Re: chess or poker
I know some category A players who can play a decent game of blind chess while playing another game, ie poker or backgammon.
Re tactical genius: Botvinnik said "If Tal makes a sacrifice, accept it. If I make a sacrifice, calculate. If Petrosian makes a sacrifice, refuse it". (In other versions, the last phrase appears as "resign".)
Re Fischer: He was of course perfectly capable to analyze positions in the "blind". When he was sitting around dinner with a bunch of Soviet GMs and they were talking about various positions in various games and what woulda shoulda coulda happened, what were they doing if not blind chess? Fischer simply preferred analysis with a board like everybody else.
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Chess can also be played successfully in a rather dry technical way based on a set of positional rules. If you simply make enough "plus-exchanges", you should be able to grind out a win.
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Mickey Brausch
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