- 7 - evidence within the framework of scientific criteria. Robert Rollans 71, was gratuitously at my disposal as a mediator and medium. I tested the psychic, automatic writing abilities of this German musician of Bohemian heritage years ago and this produced positive results. Rollans, who understands nothing about chess, received the assignment to find an opponent for Kortschnoi amongst a group of deceased grandmasters in the hereafter. Kortschnoi obligingly agreed a priory to participate in the experiment free of charge. Rollans eventually “found” Géza Mároczy who was happy to play his part after his guardian angel and spirit guides had given their consent and this in their endeavour to have people deal with the fact of life after death to a greater degree. After my request, Mároczy gave me at partial, but very detailed account about himself that filled more than 40 pages. Based on this I came up with 39 questions that the Hungarian historian Lazlo Sebestyew could answer after 70 hours of research (I naturally didn’t give him the “background” and pretended to write an essay about Mároczy). Mároczy’s living children - both of them over 80 years old now – substantially help him. The astonishing thing about it: The answers basically coincided with the core of Mároczy account. The differences within the insignificant speak for the genuineness of the process, ergo confute the objection for instance that the medium drew Mároczy’s account from his still living children. I asked Mároczy via the medium whether he could remember a chess game with a certain Romi. I had actually selected a game from Mároczy’s career that he had played with a completely insignificant opponent, but that on the other hand included a jewel of a classic movement. The game against Romi, played in San Remo in 1930, was exactly the right one. The hopeless state of play with Mároczy in white: White: Kh2, Dh6, Te1, Tg6, pawns a2, e7, f4, g2, h3 Black: Ke8, Db2, Td2, Th8, Lc8, pawns a7, b7, c6 The winner of the tournament Aljechin also believed that Mároczy (white) was lost, but this was followed by his unique, studied 41th move (Mároczy won with 41 Dh 5!). But we hear how Mároczy can still remember it, whereby those details are to be appreciated that hardly a living soul would know about. Mároczy initially indicated that Romi had written his name with an ‘h” at the end. But then said: ‘I had a childhood friend by the name of Romih who beat me in those days. I adored him very much, but I no longer saw him after. But decades later, at the tournament in San Remo in 1930 – who surprisingly appeared there? It is my old friend Romih. And it happened thus that I played one of the most exiting games of my career. There were moments where not only those that followed the game had given up on me, but even myself thought I was lost, even though I have always been an optimist. But I suddenly had this good idea and won the match. Aged 60, I was able to gain my revenge for a game I had lost against Romih in my youth. I eventually ended up in 9th place at this tournament that was won by Aljechin, whilst my friend Romih came 16th and last…’ All of this was put to paper via the hand of the medium by the otherworldly entity, through a medium that had no understanding of chess or its history. It was Mároczy’s wish that the carried out experiment is reported about even before the end of the game with Kortschnoi. The course of the game to this point, whereby it must be said that the quality of the game is of subordinate importance from the point of view of the experiment, was as follows: Mároczy (died 1951) – Kortschnoi French 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Sc3 Lb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Lxc3+ 6. bxc3 Se7 7. Dg4 cxd4 8. Dxg7 Tg8 9. Dxh7 Dc7 10. Kd 1 dxc3 11. Sf3 Sbc6 12. Lb5 Ld7 13. Lxc6 14. Lg5 d4 15. Lxe7 Kxe7 16. Dh4+ Ke8 17. Ke2 Lxf3+ 18. gxf3 Dxe5+ 19. De4 Dxe4+ 20. fxe4 f6 21. Tad1 e5 22. Td3 Kf7 23. Tg3 Tg6 24. Thg1 Tag8 25. a4 Txg3 26. fxg3 b6 27. h4 a6. I will depict the whole event – here is but a fragment - more elaborately at the end of the game and subject it to a critical assessment. Dr. W. Eisenbeiss”
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