Result? GM Gareev 33-Board Blindfold Simul

[Kerry Liles]

This blindfold simul was yesterday at the St.Louis Chess Center... anyone able to find out how GM Gareev fared? This was a warm-up for the U.S. Championships that are about to start.

http://www.uschesschamps.com/gm-gareev-conduct-33-board-blindfold-simul

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Result? GM Gareev 33-Board Blindfold Simul

twitted by SaintLouis ChessClub: Grandmaster Timur Gareev just finished 33 board blindfold simul: 10 hours and 39 minutes. Result 29 wins and 4 draws.

[Lee Hendon]

Re: Result? GM Gareev 33-Board Blindfold Simul

It would be interesting to know what was the rating of his opponents none the less very impressive!!

[Kerry Liles]

Re: Result? GM Gareev 33-Board Blindfold Simul

twitted by SaintLouis ChessClub: Grandmaster Timur Gareev just finished 33 board blindfold simul: 10 hours and 39 minutes. Result 29 wins and 4 draws.

Thanks Egid. Very impressive result.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Result? GM Gareev 33-Board Blindfold Simul

Thanks Egid.

welcome.
but write - egis ;) As even I may have problems to pronounce Egid :D

[Kerry Liles]

Re: Result? GM Gareev 33-Board Blindfold Simul

welcome.
but write - egis ;) As even I may have problems to pronounce Egid :D

Mea culpa. It is hard to abbreviate something I cannot even pronounce properly in the long form! ;)

[Hans Jung]

Re: Result? GM Gareev 33-Board Blindfold Simul

Plenty of pictures as well on the twitter site (facebook). Koltanowski did similar in his world record 34 in 1937. I think a few more draws and about the same time total. I thought GM Gareev was just playing schoolkids but in the pictures it shows several adult tournament players so I think Kolty's simul was much weaker opposition. Very impressive result with no losses - so I assume no major blunders. I hope there are gamescores preserved.

[Kerry Liles]

Re: Result? GM Gareev 33-Board Blindfold Simul

It would be interesting to know what was the rating of his opponents none the less very impressive!!

From Susan Polgar's blog today:

"The field, composed entirely of Saint Louis Chess Club members, had an average USCF rating of 1363, and featured of two experts, three class A players (1800-1999) and five class B players (1600-1799)."

see:

http://www.susanpolgar.blogspot.ca/2013/05/gm-timur-gareev-defeats-29-in-blindfold.html

VERY impressive.

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: Result? GM Gareev 33-Board Blindfold Simul

Probably a little weaker than the groups of players that Leo Williams played blindfolded in the 1970's.