HOW i LEARNED BLINDFOLD CHESS.
George Koltanowski, the greatest showman and promoter that chess has ever known. Koltanowski will be best remembered as an exhibitor, writer, promoter and showman. Possessed with an incredibly powerful memory. Koltanowski would often give exhibitions, playing several games blindfold simultaneous.
What wowed the spectators the most was he would recite the complete moves of the games without looking at the board, something which any competent master can do.
Being an exhibitor giving blindfold exhibitions is what he was best known for. He was also a top level player. He defeated grand master Flohr and Rubinstein and drew Alekhine, Fine, Kotov and Keres in tournament games. One day in the 1950's I watched Master George Koltanowski performed a blindfold 30 game presentation at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California.
I was impressed when he performed the Knights tour. I became a member of his Chess Friends Association and joined his chess club. We became friends.
At that time I was a rookie at chess. I used to play in any tournament that Kolty would run and I would always win my round robin matches. They were groups of four and we played six games against each other three games as black and white.
I got tired of winning and I would receive a book from Kolty as the first prize.
In his exhibitions KOLTY loved the Max Lange Attack and Pushed the Colle System Opening. . .
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The Turk Knights Tour
It was a favorite of George Koltanowski's.
It's fairly easy I've colored so that you can follow the sequence easier.
Just copy it if you want to.
Start at H8 with Black moving the knight!
Change on D8 to Blue
Change on F8 to Red
Change on D4 to Green
Start with one color on the board.
Eventually with no board.
Good Luck!
This is the Turks tour that Kolty used.
