What is Chess Vision Trainer?
A. Chess Vision Trainer is a chess training program to improve your visualization and move calculation skills in Chess. It uses a chess-playing engine that acts as your playing partner. The position displayed on the chess board is not the true position but the position a certain number of half-moves before the true position. You do not decide the moves based on the displayed position but based on the true position (which you do not see but you are trying to visualize). This means that you are always forced to look ahead of the chess position you see in the board. In addition, there is the concept of ‘Blindfold Areas’ which are quadrants of the chess board where the pieces are invisible. This idea of dividing the chess board into quadrants for the purpose of visualization is revealed by Buckley in his excellent book Practical Chess Analysis.
