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Who first developed Blindfold chess and how did it become historically important?
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* Blindfold chess – Games prohibited by Buddha includes a variant of ashtapada game played on imaginary boards.
* Akasam astapadam was an ashtapada variant played with no board, literally "astapadam played in the sky".
* A correspondent in the American Chess Bulletin identifies this as likely the earliest literary mention of a blindfold chess variant.
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Blindfold chess originated in the Indian subcontinent and became an important contribution to global culture, science, technology, or daily life.

Blindfold chess – Games prohibited by Buddha includes a variant of ashtapada game played on imaginary boards. Akasam astapadam was an ashtapada variant played with no board, literally "astapadam played in the sky". A correspondent in the American Chess Bulletin identifies this as likely the earliest literary mention of a blindfold chess variant.

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* {{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CqJJAAAAYAAJ&dq=brahmajala+sutta+games&pg=RA2-PA104|title=American Chess Bulletin|first1=Hartwig|last1=Cassell|first2=Hermann|last2=Helms|date=28 May 1916|publisher=H. Cassell and H. Helms.|via=Google Books}}

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