Ding Liren/Liren Ding...

[Steven DuCharme]

Is now the unbeaten chess games holder of world record status!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

His count is now 98 with no signs of stopping

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Are you sure? I thought the count was currently 94 after his round 7 game in the European Club Cup?

[Nick Burrows]

He doesn't appear to have played in the recent Chinese League matches, meaning his next game from the current 94 unbeaten will be at the Shenzhen Masters where he faces Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri, Yu Yangyi, Radek Wojtaszek and Nikita Vitiugov from the 4-14 November

[Matt Mackenzie]

There are claims that certain GMs have gone on three figure stretches without defeat, FWIW.

[Leonard Barden]

Psakhis 120
Tiviakov 110
Lalic 110
Andersson 100

[James Pratt]

Kavalek and he'd be at a higher level than Bogdan surely?

http://essexroad.blogspot.com

[Steven DuCharme]

Are you sure? I thought the count was currently 94 after his round 7 game in the European Club Cup?

According to chessbomb.com he went 4-0

[Steven DuCharme]

Psakhis 120
Tiviakov 110
Lalic 110
Andersson 100

I would love to see some relevant dates for these feats. tyia

[Leonard Barden]

Psakhis 1996-98
Tiviakov 2004-5
Lalic 2006-7
Andersson not known

[Steven DuCharme]

For Psakhis I found a 70+ game streak. I will update this as I go along. 77 games for Tiviakov. 106 for Bogdan Lalic Now I am disappointed his streak is not officially recognized

[Chris Rice]

Sergey Tiviakov in New in Chess (2017/3):

"It is a well-known fact that I am the official world record holder, as I played 110 tournament games without a defeat in the period 2004-2005. That streak lasted for 11 months. In that period I played a lot against world top players like Aronian, Radjabov, Ivanchuk and Carlsen (just to name a few)."

[Nick Burrows]

Tiviakov lost to Sokolov in July 2004 & to Shabalov in September 2005. Anyone out there with a large database to join the dots?

[Christopher Kreuzer]

He says "tournament games", does that mean he is excluding FIDE-rated league games? You have to be precise with what you are including and excluding in these records.

[Steven DuCharme]

Chess-db.com has Ivanchuk defeating Tiviakov on 12.18.2004 He then had a 74 game streak.

[Nick Burrows]

He says "tournament games", does that mean he is excluding FIDE-rated league games? You have to be precise with what you are including and excluding in these records.

If so, it is not in any way comparable with Ding's run against almost entirely the worlds elite. Would an unbeaten minor player hold the record?

I hope Ding continues just to gold stamp his achievment.