People tend to lose "sight" when calculating the moves in
their heads.
When making a search for "blindfold chess" on the internet
you soon find
information that one of the most important advances in your chess life
is
to master the art of visualisation. That's why there is this website.
By the way: CVT online is free :-) and an offline
version is also available.
Read more about visualization in chess from IM Salinnikov here.
NEWS
15. October '05:
Online training with a Master Coach is one of the best
ways to improve your game. I was able to get a special discount for
users of the CVT website with
Chess Teacher GM
Viktor Gavrikov. To get more information click
here.
NEWS
13. May .'04:
Yesterday was a very "cool" day !
I attended the Kramnik vs Leko World Chess Championship Press Conference.
Take a look at my report here
in Chess Today - the first daily chess newspaper.
NEWS
05. May .'04:
Today we are finally launching "The
Chess Eye".
Our shareware offline version of this site. Please give it a try.
We are looking for translators now, so far "The
Chess Eye"
is in English, German, Turkish and Portuguese, Spanish and Italian.
Please let us know if you like to help
by translating into another language.
Write to chesseye@janmatthies.info
for more information.
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start of new excercises.
Yours, Jan
How
to start training
Start with exercise #1 on the left to
start training your visualisation and work your way up.
1. There you have to create a
username (each exercise). 2. Login to start the exercise. 3. The exercise will only end if you click
one of the "End..." buttons.
Take
the time
If you are new to chess I recommend: Chessmaster
teaches you in a nice multimedia way from scratch the rules, strategic
principles, openings, endings..... IM Josh Waitzkin goes through
his games with you and you are tested in a lot of quizzes to keep
track of your learning progress. You'll be busy for a long time
to work through all lectures. Once you are finished I bet you
have a rating of at least 1750. In the teaching area Chessmaster
is a lot better than Fritz !
World Class Chess on your Palm Organizer: ChessTiger
You will find a link to the Leaderboard at the bottom
of each exercise
page to be able to find yourself in case you are not in the Top 10.
CVT is online since the 6th of December 2002 and you are
visitor number