What Records or Achievements Have You Done in Chess or nonChess?

My very first USCF game I played an expert who was said to be the champion of Puerto Rico.  I had Black and he played te Ruy Lopez and I won. At the end of the tournament I was a class A player.

I question the reality of what he wrote, but if it were true, I'd have to disagree with you about the relative merits of romantic/sexual success versus improving one's rating on the Chessboard.

There's Chess, and there's life.  Relationships (short or long term) are much more important than success on the board.

On the other hand, we of course don't know if those exploits or claims of Chess or romantic success are grounded in any sort of reality.

In my first tourney, I massacred everyone with scholar's mate. Except for the last guy who I managed to force stalemate just before I got checkmated

Now it seems just crazy. 4 in a row win with scholars mate? WTF

I got a medal in a very small tournament in Lisbon 6 days ago

That's nothin'.  I once threw three ringers in a row.  Then they broke out the whiskey.

It's acheivable but pretty impressive.  Because of my competetive nature I pushed myself far to hard and ran an 18 min 5k half a lifetime ago.

Upon completion I promptly puked.

my best HS XC time was just over 17 minutes for three miles. That's a little faster than 18 minutes if you add another 100 meters. That wasn't on a flat track either. Our varsity runners averaged 16 minutes. The team is much better now.

Getting 900 rating points in 1½ year. around 300 from 3 tournaments in a row. That was good times, now I think winning 50 rating points is a great achievement.

How did you add 900 rating points in  1 1/2 years?

It's the wonder of being a junior and playing tournaments which takes a ½ year. I simply improved alot, and won far too many games.

One of my best chess achievements was when I challenged the powerful TCCMB Team to a game using their pet gambit. They had just beat another master in a miniature with their gambit. 

Their top players included

1. Steve Ham ICCF 2498

2. Mercian     ICCF 2455

3. Karsten Flynn ICCF 2355

4. Santhosh Paul  ICCF 2353

plus 3 more masters and

some high experts

I had White and the mandatory starting moves were 1. d4  d5

2. c4  e5  3. dxe5   This was an internet game viewed my many.

It was a 58 move game where I had a superior ending of a good knight vs a bad bishop.  Towards the end I unleashed a surprise knight sacrifice.

Total time for the whole game  D Taylor 1 day  TCCMB Team more than 300 days.

Sounded like a good game ponz!

I beat a 1000+ chess.com group (not all of them participated though) in VC, but getting to be 1600 OTB is probably my biggest achievement.

I wrote a short story on the 1851 meeting between Morphy and Lowenthal that I published right here on chess.com.

I lived in New Haven Conn. for 4 years lol. I learned to play chess the year after I left there.

Isn't your rating kind of low for that?

A lot can change in 26 years.

I mean 28

I  have played quite a few very strong players.  3 of them are now grandmasters. Playing "real chess" [not simuls].  Won from all three.  My percentage score of over-the-board USCF masters is approximately 58% My score vs Correspondence masters is approximately 78%

That was in the past, now I am back to much lower. 

Have one degree of separation from a world champion. [I think his name was Fischer]

I won the first Mississippi Madness tournament on tiebreaks and received applause during the last round of the event! This was great. I also beat the Chess Challenger 7 "blindfolded" the thing would play the same game every time and I just pressed those squares to victory. Non-chess players would always be amazed at this feat. As for best non chess feat? I helped a student or two learn better people management skills. When they come back to thank me it feels good.