George Koltanowski

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George Koltanowski
Koltanowski c. 1975
Country	Belgium, United States
Born	(1903-09-17)17 September 1903 Antwerp, Belgium
Died	5 February 2000(2000-02-05) (aged 96)
Title	International Master (1950) Grandmaster (honorary, 1988)

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.