… that the longest possible chess games is nearly 6,000 moves? (5,949 to be exact)
… that in 1985, Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Champion ever at only 22 years 210 days?
… that the word “Checkmate”comes from the Persian words “Shah Mat”? It means “the King is dead.”
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
.. that the longest possible chess games is nearly 6,000 moves? (5,949 to be exact)
I wonder if that is a win for either white or black or a draw?
A draw using some traditional move limit rules.
Did you know that the USCF has a bunch of racists on the executive board?
Ruslan Ponomariov has become the youngest world champion at 18 in 2002!… Wow!
Ponomariov is the youngest Ilyumzhinov insane FIDE knockout championship (which is now called the world cup), not the traditional world championship. Let’s not compare the German Bobsled team with the Jamaican Bobsled team 🙂 Nice try though.
#1. The longest possible game is 5,949 moves – IF AND ONLY IF a draw by the fifty-move rule is claimed at the first opportunity.
#3. “Checkmate” does NOT mean “the king is dead”. It means “the king is helpless”, or “defeated”, etc.
Ponomariov is the youngest Chess Champion EVER !!!
Goodbye Kasparov 😉
PONOMARIOV is a OFFICIAL FIDE CHAMPION! So… the rest is history…
And Khalifman is the greatest world champion ever. You make me laugh with all these knockout champions.
PONOMARIOV wrote history !
Ponomariov is still the youngest Chess Champion at 18 !!!
Kasparov became world champion only at 22 !
Sorry,for Kasparov’s fans 😉
Actually, checkmate means
“Ha ha! I beat you, you loser!”.
At least, that is what it seemed like when I was learning the game as a child.
The longest game I ever played was a 193 move game, but that was because my opponent refused to accept that K + R vs K + R was a draw.
Let’s see, how do we get to 5,949 moves? The players start out just bouncing their knights around. One is captured at move 50, then move 100, 150, 200. Then they start moving pawns. There are sixteen pawns, each of which can move six times. 6 x 16 x 50 = 4,800. Then you take 50 moves each to capture the sixteen promoted pawns, the four rooks, the four bishops, and the two queens. 26 x 50 = 1,300. Make sure to save a rook or a queen for last, so the game can’t be declared a draw because there’s no mating material. Adding the numbers together, we get 200 + 4,800 + 1,300 = 6,300. So I don’t know how someone came up with 5,949.
@Frederick Rhine
i think you missed the 4371st move where the white Bishop is forced to take the black knight.
please try again.
My blog post on the subject of the longest possible game is at http://chicagochess.blogspot.com/2011/04/longest-game.html