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| Aug-10-05 |
| blackjacki2: Number of games in Database: 359
Overall record: +80 -38 =61 (61.7%)*
80 + 38 + 61 = 179 |
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Aug-10-05
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| Calli: The fine print:
"180 exhibition games, blitz games, etc. are excluded from this statistic" 179 + 180 = 359 |
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Aug-10-05
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| kevin86: I would like somene to play the MASH game,cranko simultaneously blindfold. Cranko is a combination of chess,checkers,poker,and gin (both the game and the drink). Or play the Friday the 13th game of-CAMP BLOOD.
Or even the FRIENDS game of CUPS!! |
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| Apr-03-06 |
| madlydeeply: one of the countless books I have thrown out/gave away because I was "finished" with chess was a book/pamphlet Kolty wrote about the Max Lange attack, the opening he relied heavily on when he broke the blind simul record. Wish I still had that one. |
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| Sep-16-06 |
| spirit: blindfold chess baffles me always!!! |
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| Sep-16-06 |
| spirit: ...but me coming back to you tommorrow when you are 103 years koltanowski!!! |
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| Sep-17-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Georges Koltanowski Koltanowski, Georges
http://www.bidmonfa.com/koltanowski...
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Sep-17-06
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| Phony Benoni: I believe that, in his blindfold simuls of over 50 boards played at 10 seconds a move, the games were played consecutively rather than simultaneously. That would account for the length of the exhibition. |
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Dec-22-06
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| RonB52734: To the biography elves: the statement in Koltanowski's bio to the effect that <the 1947 US Open [was] the first time the Swiss System was used for that event> could stand to be clarified. In fact, the Swiss System was used for the preliminary round of the 1946 US Open. This was the first major US event to use the Swiss, and it was done because of the (at the time) unprecedentedly large number of entries (58). After the prelims, the field was broken into groups of 10 based on prelim score (championship group, etc.), with each group then playing a round-robin for the final round. It may be that the entire 1947 US Open was Swiss -- I don't know. You might want to check with <Resignation Trap> or <Phony Benoni>, both of whom seem to be something of US Open historians. If the following turns out to be accurate, it would be better than what now appears. "He directed the 1947 US Open, the first time that event was paired using exclusively the Swiss System, and was greatly responsible for popularizing the Swiss System for tournaments in the US." |
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Dec-22-06
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| Phony Benoni: <RonB52734> I happened up this obituary for J.C. Thompson today which gives a bit more information about the introduction of the Swiss System into the US Open. I thnk your assumptions are correct. http://www.uschess.org/ratings/thom... |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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
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| 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
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| 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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