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Hi Tony, I've seen it in action many times (on the internet) but the mechanics never crossed my mind. Idea: Geurt Gijssen has a monthly article called An Arbiter's Notebook on www.chesscafe.com - probably contact info there. You could ask him. He was arbiter at Amber several times. Also I am sure there are a few arbiters here in Canada who would know. If anyone who can help reads this feel free to respond.
I had not thought much about it either, but it seems to me that each player likely has only an empty board to stare at (I would doubt that they would be allowed to make notes or the like...) and the arbiter has a full board that reveals the real position.
Maybe someone can comment on what happens when a player calls out a move that turns out to be illegal (ie: moving a bishop a long way when a forgotten pawn is in the way) - that reveals some small amount of information. That reminds me of playing kreigspiel in the old days at Scarborough CC on Macey Ave. (usually with Howard Rideout involved) - kreigspiel players would often make a probing move to discern where pieces were...
Even purists might claim having an empty board is too much of a "view" to have?
Maybe someone can comment on what happens when a player calls out a move that turns out to be illegal (ie: moving a bishop a long way when a forgotten pawn is in the way) -
The Amber players do not call out, they play the move on the computer. If it is illegal, there is a 'Illegal move' message.
GM Timus Gareevs credits his win in the North American Open in Las Vegas with a score of 8/9 (a full point ahead of his nearest rival) to that same blindfold simul.
Even the website Youtube has gradually accumulated videos showing blindfold chess. Chesstalk regular Zach Dukic is featured in one called: "Real Blindfold Chess" He plays a game with a national master, both blindfold, on giant chess pieces at St. Catherines (Ontario) Penn Centre Mall. Interesting is a series of videos called "Blindfold Chess - Basic Skills" by English player Peter Lalic (rated 2100 FIDE) where he plays 7 minute games against Fritz (playing at 1900) and talks through the variations in his mind and invites the viewers to follow.
Back to Kolty. On December 4th, 1960 at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel Kolty set a new kind of blindfold record. He played 56 consecutive games (one after the other) at 10 seconds a move. Many sources have confused this as breaking Flesch's 52 game mark. Not so. This was a completely different form of blindfold chess - a form of speed chess but much harder (at 10 seconds a move its much easier to blunder). A different kind of marathon. Kolty was successful, winning 50, drawing 6, and not losing which was important to him and at age 57 well done! 3000 paid spectators watched. Unfortunately most of his opponents made crude blunders or beginner opening errors. Still there were some interesting games. Board 2 Black: Richardson 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.0-0 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bb5 Bd7 7.Bxc6 bxc6 8.Nxe5 f6 9.Qh5+ Ke7 10.Qf7+ Kd6 11.Bf4 g5 12.Nc4 double checkmate
Kolty's best game in this event was against his strongest opponent Col Ed Edmondson (the one with the Bobby Fischer connection) an A class player, who was an air force colonel based at the time in Texas. I wonder if he flew into San Francisco especially for the Koltanowski exhibition? Kolty - Col. Edmondson 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 g6 7.Bxf6 exf6 8.Be2 Bg7 9.0-0 0-0 10.Ndb5 f5 11.Qxd6 Qxd6 12.Nxd6 Bxc3 13.bxc3 fxe4 14.Nxe4 Bf5 15.Bd3 Rab8 16.Nf6+ Kg7 17.Nh5+ Kh6 18.Bxf5 Kxh5 19.Be4 Rfd8 20.Rfd1 Na5 21.Rd3 b6 22.Rad1 Rxd3 23.cxd3 Kg5 24.f3 a6 25.Kf2 Rc8 26.c4 Rd8 27.Ke2 Re8 28.Kd2 f5 29.Bd5 b5 30.Re1 Rd8 31.Kc3 bxc4 32.bxc4 Kf6 33.Kb4 1-0 Even though Black successfully liquidates his doubled pawn Kolty gives a master class in the endgame. Note Kolty's crippled doubled pawn on c2 ends up being the only passed pawn on the board at the end of the game.
On July 16th 2011 FM Marc Lang (the current world blindfold record holder) in southern Germany played 60 consecutive games of speed chess (5 minutes + 5 seconds increment) and scored 45 wins, 11 draws, and 4 losses. The problem with most of the games were not that Marc was playing speed chess blindfolded (and doing it well without blunders!) but that his sighted opponents usually could not avoid blundering! However there were some humorous games. Lang - Stocklossa, Game 5, 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e4 e6 4.Bxc4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bxf6 Qxf6 8.Nf3 Nd7 9.0-0 Nb6 10.Bd3 Bd7 11.e5 Qe7 12.Ne4 0-0-0 13.a3 Ba5 14.b4 Bxb4 15.axb4 Qxb4 16.Rxa7 Bc6 17.Qa1 Qb3 18.Nc5 Qd5 19.Ra8+ Nxa8 20.Qxa8# 1-0 (The thought process might be: " 13.a3 - ouch the bishop is trapped -oh well - yes Ill get two pawns for it. Wait he's breaking into my king position - no the knight guards - lets attack something (...Qb3) whoops (18.Nc5!) make the queen safe. Again ouch - checkmate!
Lang-Buck, Game 5, 1.d4 e6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 a6 4.e4 c5 5.d5 exd5 6.cxd5 Qc7 7.Nf3 b5 8.e5 Ng4 9.d6 Qd8 10.h3 Nxf2 11.Kxf2 Nc6 12.Nd5 Bxd6 13.exd6 0-0 14.Bd3 Bb7 15.Bxh7+ Kh8 16.Ng5 Nd4 17.Qh5 1-0 You can only give the master so many opportunities before he decides to take all.:D
Weiss - Lang, Game 22, 1.c4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.e3 e5 5.d4 e4 6.g3 Nf6 7.Bg2 Bd6 8.Nge2 0-0 9.0-0 Nc6 10.b3 Be6 11.Rb1 Qd7 12.Bb2 Bh3 13.Nf4 Bxf4 14.exf4 Bxg2 15.Kxg2 Rfe8 16.Rc1 Nb4 17.Ba3 Nd3 18.Rc2 Rac8 19.Ne2 Qg4 20.Rxc8 Rxc8 21.Nc1 Nxf4+ 22.Kh1 Qh3 23.Rg1 Ng4 24.Qxg4 Qxg4 25.gxf4 Qf3+ 26.Rg2 Rc2 0-1 White determinedly double fianchettoes even tho its bad. Black proceeds to tie him in knots with two good knights and then concentrates on getting the king. In the final position the remaining white pieces are mere spectators.
Koltanowski - Humphrey Bogart, San Francisco 1952, 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Bd3 Nf6 5.Ne2 Bg4 6.0-0 Bd6 7.f3 Be6 8.Bf4 0-0 9.Nd2 Nc6 10.c3 Ne7 11.Bxd6 Qxd6 12.f4 c5 13.Nf3 Nf5 14.Qd2 Ne4 15.Qc1 Rac8 16.dxc5 Qxc5+ 17.Ned4 Nxd4 18.Nxd4 Rc7 19.f5 Bd7 20.Bxe4 dxe4 21.Qf4 Re8 22.Rae1 Re5 23.Rxe4 Rxe4 24.Qxe4 Bc6 25.Qe3 Re7 26.Qg3 Re8 27.f6 g6 28.Qh4 h5 29.Re1 Rxe1+ 30.Qxe1 Qd6 31.Nxc6 Qxc6 32.Qe7 Qc8 33.h3 Qc6 34.b4 Qxc3 35.Qe8+ Kh7 36.Qxf7+ Kh6 37.Qe7 Qc1+ 38.Kf2 Qf4+ 39.Ke2 Qc4+ 40.Kf3 Kg5 41.f7 1-0 Kolty plays Bogart like a cagey street hustler choosing variations that seem to give Bogart chances without giving too much. I really like Kolty's opening choices sort of like a strange Caro-Kann retaining the option of driving the F-pawn. Kolty could have finished with a crush but that is not what he wanted to do. High class show entertainment in chess.
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