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NN vs Johannes Zukertort
Blindfold simul, 12b (1868) (blindfold), Berlin GER, Dec-??
Center Game: Von der Lasa Gambit (C21)  ·  0-1

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Dec-25-06  syracrophy: 17...♕xf3!! <18.gxf3 Nxf3#>

18...♕xg2!! <19.Rxg2 Nf3#>

Feb-06-24
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  MissScarlett: The <Field> of July 6th 1872 claims this game was one of 12 boards played simultaneously blindfold in Berlin. The year is a bit fuzzy, but I think it reads 1869.

This claim probably came from Zukertort himself, so it pays to be sceptical. Zukertort could give a 10-board blindfold exhibition when he first arrived in England in 1872, but what are his earliest records of such displays?

Feb-06-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  jnpope: Well, Zukertort gave an 11 board blindfold simul in Berlin on 1869.03.02, games against Zoltowski, Brass, Rahlson, and NN were published in <Neue Berliner Schachzeitung>, v6 n3, March 1869, pp78-82. The Zoltowski game is on CG (I was looking over the other three games yesterday and thinking I should upload them).

This game is also given in the <Chess Journal> (aka. <Brownson's Chess Journal>/<Dubuque Chess Journal>, v2 n12, February 1871, p25, stating "One of twelve parties played blindfold simultaneously by J. H. Zukertort in Berlin, December, 1868", so given the date of the <Chess Journal> I'm willing to bet that this game can be found in an earlier German source.

Feb-06-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  jnpope: I was able to quickly glean the following performances by Zukertort from <Neue Berliner Schachzeitung>, v5:

1867.12.15, 3 board blindfold simul
(end game given)

1868.01.21, 7 board blindfold simul
(games on boards 4 and 6 are given)

1868.02.03, 7 board blindfold simul
(games on boards 1, 3, 4, and 7 are given)

1868.03.16, 9 board blindfold simul
(games on boards 1, 3, and 5 are given)

1868.08.03, 5 board blindfold simul
(one game given)
Feb-07-24  stone free or die: Locations?
Feb-07-24  Jean Defuse: ...

<jnpope: ... an earlier German source.>

Neue Berliner SZ 1870, p. 119: 'Gleichzeitig mit 11 anderen Partien blindlings gespielt zu Berlin im December 1868.'

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