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He was “told” his opponent’s moves through ear phone messages via a computer speaker that was automatically triggered by each move of his opponent. He also wore ear protectors above the earphones because a “Volkfest” was going on nearby with very loud live music! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f35af47f1274764e4727907/1597353817082/lang-2_thumb.jpg Blog - Consecutive Blindfold Rapid Games: FM Lang Sets New World Record of 60, Beating Koltanowski’s 56 What Lang saw on his monitor: the empty board, and three time measures (at the bottom the time he had consumed for all his moves, at the top the time his opponent had consumed for all his moves, and in the middle the difference between his and his opponent’s times). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f35af6c9aecbb65183b00ef/1597353852204/lang-3_thumb.jpg Blog - Consecutive Blindfold Rapid Games: FM Lang Sets New World Record of 60, Beating Koltanowski’s 56 The arrangement showing an actual game in progress between Lang and Andreas Weitz, his strongest opponent (approximate USCF rating 2370). The game ended in a draw. https://www.blindfoldchess.net/blog/2011/12/marc-lang-new-world-record-46-games monthly 0.5 2020-08-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f35b1fe7f33f34b20c67efa/1597354506451/lang-jarkov.jpg Blog - After 64 Years: New World Blindfold Record Set by Marc Lang Playing 46 Games at Once https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f35b1e5e90bbf34ad170027/1597354477090/lang-missione.jpg Blog - After 64 Years: New World Blindfold Record Set by Marc Lang Playing 46 Games at Once https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f35b21a3a191879e78bff5b/1597354531605/lang-aldag.jpg Blog - After 64 Years: New World Blindfold Record Set by Marc Lang Playing 46 Games at Once https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f35b1ce9aecbb65183b6f43/1597354457434/lang-gritsch.jpg Blog - After 64 Years: New World Blindfold Record Set by Marc Lang Playing 46 Games at Once https://www.blindfoldchess.net/blog/2012/02/video-magnus-carlsen-60-minutes monthly 0.5 2020-08-25 https://www.blindfoldchess.net/blog/2013/09/gareevs-blindfold-displays-not-really-simultaneous monthly 0.5 2020-08-25 https://www.blindfoldchess.net/blog/2015/06/carlsens-blindfold-blitzkrieg monthly 0.5 2020-08-25 https://www.blindfoldchess.net/blog/2015/11/tandem-simultaneous-display monthly 0.5 2020-08-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f35b5bfd9a48914c0d05d17/1597355523411/ Blog - Working Together: The World’s Two Best Blindfold Players Succeed in a “Tandem” Simultaneous Display Near the end of the display. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f35b5658b6a2b34c9143c34/1597355385644/Some-Players-and-TG-and-ML.jpg Blog - Working Together: The World’s Two Best Blindfold Players Succeed in a “Tandem” Simultaneous Display The setup near the exhibitors. Display boards behind and above them electronically record current positions in all games. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f35b52aa167973dba45b425/1597355328210/All-7-Opponents.jpg Blog - Working Together: The World’s Two Best Blindfold Players Succeed in a “Tandem” Simultaneous Display All 7 opponents as play begins. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f35b4fe72205a452681071b/1597355281473/KItchen-Prep-TG-and-ML.jpg Blog - Working Together: The World’s Two Best Blindfold Players Succeed in a “Tandem” Simultaneous Display Preparing in the kitchen (Gareyev on the left, Lang on the right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f35b5e8f041b56416acdc0c/1597355515092/Group-Tandem-with-TG-and-ML.jpg Blog - Working Together: The World’s Two Best Blindfold Players Succeed in a “Tandem” Simultaneous Display Afterwards: Gareyev and Lang (front center); 5 opponents in the back row; left front: Marck Cobb, President of the Karpov International School of Chess; right front: Ronald Mayer, Chairman of the Sontheim Chess Club. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f35b58aa167973dba45c8f6/1597355417952/Tandem-Exhibitors-TG-and-ML.jpg Blog - Working Together: The World’s Two Best Blindfold Players Succeed in a “Tandem” Simultaneous Display Hard at work. https://www.blindfoldchess.net/blog/2017/07/timur-gareyev-and-blindfold-chess monthly 0.5 2020-08-25 https://www.blindfoldchess.net/blog/2017/12/the-memory-factor-and-mnemonic-technique monthly 0.5 2020-08-25 https://www.blindfoldchess.net/excerpt daily 0.75 2020-08-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f4568dbcad68f2ce88e465f/1598384758433/najdorf_portrait.jpg Excerpt - Miguel Najdorf (1910–1997), who the authors argue is the rightful holder of the world simultaneous blindfold record at 45 games, played in 1947. (Credit: Courtesy Edward Winter.) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f346d119e56b34a82b6f41e/1598397359960/blindfold-chess-book-cover.jpg Excerpt - Excerpted from Blindfold Chess: History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, World Records, and Important Games, © 2009 Eliot Hearst and John Knott. By permission of McFarland & Company, Inc., Box 611, Jefferson NC 28640. www.mcfarlandpub.com https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f456925218e0e7d7c726207/1598384775698/topalov_polgar.jpg Excerpt - Though blindfold chess rarely involves actual blindfolds, Veselin Topalov and Judith Polgar are blindfolded here at the start of their six-game computerized blindfold match at Bilbao, Spain, in December 2006. Topalov won the match 3 1/2-2 1/2. After the first few moves they removed their blindfolds and used individual computers. (Credit: courtesy New in Chess.) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f34763601cfd145898e8e43/1598391717266/philidor_exhibition.jpg Excerpt Above: François-André Philidor playing blindfolded at Parsloe’s Chess Club in London in the 1780s. (Credit: Courtesy Edward Winter). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f344174dccc2722aface841/t/5f347760c49f7f789eb7199e/1598391688027/alekhine.jpg Excerpt Above: Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946) playing blindfold against 28 opponents in Paris in 1925, thus setting a new world record and surpassing the world record of 26 opponents he had set the year before. 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