Life is what happens to you
Whilst you’re busy making other plans
— John Lennon
Hello Blindfoldistas,
Well, this past month hasn’t exactly turned out how I expected it to be, but nevertheless Invisible Chess will launch tomorrow. So I’m keeping to the plan (if only just) for the first episodes to be released in October.
Originally I’d thought that by this time, I’d have released two weeks’ worth episodes and have another month or so already ready recorded and in the process of being edited. And that may well have happened had life not got in the way of my plans. But it did and so it hasn’t. Not by a long chalk.
If I’m honest the recordings that aren’t going out aren’t perfect. They’re certainly not how I intended them to be. But they are scheduled for released and by this time tomorrow they’ll be out there. In the wild, warts and all.
If nothing else, launching the podcast tomorrow does at least live the truth or a message I was trying to get across in terms of blindfold chess/visualisation training. Doing something, imperfect and limited though that something might be, gets you infinitely more than doing nothing.
BIG THANK YOUS TO ….
A group of people I have come to think of as The Invisible Chess Players …
Martin Bostock of Red Banner - intro and outro music
Karen - logo art
Covert Bethany - voice of Irving Chernev
Jon MacKenzie - Harbinger of Doom
Secret Contributors as yet to be revealed - game readers
Eugene Burger - chess podcast introduction From Beyond the grave
Not to mention all of you for signing up to the newsletter, following me on twitter or subscribing to the Invisible Chess.
And finally, as a thank you for your patience … a game I came across in Chernev’s “The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess” that Irv reckons was played by French military leader/Josephine disappointer/Battle of Waterloo loser, Napolean Bonaparte.
I’ll be wanting a primary source or something considerably stronger than Chernev’s say so to believe it actually was. But, then again, we don’t go to him for historical accuracy, do we? What we want something that will make a good visualisation exercise and this game like the other 999, certainly give us that.
Remusat - Napolean
Paris, 1802
(allegedly)
Chernev: Game 167/1000
1 e4 Nf6
2 d3 Nc6
3 f4 e45
4 fxe5 Nxe5
5 Nc3 Nfg4
6 d4 Qh4+
7 g3 Qf6
8 Nh3 Nf3+
9 Ke2 Nxd4+
10 Kd3 Ne5+
11 Kxd4 Bc5+
12 Kxc5 Qb6+
13 Kd5
… and Black mates next move.
Thanks for your support so far. I hope you enjoy the podcast now it actually is out there and ready to be listened to.
Jonathan / Get Bent Larsen