5/4/2013 – "Impressive doesn't begin to describe it," wrote Mike Wilmering of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, one of the organisers of the blindfold simul given by GM Timur Gareev to kick off the 2013 U.S. Championships in Saint Louis. "It was amazing. I was awestruck." The simul took ten hours and 39 minutes, and Gareev finished it with 29 wins, four draws and zero losses. Pictorial report.
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On Tuesday, April 30, Grandmaster Timur Gareev conducted a 33-board blindfolded
simultaneous exhibition at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint
Louis (CCSCSL). The event helped kick off the 2013 U.S. Championships, scheduled
to be held in Saint Louis May 2 through May 13.
GM Gareev met and greeted the simul participants at 8 a.m. CT, and the
event began at 9 a.m. It is part of Timur's preparation to set a new blindfold
simul world record of 64 boards before the end of 2013. The date for the
record-breaking simul is tentatively set for December 21 on the Hawaiian
island of Oahu. We will report on his preparations in a separate article.
The 33-board blindfold simul in Saint Louis took ten hours and 39 minutes
and left the chess community in Saint Louis dazed and amazed. His score:
29 wins, four draws and zero losses. The field, composed entirely of Saint
Louis Chess Club members, had an average USCF rating of 1363, and featured
of two experts, three class A players (1800-1999) and five class B players
(1600-1799). CCSCSL Executive Director Tony Rich (USCF 2020) was the highest-rated
player in the field and one of only four players to draw the blindfolded
virtuoso. “It was a truly an amazing experience to witness this remarkable
display of concentration and memory,” Rich said.
After switching federations from Uzbekistan to the U.S., GM Gareev will
be competing in his first-ever U.S. Championship. He enters the tournament
as the No. 2 rated player in the field, second only to GM Gata Kamsky.
... where over thirty students and adults
dedicated an entire week in December 2012 to conduct intensive chess combat
training under the tutelage of Gareev.
Timur the biker, touring Texas ...
... on a sleek Honda CBR600 motocycle
And on a sky-diving adventure. More on this
colourful GM,
whom a colleague called "crazy – but in a good way", in
an upcoming article.
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