 Today, three simultaneous blindfold games would be fairly unremarkable among many chess masters.Even when he was 67 years old, he played and won two blindfold games simultaneously in London in 1793.Philidor, both in England and France, was largely recognized in each of his fields and had a lot of admirers, protectors and friends, such as the French philosophers Voltaire, Rousseau and the famous English actor David Garrick (1717–1779).