Since I started learning chess my visualisation has improved immeasurably. And not just for chess. I have much more control and can hold an image in my head lon

Since I started learning chess my visualisation has improved immeasurably. And not just for chess. I have much more control and can hold an image in my head longer without fatigue, although the vividness of my mental images has not improved. I lost the ability to make vivid mental images around adolescence. I'd be curious what happens when a person with aphantasia tries to learn chess. Would they simply not progress, or would they develop the ability to visualise?