Most Games Lost
Nicholas Menalaus MacLeod holds the record for the most games lost in a single tournament: he lost 31 games at the Sixth American Chess Congress at New York 1889, while winning six and drawing one (Chernev 1974, p. 50) (Fox & James 1993, pp. 168–69) (Winter 1996, p. 3). MacLeod was only 19 and the tournament, a 20-player double-round robin, was one of the longest tournaments in chess history. The most games lost by a player who lost all of his games in a tournament was by Colonel Moreau. A last-minute substitute for Mikhail Chigorin at Monte Carlo 1903, Moreau lost all 26 of his games (Fox & James 1993, p. 169) (Whyld 1986, p. 125).
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