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	Blindfold Chess - Play Chess Blindfolded
		A blindfold chess player has no physical contact with the opponent and the chess board on which the game is played.
		In the former Soviet Union, simultaneous blindfold chess with more than one opponent was banned as it was considered bad for one’s health.
		Many popular chess players are invited to display their skills in blindfold chess and speed chess.
	www.chessboss.com /chessblindfold.php (471 words)

	Blindfold chess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blindfold chess is a way to play chess, whereby play is conducted without the players having sight of the positions of the pieces, or any physical contact with them.
		Blindfold chess was first played quite early on in the history of chess, with perhaps the first game being played by Sa'id bin Jubair (665–714) in the Middle East.
		While blindfold chess has been recommended in moderation by many sources as a method of increasing one's playing strength, simultaneous blindfold exhibitions were officially banned in 1930 in the USSR as they were deemed to be a health hazard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blindfold_chess (686 words)

	Chess boxing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chess boxing is a hybrid sport which combines the sports of chess and boxing.
		Chess boxing was featured in the 1991 Finnish movie Uuno Turhapuro - herra Helsingin herra, where Uuno plays blindfold chess against one person using a hands-free telephone headset while boxing another person.
		The sport is governed by the World Chess Boxing Organisation (WCBO), whose motto is "Fighting is done in the ring and wars are waged on the board." The first world championship was held in Amsterdam in 2003 and was won by Iepe Rubingh himself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chess_boxing (433 words)

	ORIGINS OF CHESS
		Chess was probalby introduced to China by Buddhists who traveled from India to further their religion or escape persecution.
		In Chinese chess, the pieces are placed on the intersections of the lines rather than on the squares and a celestial river, akin to no man'sland, was added between halves on the 9 x10 board.
		One of the popular myths of chess was that it was invented by one person, the Brahmin, Sissa, who invented the game to teach his king that he could not win without the help of his subjects.
	community.netidea.com /smartbar/origins_of_chess.htm (1496 words)

	Blindfold Chess
		Blindfold chess, in moderation, has been recommended by many sources as a method for improving a player's analytical powers.
		Perhaps there are some foundations for this belief in that two of the greatest blindfold performers through the first half of this century, Pillsbury and Alekhine, died rather young (Pillsbury 31, Alekhine 54) and supposedly they suffered great headaches after these "seances" (although it is well-documented that Pillsbury died from Syphilis contracted in Moscow).
		I am pleased that in a number of my Blindfold Exhibition games I have been able to produce gems which I would not be ashamed of if sighted in a one on one game.
	www.chessclub.com /resources/articles/article11_7.html (1140 words)

	Chess Trivia
		A chess game where there is no checkmate and the game is won by the player who is able to capture all his opponent's pieces, leaving the opponent with a bare King.
		He became a student of chess psychology and received a doctorate for a thesis on the nature of blunders in chess.
		The first chess book entirely devoted to the analysis of a single opening, Analysis of the Muzio Gambit by Kassin and Cochrane, was published in India in 1829.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/trivia/b.html (3260 words)

	About blinfold Chess history
		Blindfold Chess is a Chess variant in which one or more of the players plays the game blindfolded, meaning that he or she cannot use vision to aid in playing the game.
		Blindfold Chess originally developed as a way to help people move their hands with precision without the use of vision.
		The blindfolded player, in those days, was allowed to feel all of the pieces on the board to make a visual image in their mind of the situation before making a move.
	www.chess-poster.com /english/mail/mail_2005/about_blinfold_chess_history.htm (802 words)

	Alexander Alekhine, The Game is Afoot - Biography
		His older brother, Alexei, played chess and was able to draw Harry Nelson Pillsbury when the latter gave a simultaneous blindfold display in Moscow on 22 boards.
		By 1904 he was playing correspondence chess, that is, chess by mail, the same way the great Paul Keres developed into a chess giant.
		While he was hospitalized after being wounded (a contusion of the spine), he became the strongest blindfold chess player in the world.
	starfireproject.com /chess/alekhine.html (1867 words)

	BLINDFOLD CHESS
		Notwithstanding the accounts and allusions to Blindfold Chess here referred to, it would seem to have been generally unknown to us at the time when Philidor performed his intellectual feat of playing two games blindfold, and one over the board, on several occasions at the St. James Street Chess Club, about a century ago.
		Blackburne's subsequent thirty years blindfold chess is too well known to require comment, he is admitted to be second to none in the exposition of the art, some even claim superiority for him over all others.
		The faculty of playing chess blindfold is thought to apply mostly to those who have extraordinary retentive memories of a peculiar kind, and great powers of abstraction very slightly brought into action or diverted by other pursuits.
	www.checkersandchess.com /chess-history_34.php (1291 words)

	Blindfold Chess
		Blindfold Chess is a way to play chess, whereby players don't have the physical pieces in sight, and the moves are communicated audibly, or otherwise, to the players.
		Blindfold chess has been used as a means of handicapping a master when facing one or many weaker opponents.
		Blindfold chess tournaments are held throughout the year, the most notable event being the Melody Amber Tournament in Monte Carlo.
	hem.passagen.se /melki9/blindfold.htm (303 words)

	A brief survey of psychological studies of chess
		The book gives a very Freudian account of the game of chess, and is useful only to demonstrate the advances that have been made in the realm of psychology with respect to chess within the past forty years.
		Chess players need to be able to perceive threats in order to determine their next moves.
		Another interesting possibility for research would be to take a number of people who have had no exposure to chess, to test them for several qualities, among these intelligence, perceptual abilities and memory, to teach them chess equally, and then find correlations between these factors and their performance after fixed periods of time.
	jeays.net /files/psychchess.htm (4915 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - Chess: the ultimate invisible game
		The team discovered that enthusiastic chess players score very highly on psychological tests designed to measure sensation seeking, which is “a trait defined by the seeking of varied, novel, complex, and intense sensations and experiences and the willingness to take physical, social, legal and financial risks for the sake of such experiences.”
		In chess, if you are lucky you got someone who symbolically makes the first move and jointly with the players smiles into a few cameras, a still life.
		Chess in the air is almost cristalline in its purity.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=4066 (1686 words)

	Alexander Alexandrowitasch Alekhine
		He had suffered a contusion of the spine and was hospitalized at Tarnapol where he developed his blindfold chess skills.
		In 1956 the USSR and French Chess Federation agreed to transfer his remains to the cemetary in Montparnasse, Paris.
		It is in the shape of a chess board made out of red granite and there is a bust of him made out of marble.
	members.tripod.com /HSK_Chess/alekhine.html (1684 words)

	Chess Puzzle Games: Game Reviews, Testimonials.
		Even adults could sharpen their chess vision by these puzzle programs but they may be put off by their lack of a real chess setting without kings on the board.
		It teaches chess students of all ages the fundamentals of chess pieces, movements and captures.
		I have three sons and a daughter who play chess and I always look for ways to help them improve their chess and when I downloaded your series they really enjoyed it (they are 7, 9 and 12 years old.
	bartsoft.com /chesspuzzles/reviews.htm (917 words)

	Chess Variants
		Chess players should remember that the rules have not always been the way they are.
		Chess must have evolved considerably since its early days, when it was a gambling game of some sort, involving dice, and as such was actually forbidden by Arab religious law.
		Postal chess is an ancient way to play the game: send a postcard in the mail with a move, get one back a couple days later.
	www.mattbengtson.com /Chess/variants.html (3791 words)

	GameKnot: play online chess
		It was one of the first chess books I ever bought and it helped me quite a bit.
		Often when a player has a fair understanding of the principles of chess and can make quite pretty combinations, two or three moves deep, he suddenly notices, as he meets stronger players, that his development of improvement has come to a standstill...
		Playing blindfold is indeed a good way to develop board vision and improve memory.
	gameknot.com /fmsg/chess/2987.shtml (878 words)

	George Koltanowski 1903-2000
		George Koltanowski famous for his chess exhibitions (especially blindfold chess and the knight's tour) and chess journalism has died at the age of 96 in San Francisco USA.
		He learned chess at the age of 14 and was the top Belgian player after the death of Edgar Colle in 1932.
		Koltanowski's speciality was to conduct a blindfold knight's tour (hard enough in itself) by calling out telephone numbers or cities placed on the 64 squares of the board by the audience.
	www.chesscenter.com /twic/kolt.html (1089 words)

	Blindfold Chess : Board Games (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It's unique display shows entire chess board blindfold chess and pieces while simulating the moves on the full-size board.Features 73 power levels with a strength rating up to 1750.
		For the player of made chess, this electronic game of the chess provides a way of the diversion to play the note with the bandaged eyes of Chess.Please, the represented end of wood is not at the moment available.CARDCHESS is easily the best variation of the chess in the market.
		Chessmaster 7000 is the automated resource complete of the chess for all the categories of age and levels of ability.
	www.pyramidchess.com /14-Blindfold-Chess.html (1101 words)

	Philidor, The Game is Afoot - Biography
		Although Philidor was the greatest chess player of his time, he professed to be just a musical composer (of which he was great in his day), because chess was not fully understood by the masses.
		This is where he learned chess, as musicians in those days were very knowledgeable in chess, or at least, more than the average person.
		He was invited to the courts of Europe to play chess in front of the royalties.
	starfireproject.com /chess/philidor.html (636 words)

	Blindfold Chess of Jonathan Berry
		In blindfold chess, one of the players makes each move normally but announces it, while the other player, sometimes blindfolded, but usually just facing away from the board, announces his moves.
		As Bruce and I are pretty much equals in chess, and he is in fact better than me at Blitz, I felt it fair to challenge him to a game where he had 5 minutes and I had 15, but played blindfold.
		I was, and remain, willing to play more blindfold chess, either for compensation or to promote a special cause but, frankly, there just isn't much call for blindfold chess.
	members.shaw.ca /berry5868/blind.htm (4219 words)

	Chess Samizdat Article 0051
		Paul Morphy, a native of New Orleans, seemed to be born with chess in his blood; he played almost from childhood; and at thirteen years of age he proved a formidable antagonist to Herr Lowenthal, a noted Hungarian.
		Chess is not one of the most frolicsome of games; indeed, ladies generally declare it to be very dull, seeing that a chess-player is apt to be "grumpy" if spoken to on other matters while playing.
		The truth is, there is a demand for much mental work in managing a game well; the combinations and subtleties, the attacks and counter-attacks, are so numerous and varied, as to keep the mind pretty fully occupied.
	www.correspondencechess.com /syndication/articles/0051.htm (1194 words)

	The Chess Mind - Amber Rapid & Blindfold 2008
		This is a blog for chess fans by a chess fan, one who loves the beauty of the game and wants to share it with those who are like-minded.
		Yet the chess mind is not only a chess mind, and other topics, such as philosophy, may appear from time to time.
		Chess strength is a skill, and solving problems for oneself, or at least trying to, is the best way to improve.
	chessmind.powerblogs.com /amber_rapid__and__blindfold_2008 (4127 words)

	The Chess Memory
		Pillsbury is the most famous example; he could play fifteen games of chess and fifteen games of draughts at the same time, all blindfold, while also playing a game of cards and memorising an enormous list of esoteric words which he would recite at the end of the display.
		It was the amateur who, playing blindfold, found himself compelled to try and picture the whole board, with its sixty-four squares and the pieces on their individual squares.
		If chess is not about these skills, one can hardly expect any transferral of skills in these areas; clearly, chess will not significantly boost your memory if you do not need particularly strong powers of memory to play it in the first place.
	chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk /Chess/Trivia/chessmemory.html (1498 words)

	blindfoldchess
		Unlike most blindfold demonstrations, they were all strong players.
		Morphy gave many blindfold demonstration in his brief career.
		His own opinion of blindfold chess is a matter of curiosity.
	www.angelfire.com /games/SBChess/Morphy/blindfoldchess.html (243 words)

	Chess Puzzle Games: Blindfold. Download it now!
		It is intended to improve the speed of comprehension and to extend the capacity of operative memory.
		From point of view of chess this program is aimed at diagnosing and training a chessplayer's intellectual faculties called variations calculation and visualization (see article What is Variation Calculation?).
		In the Invisible regime the chess "characters" stay invisible most of the time; a piece only appears for a brief moment to display the program's latest move.
	www.bartsoft.com /chesspuzzles/blind.htm (552 words)

	The Q & A Way
		Not surprisingly, even though blindfold play defers more to memory than ordinary analysis does, the quality of your blindfold play is likely to be favorably impacted by practicing analysis without moving the pieces.
		Chess is treated as a zero sum game, where the winnerâs take balances the loserâs loss.
		Backgammon is older than chess, played everywhere and a great compliment to chess; in fact, good chess players can play backgammon well.
	www.chesscafe.com /bruce/bruce.htm (2298 words)

	The Daily Dirt Chess Blog: Blind Stealth
		Blindfold is a pleasing stunt, but as I've said before about Melody Amber, all it boils down to is inferior chess with the occasional "wow, very nice...
		Blindfold chess allows top GMs to play each other without putting their ratings or tons of prestige on the line.
		Blindfold is a wonderful way to show the genius of a human being, even when computers are running away with the prizes.
	www.chessninja.com /dailydirt/2006/11/blind_stealth.htm (2813 words)

	Chess Puzzle Games: Game Reviews, Testimonials.
		Even adults could sharpen their chess vision by these puzzle programs but they may be put off by their lack of a real chess setting without kings on the board.
		I would recommend this program principally for those chess software junkies with an open mind, that are extremely driven, and want any tool available to increase their calculation ability.
		I have three sons and a daughter who play chess and I always look for ways to help them improve their chess and when I downloaded your series they really enjoyed it (they are 7, 9 and 12 years old.
	www.bartsoft.com /chesspuzzles/reviews.htm (917 words)

	Chess: play online chess
		The US-American George Koltanowski (1903-2000) is the current holder of the blindfold simultan world record: In 1961 he played 56 games in Edinburgh, he won fifty and drew the other six.
		In Russia blindfold simultan chess once was forbidden by law, fearing mental damage.
		In highschool, I was pretty good at playing Pencil&Paper chess: capitals for white, lower case for fl with an underscore.
	mailcafe.net /online/chess/3561.shtml (1698 words)

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