/view/before-philidor I dont know how I missed this article before. Its a history of blindfold players before Philidor (including Philidor) going as far back as the 12th century.
- "a useful training tool to develop focus and visualization"
- gradually increase the number of moves, hence, even suitable for beginners!
- start with empty board and just identify squares and (possible) blemishes
- no need for an entire game played to see improvements, eg, 12-14 moves is good enough
- Morphy eg included in the article
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
(Let's Solve Blindfolded!). The book is intended for intermediate and stronger players. It brings contains 200 examples, which you will see first only in notation and then in a small diagram form. Solution at the end. Author writes in the preface: To solve examples blindfolded is, in my humble opinion, an excellent way to train tactics, calculate variations, and check the overall spatial vision of a chessboard. IM David Dejf Kanovsky is a strong master and successful trainer.
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I don’t know how successful this method will be. I shall give three examples in English algebraic and supply the diagrams tomorrow and the answers on Friday.
No. 1
White: Kf5, Qc7, Rf4, Ne2
Black: Kd5, Ra4, Be5
Mate in two, White moves
White: Ka8, Qb3, b7
Black: Ka6, Qc6
Study, White moves
Quite honestly, I cannot visualize these on the boards. If I were in Mr. Kanovsky’s school, I would get tossed out.
Good luck to anyone who attempts these. I shall keep the book as a curiosity.
regarding the book: Resme naslepo, This training method has been known for years. In a recent article in chessbase the subject was Kramniks training camp in France for young super talents. One of the very young GM's took a look at a problem position and solved it while he was taking a shower. I highly recommend solving puzzles this way IF (and only if) your mind is young, willing, and able.
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