@Skittle-Head
That's interesting. Aphantasia. Never heard about that before. I guess that I also have it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arc1fdoMi2Y
@Bishop1964 Its nice when you find a name for it. I have had it all my life. I can't even picture my own mom's face! :[ Thanks for the video link. :]
good luck on playing games without looking... i can visualize the board as it looks on lichess but i doubt i could do it for a whole game id lose the position quickly and spend most of my time reading the pgn and probably lose on time... i would assume that if you can get to your regular strength blindfolded that your non blindfold play should increase at least a little bit to alot...
aphantasia... i doubt anyone in these posts has it, except maybe @Skittle-Head... although for not remembering faces, there is something called prosopagnosia. i'm saying i doubt anyone here has aphantasia because i think playing blindfold chess probably has to be gradually developed. i'm a total middling player here, and study positions by staring at them, picturing moving pieces around, etc... and i'm sure everyone at my level does the same exact thing. that is not, to my mind, building up the ability to play blind fold chess.
the videos presented by @Bishop1964 are pretty interesting. i can see developing the skill for blindfold from those, and just keeping at practicing. if you cna't go to sleep, picture playing a game from the start... practice moving the piece around the board as one of the two videos showed. i've only started trying to attach the square names with moves, so instead of move the N from here to there and the bishop from there to there... i'm naming squares now. i think that way i'll relatively quickly be able to attach the square names to where the pieces are moving from and to...
personally, i'll be happy just becoming comfortable with naming all the square names, knowing where each square is, quickly and easily --- blind fold --- not sure i want to tackle that...........
Has anybody mentioned very short term memory chunk capacity? 32 pieces is nobody's capacity, but whatever non-short term memory processes are being used, the individuals on the low end say 5 chunk items need to work a lot harder, I would propose, than those that can remember 9 chunk-items.
Assuming that those are innate, and do not vary over time. (the chunking may vary, but that is not short term, its using association to make one item out of many using some meta object like 7-3-7 versus 737). I may be misusing some terms, or the state of cognitive psychology may have evolved to find that these are not true anymore, but assuming that it is: I could see that as an innate "bandwidth" advantage, at least in terms of speed of going through a whole double set of pieces .
also for variation computation, that would also be a speed advantage or a depth calculation advantage. I welcome any notion to the contrary. Any such test ever made with non-elite chess players to study the actual basic psychometric differences (I mean low level measure with easier to define protocols, and correlation with higher level measures like ELO rating, or mid-level like piece-position retention upon a glance... etc...
Maybe you prefer playing really tactical and sharp positions?
I find that solid and positional play is much easier in blindfold, since calculation is far less important in these positions.
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