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What I thought was interesting in the story was the photo with the food in the diet of a blindfold simul player. I cannot decide if a rather elongated red thing shown is a new type of apple or a red pepper.
One is reminded of Kramnik saying at the World Cup that he has a dietician choosing his snacks to eat at the board like nuts with tea – to keep his blood sugar level normal during the game. (Tromso, Round Six, Game Four).
Yes I noted that too - and thats been missing from my own game - a diet like that would make a huge difference - hard to switch but maybe a must idea if I want to keep competing even at my own level!
http://www.chess.com/article/view/al...3-the-new-plan From Jeremy Silman's excellent article on chess.com about the genius of Alekhine. The whole article is well worth reading. The blindfold content comes from the first two puzzles. The first puzzle is from a game Alekhine - Saemisch which I consider the most amazing blindfold game ever played. The puzzle is the amazing finish! WOW! Give it a try - even an excellent tactician will be impressed. The second puzzle is the finish of one of his blindfold games in a multiboard exhibition. Ruthless but beautiful.
Kolty took his opportunities as a showman. He attended the one man show "James Thurber 1" given by the actor William Windom. He said the audience was spellbound by the performance. The afternoon before the show he played blindfolded against William Windom. Koltanowski - Windom, 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.b4 Qxb4 5.Rb1 Qd6 6.d4 c6 7.Nf3 Nf6 8.Bc4 e6 9.0-0 Be7 10.Rb3 0-0 11.Ba3 Qc7 12.Bxe7 Qxe7 13.Ne5 Nbd7 14.Re1 Nxe5 15.dxe5 Nd7 16.Qh5 b5 17.Bd3 g6 18.Qh6 Nc5 19.Ne4 Nxe4 20.Bxe4 Bb7 21.g4 f5 22.exf6 Rxf6 23.g5 Rf7 24.Rbe3 c5 25.Bxg6 hxg6 26.Rxe6 Qf8 27.Rxg6+ Rg7 28.Rxg7+ Qxg7 29.Qxg7+ Kxg7 30.Re7+ Kg6 31.Rxb7 a6 32.h4 Rh8 33.Rb6+ Kh5 34.Rxa6 Kxh4 35.Rh6+ 1-0 Note the fine moves in Kolty style - 19.Ne4!, 21.g4!, 25.Bxg6! and the nice simplification at the end.
Jack you beat me to it. Just one additional: the event described would actually be considered a 26 board blindfold simultaneous with 9 boards added later. I notice he is upping his speed of delivery which makes things interesting and I believe he will do 50 boards blindofld simultaneous at some point. http://en.ria.ru/analysis/20131010/1...ur-Gareev.html
Timur Gareev is doing a blindfold simul at All The Kings Men tomorrow (a 24 hr, seven day a week club in Dearborn - what a luxury!!) I talked briefly with him and he encouraged me to play and I thought I would like to if I could play blindfold on my board but unfortunately I had to be back in Kitchener today after my weekend tournament (the Michigan Festival Open Section).
Back to Kolty. http://www.chesscafe.com/urcan/urcan52.htm A nicely written and informative article of Kolty's blindfold simul at the Marshall Chess Club in 1938. Good escription and an interesting read.
In his early 70"s Kolty took a vacation to Curacao in the Carribean and while there did a 10 board blindfold simul with clocks! He had to play 40 moves in 2 hours on all 10 boards and scored 6 wins and 4 draws! This has to be the greatest feat by anyone in the world over age 60! Blindfold simuls are hard enough but then adding clock controls much harder! Here is his game from the simul against the ex-champion of Curacao. Koltanowski-Pang Atok 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.e3 c6 4.c4 e6 5.Nc3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 Be7 7.0-0 0-0 8.e4 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Nb6 10.Bb3 Bd7 11.Qe2 Rc8 12.Rd1 Be8 13.e5 Nfd5 14.Ne4 f5 15.exf6 Bxf6 16.Nc5 Bf7 17.Nxb7 Qe7 18.Nc5 Bxd4 19.Nxd4 Qxc5 20.Nf3 Rce8 21.Ne5 Re7 22.Bd2 Qd6 23.f4 c5 24.Rac1 Be8 25.g3 g5 26.Be3 Rc7 27.Nc4 Nxc4 28.Bxc4 Rff7 29.Bd3 Rf8 30.a3 h6 31.fxg5 hxg5 32.Bxg5 c4 33.Rxc4 Rxc4 34.Bxc4 Qb6+ 35.Kg2 Bg6 36.h4 Rf7 37.Rxd5 exd5 38.Bxd5 Bh5 39.g4 Bg6 40.h5 Qd4 41.Qe6 Qxb2+ 42.Kh3 Qxa3+ 43.Kh4 Qc3 44.Qxg6+ Kh8 45.Qh6+ Kg8 46.Bxf7+ Kxf7 47.Qg6+ Kf8 48.Qf6+ Qxf6 49.Bxf6 1-0
Kolty did his last 5 board blindfold simul at age 88 and his last blindfold simul (3 boards) at age 93 amongst friends. All records that will probably never be broken.
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