The longest Chess game theoretically possible is 5,949 moves.
Judit Polgar (1976- ), at the age of 9 in 1986, won the unrated section of the NY Open, winning 7 games and 1 game drawn. At 11 she was rated 2350 and earned an International Master title, younger than Fischer or Kasparov. At age 12 she was rated 2555 and was awarded the Woman Gm title. At 13 she was the FIDE's highest rated woman. Grandmaster at age 15 years, 4 months, and 27 days.
In the match between Britton and Crouch in 1984, the Black player did Check his opponent forty three consecutive times!
The record of moves without capture is of 100 moves during the Match between Thorton and M. Walker in 1992.
After each side has played three moves, the pieces could form any one of over nine million possible positions on the board.
The longest time recorded for a Chess player to make a move, goes to the International Grand Master Trois from Brazil with 2 hours and 20 minutes on the 7th move.
A boy gave General Rahl of the British Army a note from a spy that George Washington was about to cross the Delaware and attack. The general was so immersed in a Chess game that he put the note in his pocket unopened. There it was found when he was mortally wounded in the subsequent battle.
During World War II, some of the top Chess players were also code breakers. British masters Harry Golombek, Stuart Milner-Barry and H. O'D. Alexander were on the team which broke the Nazi Enigma code.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of Chess is 318,979,564,000.
As late as 1561, Castling was two moves. You had to play R-KB1 on one move and K-KN1 on the next move.
The word "Checkmate" in Chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the King is dead."
Blathy, Otto (1860-1939), credited for creating the longest Chess Problem, mate in 290 moves.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), wrote the first Chess article published in America: "The Morals of Chess."
Iran, the only country in the world that bans Chess. Ayatollah Khomeini banned the game because "it hurts memory and may cause brain damage." He also said Chess contributes to a war-mongering mentality.
The number of possibilities of a Knight's tour is over 122 million.
The longest Chess game is 269 moves (I. Nikolic - Arsovic, Belgrade 1989) which ended in a draw.
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Originally posted by leestaticWrong on the very first 'fact'.
The longest Chess game theoretically possible is 5,949 moves.
Judit Polgar (1976- ), at the age of 9 in 1986, won the unrated section of the NY Open, winning 7 games and 1 game drawn. At 11 she was rated 2350 and earned an International Master title, younger than Fischer or Kasparov. At age 12 she was rated 2555 and was awarded the Woman Gm title. At ...[text shortened]... draw.
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There is no limit to the length of a chess game as a draw by repetition or under the 50 move rule has to be claimed.
Also the longest series of checks is 74 (Rebickova - Voracova, Czech Republic 1995).
And the longest series of moves with no captures is 151 (Wegner - Johnsen).
I don't see any point in checking the rest as it's clear you didn't actually do any work other than copy pasting an unreliable source.
Originally posted by XanthosNZAnd your link?
Wrong on the very first 'fact'.
There is no limit to the length of a chess game as a draw by repetition or under the 50 move rule has to be claimed.
Also the longest series of checks is 74 (Rebickova - Voracova, Czech Republic 1995).
And the longest series of moves with no captures is 151 (Wegner - Johnsen).
I don't see any point in checking t ...[text shortened]... st as it's clear you didn't actually do any work other than copy pasting an unreliable source.
EDIT: found one myself and your right.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm
Fifty move rule:
The fifty move rule in chess states that a player can claim a draw if no capture has been made and no pawn has been moved in the last fifty consecutive moves. The relavent part of the official FIDE laws of chess is rule 9.3
The game is drawn, upon a correct claim by the player having the move, if:
a. he writes on his scoresheet, and declares to the arbiter his intention to make a move which shall result in the last 50 moves having been made by each player without the movement of any pawn and without the capture of any piece, or
b. the last 50 consecutive moves have been made by each player without the movement of any pawn and without the capture of any piece.
It should be noted that after fifty moves the game is not automatically a draw--the draw must be claimed by the player on move. It is, therefore, possible for a game to continue beyond a point when a draw could be claimed under the rule.
The rule has a long history, with Ruy Lopez' 1561 text on chess including details of it. In the 20th century, with the discovery that certain endgames (such as two bishops and king against knight and king) can only be won in more than fifty moves from certain positions, the rule was changed to include certain exceptions in which one hundred moves were allowed with particular material imbalances. All these exceptions were later scrapped and all material combinations are now subject to the fifty move rule.
--From Wikipedia
Originally posted by XanthosNZJeez, tough audience.
Wrong on the very first 'fact'.
There is no limit to the length of a chess game as a draw by repetition or under the 50 move rule has to be claimed.
Also the longest series of checks is 74 (Rebickova - Voracova, Czech Republic 1995).
And the longest series of moves with no captures is 151 (Wegner - Johnsen).
I don't see any point in checking t ...[text shortened]... st as it's clear you didn't actually do any work other than copy pasting an unreliable source.
Originally posted by leestaticThe Fireside Book of Chess (copyright 1949, by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld, c. renewed 1976) has a section called "Odd, But True", with about 120 trivia items (there could certianly be some legend mixed in with their facts), but item # 50 reads:
....Blathy, Otto (1860-1939), credited for creating the longest Chess Problem, mate in 290 moves....
"Even the most confirmed problem solver would think twice before tackling this problem, which J.N. Babson composed for 'Brentano's Chess Monthly' in 1882:
These were his terms: Mate on the 1,220th move, after compelling Black to make three successive and complete Knight's tours!"
Unfortunately, the Fireside book did not list the solution, or even the final position.
Originally posted by TheBloopGood puzzles should require the reader to find the shortest route to mate.
The Fireside Book of Chess (copyright 1949, by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld, c. renewed 1976) has a section called "Odd, But True", with about 120 trivia items (there could certianly be some legend mixed in with their facts), but item # 50 reads:
"Even the most confirmed problem solver would think twice before tackling this problem, which J.N. Bab ...[text shortened]... !"
Unfortunately, the Fireside book did not list the solution, or even the final position.
This one is cooked thanks to 1. Rf8#.
Originally posted by XanthosNZTo be fair, on his second "fact", he made no such claim that 43 consecutive checks was the record.
Wrong on the very first 'fact'.
There is no limit to the length of a chess game as a draw by repetition or under the 50 move rule has to be claimed.
Also the longest series of checks is 74 (Rebickova - Voracova, Czech Republic 1995).
And the longest series of moves with no captures is 151 (Wegner - Johnsen).
I don't see any point in checking t ...[text shortened]... st as it's clear you didn't actually do any work other than copy pasting an unreliable source.