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built-in chess playing engine acts as your spar. The position displayed
on the chess
board is not the true position but the position a certain number of half-moves
before the true position. You do not decide the moves
based on the displayed position but based on the true position (which
you do not see but you are trying to visualize). This means that you
are always forced to look ahead of the chess position
you see in the board.
Then, there
is the concept of 'Blindfold Areas'. Blindfold
Areas are quadrants of the chess board and these are areas where the pieces
are invisible. One of the intentions of this concept is
to solve the problem of 'blind spots'.
Using the concept of Blindfold Areas will also help you to develop chess
board memory. This idea of dividing the chess board into quadrants is
derived from Buckley's suggestion in his book Practical Chess Analysis.
The combination
of these training exercises will improve your visualization and move calculation
skills.
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