Pages

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

FM Marc Lang creates blindfold world simul chess record of 46 boards

Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011


Hello everyone,


FM Marc Lang has set a world record for biggest blindfold simul exhibition playing against 46 players in Sontheim an der Brenz, Germany. He scored 34.5-11.5 in 21 hours and 9 minutes. Lang is 41 years old and married with two kids. His wife, Anne Lindenmayer Lang, according to the German Chess Federation website, wrote: "The hundredweight tension of recent weeks and months fall away from me abruptly and gives way to a great sense of happiness. The efforts and sacrifices of the past half-year were not in vain, Marc has actually done it!"
Read Lang's personal essay on her husband here.


You can access the official website of the event here.
From Alexandra Kosteniuk's
Also see her personal blog at

3 comments:

  1. Hope he retains his sanity. Amazing guy.

    ReplyDelete
  2. thanks to his wife

    ReplyDelete
  3. http://chess-news.ru/node/5102

    ReplyDelete

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.