Play a full game of chess out loud, without ever seeing the board. DarkSquares teaches you blindfold chess step by step, so you can hold a whole position in your mind and track every piece by voice or by memory.
No pieces, no problem. Whether you are a beginner who can barely picture one square or a club player chasing sharper calculation, this is visualization training that actually sticks.
A GUIDED JOURNEY
- Start at your very first square and build up to full blindfold chess
- Earn Bronze, Silver and Gold as your inner board gets stronger
- Clear, bite-sized steps so you are never lost
VISUALIZATION DRILLS
- Square colors: instantly know light from dark
- Coordinates and quadrants: lock the grid into memory
- Knight movement: master the hardest piece to picture
- Memory drills: hold entire positions in your head
PLAY BLINDFOLD VS AI
- Choose your difficulty: full board, faded disks, or a fully blank board
- Type your moves, or speak them out loud
- On-device speech recognition. Your voice stays private, always
REPLAY FAMOUS GAMES
- Walk through Morphy, Fischer, Kasparov and more, move by move
- Rebuild the legends entirely in your mind
DAILY PUZZLE
- A fresh challenge every day
- Build streaks and chase the fastest solve
FREE AND OFFLINE
- Free to start, no account required
- Works fully offline, train anywhere
Blindfold chess is the ultimate test of chess vision. Train it daily and your over-the-board calculation, memory and confidence climb with it.
Train your mind to see the invisible board.
- A promotion typed without a piece now counts as a queen. Name another piece whenever you want one, and never lose the exercise over a missing =Q
- Two new settings remove "Show position" and "Hint" from exercises, independently
- Famous games can be filtered by seen, not seen or due for review, with the review interval you choose
- Export your own games as PGN, one at a time or all at once
Version 2.7.19
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Information
Seller
AnKT Services
Size
101.3 MB
Category
Board
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
