Compilation of records and curiosities about chess, professional players and interesting games from the last 200 years.
Curiosities about Chess
1.– The Russian player Sergey Karjakin He is officially the youngest person to obtain the title of Grand Master, at the age of 12 years and 7 months.
2.- The Armenian Karen H. Grigoryan He is the player who has shown the highest performance in a professional tournament, reaching the figure of 3103 ELO points.
3.- Fabiano Caruana He is the second player who has achieved the highest performance (3098 ELO points) and it was in a tournament against the five players with the highest ELO in 2014.
4.- Magnus Carlsen He is the youngest player to reach 2800 ELO points, at 18 years old.
5.– The English player and top 1 Michael Adams At the age of 9, he participated in several categories of the same tournament and managed to win in four of them (under-9, under-13, under-15 and under-18).
6.- In 1969 at the Children's World Championship, Kenneth Rogoff played against Arthur Williams a game in which the first piece was captured on move 94.
7.- In 1981, in a game between Geoff Chandler and Richard Kynoch This checkmate occurred starring the f6 knight, which was attacked by three different Kynoch pieces but all three were pinned.
8.- In 2005, Reykjavík registered the highest number of Grand Masters per inhabitants. This capital has 114,000 inhabitants, eight of them being GM.
9.- In the 1958 Chess Olympiad, Russia attended with a team made up of Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Mikahil Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres and David Bronstein: four world champions and two title challengers.
10.- Friedrich Sämisch, a former German GM, in 1969 lost the fifteen games he played in the Büsum tournament due to time.
11.- In 2000 at the National Open in Las Vegas there were thirteen players who tied for first place.
12.- The 1999 Petrosian Memorial Tournament saw 45 games played, and 42 of them ended in a draw.
13.- Magnus Carlsen He is the player who has played the most professional, slow-paced games in a row without losing. A total of 120.
14.- Paul Keres, Viktor Korchnoi and Alexander Beliavsky They are the players who have defeated the most world champions. A total of 9 each.
15.- The FIDE ELO record has been broken twelve times: 2 fischer, 6 Kasparov and 4 Carlsen.
16.- In 1972 Bobby Fischer He was the player with the highest ELO in the world, followed by Boris Spassky, whom he scored 125 points.
17.- Emmanuel Lasker He was the player with the highest ELO in the world for 292 months (a little more than 24 years).
18.- Awonder Liang He has been the youngest player to defeat a GM (at only 9 years old).
19.- At only 13 years old, Magnus Carlsen managed to defeat the former world champion Anatoly Karpov and draw against the world champion of that time: Gary Kasparov.
20.- In 1992 José Raúl Capablanca He played 103 games at once and managed to win 102, tying 1.
21.- The International Master Robert Wade In 1951 he played thirty simultaneous games against thirty Russian students under 14 years of age. He lost twenty of those games and drew the other ten.
22.- Timur Gareyev In 2016 he played forty-eight games at the same time and blindfolded, having to remember all the pieces on all the boards, and still won 35, tied 7 and only lost 6 of them.
24.- The Indian GM Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami In 2011 he played six hundred and four games at the same time, winning 580, drawing 16 and losing 8.
25.- The longest game in a chess tournament was played in 1989, in Belgrade, and consisted of 269 moves, until it ended in a draw.
26.- The longest chess game in a World Title championship was played between Magnus Carlsen (defending his title) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (challenger); which lasted 8 hours and a total of 136 movements, until ending with Carlsen's victory.
27.- The most watched live chess games in the history of humanity have been: ElRubius vs xQc (with more than 250 thousand spectators), Dewa Kipas vs Irene Sukandar (with 1.3 million) and Enigma King vs Karpov (with 2.5 million).
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_chess
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