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The eight games above were from Paul Morphy's famous 8 board blindfold exhibition at the Cafe de la Regence in Paris France. I realized I had not included them in my Morphy blindfold games. That oversight has now been corrected.
My eight board blindfold simul in Ottawa in 2006. David Cohen can be seen walking in the background. Stijn De Kerpel is receiving the moves and telling them to me.
Playing Hikaru Nakamura blindfold speed chess (October 16,2022 at the Annex Chess Club in Toronto). I had the black pieces, Hikaru had two minutes for the game, I had 5 minutes for the game. Hikaru used one minute only, I took two minutes. Fastest I have ever played blindfold. I believe Nakamura is the only one in the world that can play a complete blindfold game in one minute.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Last edited by Peter McKillop; Tuesday, 27th February, 2024, 07:33 PM.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
I have been asked by avid readers to write about my personal experience with blindfold chess. It was a project that I put off to after New Years 2025. But here goes.
It was the fall of 1972, after that glorious summer of the Fischer - Spassky match. My high school friends and I got together to play over all the games as they happened in the Toronto papers and the New York times. Little did I know at that time that they were recruiting me for the high school chess club at Montcalm in north east London Ontario. If it wasnt for those sessions I probably wouldn't have gone out to the club that year. As it was I got totally immersed in chess when the chess club started in October. A small group of us met after school from the 3:18 buzzer until 5pm in one of the classroom quads (four open classrooms divided by wall dividers) in one of the corners with 8 desks. We made a deal with the custodians to clean the entire quad so they didn't have to it. Five days a week with about 2 hours every afternoon after school adds up to a good amount of chess and I was hooked.
The other main condition that started me on blindfold chess was strict parents. What?! Hows that? I was in grade 10 and the rules were I had to be in bed, lights out, by 9 pm. I was a typical fourteen year old male and even more influential was that I was a night owl, so there was no way that that was going to happen. But I couldn't openly rebel so with all that time I recalled positions I had played during those afternoon sessions or openings I was having problems with (and believe me there were a lot of those!) So it all started with short sequence visualisation and fairly quickly it got to the point where I could visualise the whole board. I'm sure I did those exercises where you identify squares of the board. For example: what is QN4 from white's perspective. What colour square? What? Yes it wasn't as easy as algebraic notation (the b4 square) but quite difficult in that you had QN4 as white but a totally different square was QN4 for black. Believe me board orientation was learned much more thoroughly this way even though it was mental torture to begin with.
The other thing was practicing moving the knight and I loved that. The knight was my favourite piece in that it was the rascal that started all the action so I wanted to learn to make great knight moves. Easy-peasy now-a-days. Nb1-Nc3-Nd5-Ne7-Ng8 and back, and you are off to the races. Try N-QN1- N-QB3 - N-Q5 - NK7 - N-KN8 etc. , not so easy. Plenty for a young mind to concentrate on.
Last edited by Hans Jung; Thursday, 9th January, 2025, 03:34 PM.
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