What are the most moves you have ever played in an otb chess game?
In the modern tournament era, Tim Krabbé gives Nikolic-Arsovic, Belgrade 1989 at 269 moves and Fressinet-Kosteniuk, Villandry 2007 (rapid play) at 237 moves as records.
http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/records/records.htm
The long games that used to be quoted are:
Stepak-Maschian, Israeli Champ. Semi-finals 1980 – 193 moves, Pilnik-Czerniak, Mar del Plata, 1950-191 moves, Best-Bensinger, Munich 1934 – 181 moves, Franzen-Hauser, Trnava 1982-176 moves, Makogonov-Chekhover, Baku 1945-171 moves, Wolf-Duras, Karlsbad 1907-168 moves, Janowsky-Duras, San Sebastian 1911-161 moves and Lipschutz-Bird, New York 1889-159 moves
The Book of Chess Lists (1st ed) Andy Soltis (1984)
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With the long games you get numbers of moves but rarely the human drama.
Today’s ChessBase, under the title of 210-move drama in Kiev, gives the game Neverov-Bogdanovich played in the fifth round of the 2013 Ukrainian Championship in Kiev and says:
26.6.2013 - As we all know, chess can be heart-wrenching and cruel. In "one of the most depressing episodes ever in a GM game" (Malcolm Pein in The Telegraph) White defended the endgame of rook and knight vs rook and knight, a pawn down, for 124 moves. He then defended the ending of rook v rook and knight from move 172 to move 205. And then on move 206 he blundered. As we said: heart-wrenching.
http://www.chessbase.com/Home/TabId/...ev-260613.aspx
With one round to go in the Championship, Stanislav Bogdanovich shares 7-9th places and Valeriy Neverov languishes in 12th and last place.
In the modern tournament era, Tim Krabbé gives Nikolic-Arsovic, Belgrade 1989 at 269 moves and Fressinet-Kosteniuk, Villandry 2007 (rapid play) at 237 moves as records.
http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/records/records.htm
The long games that used to be quoted are:
Stepak-Maschian, Israeli Champ. Semi-finals 1980 – 193 moves, Pilnik-Czerniak, Mar del Plata, 1950-191 moves, Best-Bensinger, Munich 1934 – 181 moves, Franzen-Hauser, Trnava 1982-176 moves, Makogonov-Chekhover, Baku 1945-171 moves, Wolf-Duras, Karlsbad 1907-168 moves, Janowsky-Duras, San Sebastian 1911-161 moves and Lipschutz-Bird, New York 1889-159 moves
The Book of Chess Lists (1st ed) Andy Soltis (1984)
+++++++++++
With the long games you get numbers of moves but rarely the human drama.
Today’s ChessBase, under the title of 210-move drama in Kiev, gives the game Neverov-Bogdanovich played in the fifth round of the 2013 Ukrainian Championship in Kiev and says:
26.6.2013 - As we all know, chess can be heart-wrenching and cruel. In "one of the most depressing episodes ever in a GM game" (Malcolm Pein in The Telegraph) White defended the endgame of rook and knight vs rook and knight, a pawn down, for 124 moves. He then defended the ending of rook v rook and knight from move 172 to move 205. And then on move 206 he blundered. As we said: heart-wrenching.
http://www.chessbase.com/Home/TabId/...ev-260613.aspx
With one round to go in the Championship, Stanislav Bogdanovich shares 7-9th places and Valeriy Neverov languishes in 12th and last place.
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