Blindfold chess

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I don't know any chess linux program to play blindfold chess:
Hide black pieces, white pieces, pawns, ...

A very good training method.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by enrique....@gmail.com on 22 Dec 2006 at 10:57

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Well, far out in the future PyChess might support all kinds of strange chess 
variants.
Until then, I can only give you this tip to make PyChess not draw the pieces:

Find the file lib/pychess/widgets/BoardView.py. In line 327 you change the line 
"   
    self.drawPieces (context, pieces, r)" into "        #self.drawPieces (context,
pieces, r)" and save it.
That should be all.

Original comment by lobais on 22 Dec 2006 at 11:54

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Maybe it can be a togglable menu item in the view menu, as in xboard.

Original comment by gbtami on 31 May 2008 at 8:58

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Currently the difficulty combobox is disabled for human players. Perhaps it 
could
contain "Normal, semiblindfold and blindfold" instead..

Original comment by lobais on 1 Jun 2008 at 11:02

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What do you think about more choices?
Normal
All pieces white
Hide black pieces
Hide white pieces
Hide pawns
Hide non pawns
Full blindfold

Original comment by gbtami on 1 Jun 2008 at 2:32

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Well, it should probably be "hide own pieces" rather than "hide white pieces".
Also - if they are put in a combo under the label "difficulty", perhaps they 
should
each have a label like "Handicapped", "Semihandicapped"

Original comment by lobais on 1 Jun 2008 at 3:31

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actually you could play blindfold chess using gnuchessx through the console...

Original comment by paulo.mi...@gmail.com on 4 May 2009 at 8:27

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This issue was closed by revision 298325abe67f.

Original comment by gbtami on 26 Nov 2011 at 9:26

• Changed state: Fixed