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Blindfold Chess

Blindfold Chess

History, Psychology, Techniques,

Champions, World Records,

and Important Games

E LIOT H EARST and

J OHN K NOTT

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

Jefferson, North Carolina, and London

Frontispiece: Veselin Topalov and Judith Polgar are actually blindfolded

at the start of their six-game computerized blindfold match at Bilbao,

Spain, in December 2006. Topalov won the match 3∂–2∂. After the

ﬁrst few moves they removed their blindfolds and used individual

computers, as at the Amber tourneys (courtesy New in Chess ).

L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS C ATALOGUING - IN -P UBLICATION D ATA

Hearst, Eliot, ¡932–

Blindfold chess : history, psychology, techniques, champions,

world records, and important games / Eliot Hearst and John Knott.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 978-0-7864-3444-2

(library binding: 50# alkaline paper)

¡. Blindfold chess—History. 2. Chess. 3. Chess players.

I. Knott, John, ¡940– . II. Title.

GV¡3¡8.H43 2009

794.¡' 7—dc22

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Edited by Robert Franklin

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Blindfold Chess. History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, World Records, and Important Games - Eliot Hearst, 2008.pdf