Blindfold chess

The blindfold chess, also blind game, formerly known as Blind Ling game is a form of chess in which at least one of the players without a view of the chessboard - from memory - plays. The trains are announced by the chess notation. Blind chess should not be confused with the blindfold chess or chess blindness.

Description

The mimic game was already known in the 8th and 9th century among the Arabs. In Europe, it played the Saracen Buzzecca first time in the 13th century Philidor made ​​by his blind game in the 18th century a great impression on his contemporaries.

The French psychologist Alfred Binet examined in his book Psychology of grands calculateurs et joueurs d' échecs (Paris 1894) for the first time on a scientific basis the processes taking place in the blank game thought processes.

World Champion Alexander Alekhine drew attention to the in comparison with the normal tournament chess in some cases significantly lower level of the games in blindfold chess. This assessment has not changed until today.

The record for the most reactive games consecutively held for a long time George Koltanowski, who took blind and with only 10 seconds to change your mind on December 4, 1960 in San Francisco successively against 56 opponents per train. He won 50 games and played six times a draw. Even Reuben Fine was known that he was playing blind games with only 10 seconds thinking time per train ( Announcement Blitz ).

On 16-17. July 2011, the previous record in Sontheim / Brenz by Marc Lang was broken, the succession took up with a limit of 5 minutes plus 5 seconds per train against 60 opponents, he scored 50.5 points from 60 games. The games were played on a chess server, with long only saw each an empty chessboard on which he performed the moves using the mouse.

A popular variant of the blind game is the combination with the simultaneous chess for blind simultaneous chess, where the blind player competes against several sighted opponents simultaneously.

Marc Lang won on November 27, 2011 in Sontheim a new world record in simultaneous blind when he played at the same blind against 46 opponents and generated a profit of 34.5 to 11.5 points.

From 1992 to 2011, the Dutch chess patron and 18 correspondence chess world champion Joop van Oosterom in Monte Carlo hosted an annual blind and rapid chess tournament ( Melody Amber Tournament ) for elite players. The trains were running on a computer monitor on which an empty chess board and shall be the last train of the enemy was to be seen. The games offered there were partly decided by grossest mistake, but often are also these games on a surprisingly high level.

Blind chess as a game against itself Stefan Zweig describes the Schachnovelle.

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