World Chess Champion
101 Classical Chess Games
Without
A Single Loss!
On October 21, 2019, Magnus Carlsen broke Ding Liren’s record of 100 games for the longest unbeaten streak in classical chess by drawing Levon Aronian in the Grand Swiss Chess Tournament.
The first World Record! Magnus Carlsen now has remained unbeaten for 101 straight classical chess games.
Carlsen’s last loss in classical chess was to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the Biel tournament on July 31, 2018!
The second World Record! Carlsen’s current streak is also the longest unbeaten streak by a reigning World Chess Champion and includes a stretch of 12 undefeated games against Fabiano Caruana at the 2018 World Chess Championship.
Ding Liren
Ding Liren held the previous record of 100 unbeaten games. He went undefeated between August 9, 2017, when he lost one game in a match with Anish Giri–until November 11, 2018, when he lost to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in Round 7 of the Shenzhen Masters tournament.
Ding Liren’s run of 100 classical chess games without a loss included his undefeated performance at the 2018 Candidates Tournament.