Hi,

As an amateur trying to learn playing blindfold chess, I have a couple
of questions to all you blindofld players:

1. Do you see in your "mind's eye" a 2D or 3D board ?
I think it is more realistic to see a 3D board, but I will be glad
to hear other opinions.

2. When you play black, do you see the board from the other side ?


thanks,
Z

Dear "Ziv",

Heil Dubya!

I don't play blindfold any more, because I'm too lazy to concentrate that hard
-- I never was great at it, anyway -- but when I did play blindfold (one game
at a time) I saw a "printed diagram" in my mind's eye, always with W at the
bottom and B at the top.
As an amateur trying to learn playing blindfold chess, I have a couple
of questions to all you blindofld players:

1. Do you see in your "mind's eye" a 2D or 3D board ?
I think it is more realistic to see a 3D board, but I will be glad
to hear other opinions.

2. When you play black, do you see the board from the other side ?


thanks,
Z


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organized by the rulers of the United States and were intended to have the same
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people of Germany in 1933.)

Fight terrorism! Dissolve the CIA and disarm the Pentagon! (I have been
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Jerome Bibuld
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On 18 Apr 2004 09:04:50 -0700, (z) wrote:

1. Do you see in your "mind's eye" a 2D or 3D board ?
I think it is more realistic to see a 3D board, but I will be glad
to hear other opinions.

I can't play blindfold chess, but I would guess that it would be 2D.
When I play over the board, I see the board as 2D. I think 3D is
completely irrevelant in chess.

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Replace you know what by j to email

Howdie ,
If you are in the Uk I am selling a blindfold chess video on
ebay.co.uk where both sides give an interesting commentary behind the
game (both are GM's)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tem=4205376778

As for the minds eye, i dont think we really see a picture do we ? we
just think we see a picture , so when i think about certain moves or a
position there isnt any pictures rattling around my head, come to
think of it there isnt much up there.

the bore

"Jud McCranie" wrote in message
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On 18 Apr 2004 09:04:50 -0700, (z) wrote:

1. Do you see in your "mind's eye" a 2D or 3D board ?
I think it is more realistic to see a 3D board, but I will be glad
to hear other opinions.

I can't play blindfold chess, but I would guess that it would be 2D.
When I play over the board, I see the board as 2D. I think 3D is
completely irrevelant in chess.

Studies abound indicating that great blindfold players do not "see" a board.
They feel "fields of force."
--
Ian Burton
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