Home » Archive

Articles Archive for 5 август 2009

In English »

The Longest Chess Game
[5 авг. 2009 | No Comment | ]

var pfHeaderTagline = ‘The Longest Chess Game’;
var pfdisableClickToDel = 0;
var pfHideImages = 0;
var pfImageDisplayStyle = ‘center’;
var pfDisablePDF = 0;
var pfDisableEmail = 0;
var pfDisablePrint = 0;
var pfCustomCSS = ”;
var pfBtVersion=’1′;
(function(){var js, pf;pf = document.createElement(‘script’);
pf.type = ‘text/javascript’;
if(‘https:’ == document.location.protocol)
{js=’https://pf-cdn.printfriendly.com/ssl/main.js’}
else
{js=’http://cdn.printfriendly.com/printfriendly.js’}
pf.src=js;document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)[0].appendChild(pf)})();

Figuring out the shortest possible chess game is easy: we’re all familiar with the Fool’s Mate, a checkmate by Black that comes after just two moves (1. f3 e5 2. g4 Qh4# being the basic idea). See also here. Much more interesting are questions about the longest chess games played.
If you’ve been playing tournament …