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http://www.chessbase.com/Home/TabId/...es-021113.aspx GM Gareev with more press exposure on his path to a world record 50 board blindfold simultaneous exhibition. He is doing a great job with chess promotion to the general public with his ongoing blindfold displays.
With the interest of the Anand - Carlsen match happening I decided to show the blindfold skills of modern players starting with Magnus Carlsen. Magnus is the best example to show of modern players because he has no reluctance to doing blindfold exhibitions and therefore has done more than any other modern celebrity player and is actually getting better at blindfold chess as he gains experience. He has done up to 10 boards blindfold simultaneously on several occasions but unfortunately I so far can not come up with any game scores from those exhibitions. After some digging I found a report from last year. On his way to Mexico for a celebrity event where he played Judit Polgar blindfold (they were both blindfold) he stopped off and visited the Silicon Valley Bank World Headquarters in San Jose California and while there played speed chess with the young American phenom Daniel Naroditsky but more importantly for chess promotional purposes 4 youth players were selected from a crowd and he played them a 4 board blindfold exhibition. Here is one of the games: White: Magnus Carlsen, Black: Anirudh Seela, rated 1835, San Jose, California, Nov. 28, 2012 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Bb7 5.Nc3 Be7 6.d5 0-0 7.e4 Na6 8.Bd3 Nc5 9.Bc2 Rc8 10.b4 Na6 11.e5 Ne8 12.Qd3 g6 13.h4 h5 14.g4 Ng7 15.gxh5 Nxh5 16.Rg1 Qe8 17.Bh6 c5 18.b5 Nb8 19.d6 Bd8 20.Ng5 Nf4 21.Qe3 Ng2+ 22.Rxg2 Bxg2 23.h5 Bb7 24.Qg3 Kh8 25.hxg6 fxg6 26.Qh4 Kg8 27.Bg7 Bxg5 28.Qh8+ Kf7 29.Qh7 Rh8 30.Bxg6 checkmate 1-0
I too saw this (Marshall Club article, New York above) but if you read the detail it was not a blindfold exhibition but a regular simultaneous (sighted).
...I was happy to see my strategic location in the book! As one of 20 players in chess history to successfully attempt a 20 or more player blindfold simultaneous exhibition I am between Tony Miles (a foremost chess artist and strong grandmaster) and Garry Kasparov (the calculating genius) epauletted by the blindfold adventures of two Danish masters. I am also one of only six survivors of those 20 players and the youngest! Lots of entertaining reading and lots of interesting knowledge between the covers!
WOW! hat off to you~
Now I want to read that book right after the final exams are done!
(just realized this is a post from 2009...)
Last edited by Neal Pan; Friday, 29th November, 2013, 01:18 AM.
The next game is Magnus at age 15 against seasoned GM Schandorff - several time Danish Champion both blindfold. Denmark is one of very few countries that host regular blindfold tournaments. Note Magnus' creative but risky play against a noted solid positional player. He castles kingside after storming his G and H pawns and has calculated that his opponents king position is more susceptible to attack than his own. Exciting chess! Magnus Carlsen - Lars Schandorff, Aalborg, Denmark, Feb. 4,2006 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nc3 e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Nge2 c5 7.h4 h5 8.Nf4 Bh7 9.Nxh5 cxd4 10.Nb5 Nc6 11.Nxd4 Nge7 12.c3 Nxe5 13.Bg5 Nd7 14.Bg2 Nc5 15.0-0 Ne4 16.c4 Nxg5 17.hxg5 Qd7 18.cxd5 exd5 19.Rc1 Bg6 20.Re1 Bxh5 21.gxh5 Kd8 22.g6 Nc6 23.gxf7 Be7 24.Ne6+ Kc8 Bxd5 1-0
Forgive me if this has been posted before, Hans, but I only came across Pillsbury's (chessgames.com's 'Player of the Day' today since it's his 'birthday') May 10th, 1900 article, 'The Chess Player's Mind' today.
Tangentially, one can only wonder just how good Pillsbury may have become had he started chess at an earlier age (not taking up the game until the age of 16!). Of course, that didn't prevent him from steamrolling the world's best at Hastings in 1895 at the age of 22, with a remarkable +15 -3 =3, ahead of the first two World Champions, Steinitz (5th) and Lasker (3rd), as well as the likes of Chigorin (2nd) and Tarrasch (4th).
Thanks for bringing this interesting article by Pillsbury to the blindfold thread. Pillsbury played more blindfold chess than any player except Koltanowski. Most of his blindfold games and news items are lost in obscurity although excitingly recently researchers are finding blindfold games and articles by Pillsbury and publishing them. I have found more Pillsbury blindfold games that I will eventually publish here.
I was recently reading the British Chess Magazine for 1918 and found this blindfold game in the July issue (p. 204):
We are indebted to Mr. Pam Barry, of Winnipeg, for the score of the following interesting and hitherto unpublished game, which was played at Montreal in 1897 against the late Harry Nelson Pillsbury, who had Mr. Barry as one of his opponents in a blindfold exhibition against 12 antagonists.
Game No. 4,463
Kieseritzsky Gambit
Blindfold Simul
White H.N. Pillsbury
Black P. Barry
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