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

Hindemburg is known as a player of correspondence chess (with a rating of 2328), 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 nine boards, it was recorded in the Guinness Book. He has also gathered a collection of blindfold chess games from many players from different epochs.

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. Hindemburg is interested in the subject of human intelligence, and is the founder of Sigma Society, Brazil's most selective high IQ society.

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

B M I = 1.72 m / h 3

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

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