Blindfold Chess

[Stewart Reuben]

Grandmaster TIMUR GAREYEV 2605 USA is playing in the CCCCC, Colin Crouch Celebration Chess Congress in Harrow 2-10 April.
After that he intends to stay in the UK for the next month. He would like to give one or more blindfold simultaneous displays in that period. This is in preparation for his making an attempt to play 50 games blindfold simultaneously in an effort to beat the current record of 47 games.

His email contact address is [email protected].
Mine is [email protected].
Further details on the congress can be found on http://www.colincrouchccc.co.uk

[David Robertson]

47 games?

Source, please

[Stewart Reuben]

It may be 46. I do know it is one higher than Najdorf's and I forget who achieved it.

[JustinHorton]

47 games?

Source, please

Leonard Barden (46 not 47)

[JustinHorton]

(By the way, the Wikipedia page on blindfold chess gives the source as Susan Polgar's site rather than Leonard's Guardian column. This is how Polgar works, by getting people to habitually view and link to other people's material on her site rather than where it originally appeared: this is precisely why people should always link to the original rather than to Polgar.)

[Tim Harding]

Marc Lang's 46-board exhibition was on 26/27 November 2011.

Notes 9 and 10 in the Wikipedia report link to a German site but the Lang report has been replaced by something else.

It is true that the linked Polgar report should be changed - if anyone reading this is a Wikipedia contributor - as it just copies some of Leonard's material but his report was dated 30 December. At least she did credit Leonard.

Presumably the first reports of Lang's record were in German(y).

I don't think the Wikipedia link should be changed solely to Leonard's article however.

The following useful report (by one of the co-authors of the history of blindfold chess) is datelined 16 December which was two weeks earlier and has a lot of usefuloinformation:

http://www.blindfoldchess.net/blog/2011 ... _46_games/