Interesting. As an aphant I can perhaps do what you describe, what I can absolutely not do is e.g. calculate moves with my eyes closed. I can calculate a couple

Interesting. As an aphant I can perhaps do what you describe, what I can absolutely not do is e.g. calculate moves with my eyes closed. I can calculate a couple of moves in, but then it gets hard, and I'm not sure if this is something solveable with practice or just a hard stop. Similarly, the top chess players can remember a lot of the matches they played, and others they studied. This is not something my brain is able to do, period. Similar to how I have less personal memories than a lot of other people.