Blindfold chess, also known as sans voir, is a form of chess play wherein the players do not see the positions of the pieces and do not touch them. This forces players to maintain a mental model of the positions of the pieces. Moves are communicated via a recognized chess notation.
Blindfold chess was considered miraculous for centuries but now there is greater recognition of people who can keep track of more than one simultaneous blindfolded game.[1] In simultaneous blindfold play, an intermediary usually relays the moves between the players.
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Blindfoldchess, also known as sans voir, is a form of chess play wherein the players do not see the positions of the pieces and do not touch them. This...
The Amber chess tournament (officially the Amber Rapid and BlindfoldChess Tournament, previously Melody Amber) was an annual invitation-only event for...
wrote an extremely successful chess book (Analyse du jeu des Échecs) and gave public demonstrations of his blindfoldchess skills. However, some of Philidor's...
"48 blindfold boards – The tale behind the record". Chessbase. January 14, 2017. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. "Simultaneous Chess-Playing...
tournament play, the Staunton chess set is preferred and, in some cases, required. Human chess uses people as the pieces. Blindfoldchess may be played without...
is considered to be one of the best blindfoldchess players in the world. He has confirmed that status in blindfold sections of Melody Amber tournaments:...
Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer. He was informally known as "Kolty". Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record on 20 September...
on chess as mental training; the respective roles of knowledge and look-ahead search; brain imaging studies of chess masters and novices; blindfold chess;...
enabling blindfoldchess, the website supports the following chess variants: Antichess (Losing chess) Atomic chess Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess) Crazyhouse...
(1893–1921), Hungarian, pioneer of the hypermodern school, important chess theorist, blindfold simultaneous record holder David Bronstein (1924–2006), Ukrainian-born...
Blind chess may refer to: Blindfoldchess, in which one or both of the players has their vision deliberately impaired Kriegspiel (chess), in which neither...
closest to each player must be white. He also offers advice regarding blindfoldchess, principally focused on the need to master notation based on numbering...
correspondent in the American Chess Bulletin identifies this as likely the earliest literary mention of a blindfoldchess variant. Games of marking diagrams...
2007, Bu won the Canadian Open Chess Championship in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In October 2007, he won the BlindfoldChess World Cup in Bilbao by a 1+1⁄2...
Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the...
Paulsen were early masters of the game and of blindfoldchess; they were capable of playing 10 blindfold games at the same time without any major errors...
string of tournament victories behind him, and popularised chess by giving simultaneous and blindfold displays around the country. Blackburne also published...
Buddhism above Taoism. The approximate date of the earliest known blindfoldchess, played by Sa'id ibn Jubayr Willibrord, Anglo-Saxon missionary, travels...
Vishy Anand!". ChessBase. 30 October 2003. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2010. "Chess News – Blindfold king Kramnik wins...
blind and rapid chess tournament in Monte Carlo in March. In the 11 rounds, he achieved eight draws and three losses in the blindfold games, as well as...
must capture it if he can legally. Blindfoldchess – one or both players play without seeing the board and pieces. Chess handicap – one of the players gives...
Schlechter (+8−2=9). Pillsbury was a very strong blindfoldchess player, and could play checkers and chess simultaneously while playing a hand of whist,...
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