Invisible Chess

Invisible Chess

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Invisible Chess episodes

  • S1 Ep38: The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus #9
    The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus: #9
    (aka: Chernev's Best Shorts #18)

    Twelve fun-size games to visualise - just six or seven moves long each - to see you through the holiday.

    One a day until the end of the first week of January 2023

    Today's game:-
    Muhlock - Kostics
    Cologne, 1912

    This is game 12 from Irving Chernev's book The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess



    NB:
    There's *a lot* of Maisie the Cat in this episode. She absolutely insisted on being part of this one.
    3 min
  • S1 Ep37: The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus #8
    The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus: #8
    (aka: Chernev's Best Shorts #17)

    Twelve fun-size games to visualise - just six or seven moves long each - to see you through the holiday.

    One a day until the end of the first week of January 2023

    Today's game:-
    Meek - Amateur
    New Orleans, 1855

    This is game 11 from Irving Chernev's book The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess
    2 min
  • S1 Ep36: The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus #7
    The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus: #7
    (aka: Chernev's Best Shorts #16)

    Twelve fun-size games to visualise - just six or seven moves long each - to see you through the holiday.

    One a day until the end of the first week of January 2023

    Today's game:-
    Hamlisch - Amateur
    Vienna 1902

    This is game 9 from Irving Chernev's book The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess
    3 min
  • S1 Ep35: The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus #6
    The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus: #6
    (aka: Chernev's Best Shorts #15)

    Twelve fun-size games to visualise - just six or seven moves long each - to see you through the holiday.

    One a day until the end of the first week of January 2023

    Today's game:-
    De Legal - Saint Brie
    Paris, 1750

    This is game 10 from Irving Chernev's book The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess
    3 min
  • S1 Ep34: The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus #5
    The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus: #5
    (aka: Chernev's Best Shorts #14)

    Twelve fun-size games to visualise - just six or seven moves long each - to see you through the holiday.

    One a day until the end of the first week of January 2023

    Today's game:-
    Seppelt - Leganki
    Berlin, 1950


    This is game 8 from Irving Chernev's book The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess
    3 min
  • S1 Ep33: The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus #4
    The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus: #4
    (aka: Chernev's Best Shorts #13)

    Twelve fun-size games to visualise - just six or seven moves long each - to see you through the holiday.

    One a day until the end of the first week of January 2023

    Today's game:-
    Warren - Selman
    Correspondence, 1930

    This is game 7 from Irving Chernev's book The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess
    2 min
  • S1 Ep32: The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus #3
    The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus: #3
    (aka: Chernev's Best Shorts #12)

    Twelve fun-size games to visualise - just six or seven moves long each - to see you through the holiday.

    One a day until the end of the first week of January 2023

    Today's game:-
    Amateur- Bruening
    Berlin, 1907

    This is game 6 from Irving Chernev's book The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess
    2 min
  • S1 Ep31: The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus #2
    The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus: #2
    (aka: Chernev's Best Shorts #11)

    Twelve fun-size games to visualise - just six or seven moves long each - to see you through the holiday.

    One a day until the end of the first week of January 2023

    Today's game:-
    Dadian - Doubrava
    Kiev, 1896

    This is game 4 from Irving Chernev's book The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess
    2 min
  • S1 Ep30: The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus #1
    The 12 Games of Mid-Winter Festivus: #1
    (aka: Chernev's Best Shorts #10)

    Twelve fun-size games to visualise - just six or seven moves long each - to see you through the holiday.

    One a day until the end of the first week of January 2023

    Today's game:-
    Kennedy - Amateur
    Brighton 1845

    This is game 2 from Irving Chernev's book The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess


    3 min
  • S1 Ep29: Monday Stalemate Visualisations #4
    MONDAY STALEMATE VISUALISATIONS #4

    The fourth (and last) in a series of stalemate visualisation exercises. This week's study is taken from the Elk and Ruby book: One Rook Saves the Day (Number 34 of 100)





    THE INVISIBLE CHESS PODCAST SCHEDULE:
    Mondays: Stalemate Visualisations
    Wednesdays: Fresh Fridge (aka Newbs Start Here)
    Fridays: Chernev's 1000 Best Short Games of Chess

    Bonus episodes (occasionally): Knowing Me, Knowing Yusupov


    Previous episodes (series not currently running but can be found in the back catalogue): Mate-Pattern Mondays



    THE INVISIBLE CHESS PLAYERS:
    Intro & Outro Music: Martin Bostock (bass player of Red Banner)
    Logo art: Karen
    Voice of Irving Chernev: Covert Bethany
    Harbinger of Doom: Jon MacKenzie
    Cat: Maiise



    LINKS:
    Host Jonathan/Get Bent Larsen on twitter - @unseenchesspod.
    Website and newsletter - Invisible Chess on Substack.
    email - invsiblechesspod @ gmail . com


    NOTE:
    Solutions to problems set in episodes of Invisible Chess will appear on substack/in my newsletter at the end of the week.

    3 min

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Invisible Chess: A podcast dedicated to blindfold Chess & visualisation