PL Blindfold chess #1 intro

by on 26/06/10 at 12:55 am

Peter Lalic, a FIDE-rated chess player, works your visualization skills to the max, as he plays Fritz 12 (at 1900 rating, with 7 minutes on the clock). A journey of improvement for both you and him, this series is designed to test the powers of the mind's eye. That is the same mystical "sixth sense" which is used to calculate variations in all our own over-the-board games. Blindfold (or "mental") chess forces the human's mind powers to concentrate on the fundamentals of chess: simply, imagining the pieces to be where they are currently not. This is exactly how one calculates which move to make - by visualizing a position in the future (which must be imagined, for it is not in sight on the board), and assessing the new evaluation of that position reached from the studied continuation.

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Keywords: Peter, Dragan, Lalic, blindfold, chess, Fritz, 1900, blitz, mental, without, sight, visualization, lesson, lecture, imagination, practice, analyze

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