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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. [109] Before the list, Emanuel Lasker was the world's highest-rated player for 292 months between June 1890 and December 1926 according to Chessmetrics.
Anand was world number one successively 2 and 3 times (a total of 5 times), for 6 months and 9 months respectively (for a total of 15 months). As of September 2023, Carlsen has been world number one a record 147 times, including a record 141 consecutive times since July 2011.
He has also won the National Friends of Chess and the Chevron Chess Open. [10] Onakoya was featured in CNN African Voices. [11] [12] Onakoya is a board member of the New York City-based non-profit The Gift of Chess. [13] On 20 April 2024, Onakoya broke the world chess marathon record in New York, United States. He played for over 60 consecutive ...
A computer-based process of analyzing chess abilities across history came from Matej Guid and Ivan Bratko at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2006. [20] A similar project was conducted for World Champions in 2007–08 using Rybka 2.3.2a (then-strongest chess program) and a modified version of Guid and Bratko's program "Crafty". [21]
Gukesh broke into tears upon winning the final match against Ding last week, becoming the youngest world champion by more than four years. The record was previously held by chess legend Garry ...
Alik Gershon (born 3 June 1980, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is an Israeli chess grandmaster. On 21 October 2010 he set the Guinness World Record for simultaneous games after playing 523 opponents in Tel Aviv. After 18 hours and 30 minutes, he won 454 games (86%), lost 11 and drew 58. [1]
Nigerian chess champion Tunde Onakoya has broken the record for the longest chess marathon after playing for an extraordinary 60 hours nonstop.
The 2024 World Chess Championship is set to kick off this week, a showdown between 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju of India and reigning champion Ding Liren of China.