Another option for improving visualisation and the calculation of variations is blindfold play.

 

 

This training function can be started in an “Easy game” via the menu “Start – Play Blindfold.

 

 

In this mode you enter the moves without seeing the pieces on the graphic chess board. The further advanced you are in the game, the harder it is to accurately evaluate the position and the variations which arise from it.

 

A simple example illustrates how it works.

 

With a click on “Play Blindfold” remove the symbols for all the pieces from the board and enter the first opening moves. These moves are displayed in the notation window but not on the chess board.

 

 

Unlike in a genuine blindfold chess game you can have the actual position on the board displayed at any point by a right click on the chess board.

 

 

A second click on Play Blindfold switches back on the permanent view of the pieces and brings to an end the blindfold chess mode.