Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 07:32:41 04/06/04
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My desire is to practice blindfold while looking at a blank chessboard. As a crutch, I will have my scoresheet in front of me so I can review the moves made. If successful, I will then advance to playing without sight of the scoresheet and eventually without sight of a blank chessboard as well. Perhaps the chess software I currently have will not do the job. I don't know yet since I've only looked at CB8 and Fritz8. Maybe some other chess software on my computer will work. I hope so. But maybe not. The general scenario is to play both sides, against myself, and later do a post-mortem analysis to see how blind I really was. Has anybody here done that already? If so, what software? The purpose of using software is to automatically detect illegal moves. Ideally, the computer would make a bad noise whenever I tried to do that. Bob D. On April 06, 2004 at 08:42:03, margolies,marc wrote: >What happens if you start your notation with a capital "P" in proper long-hand >notation for Pawn. e.g., Pd5xc6 ? >Also, which notational preferences have you indicated in options-- the problem >might be notation-preference-specific as the issue is parsing type. You may wish to try this with whatever chess-playing software you have [assuming you do not have Fritz] to see what happens in that case. I did play with the preferences options before posting my bulletin and found no help there. > >PS. did you notice the photos of the melody amber blind chess match set-up this >year. gm players entered their blindfold moves on computer while staring at an >empty board. Those are not good blindfold practices in my opinion--looking at >any board is a crutch. Yes, and in fact that's what turned me on to blindfold. Amber impressed me! Bob D. > > >On April 05, 2004 at 23:13:55, Bob Durrett wrote: > >> >>I have been trying to enter moves into Fritz 8 using the keyboard [so I can play >>myself a blindfold game] but cannot figure out how to make the beast capture >>White's bishop on c6 with Black's queen pawn in the Ruy Lopez Exchange >>Variation. Every time I enter "d" Black's king's bishop leaps to d6. The Fritz >>online help does not help at all. >> >>If anybody knows the "trick" I would be very appreciative if you would tell me >>what it is. >> >> >>1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 [and not 4...Bd6]. >> >>Bob D.
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