Hindemburg Melão, Jr.

Hindemburg Melão, Jr. is a Brazilian epistemologist, theologian, and retired chess player.[1]

Hindemburg is known as a player of correspondence chess (with a rating of 2328[2]), and of blindfold chess, where he holds the record for “longest announced mate in simultaneous blindfold chess”, with an announced checkmate in 12 moves in a simultaneous against 9 boards, it was recorded in the Guinness Book.[3] He has also gathered a collection of blindfold chess games from many players from different epochs.[4]

He also had activity as a chess analyst and theoretician, having twice received the distinction of having theoretical innovations considered among the best by the jury of Šahovski Informator.[5][6][7][8][9] Hindemburg is interested in the subject of human intelligence, and is the founder of Sigma Society, Brazil's most selective high IQ society.[10][11]

In his book IMC na Balança, Hindemburg proposed a correction in the formula used for body mass index:[12]

BMI = 1.72 m / h^3

where m is the mass and h the height of a person, in the International System of Units.

References

  1. ↑ World Chess Federation: Melao, Hindemburg
  2. ↑ International Correspondence Chess Federation: Melão Jr., Hindemburg
  3. ↑ Guinness Book of Records [S.l.: s.n.] 1998, pp. 110–111. ISBN 85-86293-64-4
  4. ↑ http://www.blindfoldchess.net/blog/2009/11/both_without_sight_two_of_the_best_blindfold_masters_faced_each_other_in_19/
  5. ↑ Peter J. Tamburro (2000). Learn Chess from the Greats. Courier Corporation. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-486-41373-0.
  6. ↑ F. Betschart. "O gênio mora ao lado" janeiro de 2006 (O Atibaiense Newspaper, ed. 7569, 14 January 2006, in Portuguese)
  7. ↑ Aleksandar Matanovic, Branko Tadic, Jovan Prokopljevic; et al. 1000 TN!!: The Best Theoretical Novelties. Chess Informant. ISBN 978-86-7297-062-3.
  8. ↑ Colunas de Melao sobre Xadrez no Portal Super Ajedrez
  9. ↑ Chess Informant – The Encyclopaedia of Chess
  10. ↑ Rede Globo: Fantástico, "Teste de QI" (18 de dezembro de 2005)
  11. ↑ Revista El Hombre. "A Vida de Hindemburg Melão Jr" (1 de Novembro de 2012)
  12. ↑ IMC na Balança, Ed. Ferrari, 2009 ISBN 9788561306182

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