Blindfold Chess Podcast

About 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.

Publisher

Cassidy Noble

Category

leisure · leisure · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Jul 2022

Latest episode

17 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

106 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Oct 2026

   S4 E21 Max Euwe v J. Graves (1920)

   This week we are looking at the only player in history to be both a World Champion and the President of the international body of chess - FIDE, a member of the inaugural class of Grandmasters, an Olympiad participant for 3.5 decades, a 13-time Dutch champion, an author of 70 chess books, and someone who facilitated the creation of many 3rd world chess organizations to continue to grow the game. -- 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. e4 b5 6. a4 Bb4 7. Bd2 Bxc3 8. Bxc3 Nf6 9...

2. 

   3 Oct 2026

   S4 E20 Puzzles

   Hi everyone and welcome back to Puzzle week! These are some of my favorite to make. I am going to give you 3 different puzzles this episode ranging from easy to hard. I will be giving you the piece location of every piece on the board and it will be your job to figure out the correct sequence of moves to complete the puzzle. Puzzle 1 - FEN: [8/8/1q6/4N3/7r/4N3/1k2K1P1/8 w - - 0 1] Puzzle 2 - FEN: [8/8/8/k1pr3p/P1R4K/7P/6P1/8 b - - 0 1] Puzzle 3 - FEN: [8/8/8/6R1/P7/...

3. 

   19 Sept 2026

   S4 E19 Alla Kushnir v M. Vospernik (1962)

   This week we are looking at a 5-time Women’s Olympiad gold winner, a 3-time Women’s Candidates winner, a USSR Women’s Champion, the first woman to beat a Grandmaster in a tournament game, and someone who - after she retired - went on to have an award winning career as a professor and researcher in numismatics - Alla Kushnir. --- 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 e6 4.e3 c5 5.Ne5 a6 6.Be2 Nbd7 7.f4 Nxe5 8.fxe5 Nd7 9.O-O Qg5 10.Rf4 g6 11.Qf1 Qe7 12.c4 dxc4 13.Nc3 Bh6 14.Ne4 Bxf4 15.Nd6+ Kf8 16.Qxf4...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

47 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

16

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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