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Subject: Re: Best blindfold chess software?

Author: Jeff Reynolds

Date: 11:04:29 12/24/00

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On December 24, 2000 at 12:09:23, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 24, 2000 at 10:49:59, Jeff Reynolds wrote:
>
>>Hello everyone,
>>
>>I'm interested in practicing some blindfold chess to improve my calculation
>>ability.
>
>I doubt if playing blindfold chess will improve your calculation ability.
>
>I know about a chess player that can play blindfold but I am a better player
>than him inspite of the fact that I cannot play blindfold.
>
>I think that the more important thing in chess is not to miss short tactics and
>not to see 20 plies forward.
>
>Uri

Thanks for the input, but I think blindfold chess WILL improve ones ability to
see ahead which will make one a better player.  Given two players with all other
things equal, the one who sees further ahead would win most of the time.
Perhaps the person you know who can play blindfold isn't better than you, but
certainly he is better than he would be if couldn't visualize so well.  In my
case, perhaps you are right...there may be better ways to spend my time to
improve my chess, but this wasn't really the point of my original post.  Thanks
for the advice, but I'm still interested in everyone's opinions on software for
blindfold chess, not the best way to improve.

Jeff



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