Blindfold Chess - DarkSquares is a board app developed by IndieFoundry.
Download Statistics
Blindfold Chess - DarkSquares has been downloaded 2.1 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 430 times.
User Ratings
Blindfold Chess - DarkSquares is rated 5.00 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 83 ratings.
App Information
Blindfold Chess - DarkSquares is FREE to download. The APK download size is 71.49 MB. The latest version available is 2.7.21. The last update was on August 19, 2026.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play February 2026.
Description
Play a full game of chess out loud, without ever seeing the board. DarkSquares teaches you blindfold chess step by step, so you can hold a whole position in your mind and track every piece by voice or by memory.
No pieces, no problem. Whether you are a beginner who can barely picture one square or a club player chasing sharper calculation, this is chess visualization training that actually sticks.
LEARN BLINDFOLD CHESS FROM SCRATCH Blindfold chess means playing without seeing the pieces. You keep the position in your head, move after move. It sounds impossible, and it is the single best way to build chess vision. Every strong player calculates by picturing positions that are not on the board yet. DarkSquares turns that skill into daily practice you can actually follow.
A GUIDED JOURNEY - Start at your very first square and build up to full blindfold chess - Earn Bronze, Silver and Gold as your inner board gets stronger - Clear, bite-sized steps so you are never lost - Track your level, your streak and your personal bests as you go
SIXTEEN VISUALIZATION DRILLS - Square colors: instantly know light from dark - Chess coordinates: name any square without counting - Quadrants and diagonals: lock the grid into memory - Knight movement and knight mazes: master the hardest piece to picture - Bishop paths, attack detection and piece relations - Chess memory drills and position reconstruction: hold whole positions in your head - Blind puzzle moves and endgame drills
PLAY BLINDFOLD AGAINST THE AI - Choose how much you see: full board, faded disks, or a completely blank board - Eight engine levels, from your first game to club strength - Type your moves, or speak them out loud - On-device speech recognition, so your voice never leaves your phone
PLAY CHESS BY VOICE Say your move and it is played. DarkSquares announces the replies out loud, so you can train a whole game hands free with your eyes closed, on a walk or on the commute. Voice chess runs entirely offline and nothing is sent to a server.
DAILY CHESS PUZZLE - A fresh puzzle every day - Build streaks and chase the fastest solve - Tactics matched to your level, with the solution replayed step by step
REPLAY 120 FAMOUS GAMES - Walk through Morphy, Fischer, Kasparov and more, move by move - Rebuild the legends entirely in your mind - The way masters trained their memory long before engines existed
PLAY REAL OPPONENTS ONLINE - Connect your free Lichess account and play online blindfold - Resume a game already in progress, right where you left off
WHY TRAIN CHESS VISUALIZATION Visualization is the skill behind every deep calculation. Players who see the board clearly blunder less, spot tactics earlier and read endgames faster. Blindfold training builds working memory, concentration and pattern recognition, and all of it carries straight back to your results over the board.
It also works the other way round. If you already play well but lose the thread three moves deep, blindfold drills are the fastest way to find out exactly where your inner board breaks down, and to repair it.
FREE AND OFFLINE - Free to start, no account required - Works fully offline, so you can train anywhere - No ads interrupting a drill
Blindfold chess is the ultimate test of chess vision. Train it daily and your calculation, your memory and your confidence climb with it.
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Comments on Blindfold Chess - DarkSquares for Android
★★★★★bastien· Jun 10, 2026
Awesome app to learn blindfold chess I love the fact you can connect to lichens and play real players, the puzzle/memory section is fire too 🔥 In hidden mode, it would be better to have no board to avoid peeking (there is an empty board option if you want) and it could use a coaching/tips section to feel less overwhelmed on what to work on (the progression section does not work for me, but some tips online helped) I look forward to flex to my family by beating them (hopefully) eyes shut
★★★★☆Kingsley Obeng· May 7, 2026
Great app, I left out the last star as you can't look at past blindfolded games archived. Is that deliberate? Aside from that, it's very well presented. Love the Journey feature – intuitive progress through blindfold drills like endgames, perfectly paced for daily practice. Clean Android UI and detailed feedback build real mental-board skills fast. One hiccup: Blindfold endgames didn't record despite completing 3 puzzles fully (app restarted). Minor tracking glitch, easily fixed.
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