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Blindfold chess

Index Blindfold chess

Blindfold chess (also known as sans voir) is a form of chess play wherein the players do not see the positions of the pieces or touch them. [1]

75 relations: Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli, Alexander Alekhine, Alexander Fritz, Alexander Morozevich, Alexei Alekhine, Amber chess tournament, Anderssen's Opening, Arjun Vishnuvardhan, Balduin Wolff, Bishop and knight checkmate, Blind chess, Blindfold (disambiguation), Boris Kostić, Chess, Daniil Yuffa, Dimitrije Bjelica, English Opening, François-André Danican Philidor, Francisco Lupi, George Koltanowski, Gerald Abrahams, Glossary of chess, Gyula Breyer, Handicap (chess), Hans Berliner, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Hindemburg Melão Jr., James A. Leonard, János Flesch, Józef Schreier, Johannes Zukertort, Jonathan Berry, Jonathan Sarfati, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Jutta Hempel, Lichess, List of amateur chess players, List of chess games between Anand and Kramnik, List of chess variants, List of games that Buddha would not play, List of Hikaru no Go characters, List of world records in chess, London Chess Classic, Louis Paulsen, Magnus Carlsen, Miguel Najdorf, Morphy number, Natan Sharansky, Nicolai Jasnogrodsky, Ortvin Sarapu, ..., Outline of chess, Oxford University Chess Club, Patrick Wolff, Paul Morphy, Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, Pedro Damiano, Pietro Carrera, Reversi, Richard Réti, Samuel Rosenthal, Sebastian Siebrecht, Sergey Karjakin, Simultaneous exhibition, Staunton–Morphy controversy, Tandem simultaneous exhibition, Timeline of chess, Timur Gareyev, Two knights endgame, Viswanathan Anand, Wilhelm Steinitz, William Fairhurst, 1932 in chess, 1933 in chess, 2000 in chess, 690. Expand index (25 more) »

Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli

Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Yahya al-Suli (أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى الصولي) (born: 266–267 A.H/ 880 A.D in Gorgan - died: 334–335 A.H/ 946 A.D in Basra) (aged 68-69. lunar calendar) was a nadim (boon companion) of successive Abbasid caliphs.

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Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Але́хин, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alekhin;; March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion.

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Alexander Fritz

Alexander Fritz (15 January 1857, Kirchlotheim – 22 April 1932, Alsfeld) was a German chess master.

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Alexander Morozevich

Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich (Александр Серге́евич Морозе́вич; born July 18, 1977) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.

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Alexei Alekhine

Alexei (Alexey) Alekhine (1888–1939) was a Russian chess master and the brother of World Chess Champion Alexander Alekhine.

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Amber chess tournament

The Amber chess tournament (officially the Amber Rapid and Blindfold Chess Tournament, previously Melody Amber) was an annual invitation-only event for some of the world's best players, from 1992 to 2011.

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Anderssen's Opening

Anderssen's Opening is a chess opening defined by the opening move: Anderssen's Opening is named after unofficial World Chess Champion Adolf Anderssen, who played it three times in his 1858 match against Paul Morphy.

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Arjun Vishnuvardhan

Chirukandath Manoj Arjun Vishnuvardhan (born 21 August 1990), generally known as Arjun Vishnuvardhan, is an Indian chess player who is an International Master in the United States of America.

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Balduin Wolff

(Hermann) Balduin Wolff (15 July 1819 – 21 November 1907) was a German painter of the Romantic period, and a chess player.

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Bishop and knight checkmate

The bishop and knight checkmate in chess is the checkmate of a lone king which can be forced by a bishop, knight, and king.

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Blind chess

Blind chess may refer to.

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Blindfold (disambiguation)

A blindfold is a garment, usually of cloth, tied to one's head to cover the eyes to disable the wearer's sight.

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Boris Kostić

Borislav Kostić (aka Boris or Bora Kostic, Kostitsch; 24 February 1887 – 3 November 1963) was a Serbian chess grandmaster and a noted popularizer of the game.

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Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

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Daniil Yuffa

Daniil Aleksandrovich Yuffa (Даниил Александрович Юффа; born 25 February 1997) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

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Dimitrije Bjelica

Dimitrije Bjelica (born November 8, 1935 in Vrbica Gornja, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian (formerly Yugoslav) chess FIDE Master who can be found in the Guinness Book of Records for playing a 312-board simul in Subotica in 1997 (score: +219 −1.

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English Opening

The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases, anywhere from one of the two most successful to the fourth most successful of White's twenty possible first moves.

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François-André Danican Philidor

François-André Danican Philidor (September 7, 1726 – August 31, 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess player.

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Francisco Lupi

Francisco Lupi (died January 1954) was a Portuguese chess master.

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George Koltanowski

George Koltanowski (also "Georges"; 17 September 1903 – 5 February 2000) was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer.

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Gerald Abrahams

Gerald Abrahams (15 April 1907 – 15 March 1980) was an English chess player, author, and barrister.

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Glossary of chess

This page explains commonly used terms in chess in alphabetical order.

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Gyula Breyer

Gyula "Julius" Breyer (30 April 1893 Budapest – 9 November 1921) was a Hungarian chess player and 1912 Hungarian national champion.

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Handicap (chess)

A handicap (or "odds") in chess is variant ways to enable a weaker player to have a chance of winning against a stronger one.

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Hans Berliner

Hans Jack Berliner (January 27, 1929 – January 13, 2017) was a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and was the World Correspondence Chess Champion, from 1965–1968.

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Harry Nelson Pillsbury

Harry Nelson Pillsbury (December 5, 1872 – June 17, 1906) was a leading American chess player.

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Hindemburg Melão Jr.

Hindemburg Melão Jr. is a Brazilian polymath, investor, epistemologist, theologian, retired chess player and author.

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James A. Leonard

James A. Leonard (November 6, 1841 Ireland – September 26, 1862 Annapolis, Maryland) was a young American chess master, who grew up as a son of poor Irish immigrants in New York City.

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János Flesch

János Flesch (30 September 1933 – 9 December 1983) was a chess Grandmaster, chess writer and coach, born in Budapest, Hungary.

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Józef Schreier

Józef Schreier (18 February 1909, Drohobycz, Austria-Hungary – April 1943, Drohobycz, Occupied Poland) was a Polish mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his work in functional analysis, group theory and combinatorics.

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Johannes Zukertort

Johannes Hermann Zukertort (Polish: Jan Hermann Cukiertort; 7 September 1842 – 20 June 1888) was a leading German-Polish chess master.

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Jonathan Berry

Jonathan Berry (born in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, an International Arbiter, a FIDE Master (FM) over-the-board, and a chess journalist and author.

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Jonathan Sarfati

Jonathan David Sarfati (born 1 October 1964) is a young Earth creationist chemist and former New Zealand national chess champion (1987–1988).

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Joseph Henry Blackburne

Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924), nicknamed "The Black Death", dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century.

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Jutta Hempel

Jutta Hempel (born September 27, 1960 in Flensburg) is a German former chess prodigy.

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Lichess

Lichess is an Internet chess server.

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List of amateur chess players

This is a list of skilled but non-professional chess players who were famous for some other reason, but whose life or work was significantly impacted by the game of chess.

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List of chess games between Anand and Kramnik

Viswanathan Anand (born 11 December 1969) and Vladimir Kramnik (born 25 June 1975) have played 92 classical chess games, of which Kramnik won eleven, Anand won ten, and 71 games were drawn.

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List of chess variants

A chess variant (or unorthodox chess) is a game "related to, derived from, or inspired by chess".

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List of games that Buddha would not play

The Buddhist games list is a list of games that Gautama Buddha is reputed to have said that he would not play and that his disciples should likewise not play, because he believed them to be a 'cause for negligence'.

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List of Hikaru no Go characters

The plot of Hikaru no Go revolves around the Japanese Go world.

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List of world records in chess

This is a list of world records in chess as achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play.

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London Chess Classic

The London Chess Classic is a chess festival held at the Olympia Conference Centre, West Kensington, London.

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Louis Paulsen

Louis Paulsen (15 January 1833 in Gut Nassengrund near Blomberg, Principality of Lippe – 18 August 1891) was a German chess player.

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Magnus Carlsen

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion.

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Miguel Najdorf

Miguel Najdorf (born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf) (15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster.

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Morphy number

The Morphy number is a measure of how closely a chess player is connected to Paul Morphy (1837–1884) by way of playing chess games.

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Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky (נתן שרנסקי, Ната́н Щара́нский, Натан Щаранський; born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky (Анато́лий Бори́сович Щара́нский, Анатолій Борисович Щаранський) on 20 January 1948) is an Israeli politician, human rights activist and author who, as a refusenik in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, spent nine years in Soviet prisons.

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Nicolai Jasnogrodsky

Nicolai Jasnogrodsky (6 August 1859, Lubny – 23 April 1914, New York City) was a Russian–born American chess master.

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Ortvin Sarapu

Ortvin Sarapu MBE (Born: Ortvin Sarapuu); 22 January 1924 in Narva, Estonia – 13 April 1999 in Auckland, New Zealand), sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or shared the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times from 1952 to 1990.

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Outline of chess

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to chess: Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid).

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Oxford University Chess Club

The Oxford University Chess Club (OUCC) was founded at the University of Oxford in 1869, OlimpBase - Encyclopaedia of Team Chess, Susan Polgar Chess Blog, February 10, 2008 and is the oldest university chess club in the United Kingdom.

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Patrick Wolff

Patrick Gideon Wolff (born February 15, 1968) is an American chess Grandmaster.

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Paul Morphy

Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player.

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Paul Rudolf von Bilguer

Paul Rudolf (or Rudolph) von Bilguer (21 September 1815 – 16 September 1840) was a German chess master and chess theoretician from Ludwigslust in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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Pedro Damiano

Pedro Damiano (in Portuguese, Pedro Damião; Damiano is the Italian form, much like the Latin Damianus) was a Portuguese chess player who lived from 1480 to 1544.

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Pietro Carrera

Pietro Carrera, (July 12, 1573 – September 18, 1647) was a chess player, historian, priest and Italian author, born in Sicily, in Militello in Val di Catania (Province of Catania), located in the Valley of Noto; here he grew up in the old colony of San Vito.

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Reversi

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Richard Réti

Richard Selig Réti (28 May 1889, Bösing, now Pezinok – 6 June 1929, Prague) was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, chess author, and composer of endgame studies.

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Samuel Rosenthal

Samuel Rosenthal (7 September 1837, Suwałki, then Russian Empire – 12 September 1902, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was a Jewish chess master.

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Sebastian Siebrecht

Sebastian Siebrecht (born 16 April 1973) is a German chess grandmaster.

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Sergey Karjakin

Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin (Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Каря́кин,; born 12 January 1990) is a Russian (formerly representing Ukraine) chess grandmaster.

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Simultaneous exhibition

A simultaneous exhibition or simultaneous display is a board game exhibition (commonly chess or Go) in which one player (typically of high rank, such as a grandmaster or dan-level player) plays multiple games at a time with a number of other players.

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Staunton–Morphy controversy

The Staunton–Morphy controversy concerns the failure of negotiations in 1858 for a chess match between Howard Staunton and Paul Morphy and later interpretations of the actions of the two players.

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Tandem simultaneous exhibition

A tandem simultaneous exhibition or leapfrog simultaneous exhibition or partnership chess is a form of simultaneous exhibition in which more than one players (typically of high rank, such as a grandmaster or dan-level player) play multiple games at a time with a number of other players, making successive moves without consulting one another.

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Timeline of chess

This is a timeline of chess.

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Timur Gareyev

Timur Gareyev (sometimes spelled Gareev; born March 3, 1988) is an American chess grandmaster.

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Two knights endgame

The two knights endgame is a chess endgame with a king and two knights versus a king.

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Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion.

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Wilhelm Steinitz

Wilhelm (later William) Steinitz (May 17, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was an Austrian and later American chess master, and the first undisputed World Chess Champion, from 1886 to 1894.

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William Fairhurst

William Albert Fairhurst CBE (21 August 1903, Alderley Edge, England – 13 March 1982, Howick, New Zealand) was an English-born bridge designer and international chess master.

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1932 in chess

Events in chess in 1932.

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1933 in chess

Events in chess in 1933.

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2000 in chess

Events in chess during the year 2000.

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690

Year 690 (DCXC) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindfold_chess

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