In 2002, Fabiano Caruana, age 10, defeated GM Wojtkiewicz, becoming the youngest player to defeat a GM in the United States. In 2009, Hetul Shah, age 9, beat GM Nurlan Ibrayev in a tournament game in India. In 1999, David Howell, age 8, became the youngest player to beat a grandmaster. In 2012, Joaquin Perkins (1598), age 8, beat Pablo Pena (2220), In 1993, Irina Krush, age 9, beat a chess master rated 2257. In 2011, Awonder Liang, age 8, beat an International Master. Jose Capablanca had one of his games published when he was 4 years old. In 1995, Luke McShane played in the British Championship at the age of 11. In 1976,Nigel Short qualified to play in the British Championship at the age of 11. Youngest player in a national championship. 12 year old Kiem Tjing-Tjin-Joe of Surinam played in the 1982 chess olympiad. In 1970, 11 year old Schermann of the Virgin Islands played at Siegen. In 1986, Heidi Cueller played for the women’s Guatemala chess team in the chess Olympiad at Dubai. At age seven Alekhine Nouri became the youngest FIDE Master in the world! (FIDE stands for Fédération Internationale des Échecs, which literally translates to World Chess Federation). It is also the longest game in time, lasting 24 hours and 30 minutes. The longest chess game with a winner is 193 moves when Yedael Stepak beat Yaakov Mashian in the Israel Championship semi-finals in 1980. Most moves in a chess game with a winner. The longest chess game is 269 moves between Ivan Nikolic vs. Goran Arsovic, Belgrade, 1989. In 1966, Jude Acers played 114 opponents at the Louisiana State Fair, and won all 114 games. Most games simultaneously, winning all games. In 1989, the Belgrade Grandmaster’s Association had 98 grandmasters participating, the most grandmasters in one tournament. Gustav Neumann won all 34 of his games at Berlin 1865. Nicholas MacLeod lost 31 games at the 6th American Chess Congress at New York 1889. In June 2005, Pachuca, Mexico had a total of 12,388 chess competitors in a simultaneous exhibition. The previous record was 310, achieved in 1996 in Sweden by Ulf Andersson.

He walked over 5 miles and played over 7,000 moves. He won 294 games, drew 26 games, and lost one game (to Talal Shakerchi). International Master Andrew Martin played 321 opponents simultaneously at WellingtonCollege, Berkshire, England on February 21, 2004. Grandmaster Susan Polgar player 326 opponents simultaneously at a shopping mall in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida on July, 2005. Reinfeld wrote 102 chess books and 260 books in total from other subjects. Other chess authors of over 100 chess books include Fred Reinfeld, Eric Schiler, and Eduard Gufeld. Raymond Keene has authored over 100 books on chess, more than any other author. In each of these openings White wins between 35 - 37% of the time. The next most popular first moves are 1.d4, 1.Nf3 and 1.c4 in that order. e4 is the most popular first move in Chess. Bill Wall has written over 1,000 chess articles for magazines and published on the Internet. Edward Winter has published over 7,000 chess articles in his Chess Notes. Of the 46 games he won 25, drew 19, and lost 2 in 21 hours of play. In November 2011, Marc Lang of Germany played 46 opponents blindfold simultaneously. He won 31, drew 3, and lost 18 in 12 hours of play. Flesch was permitted to verbally recount the scores of the games in progress. In 1934, George Koltanowski played 34 games blindfolded, winning 23 and drawing 10. In São Paulo in 1947 Miguel Najdorf played 45 opponents with the result of 39 wins, four draws and two losses. However Najdorf was allowed to look at the scoresheets during the match. In October 1960, Janos Flesch of Hungary played 52 opponents blindfold simultaneously. Most blindfold games played simultaneously. In December 1960, George Koltanowski played 56 opponents blindfold consecutively (not simultaneously) in San Franciso. Most blindfold games played consecutively. In 1995, Robert Smeltzer of Dallas played 2,266 USCF-rated games in one year, the most ever.

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