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

His count is now 98 with no signs of stopping

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

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

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

Psakhis 120
Tiviakov 110
Lalic 110
Andersson 100

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

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Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:00 pm

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

Leonard Barden wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 29, 2018 5:23 pm

Psakhis 120
Tiviakov 110
Lalic 110
Andersson 100

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

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

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

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)."

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

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.

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

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 02, 2018 1:03 am

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.