Newell W. Banks
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Newell W. Banks
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Newell Williams Banks was an American checkers and chess player. Banks played his first game of blindfold checkers at age five years and six months at the Detroit Chess and Checker Club. In 1909, according to Frank Leslie's Weekly, he defeated Hugh Henderson for the national championship. In 1947, at age 60, for 45 consecutive days Banks played 1,387 blindfold checker games, winning 1,331 games, drawing 54 and losing only two, while playing six games at a time. He also set a new blindfold speed
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American checkers and chess player
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