Paul Morphy's first Blindfold record chess games and world Blindfold records
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Mar 1, 2014
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http://de.chessbase.com/post/marc-lang-mit-neuem-blindsimultan-weltrekord
here are all those games (text is in German)
Mar 1, 2014
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In the game above "Freeman" was Dr. James Freeman, the former president of the Birmingham Chess Club.
Morphy's opponents were: Lord Lyttelton, Thomas Avery, Rev. G. Salmon,
Mr. Carr, Dr. Jabez Freeman, Mr. Rhodes, Mr. J. S. Kipping, Mr. W. R. Wills.
The exhibition lasted from 1:00 p.m. until 6:15 p.m. Morphy won 6, lost to Kipping and drew with Avery.
Mar 1, 2014
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Thanks for all the comments:
There is a Blindfold game by Paul Morphy and an amature. It was played in a simul 155 years ago in New Orleans. It is an instructional video on U-tube and not very long.
To me it looks like, 'The Fried Liver Attack.'
HI!
Blindfold chess. That is such an interesting concept. The first recorded successful blind game occured in 970 A.D. by Joseph Tchelebi, but none of his games were preserved.
Three hundred years later in 1266 A.D. in Florence Italy, a Saracen named Buzeccia, played three games against Italy's finest players. Two of the games were blindfolded and the third one in the usual manner. He won the two blindfold games and drew the third.
The first recognized world record and list. In order to be valid there must be a 75% wins of the attempted games.
Paul Morphy 8 games 1858 @ New Orleans.
J. Zuchertort 16 games 1876 @ London
H. Pillbury 22 games 1901 @ Moscow
R. Reti 24 games 1919 @ Harlem
G. Breyer 25 games 1921 @ Kaschau
A. Alekhine 26 games 1925 @ New York
A. Alekhine 28 games 1925 @ Paris
R. Reti 29 games 1925 @ Sao Paulo
Geo Koltanowski 30 gms. 1931 @ Antwerp
A. Alekhine 32 games 1933 @ Chicago
Geo Koltanowski 34 games 1937 @ Edinburg
M. Najdorf (claimed) 45 games 1946 @ Sao Paulo
Marc Lang 46 games 11/26 /2011 @ Sao Paulo
It took 64 years for some one to break the record held since 1946. Here is one game from the eight games played by Morphy for the first record. They used the Bishops Opening.
Remember that Paul Morphy was wearing a blindfold covering his eyes and seated facing away from the boards. Freeman is looking at the board and so are seven other players.
There is one teller calling out the moves the opponents made. Morphy would call out the move for the board he was responding to. So if each game took 30 moves, then there were 480 total for the eight boards he had to remember.