• andxz@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I was a decently rated chess player (nationally) in my youth and I have level 5 aphantasia i.e. I see nothing at all.

    While I absolutely cannot play or picture game states without a physical board in front of me like most pros can, I had no great difficulty otherwise.

    I practiced with a friend at the same general skill level that was very good at playing sans voir, which incidentally is how I realized I don’t have the same mental imagery as him. This was ~25 years ago, and I didn’t run into the word aphantasia until around 2020.