On Feb 11, 4:32 pm, "Chess One" wrote:

I am currently playing a blind player from Yugoslavia, ["Mr. M."] he is
rated almost 1900 cc. He is not doing great with white or black in our
games, BUT if I also played blind he would take me to the cleaners! Does
anyone out there know any unsighted players? Phil Innes

A player named Joe Kennedy, from Indiana, won the
1994 U.S. Blind Championship, but that appears to be
his last rated event. As I recall, he used a funky chess
board which likely threw off a lot of sighted opponents,
although they had the option of insisting on a separate
board with "normal" colors.

I also recall playing a much weaker blind opponent
many, many years ago; this fellow used a peg set,
and was truly 100% blind. He asked me to keep
score for him, on a separate sheet and using the old
descriptive notation, and I willingly obliged only to find
myself in time trouble as a result! It is very easy to
underestimate someone who can't see what's going
on on the board, by assuming that /you can/!


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