Blindfold Chess - DarkSquares

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About this app

See the board with your eyes closed. DarkSquares teaches you blindfold chess step by step, so you can hold a full position in your mind and track every piece without looking.

No pieces, no problem. Whether you are a beginner who can barely picture one square or a club player chasing sharper calculation, this is visualization training that actually sticks.

A GUIDED JOURNEY
- Start at your very first square and build up to full blindfold chess
- Earn Bronze, Silver and Gold as your inner board gets stronger
- Clear, bite-sized steps so you are never lost

VISUALIZATION DRILLS
- Square colors: instantly know light from dark
- Coordinates and quadrants: lock the grid into memory
- Knight movement: master the hardest piece to picture
- Memory drills: hold entire positions in your head

PLAY BLINDFOLD VS AI
- Choose your difficulty: full board, faded disks, or a fully blank board
- Type your moves, or speak them out loud
- On-device speech recognition. Your voice stays private, always

REPLAY FAMOUS GAMES
- Walk through Morphy, Fischer, Kasparov and more, move by move
- Rebuild the legends entirely in your mind

DAILY PUZZLE
- A fresh challenge every day
- Build streaks and chase the fastest solve

FREE AND OFFLINE
- Free to start, no account required
- Works fully offline, train anywhere

Blindfold chess is the ultimate test of chess vision. Train it daily and your over-the-board calculation, memory and confidence climb with it.

Train your mind to see the invisible board.