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Alexey Shirov vs Peter Leko
Amber Blindfold (2003) (blindfold), Monte Carlo MNC, rd 2, Mar-16
Sicilian Defense: Old Sicilian. General (B30)  ·  0-1

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Mar-28-03  bishop: Shirov completely self distructs in the last couple of moves under the blindfold handicap. Only after seeing how difficult it is to play without the sight of the board can we truly appreciate the extraordinary genius of men like Morphy, Pillsbury, and Alekhine, who took on multiple strong opponents simultaneously, while blindfolded, (their opponents had full sight of the board, of course!) and defeated them in good style. Morphy, Pillsbury and Alekhine would destroy players of today like Kasparov, Karpov, Leko and Kramnik.
Nov-03-03  Kenkaku: Shirov seems to be really bad at blindfold chess for his strength. It seems that you can't label decent blindfold play as the product of reaching a certain strength in normal chess. I think that it may certainly improve blindfold skills to some degree, but the two do not go hand-in-hand. That said, the best blindfold players in history are Morphy, Pillsbury, Alekhine, Koltanowski, and Najdorf. If I've left anyone out though, please inform me, but I don't think any modern player has been able to rival these five. I find Pillsbury the most interesting out of these because he would often play chess and checkers (generally ten boards of each) while simultaneously playing whist (a card game).
Nov-03-03  hickchess99: pillsbury was also known to memorize a lengthy list of odd words while simultaneously playing blindfold chess and whist. he would recite the words beginning to end, then recite the list from end to beginning.
Nov-04-03  aulero: <Kenkaku> Reti was a formidable blindfold player

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