Blindfold Chess

101 Pages·2012·4.98 MB·English

Blindfold Chess

essential training

created by Dimosthenis Michailidis

The scope of this book is to make chess players capable of thinking blindfold. There
are 131 problems in which the reader has to follow the recorded moves in order to

find the mating move. All problems are based on actual games of masters.

Mathematician Dimosthenis Michailidis

Index

•
chapter 1
◦ Paul Morphy
4

◦ Solutions
10

•
chapter 2
◦ Wilhelm Steinitz
16

◦ Solutions
22

•
chapter 3
◦ Mikhail Chigorin
29

◦ Solutions
34

•
chapter 4
◦ Aron Nimzowitsch
39

◦ Solutions
43

•
chapter 5
◦ José Raúl Capablanca
47

◦ Solutions
50

•
chapter 6
◦ Alexander Alekhine
53

◦ Solutions
58

•
chapter 7
◦ Samuel Reshevsky
63

◦ Solutions
66

•
chapter 8
◦ Mikhail Tal
69

◦ Solutions
74

•
chapter 9
◦ Bobby Fischer
79

◦ Solutions
84

•
chapter 10
◦ Garry Kasparov
88

◦ Solutions
97

Chapter 1

Paul Morphy

18 games

let's make two blindfold moves

3

Game 1

Morphy, Paul -- Rousseau, Eugene

16.
...
Kd6

17.

Game 2

Mac Connel, James -- Morphy, Paul

23.
Rxg1

Game 3

Morphy, Paul -- Mac Connel, James

22.
...
b5

23.

Game 4

Morphy, Paul -- Morphy, Alonzo

20.
...
Kg8

21.

4

Game 5

Morphy, Paul -- Morphy, Alonzo

45.
...
Kh8

46.

Game 6

Morphy, Paul -- Morphy, Ernest

24.
...
Qe8

25.

Game 7

Morphy, Paul -- Morphy, Ernest

36.
...
Kh8

37.

Game 8

Morphy, Paul -- Maurian, Charles Amedee

12.
Kf2

5

Game 9

Meek, Alexander Beaufort -- Morphy, Paul

25.
Kg1

Game 10

Morphy, Paul -- NN

28.
...
Ka3

29.

Game 11

Morphy, Paul -- NN

32.
...
Kh7

33.

Game 12

Morphy, Paul -- NN

22.
...
Kb6

23.

6

Game 13

Morphy, Paul -- NN

16.
...
Kc2

17.

Game 14

Morphy, Paul -- Duke Karl Count Isouard

16.
...
Nxb8

17.

Game 15

Morphy, Paul -- Jefferson, BT.

22.
...
Rxf8

23.

Game 16

Morphy, Paul -- Smyth, S.

35.
...
Kh6

36.

7

Game 17

Morphy, Paul -- Capdevielle, P.

35.
...
Kh7

36.

Game 18

Morphy, Paul -- Dominguez

19.
...
Qd6

20.

8

Solutions

9

Game 1

Qc7#

Game 2

Nf2#

Game 3

Ra3#

Game 4

Rf8#

10

Game 5

Qh6#

Game 6

Rdxe8#

Game 7

Qf8#

Game 8

Ng4#

11

Game 9

Nf3#

Game 10

Qb3#

Game 11

Qf7#

Game 12

Rb1#

12

Game 13

d3#

Game 14

Rd8#

Game 15

Ne7#

Game 16

Rh7#

13

Game 17

Qxg7#

Game 18

Qxd6#

14