How many moves were there in the longest official tournament game in history? Can you document it? 🙂
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How many moves were there in the longest official tournament game in history? Can you document it? 🙂
My game versus Jay Bonin, 98 moves 🙂 I lost 🙁
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The longest games ever are:
1ª) I. Nikolic – Arsovic, Beogrado 1989 (1/2 – 1/2, in 269 moves);
2ª) Chekhov – Stavrinov, Riga (ch) 1988 (1/2 – 1/2, in 209 moves);
3ª) Meier – Rausis, Latvian (ch) 1989 (1/2 – 1/2, in 200 moves);
4ª) Martinovsky – Jansa, Gausdal 1987 (1/2 – 1/2, in 194 moves);
5ª) Stepak – Mashian, Israel (ch) 1980 (1-0, in 193 moves);
6ª) Asfora – Calçado, Brasil 1991 (1-0, in 192 moves);
7ª) Pilnik – Czerniak, Mar del Plata 1950 (1/2 – 1/2, in 191 moves);
8ª) Seirawan – Xu Jun, Tesalónica (ol) 1988 (1/2 – 1/2, in 191 moves);
9ª) Murrey – Rausis, Memorial Philidor 1995 (1/2 – 1/2, in 190 moves);
10ª) Puc – Nedelkovic, Yugoslavia 1951 (1/2 – 1/2, in 185 moves).
Since the 90´s the 50 moves rule is working,sorry!
For this type of chess records, Tim Krabbé’s web pages are a good reference:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm
He gives
Nikolic-Arsovic, Belgrade 1989
as the longest game, with 269 moves. 102 moves were a pure endgame RB-R, ending in a draw.
The game can be viewed there, or also at Chessgames.com.
P.S. Sometimes, the big move number is a problem because it exeeds typical computer limits of 255 or 256. Chessgames.com lists the game with 255 in the overview, but if you replay it, all 269 moves are there.