Hi all,

It doesn't seem that many master/GM players give simultaneous exhibitions
anymore. The only one I have heard of is the current IM Silman & IM Basman
games on chessworld.net, but these are not contact exhibitions. Of course,
I may be incorrect, and I would like to hear of any that have been held in
recent years. Found some interesting snippets on google though, regarding
the worst performances:

Quote from misc.traveller.com
The worst performance in a simultaneous exhibition is a New Jersey player
who invited 180 opponents to play him in 1977. Only 20 showed up and 18 won.
Of the two losses, one was to the exhibiter's mother. In 1910 the Austrian
master, Josef Krejcik, gave a simultaneous display at Linz on 25 boards and
lost every single game.

The mother part made me laugh, poor guy!

I seem to remember that Miguel Najdorf (sp?) was particularly good at
simultaneous displays, or was that blindfold? or both?!

All the best

Both GM Kaidanov and IM Silman came to the Best of Phoenix last November and
game simuls. Both played close to 100 boards each!
Leopold


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Hi all,

It doesn't seem that many master/GM players give simultaneous exhibitions
anymore. The only one I have heard of is the current IM Silman & IM
Basman
games on chessworld.net, but these are not contact exhibitions. Of
course,
I may be incorrect, and I would like to hear of any that have been held in
recent years. Found some interesting snippets on google though,
regarding
the worst performances:

Quote from misc.traveller.com
The worst performance in a simultaneous exhibition is a New Jersey player
who invited 180 opponents to play him in 1977. Only 20 showed up and 18
won.
Of the two losses, one was to the exhibiter's mother. In 1910 the Austrian
master, Josef Krejcik, gave a simultaneous display at Linz on 25 boards
and
lost every single game.

The mother part made me laugh, poor guy!

I seem to remember that Miguel Najdorf (sp?) was particularly good at
simultaneous displays, or was that blindfold? or both?!

All the best