The two leaders collected 6.5 points, which is a full point ahead of their nearest rival.
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💠 #about_Koltanowski
🔹 George Koltanowski
🔹 American-Belgian chess player
🔰 George Koltanowski was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer. He was informally known as "Kolty".
🔘 Country: Belgium
🔘 United States
🔘 Born: 17 September 1903, Antwerp, Belgium
🔘 Died: February 5, 2000, San Francisco, California, United States
🔘 Title: International Master (1950)
Grandmaster (honorary, 1988)
🔘 Books: Adventures of a chess master, Colle System ...
🔰 Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record on 20 September 1937, in Edinburgh, by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, making headline news around the world. He also set a record in 1960 for playing 56 consecutive blindfold games at ten seconds per move.
Born into a Polish Jewish family in Antwerp, Belgium, Koltanowski learned chess by watching his father and brother play. He took up the game seriously at the age of 14, and became the top Belgian player when Edgar Colle died in 1932.He got his first big break in chess at age 21, when he visited an international tournament in Meran, planning to play in one of the reserve sections. The organizers were apparently confused or mixed up about his identity and asked him to play in the grandmaster section, to replace an invited player who had not shown up. Koltanowski gladly accepted and finished near the bottom, but drew with Grandmaster Tarrasch and gained valuable experience. He thereafter played in at least 25 international tournaments. He was Belgian Chess Champion in 1923, 1927, 1930, and 1936. However, Koltanowski became better known for touring and giving simultaneous exhibitions and blindfold displays.
♦️ A memorable game by Koltanowski named "Kolt from the Blue" in chessgames.com site!!👇
▪️ Georges Koltanowski vs J Salazar
▪️ Simul (1940), Ciudad Guatamala
▪️ Colle System (D05)
♦️ Review and dwonlaod PGN file👇
@unitychess
🔹 George Koltanowski
🔹 American-Belgian chess player
🔰 George Koltanowski was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer. He was informally known as "Kolty".
🔘 Country: Belgium
🔘 United States
🔘 Born: 17 September 1903, Antwerp, Belgium
🔘 Died: February 5, 2000, San Francisco, California, United States
🔘 Title: International Master (1950)
Grandmaster (honorary, 1988)
🔘 Books: Adventures of a chess master, Colle System ...
🔰 Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record on 20 September 1937, in Edinburgh, by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, making headline news around the world. He also set a record in 1960 for playing 56 consecutive blindfold games at ten seconds per move.
Born into a Polish Jewish family in Antwerp, Belgium, Koltanowski learned chess by watching his father and brother play. He took up the game seriously at the age of 14, and became the top Belgian player when Edgar Colle died in 1932.He got his first big break in chess at age 21, when he visited an international tournament in Meran, planning to play in one of the reserve sections. The organizers were apparently confused or mixed up about his identity and asked him to play in the grandmaster section, to replace an invited player who had not shown up. Koltanowski gladly accepted and finished near the bottom, but drew with Grandmaster Tarrasch and gained valuable experience. He thereafter played in at least 25 international tournaments. He was Belgian Chess Champion in 1923, 1927, 1930, and 1936. However, Koltanowski became better known for touring and giving simultaneous exhibitions and blindfold displays.
♦️ A memorable game by Koltanowski named "Kolt from the Blue" in chessgames.com site!!👇
▪️ Georges Koltanowski vs J Salazar
▪️ Simul (1940), Ciudad Guatamala
▪️ Colle System (D05)
♦️ Review and dwonlaod PGN file👇
@unitychess
38... Kxf7??
Black's rescue is the intermediate move 38... a3!
39. Bc1 a2 40. Bb2 Kxf7 41. Kd3 Kg7 42. Kc2 Kh6 43.Kb3 Kg5 44. Kxa2 Kxf5=
39. Kd3 Ke7 40. Bf4 Bb6 41. h4 Bf2 42. h5 Be1 43. Bc1 Kf7 44. c4 Bxb4 45. cxb5 1-0
Black's rescue is the intermediate move 38... a3!
39. Bc1 a2 40. Bb2 Kxf7 41. Kd3 Kg7 42. Kc2 Kh6 43.Kb3 Kg5 44. Kxa2 Kxf5=
39. Kd3 Ke7 40. Bf4 Bb6 41. h4 Bf2 42. h5 Be1 43. Bc1 Kf7 44. c4 Bxb4 45. cxb5 1-0
62. Kc6??
Wesley suffers loss after missing an easy draw.
62. Rxg2! Kxg2 63. e6 Nc7+ 64. Kd6 Nxa6 65. e7 Bc5+ 66. Kd7 Nb8+ 67. Ke6=
62... Bg3 63. e6 g1=Q 64. e7 Nc7 0-1
Wesley suffers loss after missing an easy draw.
62. Rxg2! Kxg2 63. e6 Nc7+ 64. Kd6 Nxa6 65. e7 Bc5+ 66. Kd7 Nb8+ 67. Ke6=
62... Bg3 63. e6 g1=Q 64. e7 Nc7 0-1
34.Rg3??
Praggnanandhaa doesn't notice the point of his opponent's last move (33...Rb6).
34.Bg4 -/+
34....Rd8 0-1
Praggnanandhaa doesn't notice the point of his opponent's last move (33...Rb6).
34.Bg4 -/+
34....Rd8 0-1
66... Re4??
A blunder. He should have played: 66... Bh5!
67. Be5 Rf1+ 68. Ke6 Bg4+ 69. Kd5 Rd1+ 70. Kc5 Bd7 71. Rd8 Rc1+ 72. Kd6 Ba4 73. e8=Q Bxe8 74. Rxe8 Kg6.
The endgame is theoretically drawn, however it can get tricky.
67. Be5 Re2 68. Ke6 1-0
A blunder. He should have played: 66... Bh5!
67. Be5 Rf1+ 68. Ke6 Bg4+ 69. Kd5 Rd1+ 70. Kc5 Bd7 71. Rd8 Rc1+ 72. Kd6 Ba4 73. e8=Q Bxe8 74. Rxe8 Kg6.
The endgame is theoretically drawn, however it can get tricky.
67. Be5 Re2 68. Ke6 1-0
12...h6
An innocuous-looking but clever little move. Twelve moves into the game and still Petrosian doesn't commit his king, not giving White a target at which to aim his pieces. Of course, it's important to note that this strategy only really works because the center is closed. In Chapter One we saw examples of the king not surviving in the center, but here Petrosian correctly realizes it's okay to keep it there.
13.b4 g5
With such a move Black finally commits... to queenside castle!
14.Bg3 h5
Forcing White to move his h-pawn to save his bishop, and this will then become a target for the pawn storm.
15.h4 gxh4 16.Bf4
If 16.Nxh4 0-0-0 Black has the g-file to work with and the e5-pawn as a target.
16...0-0-0.
An innocuous-looking but clever little move. Twelve moves into the game and still Petrosian doesn't commit his king, not giving White a target at which to aim his pieces. Of course, it's important to note that this strategy only really works because the center is closed. In Chapter One we saw examples of the king not surviving in the center, but here Petrosian correctly realizes it's okay to keep it there.
13.b4 g5
With such a move Black finally commits... to queenside castle!
14.Bg3 h5
Forcing White to move his h-pawn to save his bishop, and this will then become a target for the pawn storm.
15.h4 gxh4 16.Bf4
If 16.Nxh4 0-0-0 Black has the g-file to work with and the e5-pawn as a target.
16...0-0-0.
20.Nd3!
I like this move a lot. The knight avoids being swapped off and stops any counterplay, mainly through the ...c5 break. White aims to play Bc1, f4 and then g5 to prise open the black king position (that pawn on h6 is once again the culprit!), and what can Black do in the meantime? It's not clear what plan there is for him.
20...Rfe8 21.Rhe1 Qb6 22.Be3 Qb5 23.f4!+/-
Helping the g5 idea, but more importantly clamping down on the ...e5 pawn break. Now Black cannot play ...c5 or ...e5 at all, and can only sit and wait! This situation is very similar to the Spassky-Petrosian game earlier in this chapter, where only one side has chances to attack and the opponent is in the unenviable position of only being able to defend.
I like this move a lot. The knight avoids being swapped off and stops any counterplay, mainly through the ...c5 break. White aims to play Bc1, f4 and then g5 to prise open the black king position (that pawn on h6 is once again the culprit!), and what can Black do in the meantime? It's not clear what plan there is for him.
20...Rfe8 21.Rhe1 Qb6 22.Be3 Qb5 23.f4!+/-
Helping the g5 idea, but more importantly clamping down on the ...e5 pawn break. Now Black cannot play ...c5 or ...e5 at all, and can only sit and wait! This situation is very similar to the Spassky-Petrosian game earlier in this chapter, where only one side has chances to attack and the opponent is in the unenviable position of only being able to defend.