Blindfold Chess Training

Dimosthenis Michailidis

About this game

Improve your blindfold thinking by solving chess puzzles without diagrams. Read or listen to each puzzle description and try to find the best move. Train yourself while walking, jogging or in transportation.
In Opening Puzzles try to visualize the position that arises after the first moves. In Endgame Puzzles you can do that by noticing the coordinates of the pieces.
1000 puzzles organized according to the number of half moves or of the pieces on the chessboard. All puzzles are fairly easy to solve even for a beginner.
Press the volume keys on your device (or swipe left and right on the chessboard) to listen to the puzzle description. Volume down key (or left swipe) describes the puzzle sentence by sentence. Volume up key (or right swipe) starts from the top.

Ratings and reviews

Brilliant! Was looking for something like this with simple puzzles to practice visualization. Perfect for driving or when you're eyes are tired from long hours at a computer 😃 Sometimes the text-to-speech is a little hard to understand, but that's probably an issues with my phone. Edit: After switching to a non-English speaker accent, like China (Taiwan), the pronunciation is sharper, easier to understand, and overall sounds more natural (not robotic).

I'm giving this five stars even if the design has lots to be desired, fact is that it's simply incredible once you just close your eyes and try to visualise the positions. Great ideas to use the physical volume keys to control the app, makes it very easy to use. If you want to work on your blind chess and are ready to put in the work you could do a lot worse than getting this app. A huge thanks to the developer for making it!

The first version of this app was much better. This one is too busy has ugly color small fonts. The old one had nice big text for the moves and the board cleaner look. The only thing good is that the top of the screen doesnt have that white bar glitch.

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