Questions tagged [records]
For questions related to (world) records in chess, e.g. the longest game (in moves or in duration), highest obtained rating, longest mate in n puzzle, etc.
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What is the World Record for Most Pieces En Prise in a Chess Game?
Does anyone know what the world record is for most pieces en prise in a game of chess is?
Edit: I mean in a game that has actually been played, not a constructed game.
Edit: by en prise I mean can be ...
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What position has the most possible moves that all lead to being checkmated?
Inspired by this position from a game I played.
[FEN "r1b2rk1/p2p1p1p/2qb1PpQ/2p1p3/2p1P3/5N2/PPnP2PP/R1B2RK1 b - - 0 1"]
Black has almost all their pieces, is not in check, and can make 27 ...
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Fastest from a complete beginner to FIDE 2200?
There are pictures of Reshevsky playing simuls at a very young age -- I think there is some controversy over his exact age since the younger he was supposed to be, the more interesting. He also, even ...
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8 pieces on one file in a master game at standard time control?
In today's (21st May 2023) game in the Superbet Rapid and Blitz between Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Levon Aronian they reached a position where the c-file was fully occupied with pieces and pawns.
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What is the fastest loss by a GM in a FIDE classical game?
What is the shortest FIDE classical game a grandmaster lost? It can be either resigning or checkmate. The opponent doesn't necessarily need to be GM. Forfeits don't count. Only serious games count, ...
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Longest sequence of moves where White's number of available moves does not change
There are challenges for the longest sequence of moves in which white's available moves increase or decrease. This challenge is for the longest sequence of moves (from the opening position) in which ...
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What is the longest sequence of increasing White moves with only White pieces?
Inspired by a comment by @Evargalo on this question, I ponder how long a sequence can last where each turn, White has more available moves than the previous turn, in a situation with only White pieces ...
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Is there a Chess 960 position in which White's moves can be decreased to zero without check?
Inspired by this question, koedem proved that, from the starting position, White's legal move amount can be decreased sequentially from 20 to 0 in 20 moves. However, doing so required some checks. I ...
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Longest sequence of moves where white's number of available moves decreases
An easier version of this
White has 20 available moves at the start of the game (from the standard position). After 1.h3 h5, white has 19 available moves. (The h pawn has lost the ability to move two ...
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Longest sequence of moves where number of available moves increases
White has 20 available moves at the start of the game. After 1.a4 e5, white has 21 available moves. (The rook has gained 2 moves, while the pawn has lost 1).
What is the longest sequence of moves ...
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Roundtrips with no shortcuts
In the picture, you see the longest roundtrip of a rook such that there are no "shortcuts" - imagine the target squares are given, then at each square you have exactly two other given ...
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Most combative head-to-head World Championships?
Chess.com keep tweeting about how combative this match is. 3 out of 5 games so far have been decisive, more than any other match in the last 10 years. Of course, us old timers remember Reykjavik 1972 ...
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Earliest 2Q on board
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1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 c5 4. dxc5 e6 5. b4 a5 6. c3 axb4 7. cxb4 b6 8. Bxb8 Rxb8 9. Qa4+ Ke7 10. c6 b5 11. Qa7+ Ke8 12. c7 Bxb4+ 13. Kd1 1-0
Let's not analyze this horror too ...
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What is the longest string of moves by one side on one color of the board?
This game was dubbed "White Key Symphony" by chessgames.com for the fact that Karpov made moves on only light squares for 18 moves in a row.
Is this still the record for the light squares, ...
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Who are the top 10 youngest players to reach a FIDE standard rating of 2200?
In age order of achieving the rating, who are the 10 youngest players to reach 2200 standard FIDE rating? Prag and Karjakin obviously feature, but who else?
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Longest sequence of unique legal moves for one player, always in check and ending in checkmate
I recently played a bullet game, in which I thought I was in checkmate, but then realized I had one legal move, this then repeated again and again 6 times until ultimately I was in checkmate. I share ...
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What is the maximum total number of piece points possible on the board?
Maximum number of non-pawn pieces on the board notes how to get the maximum number of non-pawn pieces on the board.
But what about the maximum number of points possible? It seems like this starts ...
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Largest round robin ever?
First, I myself played several large (20+) blitz round robins, this is nothing unusual. Thus: only "long" games.
Second, oversize round robins were quite common in the good old days (maybe ...
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Who is the oldest player ever to beat a reigning world champion?
Per title. I'm interested in all time controls. This record isn't in the Wikipedia list of Chess records.
Related: Youngest Player to beat a reigning World Champion? which asks for the youngest player....
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Most "heavy" model mate in a game
A model mate, to recall, is a mate where
a) any flight (including the standing place) of the enemy king is attacked exactly once;
b) no friendly piece (except king and pawns) idles around.
c) (...
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Youngest Player to beat a reigning World Champion?
In September 2022 19 year old Hans Niemann beat Magnus Carlsen in the Sinquefield Cup.
On the 19th January 2023 18 year old Nodirbek Abdusattorov beat Magnus Carlsen in the Tata Steel tournament.
Is ...
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Moving a piece to a square protected by 5 opponent's pieces
At the 5th round of the 2022 FIDE World Team Championship, in the game between Ivanchuk and Van Foreest, White played the following winning move:
[FEN "1n1q2k1/2r1rp1p/pp1b1np1/3pN3/3P4/BP4PB/...
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Open problems in chess involving maximum material imbalances
I am posting the present question since here Very unbalanced Chess Positions I have introduced three open problems (i.e., the third one, the fourth one, and the sixth one from the above), regarding ...
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Longest sequence of unique series moves
Clearly a spawnoff of the preceding question, but far easier to analyze, and maybe helping a bit to solve that one too.
Take the starting position, remove all black pieces to simplify and now make ...
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Fastest stalemate in Duck Chess
Seeing the meteoric rise in popularity of Duck Chess (full rules), I'd like to ask how to stalemate the fastest (from the starting position) in this variant, because the stalemated player wins here.
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What is the most number of repetitions in a GM game?
In July 2014 FIDE introduced new rules regarding draws. The arbiter was required to step in and declare the game drawn in cases where the players repeated the position 5 times:
9.6 If one or both of ...
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England team win senior 50+ world team championships and all the board golds - first time ever?
In this year's FIDE World Senior Team 50+ Championship the England team won the tournament and won all four board gold medals:
England 1, headed by Michael Adams and Nigel Short, won all four matches ...
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Inspired by Ding's victory over Rapport in round 10th of 2022 Candidate's tournament; victories with a piece not moving at all
So in round 10th of the 2022 Candidate's tournament, Ding beat Rapport, and at the moment of resignation (move 55!), Ding's c8 bishop had not moved from its original square during the whole game.
So I ...
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What was the highest rated classical game that was lost on time?
Recently, I came across a game Vishwanathan Anand vs Veselin Topalov from Norway Chess 2022. In the second round, Anand who was playing with the black pieces won on time against Topalov as his clock ...
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What is the maximum number of moves in a position of Crazyhouse?
We know that the maximum number of moves for a given colour in a legal position of standard chess (or at least record so far) is 218.
What is the record we can come up with for Crazyhouse?
Note that ...
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2 GM Norms in 24 hours - first time ever?
Chess.com reports that 17-year-old Frederik Svane has scored 2 GM Norms In 24 Hours and asks if this is a record:
17-year-old Svane, the youngest of the two brothers (Rasmus recently turned 25), ...
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What is the longest possible sequence of consecutive checks without captures?
The best known answer (54) for arbitrary checking moves is given in What is the theoretical limit for the number of consecutive checks?, but I'm interested in sequences without captures.
As usual, the ...
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The king fell off the board
Give a position (White to move) with the bK missing. If it is inserted on any legal square, it is mated in one move by the wQ, with a different mate for each square.
(Point of side conditions: If you ...
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Duplex forced selfstalemate
Ludwig Zagler, Chess Ultimates 12/1974
[FEN "3nBb2/3PRP2/2ppPPpp/2nk2pb/2p2QN1/1r1rBKP1/7q/8 w - - 0 0"]
self=1, 7 solutions
This is the record (7 variants) for forced single side ...
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Longest "death certificate"
Give a legal position which is "dead" but would take (assuming the §5.2.2 about dead positions wouldn't exist) maximally long to play out until an automatic draw by fivefold, 75 moves or ...
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What is the highest possible number of pawn captures in a game?
What is the highest number of pawn captures possible in a game?
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An abstract Top 1 player rating vs time
How the highest Elo rating has been changing over time? Is there such an abstract data? Preferably FIDE rating.
I've been trying to find a graph or a table, but all I can find is a list of peak ...
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Two seriesmover stalemate constructions
Easy one: Starting position, but Black never moves. White makes n moves (no checking!) until Black is stalemated. Minimize n. Hint: You don't need to capture all Black pieces, pawns can also be ...
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Add as many potential moves as possible by move
8/8/7K/p7/R3b2k/6rP/4p3/4B1N1 w - - 0 1
This is an age old record by Shinkman: Black is stalemated if having the move, but the White move 1.Bb4 grants 32 moves. (Don't bother trying to top that...)
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Both (at least) WGM and PhD/doctorate
Similar to this question Both grandmaster and PhD/doctorate but for at least WGM (WGM, female IM, female GM, etc)
Among woman grandmasters, who have PhDs/doctorates?
Conditions:
standard WGM only eg ...
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What is the chess position with biggest X, where no matter what legal move black/white does, a specific player will be mated at a max X moves later?
There are positions where no matter what legal move black or white does during this sequence of moves, an specific player, will always be mated after X moves (sometimes earlier, but after X moves its ...
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How do I find data to determine records like the youngest person to obtain a certain title?
A. Background:
Under Mobeus Zoom's suggestion here: List of records for youngest superGMs since 1950? (or 1970 or whenever FIDE started rating people. or basically after 2700s after Fischer) (this is ...
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List of records for youngest WFMs (woman FIDE masters) since 1950 (or whenever)? [duplicate]
On Wiki, we have the List of youngest grandmasters since 1950. What about WFMs (woman FIDE masters) instead of GMs?
Note 1: I really mean to ask about WFMs (females who obtain the female exclusive ...
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List of records for youngest WCMs (woman candidate masters) since 1950? [duplicate]
Re the close: If it was really a duplicate then why didn't Brian Towers♦ answer on the other post? Checkmate!
On Wiki, we have the List of youngest grandmasters since 1950. What about WCMs (woman ...
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List of records for youngest female international masters since 1950? [duplicate]
Note: I really mean female IMs and not WIMs
All IM version: List of records for youngest international masters since 1950?
WIM version: List of records for youngest WIMs (woman international masters) ...
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List of records for the youngest FIDE masters since 1950?
Edit based on answer given by blunderchess1236 awhile ago: I'm not looking for just 1 person like who most recently attained the youngest (Alekhine Nouri). I'm asking also who held the record for ...
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List of records for youngest superWGMs since 1950?
On Wiki, we have a list for List of youngest grandmasters since 1950. What about superWGMs (any female player who has reached 2500+ or has become GM, whether or not they were actual WGMs so as to ...
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List of records for youngest superGMs since 1950? (or 1970 or whenever FIDE started rating people. or basically after 2700s after Fischer)
On Wiki, we have the List of youngest grandmasters since 1950. What about superGMs (defined anyone who has reached 2700+ peak FIDE standard) instead of GMs: where can I find a list for the youngest to ...
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List of records for youngest female grandmasters since 1950?
On Wiki, we have a list for List of youngest grandmasters since 1950.
What about female GMs (really female GMs and not WGMs) instead of GMs?
I guess the list ends with Judit Polgar, Koneru Humpy and ...
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