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4000 Games In A Row--All Wins
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One little trick. Refrained from playing chess during the non summer months between August 1956 and June 1957.
Had been playing against the best adult players in Decatur...
Jan 10, 2017
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Interesting story, I am rather interested in the chess board for the blind kid, did it help him play easier? Also was the raised sides just for keeping the pieces in the board or was it for helping them find the location of things on the squares.
btw, did youo meet any of them later in life; perhaps playing chess.
that would be fun inspiration knowing you had given someone a lifelong hobby.
MechHand wrote:
Interesting story, I am rather interested in the chess board for the blind kid, did it help him play easier? Also was the raised sides just for keeping the pieces in the board or was it for helping them find the location of things on the squares.
He was delighted with the board. It was very difficult for me to make and each side of each square was raised a little. It was for both purposes--keeping the pieces on the board and to help him to find pieces on the squares.
He did fork my king and queen one day 
It is the year 1956 and just past my 15th birthday. Am standing in a large room filled with school teachers!
These teachers had just been hired to be directors of various parks and playground in the city of Decatur Illinois for the summer months. They introduced me
as the Chess Instructor for the months of June, July, and August!
and I would be paid the same salary as the school teachers! [$1.00 per hour!] Would travel to 2 or 3 areas a day to teach kids how to play chess better. [almost every kid knew the basics of how to move the pieces]
I had worked and saved for a couple of years and bought a motor scooter for transporation. Back then one could drive a motor scooter at age 15 although not a car until age 16!
I remember, sometimes kids would throw rocks at me as I traveled through certain neighborhoods.
The first playground there was a couple of park benches with about 10 kids all lined up to play. I was going to play them all at once in a simul! Would usually win quickly but the kid would want to play another game or some other kid would take his place.
After the first day and about 70 to 80 games and two locations--i had won all of my games.
This situation continued for a week when I encountered a blind kid who was the best player in all the parks. He would touch the pieces and then make his move. I decided to make a chess board with raised sides. This was a very difficult task which took me a couple of weeks.
I would play him separately and he played well but I won. Then one day he forked my king and queen and I decided to resign. Had won a couple of games before after losing my queen but if I were to lose to anyone-- he deserved the win!
After the one loss, I won all the rest of my games for the whole summer.
Then a year later, same employment, same situation. This time I managed to play the whole work year of the summer months without a loss or draw!
So how many games in a row--without a loss or draw? My guess is between 4000 and 5000 but closer to 5000. So 4000 games in a row is a very conservative estimate.
The kids were ages from 8 years old to 13 years old. But most were probably about 10 years old. Yes, they were not strong but that was my job to teach them and play with them and to help make them stronger.