Records in losing chess games

[Uri Blass]

I wonder what is the record of losing more chess games in a row.

I think that the following 6 year old girl is a candidate for having the record and maybe girls are stronger than boys in the ability to lose without giving up chess.

https://ratings.fide.com/chess_statisti ... t=30962501

She lost 83 blitz games in a row in 2019 and it seems that she was lucky to get a draw from a strong player in the last round of one tournament when the opponent did not need more than a draw for the second place.

After this draw she lost again 84 blitz games in a row and only after these losses won 2 games.
She continued to play in blitz tournament for fide rating and usually lose.

I found also that she started playing for uscf rating when she was 4 years old(not for fide rating) and also had a lot of losses when she started.

http://www.uschess.org/assets/msa_jooml ... p?16768447

Note that I found her as one of the players with the lowest universal chess rating.

http://universalrating.com/ratings.php

The following player has even a lower universal rating.

https://ratings.fide.com/chess_statisti ... t=21047553

[Collingwood]

I'm a little surprised they have blitz for little children.
Is this good for them?

[Ovyron]

Is this good for them?

Yes, chess is a game that teaches little children a lot of things, so it's highly advisable to teach them the game.

Surprisingly, one of the most important lessons from chess is "agency", the fact that your decisions have an effect on the world just like your moves have an effect on how a chess game develops. Adults that never learned "agency" in early childhood are more prone to believe in fate, that an omniponent being decides what will happen to them, predestination, determinism, and fatalism.

Some even will support scientific theories for this (that time is an extra dimension that already contains the future and one just lives what was going to happen).

People that learned about agency in early childhood tend to believe that they can achieve anything they want and are generally more successful in life, because it turns out freedom of choice is something that has to be taught.

[Collingwood]

Chess, fine. But blitz??

[Uri Blass]

Little children usually do not use their time so there are cases when they are not going to play better at longer time control.


https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=10235361
The girl in the link played standard time control but I do not think that in her first tournament more time could help her to play better.

You can see games in the first tournament that she played to see how weak she was when she started(She improved significantly from that time and could get fide rating later)

https://ratings.fide.com/view_pgn.phtml?code=183606

examples:

[pgn][Event "Shamsher Ali 3rd FIDE Rating Women's Ch"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2018.03.02"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Sabikun Nahar Tonima"]
[Black "Arisha Hossain Tuba"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "1545"]
[PlyCount "47"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 b6 3. Nf3 d6 4. g3 h5 5. Bg2 Ba6 6. b3 Nh6 7. Ng5 e6 8. Bxa8
Qc7 9. Bg2 Qe7 10. d3 f5 11. O-O Bb7 12. e4 Rh7 13. Qxh5+ Kd8 14. Nxh7 Bd5 15.
Bg5 Na6 16. exd5 e5 17. f4 b5 18. fxe5 bxc4 19. dxc4 g6 20. Qxg6 Bg7 21. Rfe1
Bxe5 22. Rxe5 Kd7 23. Rxe7+ Kd8 24. Qe8# 1-0[/pgn]


[pgn][Event "Shamsher Ali 3rd FIDE Rating Women's Ch"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2018.03.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Arisha Hossain Tuba"]
[Black "Samiha Chowdhury"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A40"]
[BlackElo "1322"]
[PlyCount "36"]

1. d4 e6 2. Bd2 d5 3. e3 c5 4. dxc5 Bxc5 5. Na3 Nf6 6. f3 Nc6 7. e4 Qb6 8. Rb1
Bxg1 9. c3 Bc5 10. Bg5 dxe4 11. fxe4 Nxe4 12. g4 Nxg5 13. Bc4 O-O 14. Rf1 Re8
15. Qd3 Ne5 16. Qd5 exd5 17. Bxd5 Nd3+ 18. Kd1 Bxg4+ 0-1[/pgn]

[Ovyron]

blitz??

Blitz has lessons to teach when it comes to decision making. There's a thing called "decision paralysis", where people are overwhelmed with too many options, and they can't choose one, and they don't choose any, or they choose too late EVEN when choosing the worst option would have been better.

If a young kid has a winning position and they lose on the clock because they couldn't choose a move, learning about not being paralyzed in those situations can help them in decision making in their life.