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List of world records in chess

The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or
simultaneous exhibition play.

Game length records

Longest game
The longest decisive FIDE-rated game is Billy Fellowes vs Peter Lalić, London 2024, which lasted
for 272 moves, at the Third Kingston Invitational.[1][2][3]

The longest game played in a world championship is the 6th game of the 2021 World Chess
Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi, which Carlsen won in 136
moves by resignation. The game lasted for 8 hours, 15 minutes and 40 seconds.[4]

Shortest game

Shortest decisive game

The fewest moves required to deliver checkmate in chess is two, in what is known as the fool's mate
(1.g4 e5 2.f3?? Qh4# and variants thereof). This has been known to occur in amateur play.

In a tournament game at odds of pawn and move, White delivered checkmate on move 2: W.
Cooke–"R____g", Cape Town Chess Club handicap tournament 1908 (remove Black's f-pawn)
1.e4 g5?? 2.Qh5#.[5] The same game had previously been played in Leeky–Mason, Dublin 1867.[6]

If one counts forfeited games as a loss in zero moves,[7] then there have been many such forfeits,
with some notable examples being Game 2 of the 1972 world championship match between Boris
Spassky and Bobby Fischer, which Fischer defaulted,[8] and Game 5 of the 2006 world
championship match between Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov, which Kramnik
defaulted.[9]

Under FIDE rules instituted around 2008, a player who is late for the beginning of a round loses
the game, as does a player who has a forbidden electronic device (by default any device). The
former rule was used at the 2009 Chinese Championship to forfeit Hou Yifan for arriving five
seconds late for the beginning of a round.[10] The latter rule was used to forfeit Aleksander Delchev
against Stuart Conquest after the move 1.d4 in the 2009 European Team Championship.[11]

The German grandmaster Robert Hübner also lost a game without playing any moves. In a World
Student Team Championship game played in Graz in 1972, Hübner played one move and offered a
draw to Kenneth Rogoff, who accepted. However, the arbiters insisted that some moves be played,

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so the players played the following ridiculous game: 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Ng1 Bg7 4.Qa4 0-0 5.Qxd7
Qxd7 6.g4 Qxd2+ 7.Kxd2 Nxg4 8.b4 a5 9.a4 Bxa1 10.Bb2 Nc6 11.Bh8 Bg7 12.h4 axb4 (draw
agreed).[12] The arbiters ruled that both players must apologize and play an actual game at 7 p.m.
Rogoff appeared and apologized; Hübner did neither. Hübner's clock was started, and after an
hour Rogoff was declared the winner.[13] Wang Chen and Lu Shanglei both lost a game in which
they had played no moves. They agreed to a draw without play at the 2009 Zhejiang Lishui Xingqiu
Cup International Open Chess Tournament held in Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China. The chief
arbiter declared both players to have lost the game.[14]

More rarely, a player might decide to protest by resigning a game rather than forfeiting. A game
between Fischer and Oscar Panno, played at the Palma de Mallorca Interzonal 1970, went: 1.c4
Black resigns. Panno refused to play to protest the organizers' rescheduling of the game to
accommodate Fischer's desire not to play on his religion's Sabbath. Panno was not present when
the game was to begin. Fischer waited ten minutes before making his move and went to get Panno
to convince him to play. Fifty-two minutes had elapsed on Panno's clock before he came to the
board and resigned.[15][16] (At the time, an absence of sixty minutes resulted in a forfeit.)[17]

The shortest decisive tournament game between masters that was decided because of the position
on the board (i.e. not because of a forfeit or protest) is Z. Đorđević–M. Kovačević, Bela Crkva 1984.
It lasted only three moves (1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 c6 3.e3?? Qa5+ winning the bishop), and White
resigned.[2][18][19] This was repeated in Vassallo–Gamundi, Salamanca 1998.[2] (In a number of
other games, White has played on after 3...Qa5+, occasionally drawing[20] or even winning[21] in
this line.)

The shortest game ever lost by a grandmaster because of the position on the board was by future
world champion Viswanathan Anand, who resigned on move 6 against Alonso Zapata in 1988 (1.e4
e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Bf5?? 6.Qe2 winning a piece, since 6...Qe7 is answered
by 7.Nd5 Qe6? 8.Nxc7+).[22][23]

Shortest draw
A game may be drawn by mutual agreement in any number of moves. Traditionally, it has been
common for players to agree to a "grandmaster draw" after playing about 10–15 moves of known
opening theory and making no serious effort to win. This is usually done to preserve energy in a
tournament, after a devastating loss in the previous round of the tournament, or in the final round
when no prize money is at stake. There has been some debate over the ethics of the practice, and
recently there has been a trend away from such games, with many tournaments adopting measures
to discourage short draws.[24] If the tournament officials (unlike those at Graz and Lishui) do not
object, a game may even be agreed drawn without a single move being played. Tony Miles and
Stewart Reuben did the same thing in the last round of the Luton 1975 tournament, "with the
blessing of the controller", in order to assure themselves of first and second places
respectively.[25][26]

Shortest stalemate
The shortest known stalemate, composed by Sam Loyd, involves the sequence 1.e3 a5 2.Qh5 Ra6
3.Qxa5 h5 4.Qxc7 Rah6 5.h4 f6 6.Qxd7+ Kf7 7.Qxb7 Qd3 8.Qxb8 Qh7 9.Qxc8 Kg6 10.Qe6
(diagram). The shortest stalemate with all of the pieces on the board, composed by Charles H
Wheeler,[27] occurs after 1.d4 d6 2.Qd2 e5 3.a4 e4 4.Qf4 f5 5.h3 Be7 6.Qh2 Be6 7.Ra3 c5 8.Rg3
Qa5+ 9.Nd2 Bh4 10.f3 Bb3 11.d5 e3 12.c4 f4 (minor variations are possible). The shortest known
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route to a position where both players are stalemated,

a b c d e f g h
discovered by Enzo Minerva and published in the Italian
8 8
newspaper l'Unità on August 14, 2007, is 1.c4 d5 2.Qb3 Bh3
3.gxh3 f5 4.Qxb7 Kf7 5.Qxa7 Kg6 6.f3 c5 7.Qxe7 Rxa2 8.Kf2 7 7

Rxb2 9.Qxg7+ Kh5 10.Qxg8 Rxb1 11.Rxb1 Kh4 12.Qxh8 h5 6 6

13.Qh6 Bxh6 14.Rxb8 Be3+ 15.dxe3 Qxb8 16.Kg2 Qf4 5 5
17.exf4 d4 18.Be3 dxe3.
4 4

3 3
Fewest moves played in a tournament 2 2
In the Premier I group at the 2003 Capablanca Memorial 1 1
tournament, Péter Székely took just 130 moves (an average a b c d e f g h
of 10 moves per game) to draw all 13 of his games.[28] Shortest possible stalemate after
10.Qe6

Game play records

Latest first capture

In Rogoff–Williams, World Junior Chess Championship, Stockholm 1969, the first capture
(94.bxc5) occurred on White's 94th move.[2][29] Filipowicz–Smederevac, Polanica Zdroj 1966, was
drawn in 70 moves under the fifty-move rule, without any piece or pawn having been
captured.[25][30]

Latest first capture in a decisive game

In the decisive game Yates–Znosko-Borovsky, Tunbridge a b c d e f g h
Wells 1927, the first capture occurred on Black's 40th 8 8
move.[31]
7 7

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 6 6

7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 Na5 9.Bc2 c5 10.d4 Qc7 11.h3 0-0 12.Nbd2 5 5
Bd7 13.Nf1 Nc6 14.d5 Nd8 15.g4 Ne8 16.Ng3 g6 17.Kh2 Ng7
4 4
18.Rg1 f6 19.Be3 Nf7 20.Rg2 Kh8 21.Qd2 Qc8 22.Rh1 Rg8
3 3
23.Rhg1 a5 24.Kh1 b4 25.c4 a4 26.Bd3 Qa6 27.Qe2 Raf8
28.Nd2 Qc8 29.f3 Ne8 30.Ndf1 Kg7 31.Bc1 h6 32.Ne3 Kh7 2 2

33.Rh2 Nh8 34.h4 Rf7 35.Nd1 Bf8 36.Nf2 Bg7 37.f4 Bf8 1 1
38.Qf3 Qd8 39.Nh3 Qe7 40.g5 (diagram) Bxh3 41.f5 hxg5 a b c d e f g h
42.hxg5 Rgg7 43.Rxh3+ Kg8 44.fxg6 Rxg6 45.Nf5 Qd7 Yates–Znosko-Borovsky, 1927, after
46.Rg2 fxg5 47.Rgh2 Bg7 48.Rxh8+ Bxh8 49.Qh5 Rff6 White's 40th move
50.Qxh8+ Kf7 51.Rh7+ Ng7 52.Rxg7+ Rxg7 53.Qxg7+ 1–
0[32]

Latest castling

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The latest castling occurred on Black's 48th move in Neshewat-Garrison, Michigan 1994[33] and
Somogyi-Black, New York 2002.[34][35]

Theoretical novelties
The book 1000 TN!! The Best Theoretical Novelties contains the games with the ten highest-
ranked theoretical novelties (TNs) that appeared in each of Volumes 11 through 110 of Chess
Informant.[36] The earliest such novelty occurred on White's fourth move in Karpov–Miles,
Bugojno 1978, namely 1.c4 b6 2.d4 e6 3.d5 Qh4 4.Nc3![37][38] The latest occurred on Black's 34th
move (34...Kd5!) in Shulman–Marin, Reykjavík Open 2009.[39][40] The only game to receive a
perfect rating from Chess Informant's panel of judges was Miles–Belyavsky, Tilburg 1986, which
featured the novelty 18.f4!! It received 90 points, 10 out of a possible 10 from each of the 9
judges.[41][42]

National records

Most grandmasters
Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia holds the record for greatest number of
grandmasters. In the November 2018 rating list, 229 of the 1645 grandmasters were from Russia.

Greatest concentration of resident grandmasters

In 2005, Reykjavík, Iceland, with eight grandmasters (Jón L. Árnason, Jóhann Hjartarson,
Margeir Pétursson, Friðrik Ólafsson, Thröstur Thórhallsson, Helgi Grétarsson, Hannes Stefánsson,
and Bobby Fischer) had a higher percentage of resident grandmasters per capita than any other
city worldwide;[43] the city of 114,000[44] had, therefore, one grandmaster per 14,000 residents.

Most rated players

As of November 2018, Germany has the highest number of active FIDE-rated players with 11,813.
Russia, by comparison, has 11,313.[45]

Strongest team
The USSR team that participated in the 13th Olympiad (Munich 1958) had been claimed as the
strongest team ever. It was composed of four world champions (Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov,
Mikhail Tal and Tigran Petrosian), one world championship challenger (David Bronstein) and Paul
Keres, four times runner-up in the Candidates Tournament.[46]

Tournament records

Perfect tournament scores

In top-class chess it is rare for a player to complete a tournament or match with a 100 percent
score. Some notable examples are:
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Gustav Neumann at Berlin in 1865 (34/34)[47]

William Pollock at Belfast 1886 (8/8)[48][49]
Emanuel Lasker at New York in 1893 (13/13)
Henry Atkins at Amsterdam 1899 (15/15)
José Raúl Capablanca at New York in 1913 (13/13, including one default)
Dawid Janowski at Paris in 1914 (9/9)
Alexander Alekhine at Moscow in 1919–20 (11/11)
Boris Kostić at Hastings 1921–22 (7/7)[50]
Bobby Fischer at the US Championship of 1963/64 (11/11)[51]
Alexander Beliavsky at Alicante in 1978 (13/13)[52][53][54][55]
Sandro Mareco at Montevideo in 2017 (9/9)
William Lombardy is the only player ever to achieve a perfect score in the World Junior Chess
Championship, open to players under the age of 20 as of January 1 in the year of competition. He
scored 11–0 at Toronto 1957 (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=82996).[56][57][58]

Vera Menchik won four consecutive Women's World Chess Championship tournaments with
perfect scores, a total of 45 games (8–0 at Prague 1931, 14–0 at Folkestone 1933, 9–0 at Warsaw
1935, and 14–0 at Stockholm 1937).[52][59] She only played 43 of the 45 games, since Harum, the
Austrian contestant, was unable to reach Folkestone and thus forfeited all of her games in that
double round robin event.[60]

Alekhine scored 9–0 on first board for France at the 3rd Chess Olympiad (Hamburg, 1930), and
Dragoljub Čirić scored 8–0 as second reserve (the sixth player on his team) for Yugoslavia at the
17th Olympiad (Havana, 1966), but each played only about half of the possible games.[61] Robert
Gwaze scored 9–0 on first board for Zimbabwe at the 35th Olympiad (Bled, 2002).[62]

Valentina Gunina won the Women's section of the 2010 Moscow Blitz tournament with a 17/17
score.[63]

Wesley So scored 9/9 in the 2011 Inter-Provincial Chess Team Championship, with a performance
rating of 3037,[64][65] won the gold medal in men's blitz at the SEA Games 2011 at Indonesia with a
score of 9/9 and a rating performance of 3183,[66] and won the 2013 Calgary International Blitz
Championship with a score of 9/9.[67]

The youngest player to obtain a perfect score in a National Blitz Chess Championship anywhere in
the world is Jack Mizzi, who in September 2023 won 9/9 games at the Malta Open Blitz
Championship, with a performance rating of 2602,[68] when he was 17 years 4 months
old.[69][70][71]

Most tournament victories

As of December 2011, John Curdo had won 865 tournaments.[72] When he died in 2022, he was
credited with winning 1,009 tournaments.[73]

Most wins in a national championship

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As of 2017, Carlos Juárez has won the Guatemalan Chess Championship 27 times.[74]

Most decisive Interzonal victory

The highest percentage score at an Interzonal was 82.5% (16½ points out of 20 games), scored by
Alexander Kotov at the 1952 Stockholm Interzonal. The largest margin of victory was achieved by
Bobby Fischer, who won the Palma de Mallorca Interzonal in 1970 with 18½ points out of 23
games, 3½ points ahead of second-place finishers Bent Larsen, Efim Geller and Robert Hübner.

Most games won

Gustav Neumann won 34 of his games, also a perfect score, at the aforementioned Berlin 1865
tournament.[47]

Most games lost

Nicholas MacLeod holds the record for the most games lost in a single tournament: he lost 31
games at the Sixth American Chess Congress at New York 1889, while winning six and drawing
one.[75][76][77] MacLeod was only 19, and the tournament, a 20-player double-round robin, was one
of the longest tournaments in chess history. The most games lost by a player who lost all of his
games in a tournament was by Colonel Moreau. At Monte Carlo 1903, Moreau lost all 26 of his
games.[78][79]

Lost all games on time

At the Büsum 1969 tournament, Friedrich Sämisch lost all 15 games by exceeding the time
control.[80][81] He lost all 13 of his games at the Linköping 1969 tournament the same way.[82]

Most world champions in a tournament

Nottingham 1936 included five past, current, and future world champions: reigning champion Max
Euwe; Alexander Alekhine, who had lost the title to Euwe the prior year, and would regain it the
following year; former champions Emanuel Lasker and José Raúl Capablanca; and Mikhail
Botvinnik, who would win the championship in 1948. This record was equaled by Moscow 1971 and
the 1973 Soviet Chess Championship, each of which included former champions Vasily Smyslov,
Mikhail Tal, and Tigran Petrosian; Boris Spassky, who was champion from 1969 to 1972; and
future champion Anatoly Karpov.[83][84]

Largest tie for first

Thirteen players tied for first with 5–1 scores at the National Open held on March 17–19, 2000 in
Las Vegas: grandmasters Jaan Ehlvest, Alexander Goldin, Alexander Baburin, Pavel Blatny,
Eduard Gufeld, Yuri Shulman, Alex Yermolinsky, Gregory Kaidanov, Dmitry Gurevich, Alexander
Stripunsky, and Gregory Serper, and International Masters Rade Milovanovic and Levon
Altounian.[85]

Highest performance rating in a classical tournament

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The highest known tournament performance rating is 3103, achieved by Karen H. Grigoryan, when
he scored a perfect 9/9 at the 2019 Cidade de Famalicão tournament.[86][87]

The highest known performance rating at the top level is 3098 by Fabiano Caruana at the 2014
Sinquefield Cup.[86][88]

Longest consideration for a move

Before the introduction of chess clocks, it was common for a b c d e f g h
players to take more than an hour to decide on a move. 8 8
Among the players who had a reputation for playing
7 7
particularly slowly (taking over 2 hours for a move) are
6 6
Alexander McDonnell and Elijah Williams, however, it was
not normal practice to time a player's moves so claims 5 5
about the slowness of a player in an untimed game must be 4 4
considered unverified. 3 3

In Vigo, Spain in 1980, the Brazilian International Master 2 2

Francisco Trois spent 2 hours and 20 minutes over his 7th 1 1

move, deciding which of two viable moves to make. After a b c d e f g h
blitzing out another 21 moves in serious time trouble, he Trois thought for 2 hours 20 minutes
resigned. His opponent, Luis Santos asked him after the deciding between 7...Neg4+ and
game, "How can you think for over two hours when there 7...Ng6.
are only two possible moves? I don't understand." Trois
replied, "Neither do I."[89]

Match records

Perfect scores
Perfect scores were achieved in matches by:

Howard Staunton over Daniel Harrwitz in 1846 (7/7)

Wilhelm Steinitz over Joseph Henry Blackburne in 1876 (7/7)
Capablanca over Kostić in 1919 (5/5)[52]
Fischer over Mark Taimanov in 1971 (6/6) (quarter-final Candidates Match)
Fischer over Bent Larsen in 1971 (6/6) (semi-final Candidates Match)

Highest percentage of draws in matches

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At the World Chess Championship 2018 between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, all 12
classical games ended in draws (100%). Only in the tiebreaks, there were three decisive rapid
games.

Playing records

Consecutive wins against masters

Bobby Fischer won 20 consecutive games, all in competitions at late stages of the world
championship cycle. (Some commentators give this as 19, discounting Fischer's game against
Oscar Panno, who resigned after Fischer's first move as a protest.) Fischer won his last seven
games at the 1970 Palma de Mallorca Interzonal (including the one-move game against Panno),
then swept Mark Taimanov 6–0 in the quarterfinals followed by Bent Larsen by the same score in
the semifinals. In the Candidates Match final, Fischer beat former World Champion Tigran
Petrosian in the first game before Petrosian snapped the streak by winning the second match
game.[90]

Wilhelm Steinitz won his last 16 games at Vienna 1873, including a two-game playoff against
Joseph Henry Blackburne at the end. He played no serious chess until an 1876 match against
Blackburne that Steinitz swept 7–0. After a long period of inactivity, Steinitz played at Vienna
1882, where he won his first two games before finally ending his winning streak with a draw.
Steinitz's 25-game winning streak over nine years has never been equaled.[91]

Longest unbeaten streak

The longest confirmed unbeaten streak at an elite level belongs to Magnus Carlsen,[92] who
achieved an unbeaten streak of 125 games in the classical time format. His streak started after a
loss on July 31, 2018, in the Biel tournament against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov,[93] and ended on
October 10, 2020, when he lost to Jan-Krzysztof Duda in a game at the Altibox Norway Chess
Tournament.[94] The streak consists of 42 wins and 83 draws. It includes three wins in the
Norwegian Chess League against opponents rated more than 500 Elo points lower, which Carlsen
prefers not to count.[95] Carlsen's streak broke the previous record of 100 games by Ding Liren,
who went unbeaten from August 2017 to November 2018.[96] Ding in turn had taken the record
from Mikhail Tal, who managed 95 games unbeaten in 1973–74.[97]

Bogdan Lalić's unbeaten streak of 155 games[98] (against less elite players than those Carlsen
faced) is confirmed to have taken place between 2010 and 2011, according to the FIDE ratings
website.[99]

In correspondence chess, Denny Marbourg achieved an unbeaten streak of 169 games, according to
the ICCF U.S.A. website.[100]

Rating records

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FIDE (chess's international governing body) adopted Elo ratings in 1970. Players who peaked
before this year therefore do not feature in rating records.

Highest rating
The highest rating ever achieved is 2882, by Magnus Carlsen on the May 2014 list and once again
on the August 2019 list.[101]

Progression of highest rating record

Player Rating Year-month first achieved

Bobby Fischer 2760 1971–01

Bobby Fischer 2785 1972–01

Garry Kasparov 2800 1990–01

Garry Kasparov 2805 1993–01

Garry Kasparov 2815 1993–07
Garry Kasparov 2820 1997–07
Garry Kasparov 2825 1998–01

Garry Kasparov 2851 1999–07

Magnus Carlsen 2861 2013–01

Magnus Carlsen 2872 2013–02

Magnus Carlsen 2881 2014–03
Magnus Carlsen 2882 2014–05

Carlsen also holds the highest unofficial "live rating" of 2889.2, achieved on April 21, 2014.[102]

Largest rating lead

On the July 1972 FIDE rating list, Bobby Fischer's rating of 2785 was 125 points ahead of the
second-highest rated player, then-reigning World Champion Boris Spassky (2660).[103] Kasparov's
biggest lead at his peak was 82 points in January 2000.[104] In both the January and July 1990
rating lists, Kasparov was rated 2800 while Karpov was the only player rated 2700+, with third
place being at 2680 although the identity of the third-place player changed.[105] Magnus Carlsen's
biggest lead was 74 points in October 2013.[106]

Jeff Sonas of Chessmetrics calculates that in April 1876 Wilhelm Steinitz was the top-ranked player
in the world, with a rating record 199 points above that of Henry Bird, the second-ranked
player.[107]

Longest duration as number one

Garry Kasparov was the world's highest-rated player on FIDE's rating list for a record 255 months,
a number that is well ahead of all other world number ones since the inception of the list.[108]
Before the list, Emanuel Lasker was the world's highest-rated player for 292 months between June
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1890 and December 1926 according to Chessmetrics.[109]

Age-related records

Youngest world champion

Youngest undisputed world champion: D Gukesh; 18 years 6 months 14 days, title won
2024[110]
Youngest disputed FIDE world champion: Ruslan Ponomariov; 18 years, 3 months and 13
days, title won 2002
Youngest Women's World Chess Champion: Hou Yifan; 16 years, 9 months and 27 days, title
won 2010

Youngest grandmaster
The youngest player to be awarded the grandmaster title by FIDE is Abhimanyu Mishra. In 2021,
he qualified for the title at the age of 12 years, 4 months, and 25 days. See List of youngest
grandmasters for the history of this record.

Oldest grandmaster
Several players have been awarded honorary or retrospective grandmaster titles based on their
past achievements. The oldest of these was Andreas Dückstein, who was awarded the title in 2024
at the age of 96.

Apart from retrospective awards, a number of players have achieved the title by winning the World
Senior Championship. The oldest player to gain the title in this way was Yuri Shabanov, who won
the 2003 event and was awarded the title at the age of 66.

Oldest combined age of players in a match

In 2014, GM Viktor Korchnoi (b. 1931) played a two-game match against GM Wolfgang Uhlmann
(b. 1935). Korchnoi won both games. The combined age of the two players was 162 years, which is
almost certainly a record for a standard time control match between Grandmasters. At a rapid time
control, Korchnoi played a four-game match against GM Mark Taimanov (b. 1926) in November
2015. Korchnoi won the match 2–1 with one draw. The combined ages of the players was 174. This
was the first time since 1980 that Korchnoi had played in an official or friendly match with an
opponent older than himself.[111][112]

Youngest player to defeat a grandmaster

On February 18, 2024, Ashwath Kaushik, aged 8 years, 6 months, and 11 days, beat Grandmaster
Jacek Stopa at the 22nd Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open in Switzerland.[113]

Oldest player to defeat a grandmaster

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In the aforementioned rapid match in November 2015 between Mark Taimanov and Viktor
Korchnoi, Taimanov was approximately 89 years and 9 months old when he won one of the match
games against Korchnoi. The oldest known player to beat a grandmaster in a tournament game at
standard time controls is Anthony Saidy. In Round 3 of the National Open Chess Championship in
Las Vegas, played sometime between June 17 and 19, 2019,[114] Saidy, aged 82 years and 1 month,
beat grandmaster Vladimir Belous (age 25).[115]

Simultaneous and blindfold records

Best and worst results in simultaneous exhibitions

In 1922, José Raúl Capablanca, the recently crowned World Champion, played 103 opponents
simultaneously in Cleveland. He completed the exhibition in seven hours, scoring 102 wins and
one draw (99.5%), the best result ever in a simultaneous exhibition on over 75 boards.[116][117]

The best result in a simultaneous exhibition solely against grandmasters is former World
Champion Garry Kasparov's performance against an Israeli team consisting of Boris Alterman,
Alexander Huzman, Ilya Smirin, and Emil Sutovsky at Tel Aviv in 1998.[118] Adding to the difficulty
Kasparov played Black in half the games; usually in exhibitions the exhibitor plays White on all
boards. A second round was played 2 days later with colors reversed. Kasparov scored 7–1 against
an all 2600+ rated team and considers it one of the peak performances of his career.

Paul Morphy also gave an impressive exhibition. On April 26, 1859, at London's St. James Chess
Club, Morphy played "five games simultaneously against a group of masters who could be
described as among the top ten players of the day", scoring 3–2. He defeated Jules Arnous de
Rivière and Henry Bird, drew with Samuel Boden and Johann Löwenthal, and lost only to Thomas
Wilson Barnes.[119]

The worst result in a simultaneous exhibition given by a master occurred in 1951, when
International Master Robert Wade gave a simultaneous exhibition against 30 Russian schoolboys,
aged 14 and under. After 7 hours of play, Wade had lost 20 games and drawn the remaining
10.[120][121][122][123]

The absolute worst result in a simultaneous exhibition was two wins and 18 losses (10%) by Joe
Hayden, aged 17, in August 1977. Hayden wanted to set an American record by playing 180 people
simultaneously at a shopping center in Cardiff, New Jersey, but only 20 showed up to play. Hayden
lost 18 of the games (including one to a seven-year-old). His two wins were scored against his
mother and a player who got tired of waiting and left mid-game, thus forfeiting the game.[124]

Most games in blindfold exhibitions

The record for the most games played in a blindfold simultaneous exhibition is 48, set by Timur
Gareyev in December 2016, when he played 48 opponents over 20 hours, scoring 35 wins, 7 draws
and 6 losses.[125]

Most players taking part in a multi-simul

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20,500 players played simultaneously on December 24, 2010, in Ahmadabad, India. Then-World
Champion Viswanathan Anand was a guest of honor for this event and participated in the
simul.[126]

Most simultaneous games

On February 8–9, 2011, Iranian grandmaster Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami played for 25 hours against
604 players, winning 580 (97.35%) of the games, drawing 16, and losing 8.[127]

Writing-related records

Longest-running chess column

Leonard Barden's daily chess column for the London Evening Standard began in June 1956, and
was published daily in the printed newspaper until July 30, 2010, a total run of 54 years and 1
month. It then continued online until January 31, 2020, for a total of 63 years, 7 months and 27
days without missing a day.[128][129]

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