Hi Rod, Doing it with math would be cheating. Jim Jim Homme Skype: jim.homme "Every day's a gift." -----Original Message----- From: blind-chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blind-chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roderick Macdonald Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 4:21 PM To: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [blind-chess] Re: Chess Article #35 Blindfold Chess Jim, Another good idea would be to set up a position - an endgame would be especially good - on your board. Study it a little and then put the board aside. Then try analyzing it from the text describing the endgame. For example, set up one of Richard's puzzles/problems/endgames, then read all the analysis but don't look at the board. Or, to test yourself, play through the moves of a game - any game - and at random points - say move 12 - try to set up that position without referring to the moves again. Quickly identifying the color of a square is a bit too easy: All you need to do is convert the letters to numbers - a8 becomes 18, d7 becomes 47, etc. You can do that in your head in a flash, and if the resulting number has both digits odd or both digits even, the square is black; and if one digit is odd and the other even, the square is white. (e.g., d7 becomes 47, odd and even digits, white square.) Rod ========== The blind-chess mailing list View list information and change your settings: //www.freelists.org/list/blind-chess List archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/blind-chess ========= ========== The blind-chess mailing list View list information and change your settings: //www.freelists.org/list/blind-chess List archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/blind-chess =========