Talk:George Koltanowski
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[edit] Copyright status of this article
Note that versions of this article are floating around the Web in many places. However, the original uploader to Wikipedia was User:Sam Sloan, who appears to be the original author of the piece. So no copyvio. --Quuxplusone 04:42, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Inaccurate statement, I believe
"Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record on September 20, 1937, in Edinburgh, by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, making headline news around the world. His record still stands in the Guinness Book of Records. Later, both Miguel Najdorf and János Flesch claimed to have broken that record, but their efforts were not properly monitored the way that Koltanowski's was."
Koltanowski did not play his opponents simultaneously but one after another with a ten second interval between moves. This happened in San Francisco. I also believe it was 50 opponents and not 34 as stated.
Najdorf did simultaneously play 45 opponents blindfold in Sao Paolo. It was watched by 4000 spectators and documented by a local lawyer. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by hypotaxis 08:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)Hypotaxis.
[edit] Blindfold Chess Champion
George Koltanowski claimed the Blindfold Chess Championship for many years. One of his complaints about other pretenders to the throne was he would play without referring to notes. Pictures of the pretenders would be shown on Koltanowski PBS TV show with an assistant standing next to the pretender, and Koltanowski would remark on the assistant refreshing the pretender's memory before making his next move. Koltanowski had an assistant who helped him move from board to board. He said he did not need to be told who he was playing and did not need his memory refreshed concerning the board position.--HighSchoolPlayer (talk) 01:07, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
