Records in chess

This page links you to articles listing chess records .

Game records

Most tournament victories: Anatoli Karpov holds the record with the most chess tournaments won, with more than 160 tournament victories.
Most played games: Viktor Korchnoi holds the record with the most chess games played, around 5000 are documented.
Longest unbeaten: With 120, Magnus Carlsen holds the record for the longest series of undefeated games with a classic time limit , 39 wins and 81 draws .
longest game in a world chess championship: The 5th game of the 1978 world chess championship between Anatoli Karpow and Viktor Korchnoi is the longest game ever played in a world championship match. It ended in a draw after 124 moves.
Longest known game: It was played in Israel in 1980 . Spepak won after 24.5 hours (193 moves against Mashian ).
longest known checkmate sequence: Checkmate # Longest checkmate sequence
longest known long-distance game: correspondence chess # time to consider
Shortest mate game: fool mate

World record in blind chess: blind chess

Latest castling, castling with fewest stones and most castling : castling # records

The highest Elo rating in chess history had Magnus Carlsen in May 2014, 2,882 points; it exceeds the previous record set by Garry Kasparov in July 1999 with 2851 points.

The highest historical rating was calculated for Bobby Fischer ; in October 1971 it was 2,895.

Yakov Damsky: The Batsford Book of Chess Records . Batsford, London 2005, ISBN 0-7134-8946-4 .