by John Bain | May 12, 2022 | Blog, Chess Improves Lives, Records in Chess!
Yuri Averbakh 1922 – 2022 by John Bain A Role Model February 8, 1922 – May 7, 2022 Yuri Averbakh passed away on May 7, 2022, three months after celebrating his 100th birthday on February 8, 2022. In 1925 in Moscow, 3-year-old Yuri and his family... Read more
by John Bain | Mar 16, 2022 | Chess Improves Lives, Records in Chess!
Yuri Averbakh by by John Bain A Role Model Yuri Averbakh is the world’s oldest living chess Grandmaster–also, the first and only Grandmaster ever to reach 100 years old!Yuri was born on February 8, 1922 in Kaluga, Russia. In His Prime Averbakh at the... Read more
by John Bain | Dec 9, 2020 | Blog, Famous Chess Games, Records in Chess!
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, whose unbeaten run in Classical Chess had stretched back 125 games–or two years, two months and 10 days–lost to the world’s No. 15 ranked player, Poland’s Jan Krzysztof Duda in round five of the Norway Chess... Read more
by John Bain | Oct 23, 2019 | Blog, Records in Chess!
World Chess Champion 101 Classical Chess GamesWithoutA 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... Read more