# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-koltanowski
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:55:19.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-koltanowski"
name: "George Koltanowski"
slug: "george-koltanowski"
description: "George Koltanowski was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer. He was informally known as \"Kolty\". Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record on 20 September 1937, in Edinburgh, by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, making headline news around the world. He also set a record in 1960 for playing 56 consecutive blindfold games at ten seconds per move."
tagline: "Chess master (1903–2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chess_expert_George_Koltanowski_(7334933526).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1903-09-17"
deathDate: "2000-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.07
  momentum:             1.793893129770992
  historical:           14.88805066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "George Koltanowski"
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    title: "George Koltanowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Koltanowski"
    title: "George Koltanowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Koltanowski"
    title: "George Koltanowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Koltanowsky"
    title: "George Koltanowsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Koltanowski"
    title: "George Koltanowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Koltanowski"
    title: "Georges Koltanowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Koltanowski"
    title: "George Koltanowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Koltanowski"
    title: "George Koltanowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Koltanowski"
    title: "George Koltanowski"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump