Alik Gershon

Alik Gershon 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, lost 11 and drew 58. On 9 February 2011 his record was broken by Iranian chess grandmaster Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami.
He was the World Under-14 champion in 1994 and World Under-16 champion in 1996. In 2000 he won the Israeli Chess Championship.
In 2007, his book San Luis 2005 won the English Chess Federations Book of the Year award.