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(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.
Thanks for posting this Wayne. Is the book readable by someone who doesn't read Czech? And where did you get it?
The book has a two-page preface in Czech and that is all. The first half has the positions in algebraic notation, the second half has small diagrams of these and the solutions.
The book costs under $10. I get most of my books in Russian, Czech and other more obscure languages from:
Magnus Carlsen played a 5 board blindfold simul on Friday October 9, 2020 between rounds of the Altibox Norway tournament. He had trouble having to pause and start over (twice!?) but did win all of his games. Perhaps that contributed to his next day's loss to GM Duda from Poland. Certainly no one else from the top GM's would attempt to do such a thing. (multiboard blindfold simul in the midst of a top tournament).
Magnus Carlsen played a 5 board blindfold simul on Friday October 9, 2020 between rounds of the Altibox Norway tournament. He had trouble having to pause and start over (twice!?) but did win all of his games. Perhaps that contributed to his next day's loss to GM Duda from Poland. Certainly no one else from the top GM's would attempt to do such a thing. (multiboard blindfold simul in the midst of a top tournament).
Mentioned much earlier in this thread is Pillsbury's blindfold simul on the rest day of the Hanover 1902 tournament where he set a new world record at 21 boards (he finished second to Janowski in the main event):
In John Donaldson’s The Unknown Bobby Fischer, he cites 1957 as the year of The Big Breakthrough saying Bobby started the year slowly but had an incredible summer, metamorphosing from promising master to one of the country’s best. In autumn, he made the jump from one of the country’s best to national champion.
Here is one example of how fast Fischer was improving. On June 13, 1957, the Manhattan Chess Club celebrated its victory in the Met League by holding a special exhibition by Reshevsky. He played blindfold against ten strong players, one after another, at ten seconds a move He won six (from Gresser, Guala, Rowe, Saxon and Shipman) and lost four (Heitner, Bisguier, Feuerstein and Fischer). Less than six months later, Bobby was national champion and not taking odds from anyone!
Blindfold simul, Manhattan CC New York, New York June 13, 1957 Reshevsky, Samuel – Fischer, Robert J. E91 King’s Indian
Blindfold enthusiasts are encouraged to watch The Queen's Gambit on Netflix. Seeing those chess pieces on the ceiling (amazing visualization!) sent tingles down my spine. All I could do was visualize ordinary black and white Staunton pieces.
Hikaru Nakamura has been taking on up to 5 opponents simultaneously blindfold online for a while, but I agree seeing Liem do it would be a spectacle. Back in 2012 I played Liem at a party at Susan Polgars house and he allowed me to play anything. We played several games and he found creative ways to beat me every time. An amazing talent with great sight (without eyes) of the board.
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