Blindfold Chess
Improve your visualization skills and your chess in general with some blindfold chess! Here's a good blog about the benefits of blindfold chess: http://improveyourchessornot.blogspot.ca/2013/04/the-black-art-of-calculation-blindfold.html To play Blindfold on chess.com: 1. go to live chess 2. in the top right corner click on "settings" 3. click on the "pieces style" tab 4. select "blindfold" You're ready to challenge somebody to a blindfold game!
- Morphy (at New Orleans) = 8 games, 1858
- Zukertort (London) = 16 games, 1876
- Pillsbury (Moscow) = 22 games, 1901
- Reti (Haarlem) = 24 games, 1919
- Breyer (Kaschau) = 25 games, 1921
- Alekhine (New York) = 26 games, 1925
- Alekhine (Paris) = 28 games, 1925
- Alekhine (Chicago) = 32 games, 1934
- Reti (Sao Paulo) = 29 games, 1925
- Koltanowski (Antwerp) = 30 games, 1931
- Koltanowski (Edinburgh) = 34 games, 1937
- Najdorf (Argentina) Claimed not accepted = 40 games, 1939
- Najdorf (Sao Paulo) = 45 games, 1947
- Marc Lang (Germany) = 46 games, 2011
- Timur Gareyev (Las Vegas) = 48 games, 2016
- Play blindfold now . . https://www.chess.com/variants/blindfold