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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. [ 76 ] [ 77 ] [ 78 ] MacLeod was only 19, and the tournament, a 20-player double- round robin , was one of the longest tournaments in chess history.
This will show notable individual animals who have a record in the Guinness World Records or had in the past. Pages in category "Animal world record holders" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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 ...
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
Look out, there’s another chess prodigy on the scene.. At eight years, six months and 11 days, Ashwath Kaushik made history on Sunday by becoming the youngest player ever to beat a chess ...
Teenager Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest-ever undisputed classical chess world champion after beating Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in their best-of-14 final in Singapore on Thursday.
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The first edition topped the bestseller list in the United Kingdom by Christmas 1955. The following year the book was launched internationally, and as of the 2024 edition, it is now in its 69th year of publication, published in 100 countries and 23 languages, and maintains over 53,000 records in its database.