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Top 10 Consecutive Win Streaks in Professional Board Game Tournaments

This ranking covers the longest consecutive winning streaks by professional players in single tournaments or continuous formal matches across major board games like Go, Chess, and Xiangqi. These records reflect unparalleled dominance and peak performance in strategic games, serving as legendary benchmarks in the history of board games.

Current #1
Bobby Fischer

Interesting Facts & Summary

Winning streaks in board games are not just tests of intellect, but extremes of psychological endurance.

  • Go/Weiqi: Legends like Go Seigen and Lee Chang-ho demonstrated dominance that spanned years.
  • Chess: Bobby Fischer's 20-game winning streak in the Candidates matches remains one of the most incredible feats in sporting history.
  • Context: There is a clear distinction between single-tournament streaks (like Fischer's) and consecutive wins across formal match series (like Lee Sedol's), each representing a unique level of difficulty.
RankPlayerGameConsecutive WinsContext
Bobby Fischer
Chess201970-1971 Candidates matches and subsequent games
Lee Sedol
Go182010, record for peak period in professional Go
Go Seigen
Go16Dominance during the Showa era of Go
4
Magnus Carlsen
Chess152019-2020, classical chess winning streak
5
Lee Chang-ho
Go14The 'Stone Buddha' era in the late 1990s
6
Fabiano Caruana
Chess13During the 2014 Sinquefield Cup
7
Yuta Iyama
Go12Modern record in Japanese professional Go
8
Garry Kasparov
Chess11Consecutive wins during his time as world No.1
9
Cho Chikun
Go10Winning streak in the 1980s
10
Viswanathan Anand
Chess9Performance in multiple elite tournaments

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