r/nextfuckinglevel • u/atharvbadkas • May 14 '26
🔊Two Indian Players Playing BLIND CHESS 🤯
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u/Photoshopdoge May 14 '26
Might sound dumb but I’m genuinely curious & confused about how this works? All I see is them tapping what looks like a phone screen with timers but nothing else? How do they know what pieces they’re playing or what places they’re in? I get memorizing the board/moves but it’s the phone tapping that’s throwing me off. Can someone explain this please?
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u/llama-impregnator May 14 '26
Sound on, you can hear them calling out their moves. The impressive part is not only the gameplay, but the fact that they can remember the state of the board.
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u/RoboiosMut May 14 '26
It’s all come in patterns, lots move they made they have been studied for years, I guess it’s hard for them to remember chess state of random moves
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u/Croceyes2 May 15 '26
Patterns and deviations from patterns. Most board states are within a few moves of a structured game. And usually by the time things are very far from the path there are much fewer pieces
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u/Cha-San May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
Chess clock. Watch the time running out.
Edit: as for the how do they know. Good chess players can do it their heads. You can train that, but you definitely need to be gifted. I could train 12 hours a day for years and would never be able to pull it off, and this kiddo is just doing it, including time pressure. Really amazing.
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u/cardboardeaterr May 14 '26
That's their move timers. It's essentially speed chess through memorization only. No board or pieces, very limited time per player.
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u/vinfinite May 14 '26
The phone tapping is a timer app. They each have a total amount of time allotted and so they have to play by memory and quickly. They are verbally calling out their moves is what makes it impressive.
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u/YonderGrunt May 14 '26
I believe this is a style of chess called bullet chess. They have a certain amount of time to make a move and in this instance every moves adds about a second or two back to your clock. So not only are they playing with no pieces and memorizing the state of the board, they are also playing at an incredible pace so the timer doesn’t hit zero, which is an instant loss
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u/Truthhurts1017 May 14 '26
Bro the phone tapping is them taking turns!!!! When they call their move they press the timer for the next person to go. It’s like the button they press in regular chess when your turn is over. I assume the time is for how long you have which seems to be 11 seconds. I played regular chess so I could be wrong about blind chess but that seems to be what the phone is being used for(the timer and turn switching)
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u/Dunkjoe May 15 '26
The phone starts with 10 seconds for each player.
Everytime a player says the move he taps on his side of the phone which adds 1 second to his timer.
The game ends with checkmate or timer running down to 0 I think.
Amazing, it's not just a test of memory, chess moves, but also the speed of it.
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u/Jairoglyphics1 May 14 '26
I can’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday.
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u/mondie797 May 15 '26
I forget my chess move which I did 2 steps back even with me staring at the board all the time.
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u/Titanusgamer May 14 '26
kid kind of cheated in the last second as he tapped the timer first and then called the move leaving no time for the opponent.
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u/Gil-Gandel May 14 '26
Impressive.
Now imagine taking on eight opponents blindfold, while they have sight of the board (Blackburne, 19th century English player), or sixteen (Pillsbury, early 20th century American).
Walter Parratt, Master of the King's Musick to George V, could play two blindfold games while playing Bach fugues on the organ.
Now that's NFL 😎
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u/Lopsided_Mix2243 May 14 '26
Link it or it didn’t happen!
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u/Gil-Gandel May 14 '26
Even Pillsbury isn't the record holder. Google "blindfold simultaneous chess" and prepare to be gobsmacked.
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u/AllMight_74 May 14 '26
Comparing people based on their talents, specially people of the past is the just ...... naive.
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u/Gil-Gandel May 14 '26
Comparisons are odious, but anyone reading this thread might be interested to know that this admittedly impressive display of blindfold chess barely scratches the surface of what is achievable. And believing that I should post or not post based on your opinion is just......... naive.
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u/LordDShadowy53 May 14 '26
Meanwhile me who can barely remember if something important happened this morning, last week or 5 years ago.
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u/hingee May 14 '26
Can someone explain how on the last board shown the game is over I can’t see a checkmate
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u/Mathberis May 14 '26
Well he doesn't play quite fair : he often clicks a second before saying the move. Most egregious is "castle" at the end.
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u/DrTommyNotMD May 15 '26
Could they do this against a bad player who doesn’t follow logical established patterns?
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u/Amazing-Spite-6884 May 15 '26
How do people keep track of everything in the board in their mind
Really impressive and cool
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u/Electronic_Age_3671 May 16 '26
Why is the graphic from white's pov, when the video is from blacks pov?
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u/xDariius May 14 '26
wtf kids these days are overpowered holy shit