16 decisive games in a row in a title match: Steinitz-Chigorin 1889.
What chess records may never be broken?
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Country with the most World Ranked #1 Players to go Insane: USA with 2.
It will surely take a while before there will be a shorter decisive game in a title match than 17 moves, as in Anand's win against Gelfand.
Paul Keres. Greatest number of wins over former WCC champions ( 9 ).
( Including a young R. Fischer in 1962 )
Record by chess master--but not in chess. I may have the highest number of perfect [300] games in bowling. 344
This GM beat 3 of the best & most famous chess World Champions the first game they played.
[To be clear, Player A beat WC B the first time they faced off, later beat WC C, and later WC D in their first game ever as GMs.]
Who was the GM? No googling plz.
To break the record, you'd have to beat 4 current/past univerally recognized World Champions [no Khalifmans!] the first time you met OTB and regular time controls [no blitz!]
And I'll go with Lasker's 27 years as WC for mine.
Viktor Korchnoi?
Winning eleven games in a title match (Alekhine, 1929).
The answer to the trivia Question is Akiba Rubinstein.
He crushed Lasker in their first meeting, and beat Alekhine and Capa in his first try. Amazing.
Also maybe one of the 1-2 players who could outplay Capa in an endgame.
NajdorfDefense wrote:
This GM beat 3 of the best & most famous chess World Champions the first game they played.
[To be clear, Player A beat WC B the first time they faced off, later beat WC C, and later WC D in their first game ever as GMs.]
Who was the GM? No googling plz.
To break the record, you'd have to beat 4 current/past univerally recognized World Champions [no Khalifmans!] the first time you met OTB and regular time controls [no blitz!]
I think Spassky may have beaten the record since it seems as if he won his first games against Smyslov, Tal, Fischer and Kasparov.
It is easy to beat 3 gms in 3 tries but to do what Spassky did-4 past/current world champs first time playing them is very difficult.
Unless you catch a future world champ at age of 10 or something...
ponz111 wrote:
It is easy to beat 3 gms in 3 tries but to do what Spassky did-4 past/current world champs first time playing them is very difficult.
Unless you catch a future world champ at age of 10 or something...
Spassky was real good. Got neglected (historically) because of other factors.
He was '' natural '' chess-player akin to Capablanca.
ponz111 wrote:
It is easy to beat 3 gms in 3 tries but to do what Spassky did-4 past/current world champs first time playing them is very difficult.
lol
chrisr2212 wrote:
and he never went nuts!!! incredible! may have had something to do with him being such a gentleman ...
Need to research him. Maybe he never drunk alcohol & led a clean life ! 
Yes.. lol @ easy !! Ponz
Probably had a few in 1972...
I have played 3 players who are GMs in my life and I won from all three. Never have lost or drew with a gm.
[and I do not drink or smoke or do drugs!]
While we are at it I will say that I have also bowled 346 perfect games![300 is a perfect game-12 straight strikes] games [of course there is a catch to this one] I have other crazy records such as the most chess games won in a row...
Something similiar happened with Kramnik once, against Karpov I think. He didn't actualy castle twice, but he moved his king, moved it back and then asked the arbiter if he could castle in that position. The arbiter replied in the afirmative, so Kramnik happily went back to the board and castled.