Hi all!
My question is preferably for experienced blindfold chess players.
I can play blindfold chess, but I can't form a panoramic picture of the board and pieces. My mental image comes without peripheral vision and my awareness is focal.
To choose my move I need to inspect the mental board using something like a 'flashlight', focusing on each 'piece' and forming a whole. There is also a whole, but in the form of 'point to point logical connections'. eg. I know that the queen is attacking f7-pawn, and the knight can go to g5-square and I can play Bg6, forming a logical whole, but without the image of all these ideas and the paths between each move.
Well, I would like to know if this is a feature of the human mind, or if it is lacking in experience, and with practice I will be able to pan the whole board and inspect each square, each diagonal, without a focus.
It is true that this 'focus' seems to exist any situations. That is explained in the documentary 'mind tricks'. We just mask our panoramic view like preemptive mutitasking, simulating true multitask in computer like environment... Well, I dont know, just curious about my lack of panoramic view in blindfold chess... pretty interesting be forced to inspect each point instead see the whole like the real board...
My question is preferably for experienced blindfold chess players.
I can play blindfold chess, but I can't form a panoramic picture of the board and pieces. My mental image comes without peripheral vision and my awareness is focal.
To choose my move I need to inspect the mental board using something like a 'flashlight', focusing on each 'piece' and forming a whole. There is also a whole, but in the form of 'point to point logical connections'. eg. I know that the queen is attacking f7-pawn, and the knight can go to g5-square and I can play Bg6, forming a logical whole, but without the image of all these ideas and the paths between each move.
Well, I would like to know if this is a feature of the human mind, or if it is lacking in experience, and with practice I will be able to pan the whole board and inspect each square, each diagonal, without a focus.
It is true that this 'focus' seems to exist any situations. That is explained in the documentary 'mind tricks'. We just mask our panoramic view like preemptive mutitasking, simulating true multitask in computer like environment... Well, I dont know, just curious about my lack of panoramic view in blindfold chess... pretty interesting be forced to inspect each point instead see the whole like the real board...