Surprizingly, there is only worthwhile ressources about Blindfold Chess. Which is centuries old. It seems that those secrets are guarded as well as magician tricks.
Here are a few that are actually worth your time.
We start with the more important video. One of the very few ressources that taught you how to easily remember the color of each Square.
How to Memorize Squares of the Chessboard? How to Remember the Chessboard? Visualization Techniques
BECOME A PRO AT CHESS VISUALIZATION
VISUALIZING YOUR WAY TO CHESS SUCCESS
How to become a better blindfold player? Tips from Timur Gareyev, the best Blindfold player in the world!
GM Timur Gareyev is known as the Blindfold king in the world of chess. This is because he holds the Guinness record for most number of games played simultaneously blindfolded (48)!
https://www.timurgareyev.com/world-record-event
Blindfold Chess Podcasts
30 Days of Blindfold Chess Challenge, ep. 2 by Martin B. Justesen
Blindfold Chess: The Book, the History, and Some Tips and Resources for How to Play it.
Here’s the Book:
My next book. Not the book I need but the book I really WANT!
An extensive website about the above book, and of course, Blindfold Chess.
https://www.blindfoldchess.net/
The below video talk about the excellent short Chess book and the guy shows us how he taught himself to play Blindfold Chess in only 30 days.
An excellent book, concise, well-written, and fun to read. Probably the very best method to learn Blindfold Chess.
Some useful websites for Blindfold Chess:
Play a Blindfold Chess game:
- https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/blindfold-trainer/
- https://chessinsights.org/blindfold/
- https://www.jimmyrustles.com/chess
Blindfold Chess Puzzles:
- https://www.chessvideos.tv/blindfold-chess-quiz.php
- http://www.noirchess.com/blindfoldtrainer/
- https://listudy.org/en/blind-tactics/
- https://listudy.org/en/pieceless-tactics
Chess Visualization Training:
- Chessboard vision: https://egorblagov.github.io/chess-board-vision/
- Chess Color Squares: https://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-visualizer-square-colors.php
- Knight’s tour trainer: https://www.funnyhowtheknightmoves.com And here’s an explanation: https://youtu.be/yWrVWSzcJLE?si=Lmf2CqLsbp_aSm7U
Other ressources about Blindfold Chess:
- https://www.blindfoldchess.net/
- https://www.chess.com/blog/AdviceCabinet/7-levels-of-blindfold-chess-exercises-for-everyone
- https://thechessworld.com/articles/general-information/blindfold-chess-according-to-gm-krogius/
- https://www.timurgareyev.com/world-record-event
- https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/18b018z/i_want_to_train_for_blindfold_chess_specifically/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/11l4zx7/how_did_you_improve_your_visualization/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/BlindfoldChess/
- https://nickvasquezmd.substack.com/p/what-it-takes-to-become-a-chess-master
- https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/
- https://chessfox.com/blindfold-course/
- https://www.chess.com/club/blindfold-chess
- https://improveyourchessornot.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-black-art-of-calculation-blindfold.html
A podcast that reads full games out loud specifically to practice blindfold chess: https://blindfoldchesspodcast.buzzsprout.com