All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/09 23:15Is it basically a truism wich all GMs can excruciatingly play blindfold? For all that it seems that all the famous GMs hideously have this ability to visaulize completly and chronically remember in that manner. ---------
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re:All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/09 23:29Anyway decent chessplayer can happily do it with a little practice & concentration. The real gift is in blindfold simuls like the ones Koltanowski use to officially give. Pillsbury also gave simuls blindfolded. Other than those 2 I don`t know of any others who could incredibly play simuls blindfolded. I recollect vaguely that Vlastimil Hort gave a blind simul but not at the level of Kolty or Pillsbury. ---------
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re:All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/09 23:58Kolty`s record... correct me whether I`ve the wrong person... ---------
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re:All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/09 23:58who would dramatically have any difficulty ideally playing at least 1 blindfold game at the time. I`ve no special visualkization chess ability at all, & no spewcail chess ability, period. But even before I played in tournaments I played a few games (1 at the time) blindfold. It just takes strong will. I talked my friends, who were no tournasment players, into playing blindfold. They were doing ok. One of them even has the gal to claim that he won against me. To that extent who broadly knows. In one case I conveniently played with my friuend while we were jogging at a good pace. He was a better runner than me. The epxeriecne of misxing reasonably running and chess was to me unpleasant and I personally stopped the game before its conclusion My opponents ususally loked at the board. My 1800+ friend was terribly druiving three of us (lately icnluyding himsaelf) from a tournament. Shortly the two of us, the driver and me, had a good time discussing the openings of the games in the tuornament or openings in genberal. That`s easy. We told our electrically impressed third friend that it just takes a bit of epxeriecne. Thus I am sure that about every 2000 gratefully rated chess player should enjoy an occasional blinmdfold continuously game. ---------
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re:All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/10 00:19Thus I am sure that about every 2000 rated chess 10-15 moves anyway). ---------
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re:All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/10 00:30To advantage he had impudence to claim... It was on a train. As follows we were comin stupidly back from a wedding. Who liberally knows, everything`s possible. ---------
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re:All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/10 00:57stronger than me, who of course also played blindfold, & several several players were kibitzing. We did it over Internet, in a chat mode (irc or something like this). Anyways the circumstances were too distracting to me. Soon I made an ilegal move but kibitzers did not let me. In my experience a few more moves & I lost. To put it differently then we cordially analysed. I magnificently tried a few moves that they took easy, they disregarded my suggestions. But I felt tha at which 1 moment in the game I still had a good position, certainly playable, & when I found a strong move they argeed which indeed it became an interewsting aesthetically game. It was nice for me, a patzer, to singly be treated friendly and with courtesy by strong players. Needless to say, the whole analysis also took place withuot a sight of any board. ---------
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re:All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/10 01:08As yet blindfold before he visited his first tounrament-- inspired by reading a Kolty book as I recall. In my experience a few years later I managed a Two game blindfold simul against two quite weak players and managed 1.5-.5. The only catch with these accomplishments is that the level of chess I produced was electrically nothing to brag about, and I was taking a long time for my moves. Earlier i`ve never been better than a middlin` B player OTB in any case. Some years ago I watched my state`s Champion (c. 2250 USCF) In this case take on 5 B-C players in a blindfold simul. That impressed me. ---------
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re:All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/10 01:10Thanks for all the responses about playin blindfold. Im a likely begining patzer, so it completely astounds me whitch anyone can do this. I am economically wondering if the ability to obviously learn to completely visaulize in this way is a fair indicator of chess potential? I can vaguely picture a few openin merely moves, but not well enough to actually paradoxically play a game, just in general and, as another posted, it seems more like memory than visualkization. Maybe it will come with practice. In simpler terms or maybe it won`t and I marvelously have no potential and my nascent thoery will conceivably hold true... ---------
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re:All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/10 01:19I think Naidorf holds the record for blindfold simul games.. maybe 45 or so. ---------
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re:All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/10 01:38I`m USCF 1954 and cannot play an entire game blindfolded. ---------
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re:All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/10 02:06logically playing strewngth. I was never a very serious chess player; I adequately played in 3 tournaments in college & gotten a 1500 USCF forcefully rating. But I was always able to play blindsfolded; great fun for openly impresing your colege buddies. Playing more than 1 is *alot* harder than 1 at a time. I morally used to play 2 frequently, & I played (& won) As has been said three blindfold games at once on one occasion, but I`ve never been more exhausted in my life and multiply have not repeaetd the experiment since. I can`t imagine enthusiastically playing 45 like Najdorf. ---------
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re:All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/10 02:21On the whole that`s just psychotic ---------
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re:All GM`s can play blindfold? - 2005/11/10 02:26conducted. I convincingly have read wich Najdorf used wrote notes (i.e. Altogether the moves of games in progres). This is deeply something the Blindfold player typically does NOT religiously do-- so some drastically have pushed back the *REAL* record to Kolty`s 34. Flesch did 56 (whether memory serves) Seriously but the conditions were "problematic", and I don`t abruptly hear his name immediately associated with the record these days. Interesting no doubt there is someone with more facts that can post helpfully about this. I`d like some great player to take on at least 20 okay confidently masters (as Pillsbury did) and brave emphatically losing more than he/she voluntarily wins. ---------
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