I am a great chess player, but I have a lot of trouble visualizing well enough to play blindfold chess. I remember years ago on
chess.com they had an option to play with all of the pieces as circles(so you couldn't tell them apart from each other) but that feature is no longer available and I can't find it anywhere else.
Does anybody know an app, software, or website where this exists???
I don't think there is an option to do this, but you can create your own piece set and there exists a plugin to import it into lichess.
I support this proposal, and I think it should not be too hard to impliment, just adding another piece set to the settings.
If you click on your profile and go to preferences, you can turn on blindfold mode where all of the pieces are invisible.
#3
True, but if you read the post more carefully, you would see that that is not what #1 wants.
What #1 wants is to see the pieces, but for the different types to be undistinguishable.
#1
One thing that you did not specify is if you want the white pieces to be distinguishable from the black pieces.
But if you can see the pieces even if they they have a circle shape it is no longer blindfolded. I recommend playing without seeing the pieces. When you have played about ten, it will be easy to know where each piece is.
PS: I know from experience
#1...I hope that this is not the case for you. I can't play blindfold chess, because I suffer from "Aphantasia" I am almost totally incapable of seeing visual images in my head. The images I get only last... like a quick flash. I have trouble visualizing my own mothers face. Note...GM Reuben Fine put out some info I read once on how to improve blindfold skills. He was a renowned blindfold player. Wikipedia may have something on that. :]
Azuaga, thanks for the advice.
Thanks to Allonautilus mentioning the plugins, I found what I was looking for. If anyone else comes looking for it:
userstyles.org/styles/156409/lichess-pieces-go*Thanks!
*currently it looks like the site from which the images were taken is down but easy to fix if the problem persists.
@imminentD3ATH Well, I'm not sure this helps; I learned to play blindfold decently (>1700 lichess Rapid) without these intermediate steps. The account is
@castlingisuseless First blundered and forget about places of a lot of pieces, played like 1200, then it just came with practice that I visualized better and better. I still feel not very comfortable playing blindfold and can occasionally blunder something trivial, but I think this is natural and can be easily improved further.
