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Alik Gershon (born 3 June 1980 Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine) is an Israeli chess grandmaster. On 21 October 2010 he set the Guinness World Record for simultaneous games after playing 523 opponents in Tel Aviv. After 18 hours and 30 minutes he won 454 games (86%) lost 11 and drew 58. On 9 February 2011 his record was broken by Iranian chess player Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami He was the World Under-14 champion in 1994 and World Under-16 champion in 1996.