Word: koltanowski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's blindfold chess champion is 39-year-old, Belgian-born Georges Koltan-owski, a Manhattan diamond cutter. Last week in an exhibition match at the Manhattan Chess Club Koltanowski played six unblindfolded club members simultaneously, won four games, drew...
...Koltanowski was not actually blindfolded. He simply turned his back on his opponents' boards, was told their moves,, made his own orally...
...Georges Koltanowski has been recognized as the world's blindfold champion since 1934 when he played 34 opponents at a time without losing a game. The match lasted 13½ hours with time out only for meals. A feat he considers even more difficult was a series of exhibitions he undertook in Switzerland seven years ago. He played ten-game matches in 26 different cities on 26 consecutive days. In each contest he won more than a majority of the games...
...inner U.S. chess circles Koltanowski is known as "Kolty the Yogi." This dates back to an exhibition in Richmond, Va., when a socialite female kibitzer insisted, over his protests, that he must be a yogi to possess such powers of concentration. "I suppose I have an auditory memory," explains Koltanowski. "It is as though I have a gramophone record in the back of my head. I record the moves on it. If I forget, I play the record over...
Before the current U.S. diamond boom afforded him a job at his old trade, Koltanowski taught chess to children in Milwaukee's public playgrounds. "Chess," he says, "is important in elementary schooling. Youngsters are usually not yet ready for team play, are more interested in expressing themselves. Chess gives them an outlet. It also teaches children to think first and think for themselves." In teaching, Koltanowski makes his pupils move the first chessman they touch, even if the move is a mistake. With Koltanowski opposite, many players have learned by their mistakes...
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