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| Jun-18-07 |
| Karpova: <Definitions by Koltanowski>
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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Jul-15-07
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| BishopBerkeley: A number of nice images of "Kolty" here:
http://cplorg.cdmhost.com/cdm4/resu... (Click any image for the larger image.)
(:  Bishop Berkeley :)
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| Sep-01-07 |
| Karpova: A feature article from 1986 on Koltanowski - the author:
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... and excerpt:
<A (relatively brief) selection of examples of general carelessness in With the Chess Masters: Page 9: ‘Mizowitch’ at London, 1922?? Page 10: ‘Giuco ... Pianisimo’. Pages 15-16: The best part of two pages are devoted to a story of how L. Steiner cheated against Colle at ‘the Budapest International, 1928’. Neither player was there. Page 48: ‘Twice Tarrasch mounted a campaign to take the world title from Lasker – and twice Lasker beat him badly.’ When was the second time? Page 49: ‘My first encounter with Dr Tarrasch was in 1924 at the International Chess Tournament in Merano, Italy. I was in my early teens.’ Yet he was born in 1903. Page 54: He appears to believe Scotland is in England. Pages 67-68: Another cheating anecdote, according to which Dyckhoff pretended only to have drawn against John at Hanover, 1902, so that his close rival Bernstein would not go for a win against Kagan. Yet Dyckhoff and John did only draw. Page 80 and page 81: ‘R.F. Mitchell’. Presumably R.P. Michell. Page 90: ‘James Cross’. Rupert Cross would be correct. Page 92: for (Emanuel) Sapiro read Sapira. Page 100: ‘Marotzy’ (twice). Page 101: ‘Bekker’ (twice). Page 101: Flohr did not play at Carlsbad, 1929. Page 101: ‘ ... ahead of Reifir, Spielman, Astalosh and the younger Widmar’. Read: a) Rejfíř, b) Spielmann, c) Asztalos, d) Vidmar. Page 101: Alekhine and Euwe did not play at Moscow, 1935 (it is even said that there Menchik ‘beat Euwe twice!’). Page 141: Rejfíř has a wrong year of birth. And so on ...> Regarding <Page 48: ‘Twice Tarrasch mounted a campaign to take the world title from Lasker – and twice Lasker beat him badly.’ When was the second time?>
Sure, Winter was referring to the fact that the match in 1916 was not a WC match, only the one in 1908. That's obvious one might think but it wasn't obvious to everyone: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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Sep-17-07
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| playground player: One of the treasures of my youth was Koltanowski's TV show, which was aired here in the New York metro area as "Koltanowski on Chess." I loved the way he would downplay blindfold chess--and then of course you'd have to try it, and you'd see it was quite a bit harder than he was letting on! Anyhow, it was a great show, and I wish someone would rerun it. Anybody else remember it? |
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Oct-13-07
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| jackpawn: I remember seeing 'Koltanowski on Chess' on the local PBS station in the early 70's. I was new to chess and I loved it. The one thing I remember from it was blanket statements he would make. Once he was going over a Larson game and stated Larson started all his games as white with 1 c4. I was new, so I simply accepted his statement. A little time later I discovered that wasn't always the case. |
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Oct-13-07
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| Calli: Kolty was great story teller, but always take them with a grain of salt. Maybe two grains... |
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| Nov-25-07 |
| nikolaas: A short profile (in dutch) and a database containing 460 games are now available on my site. Go to http://www.freewebs.com/schaakhisto...
follow "schaken"
scroll until you see a list. On that list is Koltanowski's name. Click on it en follow "de database". With "online naspelen" you can play through it and with "download" you can download it. Enjoy! |
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| Apr-09-08 |
| gerardo beltran: It´s Excellent all information
Congratulations |
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| Jul-18-08 |
| myschkin: <Dean of American Chess>
Title of George Koltanowski. |
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Aug-28-08
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| GrahamClayton: According to Edward Winter, Koltanowski was part of a plot to stop Edward Colle winning the 2nd Belgian championship, which was held in Antwerp in September 1922. Koltanowski defeated Buruchowitz, the winner of the 1921 championship, in 2 moves 1. f3 e5. 2 g4 Qh4#. |
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Sep-02-08
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| GrahamClayton: Source: CN 2928 Edward Winter, "Chess Facts and Fables", McFarland Publishing, 2006 |
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Sep-04-08
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| whiteshark: Quote of the Day
" [Blindfold-chess legend] <Koltanowski> is survived by his wife, Leah, who never learned to play chess and often joked that her husband could not remember to bring bread home from the grocery. " -- The New York Times
Boys will be boys and gals will be gals. :D |
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| Sep-04-08 |
| sallom89: 34 games without looking at any board!? how come, just cant imagine it. |
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| Dec-24-08 |
| gauer: Did anyone ever try to estimate his rating strength after the 70's, when the ELO system was taking form? - many games show up as simuls, & of the 300+ to date in the database here, that would only account for about 5 or 6 simuls' worth of events, given that all the simuls could be pooled into only a few tourneys ;). Having Koltanowski paired to Alekhine in tandem (each player of each side alternate each kth turn in tandem to decide a team's strategy) / team play must've been like a GM reading a textbook when it came to reeling off an opening repertoire. A FIDE card didn't show up, & there don't seem to be many classical-pace time games that he'd played which had game-scores recorded to the database. |
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| Jan-08-09 |
| PhilFeeley: <sallom89> Chessbase published an article today about a book that may question his simultaneous claims: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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| Jul-20-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: Blindfold is for wimps! He should have tried blindfolded, gagged, and handcuffed! Now, that's HARDCORE! :) |
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Oct-06-09
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| Fusilli: Second longest-lived GM, after Enrico Paoli. |
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| Oct-06-09 |
| AnalyzeThis: I guess Smyslov is 'only' 88 and Dake was only 90. |
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Oct-06-09
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| Fusilli: Actually, I made a mistake. The GM with the longest life span is Andre Lilienthal, who is 98 and therefore outlived Enrico Paoli (who died at 97) and Koltanowski, who died at 96. The second oldest living GM is, indeed, the great Vasily Smyslov, who is 88. |
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Jan-02-10
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| Jedzz: I received a couple of old, old school chess books for Christmas, and bookmarking one of them was a yellowed newspaper clipping of a chess column by Koltanowski, which I'd thought I'd replicate here: First was a game between an O.I. Truelsen and C. Madsen , played in Norway in 1957. Neither player is in the database, for soon-to-be obvious reasons in Madsen's case. This was originally in descriptive notation, which I've translated to algebraic. "ENGLISH OPENING
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. e4 d5 4. e5 d4 5. exf6 dxc3 6. bxc3 Qxf6 7. d4 Be7(a) 8. Nf3 h6 9. Bd3 Nd7 10. Qe2 O-O 11. h4(b) Bd6 12. g4 c5 13. g5 Qe7 14. gxh6 g6 15. h5(c) gxh5 16. Rg1+ Kh8 17. Rg7 e5 18. Bg5 Qe8(d) 19. dxe5 Nxe5(e) 20. Rh7+ Kg8 21. Rh8+ Kxh8 22. Bf6+ Kg8 23. h7# 1-0 (a) Better would have been 7. ... Bd6. (b) White threatens 12. Bg5 hxg5 13. hxg5 Qf4 14. g3 Qg4 15. Bh7+ Kh8 16. Bb5+ etc. (c) White is putting on pressure, and will finish in brilliant style! (d) After 18. ... Qe6, there can follow 19. d5 Qh3 20. O-O-O. (e) 19. ... Bxe5 staves off the defeat by one more move." Next was a puzzle:
click for larger view"White is to play and mate in two moves."
See if you can figure this one out. |
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| Jan-03-10 |
| HeMateMe: Doesn't B-f8# win at once? Or, is the trick to make it a legal mate in two, which would be more difficult? |
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Jan-03-10
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| Jedzz: HeHateMe, 1. Bf8+ Kxc5. White is moving up the board, and thus the knight is en pris. |
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| Jan-03-10 |
| HeMateMe: oops. My chess GPS navigotor was off. |
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Aug-14-10
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| wordfunph: According to George Koltanowski in his book TV Chess, a player came complaining that he had just been mated by a rook and that he protested the outcome. His 20-year-old opponent had a long wide beard and he had "covered his rook with his beard". And then, when it was his turn to move,
had lifted his beard and mated with the "hidden" rook! |
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| Aug-14-10 |
| HeMateMe: Ha!, I love that--Capa's 'submarine piece'! |
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