BLOG

Eliot Hearst will be posting regularly on this site about the ideas discussed in the book, as well as other topics related to blindfold chess. Use the Contact the Authors page to send him your comments for possible inclusion on the blog. List of posts from most recent to earliest:

• Video: 60 Minutes Report About Magnus Carlsen and Blindfold Chess
• After 64 Years: New World Blindfold Record Set by Marc Lang Playing 46 Games at Once
• Consecutive Blindfold Rapid Games: FM Lang Sets New World Record of 60, Beating Koltanowski’s 56
• Urcan Questions Validity of Paulsen’s Simul Blindfold 12- and 15-Board World Records in 1858-59
• Most of Us Underestimate Our Blindfold Skill: Try Blindfold Play as It Will Help Your Regular Chess
• Simultaneous Blindfold: FM Lang Plays 35, Can He Beat Najdorf’s World Record of 45 in 2011?
• Economist Kenneth Rogoff and Blindfold Chess
• Marc Lang, Holder of New German Simultaneous Blindfold Record, Will Try 46 Games for World Record
• Intriguing, First-Ever Comparison: Grandmaster Rankings in Blindfold, Rapid, and Regular (FIDE) Play
• An Audio Interview With Eliot Hearst
• The First Regulated Multi-Board Blindfold Simultaneous by a Woman: Anna Zatonskih Plays Five
• Zukertort Interview (1883): How I Play Blindfold Simultaneous Chess
• Both Without Sight: Two of the Best Blindfold Masters Faced Each Other in 1923
• Two Australians and a German: Absent From Our Book But Worthy of Mention
• Exciting Video of Mikhail Tal Giving a Blindfold Simultaneous Exhibition
• A Forgotten Blindfold Championship. Are There Others?
• German Master Plays 15 Simultaneous Blindfold Games, Will Try to Break German Record of 22 This Fall
• Chess Columnist Strongly Disapproved of Blindfold Chess (in 1906)
• A Chess-Position Memory Test (from Adriaan de Groot)
• Three by Alekhine, Two Excellent and One Perhaps His Worst
• Grandmaster Blindfold Ratings, 2008
• Near Miss of Setting Canadian Simultaneous Blindfold Record
• Blindfold Chess Featured in Amsterdam Chess Festivals, 1988-1999
• Najdorf’s Only Surviving 1947 Opponent?
• Koltanowski’s Answers to Binet’s Questions: An Unpublished 1995 Interview About Blindfold Chess
• Internet Blindfold Chess
• Saccheri, Omar Khayyam, Chess, and Mathematics
• Studying Alekhine’s Memory and Blindfold Chess Imagery: A Psychologist’s Report
• Bobby Fischer and Blindfold Chess

REVIEWS & PRESS

Blindfold Chess has been reviewed in numerous magazines and newspapers, on many chess websites, and by commentators throughout the world. These commentaries are collected on the Reviews & Press page.