Re: Blindfold chess question
- From: "Jim Hill" <outcrops@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:47:41 +0100
<rolandberry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Do people who are good at playing blindfold chess actually visualise
> the board and pieces and keep this image in their mind?
I suspect that few (if any) of them do. Apparently the ability to retain
and manipulate precise eidetic mental images is extremely rare.
Show a strong chess player a position from a previously unseen top level
game and that player will almost always be able to reproduce the board
position from memory after only a short visual inspection. Yet the same
strong player will have the greatest difficulty in reproducing any layout
from memory if the pieces have been randomly placed on the board even after
a prolonged inspection, typically performing no better than a much weaker
player.
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Regards - Jim
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