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Play chess blindfolded

 
 
Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 08:07 pm
Rules:

1) Whoever takes it up first is my opponent.

2) You can only use notation, you can't use a board, visualize the game (on the honour system of course).


I'm white, I start:

d2 d4
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kickycan
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 08:19 pm
I have a feeling this is going to be a long confusing game.

I'm black, eh? Good, that's my lucky color. You're goin' down, punk!

d2 d4
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OCCOM BILL
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 10:00 pm
Shocked , I think Kicky meant d7 d5 Laughing ... or maybe e7 e5. Rolling Eyes
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kickycan
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 10:06 pm
You're right Bill. What a dope I am. Laughing Damn, the trash talking is gonna be murder after that blunder.

d7 d5
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 10:18 pm
When it speaks for itself there is no reason to talk.

e2-e3
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OCCOM BILL
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 10:21 pm
It was an interesting mixture of trash-talk and blunder. Laughing Pretty rough rules you got there. I have a hard enough time with Polgár's "mate in two"s without a board.
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kickycan
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 10:29 pm
a7 to a6
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 10:34 pm
c2-c4
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kickycan
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 10:41 pm
e7 to e6. Shocked This is a lot harder than I thought it would be.
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 10:58 pm
b1-c3

Horsies are hard, the others are easier
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 11:00 pm
Ya know, right now this is easy with only a few moves, but later it will be a pain. Especially since it's over intervals and such.

Wanna scrap the blindfolded part?

I don't have a board, but I'd write it on paper or somesuch.
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kickycan
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 11:09 pm
I am pretty sure I'm being hustled here. How many times have you played this?

Are you writing the moves down, or are you just looking back at the thread to "see" the board?

By the way, I promised myself an early night tonight, so I'm going to probably say goodnight after the next move.

G8 to F6
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kickycan
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 11:10 pm
Oh, you beat me to it. As you can see, I was thinking the same thing.
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 11:28 pm
Cool, I was thinking it'd get boring to have to setup all the pieces in your head with more than a few having been moved.

f1-d3
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kickycan
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 11:30 pm
Okay, one thing before I go to bed. Can we draw a little board on a piece of paper? No putting anything on it, just a blank board to reference? Or is that getting too far away from the spirit of the thing?

Okay, I'm done for tonight, so don't sit up waiting all night for me to make my next move. Smile
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 11:42 pm
I think we should scrap the blindfolded part alltogether. I think it will make this boring. It already takes more time trying to imagine the state of the board than to pick a move, and we are in the beginning.
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OCCOM BILL
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jul, 2004 12:05 am
I didn't think that would work without a short move time to keep the image burned in. Reloading would have become ridiculously tedious.
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kickycan
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jul, 2004 05:02 pm
okay, I'm all relaxed after a day at the beach, if you can call these things around here beaches. Anyway...

f6 to g4
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jul, 2004 05:05 pm
Grrr, I forgot to bring the paper to work, had to reconstruct.

Anywho, take that back or I'll eat it for free.
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kickycan
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jul, 2004 05:24 pm
Jesus, this is hard. Okay if you're letting me take it back, I will. Just a minute and I'll come up with something else.
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