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• A New Blindfold Record?

  August 19, 2026 · JohnKnott

• Obituary: Eliot Hearst (1932–2018), Psychologist, Author, and Chess Player

  September 10, 2018 · Admin

• Blindfold Chess: The Memory Factor and Mnemonic Techniques

  December 15, 2017 · JohnKnott

• Timur Gareyev and Blindfold Chess: An Appraisal by John Knott

  July 18, 2017 · JohnKnott

• Working Together: The World’s Two Best Blindfold Players Succeed in a “Tandem” Simultaneous Display

  November 25, 2015 · EliotHearst

• Carlsen’s Blindfold Blitzkrieg: A Unique Way to Play (and Succeed!) in a Speedy, Timed Simultaneous

  June 7, 2015 · EliotHearst

• GM Gareev’s Blindfold Displays Have Created Exciting Publicity, But Are Not Really “Simultaneous”

  September 19, 2013 · EliotHearst

• Video: 60 Minutes Report About Magnus Carlsen and Blindfold Chess

  February 20, 2012 · EliotHearst

• After 64 Years: New World Blindfold Record Set by Marc Lang Playing 46 Games at Once

  December 16, 2011 · EliotHearst

• Consecutive Blindfold Rapid Games: FM Lang Sets New World Record of 60, Beating Koltanowski’s 56

  August 27, 2011 · EliotHearst

• Urcan Questions Validity of Paulsen’s Simul Blindfold 12- and 15-Board World Records in 1858–59

  August 13, 2011 · EliotHearst

• Most of Us Underestimate Our Blindfold Skill: Try Blindfold Play as It Will Help Your Regular Chess

  July 25, 2011 · EliotHearst

• Simultaneous Blindfold: FM Lang Plays 35, Can He Beat Najdorf’s World Record of 45 in 2011?

  December 18, 2010 · EliotHearst

• Economist Kenneth Rogoff and Blindfold Chess

  July 5, 2010 · EliotHearst

• Marc Lang, Holder of New German Simultaneous Blindfold Record, Will Try 46 Games for World Record

  June 19, 2010 · EliotHearst

• The First Regulated Multi-Board Blindfold Simultaneous by a Woman: Anna Zatonskih Plays Five

  January 11, 2010 · EliotHearst

• Zukertort Interview (1883): How I Play Blindfold Simultaneous Chess

  December 20, 2009 · EliotHearst

• Both Without Sight: Two of the Best Blindfold Masters Faced Each Other in 1923

  November 16, 2009 · EliotHearst

• Two Australians and a German: Absent From Our Book But Worthy of Mention

  October 5, 2009 · EliotHearst

• A Forgotten Blindfold Championship. Are There Others?

  September 2, 2009 · EliotHearst

• German Master Plays 15 Simultaneous Blindfold Games, Will Try to Break German Record of 22 This Fall

  June 28, 2009 · EliotHearst

• Chess Columnist Strongly Disapproved of Blindfold Chess (in 1906)

  June 27, 2009 · EliotHearst

• A Chess-Position Memory Test (from Adriaan de Groot)

  June 2, 2009 · EliotHearst

• Three by Alekhine, Two Excellent and One Perhaps His Worst

  May 27, 2009 · EliotHearst

• Grandmaster Blindfold Ratings, 2008

  May 10, 2009 · EliotHearst

• Near Miss of Setting Canadian Simultaneous Blindfold Record

  April 26, 2009 · EliotHearst

• Blindfold Chess Featured in Amsterdam Chess Festivals, 1988-1999

  April 19, 2009 · EliotHearst

• Najdorf’s Only Surviving 1947 Opponent?

  April 11, 2009 · EliotHearst

• Koltanowski’s Answers to Binet’s Questions: An Unpublished 1995 Interview About Blindfold Chess

  April 2, 2009 · EliotHearst

• Saccheri, Omar Khayyam, Chess, and Mathematics

  March 3, 2009 · EliotHearst

• Studying Alekhine’s Memory and Blindfold Chess Imagery: A Psychologist’s Report

  March 2, 2009 · EliotHearst

• Bobby Fischer and Blindfold Chess

  February 23, 2009 · EliotHearst