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George Koltanowski - George Koltanowski (also "Georges";September 17, 1903, in Antwerp, Belgium–February 5, 2000) was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer. Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record on September 20, 1937, in Edinburgh, by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, making headline news around the ...
Colle System - The Colle System is a chess opening strategy for White introduced by the eponymous Belgian Edgard Colle in the 1920s. Also known as the Colle-Koltanowski system, played frequently and further developed by the late George Koltanowski, this variation of the Queen's Pawn Game is characterised by a systematic if modest development of White's minor pieces to support a quick e4 push.