111 consecutive games without losses break the historical record in chess

Magnus Carlsen, simultaneously the world's current chess champion, has broken the record, developing hic less than 111 straight-up matches in the classic form, writes Periscope.

This 29-year-old Carlsen hit this record after in the fourth round of the Netherlands' Wijk aan Zee tournament played fair against the great Dutch master Jorden van Foreest.

According to a statement by the International Chess Federation, the record with 110 matches without defeat from 2005 held Russian chess player Sergei Tiviakov.