lots of laughs, I think Karpov had stronger opposition!!
What Records or Achievements Have You Done in Chess or nonChess?
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corrijean wrote:
I am really good at remembering random, useless facts.
Example: Athena was the name of Florence Nightengale's pet owl.
What was the name of the boat that took Fay Ray to King Kong's island in the movie King Kong?
"The Ramora." Hope I got the spelling correct.
They were stronger over the board but analytic skills of the best correspondence players before the centaur era used to be really amazing.
In fact, opening theory largely advanced thanks to the correspondence chess and tournament players adopted many ideas found in the postal games. I really admire those players who were able to deeply analyze the positions for many days to produce really high level games.
Karpov is imo the best player in history, his understanding of chess is outstanding and many of his opponents admit it is hard to find the moment where Karpov converted a minimal advantage into a decisive one. He simply considers much more details when formulating a strategic plan and then implementing it with his modest-looking but very strong moves
Many years ago, I won $500 in a middle range rating class at the New York Open Chess tournament. I also took 4th place in the NCAA Judo Championships, 205 pound class.
Kinda like winning two Door Prizes, back to back.
Chess and Judo have nothing in common, except the desire to win. 
I got a couple of chess achievement :)
I got 1900 blitz on this site last week at the age of 16 :D incredibly proud of that!
And my notable achievement. I have beaten several FMs and NMs on this site..but lost all my sessions :( I would try to play an IM but they all reject my challenges *cries
i made my epic profile picture. unfortunately, my stacking of chess pieces is not as well-known as another person's stacking of chess pieces because mine is not as high. In addition, the other person's stacking is more believable. people always seem to think i used glue or trick magnetism for some weird reason.
IMZDZ4U very nice and epic profile picture! Unique probably in all of chess.com and "unique" is nice!
Some months ago I won a 650 player online duplicate bridge tournament.
I have won hundreds of small duplicate bridge tournaments.
Duplicate Bridge has an entirely different rating system than chess but if their rating system would be equivalent--I would be rated approximately 2350
[I also play money bridge just in case someone who reads this wants to challenge me!]
The photo of me in my profile was taken when I was age 19 and had just won a college bridge tournament.
I once got busy in a Bruger King Bathroom!
While I am not a martial arts expert, I once was attacked by three men, one a kickboxer, and I prevailed against all three.
I got a 100% score on a Will You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? quiz.
zborg wrote:
corrijean wrote:
I am really good at remembering random, useless facts.
Example: Athena was the name of Florence Nightengale's pet owl.
What was the name of the boat that took Fay Ray to King Kong's island in the movie King Kong?
"The Ramora." Hope I got the spelling correct.
That's a good one. 
ponz111 wrote:
One of my best achievements was winning the 7th United States Correspondence Chess Championship with a score in the Finals of 13 wins and no losses and one draw. I set a record of best first place finish with margin over 2nd place. But what I am most proud of was I won all 7 games with the Black pieces. This is a record which will never be tied or broken now that there is Centaur Chess. To do this I used this opening in 4 of my games 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 The Center Counter. Back in those days this was an unexpected opening for Black and there was not much theory even though I had written a small book on the opening called Center Counter Uprising.
I have won many correspondence tournaments and have been at the top of some correspondence ratings lists but this was the best...
Did you ever play correspondence IM Richard Calaghan? I was friends with him and he used to come to my chess club in Charlottesville, VA in the mid/late 80s; Ruth Donnelly, frequent competitor in US Women's (OTB) Championship's also used to attend.
In a grueling 50 game match of tic tac toe against a computer, I won with an overall score of +18 -7 =35. Here's proof:
Now, I'd like to see Vishy Anand beating that record playing chess vs Houdini!
macer75 wrote:
In a grueling 50 game match of tic tac toe against a computer, I won with an overall score of +18 -7 =35. Here's proof:
The online engine played badly because it was running on IE.
macer75 wrote:
In a grueling 50 game match of tic tac toe against a computer, I won with an overall score of +18 -7 =35. Here's proof:
How can you lose in tic-tac-toe? It is one of the easiest games to solve...
FancyKnight wrote:
macer75 wrote:
In a grueling 50 game match of tic tac toe against a computer, I won with an overall score of +18 -7 =35. Here's proof:
The online engine played badly because it was running on IE.
Ok, so maybe if the engine were running on a better web browser it would have played slightly better, but I had a score of +11! Even if it plays slightly better it can't play that much better.
chessgdt wrote:
macer75 wrote:
In a grueling 50 game match of tic tac toe against a computer, I won with an overall score of +18 -7 =35. Here's proof:
How can you lose in tic-tac-toe? It is one of the easiest games to solve...
Yeah, I've heard the argument that when played perfectly tic tac toe is a draw. My response is always that those people play too defensively. I play very aggressively, so I occasionally lose a game (but not a lot - only 7 losses in 50 games against the toughest possible competition), but because I'm so good I win a lot more games than I lose, so in the end my aggressive style definitely pays out.
One of my best achievements was winning the 7th United States Correspondence Chess Championship with a score in the Finals of 13 wins and no losses and one draw. I set a record of best first place finish with margin over 2nd place.
This can be compared to Karpov's unbelievable victory in Linares 1994 when he finished 2.5 points ahead of Kasparov and only drew 4 games in the field of the strongest grandmasters of that time.