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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 holds the current record with 56 games set in 1960.