<Jan-08-09 PhilFeeley: Perhaps this book can:>

around p.101-110

<The above list omits the display by János Flesch (supposedly 52 boards in Budapest in 1960) for the reasons discussed on pages 99-110. The last two pages of that section have a report entitled ‘A Sensational Postscript: Flesch vs Barcza!?’ which relates that four Hungarian contacts independently told the co-authors that a year or two after Flesch’s exhibition Gedeon Barcza described Flesch as a ‘crook’ and a ‘fraud’ and was then sued by Flesch for defamation of character. Whether any such case went to trial has yet to be established. Can it be hoped that a researcher in Hungary will look into the matter?>

https://www.google.com/maps/place/W...

According to <Missy> the accident was on Thanet Way. Confusingly, google maps shows two Thanet Way's (zoom out one click to see) - a super highway (what is the British terminology?) A299, and what is presumably an older predecessor.

<An international chess grand master and his wife have been killed in another terrible Thanet Way pile-up.

Hungarian star Janos Flesch was killed instantly when his car and a lorry collided near the junction with Seasalter Lane as he was returning to a chess congress on Friday afternoon.

His wife Janosn, who was driving, was rescued from the vehicle, but died in hospital three hours later following a major operation.

Firemen said the accident was the worst they had seen for several years.

It took them nearly an hour to release 39-year-old Mrs. Flesch from the crushed Lada car.

When they arrived she was still fully-conscious, with her husband lying dead beside her.

A fireman said: "The woman was so badly trapped inside the car that everything we did put her in agony.

"It was almost impossible to work, since her body was entwined in the metal we were trying to cut through."

The accident took place at 2.10 p.m., 56 yards east of the junction with Seasalter Lane.

The couple had been driving to Ramsgate, on their way to an international chess congress at the Regency Hotel. They had been in London for the morning.

Mrs. Flesch's car, which was going up the hill towards Whitstable, collided with the lorry and was thrown back into another vehicle going towards Thanet.

The lorry was being driven by Mr. Ronald Furness, of Basingstoke. He sustained minor bruising to his knee.

It was carrying highly-inflammable propane gas cylinders and firemen believe that, if the car caught fire, the explosion would have proved disastrous.

Traffic was held up for more than half-an-hour after the accident and tailed back several miles in both directions.

Mr. Flesch, who was 50, left Ramsgate at 8.30 a.m. to go the Hungarian Embassy in London for a visa to visit Germany, where he was to play in a chess tournament this week.

He was due back in the afternoon to play an Indian opponent, but telephoned from London to say he would be late.

A spokesman said: "We waited, but he did not arrive, and at 6.30 p.m. the police rang to tell us of the accident."

The 65 players were asked if if they wished to go ahead with the closing reception on Saturday night.

They said they did, but stood in silence for a minute as a mark of respect.

The original Thanet Way was redone, the original section being replaced became A2990.

<The A299 was upgraded between 1989 and 1997 to dual carriageway for almost its entire length.[5][1] This included bypasses of Whitstable and Herne Bay, with the old road becoming the A2990. >

Chess Life, March 1984, p.7:

<Hungarian GM Janos Flesch and his wife, Ildiko, died in an automobile accident December 9 in England. Flesch had been in England for several international events and as a spectator at the London candidates' matches. He is remembered as the world record holder for simultaneous blindfold play - 52 games!>

No sign of a photo. So Mrs. Flesch's name was Ildiko, not Janosn (which I assumed was wrong). Flesch may have visited London to watch the Candidates matches, but not on the day he died.

You could (and in general, can) put an editorial indication of this in your copy: comme ca:

<His wife Janosn [? - this may be incorrect, ed], ...>

https://filmhiradokonline.hu/watch....

His tombstone can be viewed here:

https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesc...

As in, it's nice to know your source(s)!

Here's a link to your <Blindfold Chess> reference:

https://books.google.com/books?id=L...

You can agree or disagree but he has reader now being more flexible in thought. Quite a few games have been lost because a player has refused to chop a Knight with a Bishop at a critical moment because they have read somewhere that Bishops are better than Knights. So job done there.

It reminded me of Michael Stean's 'Simple Chess' breaking down a difficult subject to explain in easy to grasp lumps with some well chosen examples. The trouble being from a personal point of view is you have to stick to the plan and not abandon it when the first two move trap presents itself. Good book.

< i have a physical copy of the book XD yoi were asking for the newspapers,for the book i gave you the exact page. ☝🏿>

Yes, your book ref was excellent, I just turned it into a convenient online link (e.g. for those who don't have the book), and described it a bit more.

I did the google search his full name, as you suggested, and found the newspapers you also mentioned. It's nice to be explicit.

And it's also nice, and a service to other readers, to have a convenient link to go to the material referenced in a post.