Blind chess

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

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

In his book Psychologie des grands calculateurs et joueurs d'échecs (Paris 1894), the French psychologist Alfred Binet examined the thought processes involved in blind play for the first time on a scientific basis .

World champion Alexander Alekhine drew attention to the partially significantly lower level of the games in blind chess compared to normal tournament chess. This assessment has not changed to this day.

Marc Lang, November 26th, 2011 ahead of the world record in Sontheim

The record for the most reactive parts in succession held for a long time George Koltanowski that on December 4, 1960 in San Francisco in succession against 56 opponents blind and with only 10 seconds to change your mind took per train. He won 50 games and played six draws . Also Reuben Fine was known for having blind games with only 10 seconds thinking time per train ( announcement Lightning played).

On 16./17. In July 2011 the previous record in Sontheim / Brenz was broken by Marc Lang, who competed against 60 opponents in succession with a time limit of 5 minutes plus 5 seconds per move, scoring 50.5 points from 60 games. The games were played on a chess server , with Lang only seeing an empty chessboard on which he made the moves with a click of the mouse. This record lasted until September 24, 2016, when Timur Gareyev played 64 games of blind chess in a row.

A popular variant of the blind game is the combination with simultaneous chess for blind-simultaneous chess , in which the blind player competes against several sighted opponents at the same time.

Marc Lang achieved a new world record in blind simulta- neous on November 27, 2011 in Sontheim, when he played blind against 46 opponents at the same time and achieved a result of 34.5 to 11.5 points. For 1040 moves, he had to remember where the 1472 figures were initially positioned in the 2944 fields.

From 1992 to 2011 the Dutch chess patron and 18th correspondence chess world champion Joop van Oosterom organized an annual blind and rapid chess tournament ( Melody Amber tournament ) for elite players in Monte Carlo . The moves were made on a computer monitor, on which only an empty chessboard and the last move of the opponent could be seen. The games offered there were partly decided by gross oversight, but these games are often at an astonishingly high level.

In the Schachnovelle , Stefan Zweig describes blind chess as a game against oneself .

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Wiktionary: Blind chess  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eliot Hearst, John Knott: Blindfold Chess: History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, World Records, and Important Games , McFarland, Jefferson 2009, p. 90.
  2. ↑ http://www.blindsimultan.de/schachblog/partien_blindblitz_16_07_2011.htm
  3. ↑ Marc Lang breaks world record in blind play
  4. ↑ http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/guenzburg/In-14-Stunden-zum-Weltrekord-id15972646.html
  5. ↑ GM Timur Gareyev breaks blind game record . Article by Eric Vigil from September 29, 2016 on chessbase.de
  6. ↑ "Schach dem Impossible" - world record in blind simultaneous chess on November 26th and 27th 2011 in Sontheim on TeleSchach
  7. ↑ Hartmut Metz: “When will this finally end?” Blindfolded, Marc Lang mated his seeing opponents in rows and achieved a world record: he only lost twice in 46 games. In: taz , November 29, 2011.