Blindfold Chess is not impossible to learn. Anyone can do it with practice.
Philidor was asked to play blindfold and learned to play blindfold over night.
The following are links to Blindfold Chess. You will not find the leads in any Chess Book. Here the secret is revealed. One of the sites is a download
with lessons. It will work with any OS, any Computer. Windows, Mac, Linux.
Training Program Two
Blindfold Chess Provides Visual aids.
Blindfold Chess (15 questions)
ICC Help: blindfold
The Psychology of Blindfold Chess « Tasty Research
Scientific Studies and Articles from the 19th Century to today:
The Chess Memory
Chess Samizdat Article 0050
The above was written in 1862.
http://galton.org/bib/JournalItem.as...on=view_id=239 (Click on PDF)
I.Q. and Chess (by Bill Wall -IQ and Chess).
Reason and Rhyme: Mnemonics and Blindfold Chess
(The above is a great article).
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/3518/PDF//Ca..._revised_5.pdf
(Note: A 40 Page article!!!).
A brief survey of psychological studies of chess (A paper on the pyschology of Chess).
Exeter Chess Club: Chess and Psychology (8 Page article).
The following is site indicated in my forward.
Download the item to your computer.
Chess blindfold trainer
Scientific Studies and Articles from the 19th Century to today:
The Chess Memory
Chess Samizdat Article 0050
The above was written in 1862.
http://galton.org/bib/JournalItem.as...on=view_id=239 (Click on PDF)
I.Q. and Chess (by Bill Wall -IQ and Chess).
Reason and Rhyme: Mnemonics and Blindfold Chess
(The above is a great article).
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/3518/PDF//Ca..._revised_5.pdf
(Note: A 40 Page article!!!).
A brief survey of psychological studies of chess (A paper on the pyschology of Chess).
Exeter Chess Club: Chess and Psychology (8 Page article).
History of-
Blindfold chess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blindfold Chess (By IM D. Kopec) and
a very good article.
ChessBase.com - Chess News - Melody Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tourney Begins Go to 3/4 of the page, a
paragraph about Morphy.
Blindfold Chess Dateline by Bill Wall.
About blinfold Chess history
Chessville has the following exercise:
Chessville - Chessvision Exercise - from Professorchess.com
The following should be printed out:
Blindfold Chess
The following may require a N Y Times sign in for memebers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/cr...5fc5e6&ei=5070
It includes a game by Polgar.
ChessBase.com - Chess News - Melody Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tourney Begins
Additional information:
Blindfold 8x8x8 3D Chess
JG's Master Quest: Board Visualization and Blindfold chess
blindfold chess@Everything2.com
Books on BlindChess:
This is a new site. The Book can be read online, but not copied.
You read excerpts as allowed by the Publisher.
The book of chess: A Popular and Comprehensive ... - Google Book Search
A Scientic Book on Blindfold Chess;
IngentaConnect Apperception and Imagery in Blindfold Chess
The following may appear above: The listing is here again as a publication-
http://galton.org/essays/1890-1899/g...net-review.pdf
Another publication on Blindfold Chess. Excerpts.
IngentaConnect The mind's eye in blindfold chess
The following is not listed. Fritz7 had a blindfold feature.
Download Site for Visual Trainer:
Chess blindfold trainer
What is not available:
Some sites require membership in a professional organization, such as
Libraries. So they are not listed.
This Thread will be added to as new additions become available.
If you are teaching children print out the sites that have visual
training exercises.
It can be done!