Of course playing blindfolded builds your game... we are often making decisions on the impression of the position, which often overlooks a certain aspect (i.e. the rook on a8 etc.) therefore, the more thorough we can keep the board in our mind, the better we can make a decision.

"Does playing blindfolded, or attempting to play blindfolded, really help one's game or is it more of a parlor trick? Discuss."

Builds concentration

Does playing blindfolded, or attempting to play blindfolded, really help one's game or is it more of a parlor trick? Discuss.

wether all titled plyrs can play blindfold

Quit drinking !

i played a blindfold chess before against my not-so-good at chess-cousin..and on the 30th move i wasn't able to imagine the board and the piece on my mind so i resigned..even tough im winning..

what is a blindfold game? :p

ahh I remember my first blindfold chess game. It continues to haunt me XD

and in the backburne's mate how is the mate possible after qxh5 and what about gxh7, possible??

Yea, you guys are real funny. I was blindfolded (duh) and someone else (12 yrs old) wrote down the notation.

At least when I played blindfold chess I made only legal moves.

yea, white's second move is sort of impossible.

Very interesting,

i probably couldnt go past 10 moves in blindfold chess.

d4,d5,e5??? hows that done???