Invisible Chess

The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus: #1 (aka: Chernev's Best Shorts #10) Twelve fun-size games to visualise - just six or seven moves long each - to see you through the holiday. One a day until the ...

27 Dec 20222min

MONDAY STALEMATE VISUALISATIONS #4 The fourth (and last) in a series of stalemate visualisation exercises. This week's study is taken from the Elk and Ruby book: One Rook Saves the Day (Number 34 of...

26 Dec 20222min

CHERNEV'S BEST SHORTS #9 This is the last episode of Season One of Invisible Chess. Holiday scheduling starts on Monday. Today we have game #898 from Irving Chernev's 1000 Best Short Games of Chess. ...

23 Dec 202210min

FRESH FRIDGE #8 AKA: NEWBS START HERE. AKA: A podcast episode aimed at newcomers to blindfold chess and visualisation training. Today we return to diagonals and find another way that we can use st...

21 Dec 20224min

MONDAY STALEMATE VISUALISATIONS #3 The third in a series of stalemate visualisation exercises. This week's study is taken from the Elk and Ruby book: One Bishop Saves the Day (Number 53 of 100) ...

19 Dec 20222min

CHERNEV'S BEST SHORTS #8 Game #109 from Irving Chernev's 1000 Best Short Games of Chess. Taylor - Amateur, Thorpe 1874 Our guest reader today is Benji.  Thanks Benji :-) This is another hacky Kin...

16 Dec 20225min

FRESH FRIDGE #7 AKA: NEWBS START HERE. AKA: A podcast episode aimed at newcomers to blindfold chess and visualisation training. Today we look at diagonals and find another way that we can use study...

14 Dec 20223min

MONDAY STALEMATE VISUALISATIONS #2 The second in a series of stalemate visualisation exercises. This one is taken from the Elk and Ruby book: One Knight Saves the Day. There's a small error in the ...

12 Dec 20222min