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Blindfold Chess Podcast

A bi-weekly look into a chess game between 20-25 moves. The goal is to help players work on their visualization by examining games of the Masters.

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18:42

S3 E4 Maia Chiburdanidze v. O. Andreieva (1973)

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2025/02/08

This week, we are looking (at the time) the youngest Women’s World Champion, a 13-time Olympiad Gold Medal Winner, the second Woman in history to be awarded the Grandmaster title, and a Women’s World Champion for 13 years - Maia Chiburdanidze. She was born in Kutaisi of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR in 1961 where she learned to play chess at the age of 8. She played (and won) the 1974 at the Brasov women’s international tournament, when she was 13 years ol...

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S3 E3 Levon Aronian v P. Bortoli (1994)

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2025/01/25

This week, we are taking a look at who CNN has called the “David Beckham of Chess” - the former World Rapid Champion, World Blitz Champion, World Chess960 Champion, former 2nd highest rating in the world, and 5-time Candidate for the World Championship - Levon Aronian.In 2004, he played in his first FIDE World Chess Championship - a 128 player knockout tournament. The winner of the tournament became the FIDE World Champion. Levon - age 22 (the 34th seed), met Magnus Carlsen - age 13 (the 95th...

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S3 E2 Judit Polgar v. S. Mamedyarov (2002)

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2025/01/11

In Season 1, we looked at one of the Polgar sisters - Susan. Today, we are looking at the youngest sister - Judit Polgar. Prepare yourself for a large list of records and milestones.Judit was born in 1976 in Hungary as the youngest of her two other siblings - Susan and Sofia. They grew up as part of an educational experiment carried out by their dad - Laszlo Polgar - with the hypothesis of - “Geniuses are made, not born”. The philosophy was to have the children focus on a specialized skill - ...

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S3 E1 Howard Staunton v. D. Harrwitz (1846)

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2025/01/01

Hello everyone, welcome back to the third season of the Blindfold Chess Podcast. This week, we will be looking at a name synonymous with the chess community - Howard Staunton. If you have been around the game for any length of time, you may have heard of him as an unofficial World Champion in the mid-1800s, or you’ve heard of his opening - the Staunton Gambit of 1. d4 f5 2. e4, or you’ve heard of the House of Staunton chess sets/ company that has been recognized as the recommended chess ...

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S2 E28 Cassidy Noble (show host) v J. Fuller (2019)

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2024/07/13

Hi there, its me Cassidy, I’ve been the writer and voice of this podcast for a couple of years now. I have enjoyed doing the podcast, but life is starting to creep up so this will be my last episode before taking a hiatus. I appreciate each and every one of you who download and listen to me. The listenership has been so far beyond what I could imagine for. I was hoping to hold off on making an episode until I hit Master level myself, but that isn’t happening any time soon - in fact,...

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S2 E27 Deep Blue

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2024/06/29

This week, I wanted to look at a relatively new branch of chess - chess computers. The first ‘chess machine’ built in 1770 was called the Mechanical Turk. The supposed machine would play challengers with various indications that it was a functional machine. In reality, a human operated the machine using ‘The Turk’ as a sophisticated marionette. You have to jump almost 150 years in the future for the first verified chess computer. El Ajedrecista (ah-he-dre-sis-ta) in 1912 was capable...

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S2 E26 Francois Philidor v. Cotter (1789)

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2024/06/15

This week, we are looking at the opera writer and musician who documented chess books and endgames so well we are still using them today. Francois-Andre Danican (Dan-ee-con) Philidor came from a well known musical family. His grandfather was given nickname of Philidor by King Louis XIII of France because his oboe playing reminded him of the Italian oboist Filidor. When he was 6, Philidor joined the royal choir of King Louis XV of France in 1732. The story goes that Louis XV wanted t...

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S2 E25 Yasser Seirawan v. B. Spassky (1990)

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2024/06/01

This week, we are looking at one of the most influential names in chess - Yasser Sierawan. Yasser was born in Damascus, Syria to his Syrian father and English mother. At the age of 7, his family immigrated to Seattle, Washington.He didn’t start playing chess until the age of 12 - this was in 1972, right in the thick of the Fischer Boom that was happening in the United States. The next year, at the age of 13, he became the Washington Junior Champion.In 1975, he participated in his first U...

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S2 E24 Dommaraju Gukesh v. M. Vachier-Lagrave (2023)

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2024/05/18

This week, we are looking at the Indian prodigy - Dommaraju Gukesh commonly known as Gukesh D.Born in 2006, Gukesh D learned how to play chess at the age of 7. Two years after he started to play chess, he won the Under 9 Asian School Championships in 2015 with a 1770 rating. He did not stop there, with his rating rapidly climbing - his father gave up his career as an ear, nose, throat surgeon to support his son while his mum continued to be a microbiologist. In March of 2018, G...

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S2 E23 Anna Cramling v. T. Simon Lindgaard (2019)

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2024/05/04

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S2 E22 Jeremy Silman v J. MacFarland (1991)

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2024/04/20

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S2 E21 Fabiano Caruana vs B. Gelfand (2010)

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2024/04/06

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S2 E20 Puzzles

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2024/03/23

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S2 E19 Tigran Petrosian v. L. Pachman

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2024/03/09

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S2 E18 Sam Shankland v. V. Romanenko

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2024/02/24

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S2 E17 Nona Gaprindashvili v E. Guseva (1963)

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2024/02/10

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S2 E16 L. Aronian v Viswanathan Anand (2013)

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2024/01/27

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S2 E15 Anna Rudolf v M. Nestorow (2001)

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2024/01/13

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13:22

S2 E14 Andrey Esipenko v D. Saduakassova (2019)

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2023/12/30

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12:34

S2 E13 Miguel Najdorf v R. Shocron (1955)

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2023/12/16

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