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George Koltanowski

1903 - 2000

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George Koltanowski (also "Georges"; 17 September 1903 – 5 February 2000) was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer. He was informally known as "Kolty". 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Koltanowski is the 189th most popular chess player (down from 159th in 2019), the 733rd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 696th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belgian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, George Koltanowski ranks 189 out of 461. Before him are Endre Steiner, Ratmir Kholmov, Lajos Asztalos, Vitaly Tseshkovsky, Nick de Firmian, and Ivan Sokolov. After him are Zoltán Ribli, Vladimirs Petrovs, Adolf Schwarz, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Boris Gulko, and Amos Burn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, George Koltanowski ranks 306. Before him are Lajos Maszlay, Werner Klingler, Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés, George Coulouris, Millard Mitchell, and George Padmore. After him are Diógenes Lara, Josef Maleček, Juan Jover, Tadeusz Friedrich, Ruth Svedberg, and Lola Álvarez Bravo. Among people deceased in 2000, George Koltanowski ranks 272. Before him are So Yamamura, Erich Kähler, Federico Wilde, Nat Adderley, Tony Cliff, and Stanley Turrentine. After him are Elmo Zumwalt, Policarpo Paz García, Edward Craven Walker, Václav Horák, Gerardo Romero, and Kazimierz Brandys.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, George Koltanowski ranks 733 out of 1,190. Before him are Ferdinand Feyerick (1865), Paul Van Asbroeck (1874), Axel Merckx (1972), Robert Van de Walle (1954), Henri Cohen (1900), and Thomas Meunier (1991). After him are Willy De Clercq (1927), Karel De Gucht (1954), Marc Millecamps (1950), Greg (1931), Dana Winner (1965), and Bob Baetens (1930).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Belgium

Among chess players born in Belgium, George Koltanowski ranks 2. Before him are Edgard Colle (1897).

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