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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. [91] 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 ...
In Chess Olympiad play, Mikhail Tal was a member of eight Soviet teams, each of which won team gold medals (1958, 1960, 1962, 1966, 1972, 1974, 1980, and 1982), won 65 games, drew 34, and lost only two games (81.2%). This percentage makes him the player with the best score among those participating in at least four Olympiads.
The first game was played on July 11, 1972. The last game (the 21st) began on August 31, was adjourned after 40 moves, and Spassky resigned the next day without resuming play. Fischer won the match 12½–8½, becoming the eleventh undisputed world champion.
Steinitz made a shaky start, but won his last 14 games in the main tournament (including 2–0 results over Paulsen, Anderssen, and Blackburne [12]) plus the two play-off games – this was the start of a 25-game winning streak in serious competition.
Samvel Ter-Sahakyan and Robert Hovhannisyan won for Armenia on the lower boards, whereas Gukesh D brought the second Indian team a full point with his win over Gabriel Sargissian on the top board and scored his sixth consecutive game at the Olympiad. [47] Gukesh won his game by forcing a sacrifice for a fierce attack that eventually resulted in ...
For instance, the World Chess Championship 1978 was won by Anatoly Karpov by a score of 6 wins to 5, with draws not counting. The match score is usually given as "6−5", or "6−5 with 21 draws". Sometimes a Three points for a win system is used: 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. This is usually shown as the number of points ...
The cheat’s gambit: Grandmasters go to war over claims 46-game blitz chess streak was tainted. ... He then answered his critics in emphatic fashion by winning 43 blitz chess games in a row.
He also won the gold medal in the 1979 edition (3rd Asian Team Chess Championship) held at Singapore going undefeated once again by winning 5 games and drawing 1 for a winning percentage of 91.7 with a TPR of 2671 (2520 Elo ).