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Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Mar 26, 2005 11:23 PM UTC:
No many players have the courage to play this exigent variant in the World,
and the reasons are clear:
I have read about this variant. The main rules are:
1.- Played with computers as interface, an empty board displayed in each
screen.
2.- After a move, the move appears in both screens during a lapse of time,
usually one second, and the move dissapears on boths screens and the
adversary`s clock is activated.
3.- The computer does not allow illegal moves, it is programmed to avoid
illegal moves.
4.- Total time is 25 minutes, plus 20 seconds added in each move for the
player which makes the move.
5.- You can`t ask for the entire position, but it is allowed ask the
arbiters about a punctual position: ('Is my Queen in e2?'), only during
the current time the clock is running for the player who asks. The only
answers the arbiters can give are : 'Yes' or 'No'. The maximum number
of questions is usually stablished previously. If it is a Tournament, the
rules are stablished by the organizers. I`m not enterely sure, but I think
in Amber only one question is allowed in each move, you can`t ask the
arbiters twice during one of your turns.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sun, Mar 27, 2005 02:30 PM UTC:
If you want to see Grand-Masters pretty blundering, go to Chessbase and
download some of the games played in the Blindfold Tournament. Pawns,
Bishops, Knights, and Rooks were sometimes badly moved or left unprotected
to be easely captured. Anand is the casual exception, for now.

M Winther wrote on Tue, May 2, 2006 05:19 PM UTC:
Blindfold Chess is a time-honoured chess variant (the earliest mention of blindfold chess is from the seventh century) that is not represented on the Chess Variants pages(?). I have created a zrf downloadable here.

Be warned that, although many sources view it as a method of increasing one's playing strength, simultaneous blindfold exhibitions were officially banned in 1930 in the USSR as they could be injurious to health. To avoid chronic brain damage this program lets you view parts of, or the entire piece set, in the form of anonymous markers. Wikipedia has an article on Blindfold chess here. --Mats

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