eli5: How can professional chess player, play chess without seeing the board and the pieces?

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As described in the title, how can even some professional player can play chess without seeing the board and play it with several against several players at the same time… is this a gift (that he or she has very high IQ, so he can describe chess movement in his imagination), or is it something that even normal people can learn?

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So long as they know where pieces are moved they can have a picture of the board in their mind there are a large number of places the pieces can be in, but those places are within certain limits like the bishops only sticking to one colour of squares.

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