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http://www.tabladeflandes.com/frank_..._mayer210.html An astounding find! I checked Klaus Junge's page on chessgames.com and this was a link on a South American site to the reminisences of a German player. Description of a 25 board blindfold simul by Klaus Junge - he scored 20 wins and 5 draws in 6 hours (extremely fast pace). No previous indications of blindfold ability at that level by Klaus Junge. Amazing!
In post above click on reduced three pages for description, although it is in German. Second page bottom to third page top describes the blindfold simul.
Shad Powers, writing for 'The Desert Sun', finds Timur Gareyev's simultaneous blindfold play more remarkable than Michael Jordan playing basketball, Roger Federer playing tennis, or Wayne Gretsky playing hockey. (:
http://en.chessbase.com/post/blindfo...areyev-on-tour GM Timur Gareev does a 35 board blindfold simul (his 2nd on 30+ boards!) and states that this will be the year he breaks the world record of 46 boards set by Marc Lang.
http://en.chessbase.com/post/improve...is-gelfand-1-2 Sagar Shah interviews Boris Gelfand. There is a section about blindfold training and Sagar tests Boris with a puzzle. Scroll down to photos with Boris with hand over eyes. Boris Gelfand suggests solving puzzles blindfolded. Its very good for your calculation. There is also a nice photo with GM Lilienthal (oldest grandmaster in the world - and legendary crusher of Capablanca!) and friends. Also wonderful nostalgic memory of the book: The Best Move by Jansa and Hort which Boris liked and I used so much that it collapsed into many pieces.
Blindfold chess played in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia by an N. Jasnogrodsky (a name of Russian origin), 115 years ago. Thanks to Alain Godbout for introducing me to the pioneering Canadian chess magazine Checkmate, published 1901-03, and to J. Ken MacDonald for providing the replica volumes--in which this game appeared:
http://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2016-...-sim-stockholm Blindfold King Timur Gareev does a 10 board blindfold simul in Stockholm, Sweden. (Ive never seen the games of a blindfold simul recorded on chessbomb) Nice to see for posterity and also see my favorite 1.Nc3, as well as King's Gambit, and other gambits.
http://www.chessbomb.com/arena/ Timur Gareev plays 14 in Amsterdam. Some celebrities amongst the players (Fred Lucas is one of them) and some lovely checkmate miniatures. I think he has the widest opening repertoire of any blindfold player.
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