| Mar-19-11 | | goodevans: Too many of these blindfold games are decided by blunders. I'm going to stick to proper chess from now on. |
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Mar-19-11
 | | Penguincw: < goodevans: Too many of these blindfold games are decided by blunders. I'm going to stick to proper chess from now on. > Yah.Too many.That's why blindfold chess can be unpredictable. |
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| Jun-03-11 | | fionas88888: <*Mmmm... I love eating free queens!*> Me too! =D |
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| Jul-23-11 | | fionas88888: Many <hanging <piece <incidents>>> happen in <blindfold <games>>. That's <n<o<r<m<a<l<>>>>>>> Note: You can't use this colour effect (<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>) without the permission of King Kevin (kevins55555. He's awesome and cool). Ask him on his forum if you would like to use it. Anyone who is found using it without permission will be given a note saying that they need to ask permission first. Void where prohibited. |
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| Jul-23-11 | | fionas88888: Free ♕s are very tasty meals. Yum! |
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| Mar-19-14 | | SpiritedReposte: Good pun I see what you did there. |
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Mar-19-14
 | | Phony Benoni: It's very rare that tragedies like this make acceptable GOTDs. There has to be some fascinating story or funny anecdote behind the scenes. This is just a blindfold game where Black lost track of the board. I think I game this gave a "2" in the Pun Voting Booth because most of it is interesting, but I probably shuld have said "1". It might be interesting to speculate what would happen if the queen took the knight rather than the other way around. After <28...Qxe2> 
click for larger viewWhite has some threats after 29.bxc6. Are they enough for a piece? If nothing else, Black could just play 29...Nxc6 and 30..Qxd3. |
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| Mar-19-14 | | Mating Net: Revved up like deuce another runner in the night!
Who else had that pop into their head when reading the pun? |
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Mar-19-14
 | | Check It Out: Good pun and the game is decent through move 27. Then the pun starts. |
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| Mar-19-14 | | mathlover: Blindfold chess is not the real chess |
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| Mar-19-14 | | morfishine: To become truly proficient at Blindfold play, one must commit themself to a disciplined regime of study and exercises. It is a specialized skill requiring more than the ability to "see" the board. GM's are not immune from this requirement There is no such thing as a "natural" Blindfold player ...except for Morphy
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| Mar-19-14 | | john barleycorn: <morfishine> At the Amber, they did not play a blindfold game as Morphy did. The players had always an empty board displayed on a computer screen in front of them and they did not call the moves to each other but entered them into the computer. I'm not sure whether the played moves/score would also be displayed on the screen. |
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| Mar-19-14 | | john barleycorn: <morfishine:
There is no such thing as a "natural" Blindfold player ...except for Morphy>
How about Pillsbury and AJ Goldsby????
(Sorry, but I could not resist):-) |
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| Mar-19-14 | | Pasker: Is it completely blind or can they see move annotations? |
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| Mar-19-14 | | morfishine: <john barleycorn> Thats very interesting, thanks for the info! No doubt, even seeing just an empty board is a plus. There are some interesting stories regarding blindfold players. For example, when Alekhine firts tried it, he wasn't very good (trying to play illegal moves, etc.), but he got much better with time. Or from the modern era, Timur Gareev has really worked hard at cultivating his blindfold play. Timur Gareev (I mentioned Morphy because its been noted that his style and level of blindfold play was virtually unchanged from when he was actually seeing the board. When I've tried playing blindfold, my play invariably becomes more mechanical and conservative) ***** |
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| Mar-19-14 | | john barleycorn: <Morfishine> here is a picture.
http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=... |
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| Mar-19-14 | | Castleinthesky: I give the pun an "A" and the game an "F." The fact that the game was played blindfolded does not make it better or more interesting. Even I make more interesting blunders. |
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Mar-19-14
 | | scutigera: <Morfishine, John Barleycorn>: I'd name Koltanowsky before before Morphy and Pillsbury as a natural blindfold player, as those two were great with or without sight of the board, but Koltanowsky was noteworthy almost only for his blindfold skill, which was, relative to his sighted results, phenomenal. |
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| Mar-19-14 | | kevin86: What's better? Blindfold chess or TOMMY? |
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Mar-19-14
 | | fm avari viraf: I have no fancy for blindfold chess no matter how brilliant combinations crop up. But ultimately, one becomes the prey to blunders that vitiates the beauty of chess. Three decades ago, I gave a simultaneous chess exhibition on forty-nine boards where one was a blindfold game which I won in great style & the score was 45 wins 3 draws 1 loss. I still cherish such sweet memories. |
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Mar-19-14
 | | Richard Taylor: <fm avari viraf> You have achieved a lot in your life, as well as in chess (by your profile). The blunder was perhaps when Gelfand was under pressure. I don't take too much notice of B/F or Rapid games. But sometimes there are some interesting ideas and opening innovations etc I have tried it on one board a few times but without much success. I think it has a place in training calculation or visualisation to some extent. |
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| Mar-19-14 | | morfishine: <scutigera> Very good point about Koltanowski Georges Koltanowski The point about Morphy was that his blindfold play was indistinguishable from his regular play ***** |
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| Mar-20-14 | | PJs Studio: My rating would drop 400-500 points when I played blindfolded and I would eat up tons of clock just trying to realize the board after each few sets of moves. But non -chess players thought it was just amazing that I could even keep track of the pieces. I was inspired to try after reading many years ago about Koltanowski playing a 56 game simul blindfolded (+50 -0 =6). That's stupefying. He must have had a very high functioning eidetic memory. Imagine what he could've done with today's databases helping him...? |
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