Christian Chelman

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Harry Lorayne	Stop!	estimation of place spectator cuts to	Related to 2. Abbott's version. "The Certain Card Trick." (Percy Abbott, 1937) I Should Judge (1946) The Stopper Mind Reading Trick (Charles Nyquist, Edward Dart, 1950) Blind Sighted (Christian Chelman, 1996) Speaking Volumes (Harry Mendoza, 2002) Variations The Trick That Baffled Babbage 2.0 (David Britland, 2010)	1962	Close-up Card Magic	64	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Think Stop Trick Cards / Sleights / Estimation / Visual Estimation Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / No-Touch Locations
Christian Chelman	Believing Is Seeing	cards through newspaper, wallet as cover	Also published here Class Cunning: Up Close with Christian Chelman, L&L	Mar. 1993	Magic (Vol. 2 No. 7)	45	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Newspaper Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Chuck Fayne (reviewer)	Capricornian Tales	by Christian Chelman		June 1994	Magic (Vol. 3 No. 10)	67	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Jim Magus	Arcana	on Christian Chelman, Paul Harris		Apr. 1994	Vibrations (Vol. 16 No. 10)	6	Articles / Columns
Ford Kross	Kross Roads	on Eugene Burger, Charles Reynolds, Bob Cassidy, Geraldo Show, Christian Chelman		Aug. 1994	Vibrations (Vol. 17 No. 2)	4	Articles / Columns
Alan Nguyen	Voodoo Redo	spectator randomly chooses where three pins are pushed into a voodoo doll, performer has correctly predicted the locations on a second voodoo doll	Inspired by "Voodoo II" (Christian Chelman, Capriconian Tales, 1993, p. 52)	1995	Labyrinth (Issue 4)	4	Mental Magic / Principles / Marking Systems Doll & Puppet / Voodoo Doll Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Standard Predictions (one or multiple items)
Christian Chelman	Belgian Travelers	four Jacks produced, assembly with four additional indifferent cards		June 1995	Magic (Vol. 4 No. 10)	64	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Open Travelers Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Rough and Smooth (not full deck) Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Jazz Aces & Less Cards Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Christian Chelman	Blind Sighted	card approximately in center, then dealt into six heaps	Related to Stop! (Harry Lorayne, 1962)	1996	MO — Modus Operandi (Issue 8)	11	Cards / Sleights / Estimation / Mechanical Estimation Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / No-Touch Locations
Lee Earle	Lee Earle at the Editor's Desk	on Herb Dewey, Bascom Jones, Craig Bender-Rovinsky, Steven Logan, Lee Marelli, Allen Few, Charles Buckner, Joseph Dunninger, Mark Garetz, Leonard Hutchens, Christian Chelman, Six-and-One-Half, Marc Salem, Stewart James		1996	Syzygy (Vol. 3 No. 5)	196	Articles / Columns
Bob Farmer (reviewer)	A Book You Should Buy	by Christian Chelman Capricornian Tales		Aug. 1996	Magic (Vol. 5 No. 12)	84	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Christian Chelman	Fly Caper	selection travels back and forth between sandwich cards, then to card box, Himber Wallet, plastic fly appears, fly appears drawn on card		Oct. 1999	Magic (Vol. 9 No. 2)	82	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Cards traveling (from Sandwich) to Sandwich Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Front Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Christian Chelman	The Display Load	card appears between sandwich cards, without deck		2000	Card College — Volume 4	949	Cards / Sleights / Sandwich Loading Techniques
Christian Chelman	The Display Load		Related to The Display Load (Christian Chelman, 2000)	2007	52 Memories	32	Cards / Sleights / False Display / Hiding Surfaces
Michael Close (reviewer)	Hauntiques: The Bizarre Magic of Christian Chelman	by Christian Chelman		Feb. 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 2)	86	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Dr. Raffaele De Ritis, Christian Chelman	A Shaman Among Magicians	"The Theatrical Close-Up Magic of Christian Chelman"		Oct. 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 10)	32	Articles / Biographical Articles / Interviews
	The Magic of Christian Chelman			Oct. 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 10)	36	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Christian Chelman	Chaos	Triumph followed by deck changing into rainbow deck		Oct. 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 10)	36	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Color Changing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Effect Variations
Christian Chelman	The Christmas Gift	one of six objects is chosen with equivoque and mis-spotted die, story presentation	Also published here Hauntiques	Oct. 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 10)	40	Dice (small) / Gaffed Dice Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous
Christian Chelman	The Capetown Curse	black and white pawn from chess set in tobacco set, spectator chooses black one, story presentation	Also published here Hauntiques	Oct. 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 10)	43	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous
John Carey	Equicoins	one of five coins predicted	Inspired by "Equivox" (Christian Chelman, Capricornian Tales)	Feb. 2022	The Hermit (Vol. 1 No. 2)	88	Coin / Effect Themes / Prediction Propless / Equivoque
Joshua Jay	A Christian Chelman Issue		Also published here MAGIC, Oct. 2007	2022	Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)	659	Articles / Columns
Christian Chelman	Four Pence	four coins vanish, in folded paper another coin appears, story presentation	Also published here MAGIC, Oct. 2007	2022	Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)	660	Coin / Effect Themes / Vanish Routines / Bare Handed Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / With Props / Miscellaneous
Christian Chelman	The Invisibles	assembly with Jacks and blank cards, art heist story presentation	Also published here MAGIC, Oct. 2007	2022	Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)	661	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / more or less off-beat variations Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Backer / Same Color
Christian Chelman	Return of the Chelman Poker Deal	any poker hand called for is dealt, then mates of selected hand are dealt in second phase	Also published here MAGIC, Oct. 2007	2022	Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)	662	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Any Pokerhand Called For Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Stacking / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Gambling Stack / Partial
Christian Chelman	The Paradox of Quan Tri	story presentation	Also published here MAGIC, Oct. 2007	2022	Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)	664	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Routines

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