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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 ...
Longest football match: 3 hours and 23 minutes – Stockport County 3–2 Doncaster Rovers, Football League Third Division North Cup, 30 March 1946 [207] [208] [note 57] Team that played most games on the same day: 3 – Grêmio , 1994 Campeonato Gaúcho , 11 December 1994 [ 209 ] [ note 58 ]
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
A plaque commemorating the Isner–Mahut match on Court 18 at Wimbledon.. This article details longest tennis match records by duration or number of games. The 1970–1973 introduction of the tiebreak reduced the opportunity for such records to be broken.
The previous record for the longest game had been game 5 of the World Chess Championship 1978 played between Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov, which was a 124-move draw. [17] [18] The longest decisive game up to that point had been game 16 of the World Chess Championship 1990, where Garry Kasparov defeated Karpov in 102 moves. [19]
Did not win league title 1978 Iceland: Valur: 18 1978–79 Italy: Perugia: 30 Yes: Did not win league title 1980–81 Northern Ireland: Glentoran: 22 1982–83 East Germany: Berliner FC Dynamo: 26 1984–85 Cyprus: Omonia: 26 1985–86 Turkey: Galatasaray: 36 Yes: Did not win league title 1986–87 Romania: Steaua București: 34 Also won Cupa ...
Throughout the history of Major League Baseball (MLB), franchises have had various postseason and World Series droughts.. All 16 of the original Major League franchises (i.e., those in place when the first World Series was played in 1903) have won the World Series, with the longest wait for a franchise's first championship being for the Phillies (77 seasons, ending in 1980).
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed 7 times indoors by two different men since 2000, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2025 with a 6.27 m mark.