Blind Chess Trainer 4+
Marcel Nijman
Designed for iPad
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- £0.99
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Description
Train yourself to play blind chess in 5 stages.
Train yourself to play blind chess.
Being able to play blind chess will help you to concentrate better, and it will improve your imagination, because you have to constantly keep a mental image of the position.
So, how does the training take place? There are five stages:
1. NORMAL CHESS
In this mode, you can use the app as an ordinary chess app. Once you have a good feeling for the interface, you can move on the the next step.
2. NO COLORS
The pieces of both players are shown in the same color (gray). So, during the game, you have to remember which piece is whose.
3. NO PIECE DIFFERENTIATION
All the white pieces look the same, as well as all black pieces. You can see when pieces come into contact with each other, but you have to remember which piece is which.
4. NO COLORS AND NO PIECE DIFFERENTIATION
All pieces look the same. This is very close to playing actual blind chess. All you can see on the board is how the pieces are positioned.
5 BLIND CHESS!
Congratulations, you are ready to play blind chess! The board is empty. Or, rather, all pieces are transparent. You can enter a move as usual (by dragging or tapping), and the reply will be displayed in the title bar at the top of the screen. If you have mastered the previous stages you will definitely notice an improvement in your ability to play blind chess.
During the game, you can ask yourself some questions, like:
What is this piece doing here?
Why would it have been moved here?
Which square did it come from?
All this will help you to see the game as a story line.
Good luck with learning to play blind chess!
What’s New
Version 3.3
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- iOS 11 update
Ratings and Reviews
Use for practice
This app is not ‘training’ where you are trained or ‘shown’ how to play chess blindfolded. It’s an app that allows you ‘practice’ playing chess blindfolded.
There’s a difference…
When you know how to do something you can improve your skill through practice.
Amateurs practice until they get it right and professionals practice until they never get it wrong.
If you have no idea how to go about learning how to play blindfolded then this is not the best way to learn; it’s ok to practice if you already have an idea about chess notation and visualisation and memory techniques but on its own I think ‘beginners’ will struggle.
Good idea but...
Good idea and could be great with a few tweaks.
Needs updating to prevent the 'this will make your iPad run slow' message.
It could also benefit from a text only display of the game score.
Improve chess visualisation
Found this app through a web blog.
Simple interface, has several difficulty levels which begin with removing colours before removing piece identity and finally the pieces themselves.
I'm currently attempting to learn blindfold Chess and I don't see any reason why this app can't help me to achieve that aim.
App Privacy
The developer, Marcel Nijman, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple.
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Information
- Provider
- Marcel J Nijman
- Size
- 10.2 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2017 Marcel Nijman
- Price
- £0.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.