stalemate in 11

im sorry this is not a puzzle, instead im looking for a certain game where 2 players managed to get a stalemate in 11 moves in a tournament game (of course they worked together on that). anyone knows the notation of that game or the names of the players or so?

Originally posted by crazyblue
im sorry this is not a puzzle, instead im looking for a certain game where 2 players managed to get a stalemate in 11 moves in a tournament game (of course they worked together on that). anyone knows the notation of that game or the names of the players or so?

The amazing thing about that second game is that there are no captures. In just 12 moves, Loyd managed to immobilize all 16 white pieces without removing any. In the book where I first saw this, the author remarks that Loyd's stalemates are reminiscent of an old joke: an enormous fish is mounted on the wall with the caption "The man who caught this fish is a liar."

(These are definitely not tournament games, so it's possible crazyblue is thinking of something else.)

both very nice games hehe
i think the first one is the game i was thinking of. maybe those guys played loyd's game and it wasnt mentioned in the article i once read.

Aha! I think this is what you're looking for:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1281617

It's clearly a variation of Loyd's stalemate (about which you'll find more information in the comments to this game). The players must have wanted to draw, and figured they might as well do it in an interesting way.

The players and tournament are obscure enough that I can't turn up anything more about them. But I did find the game mentioned on this list of unusual chess games:

http://www.listology.com/content_print.cfm/l_content_ids.13614

Here is another stalemate game with all of Black's pieces on the board. The position is reached after White's 17th move. In this one, there is only one possible game score!