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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Likely like muscle memory. They’ve got the board memorized with names/indicators for individual spaces then are fully focused on where their pieces are located on the board

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