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Bobby Fischer at the 1963-64 U.S. Chess Championship.Fischer went a perfect 11-0 at the U.S. Championship championship. It never happened before, hasn’t happened since and probably won’t ever happen again. In fact, a perfect score had not happened at ANY major chess tournament in more than 40 years, and has only happened once since. See, chess isn’t like that. The best players in the world draw all the time. A draw is a natural state of things when two great players go at it. To give you an example, in the famous Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship match of 1972 — which Fischer won — they played 21 matches, and drew 11 of them.Fischer going a perfect 11-0 might be something like a soccer team going through a World Cup without a single loss or draw. In the chess community, at least as I understand it, Fischer’s perfect score is viewed as the pinnacle of his genius. It was later that he turned into a madman.

Agree his ELO rating at that time was close to 2800
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usain bolt, men's 100 meters at the 2008 beijing olympics. gold medal and world record time (then) at 9.68 seconds which he since beat by 1/10 of a second a year later. the best part is, he slowed down near the last 10 meters or so. plus, hindi pa naka-sintas yung isa nyang sapatos. who knows what the time would have been. he's cocky as all hell but sure is fun to watch a 6'5" man run that fast.

 

also, michael phelps for all those medals he won which will be hard to replicate.

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