Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:47:11 03/08/02
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On March 08, 2002 at 07:11:16, Uri Blass wrote:
>On March 08, 2002 at 05:49:34, Mike Hood wrote:
>
>>Quoted from: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=198
>>
>>Tim Krabbé, the renowned Keeper of Chess Records, tells us that the latest
>>castling came in Neshewat-Garrison, Detroit 1994, where Black played 48...0-0.
>>The latest queenside castling, 46...0-0-0, occurred in Mitenkov-Strukov, Geller
>>memorial USSR 1999. The greatest number of castlings in a single game, Tim tells
>>us, is three. It happened in the following jewel:
>>
>>Heidenfeld - Kerins, Dublin 1973: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Be3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5
>>6.c3 Nc6 7.Nf3 Qb6 8.Qd2 c4 9.Be2 Na5 10.0-0 f5 11.Ng5 Be7 12.g4 Bxg5 13.fxg5
>>Nf8 14.gxf5 exf5 15.Bf3 Be6 16.Qg2 0-0-0 17.Na3 Ng6 18.Qd2 f4 19.Bf2 Bh3 20.Rfb1
>>Bf5 21.Nc2 h6 22.gxh6 Rxh6 23.Nb4 Qe6 24.Qe2 Ne7 25.b3 Qg6+ 26.Kf1 Bxb1 27.bxc4
>>dxc4 28.Qb2 Bd3+ 29.Ke1 Be4 30.Qe2 Bxf3 31.Qxf3 Rxh2 32.d5 Qf5 33.0-0-0 Rh3
>>34.Qe2 Rxc3+ 35.Kb2 Rh3 36.d6 Nec6 37.Nxc6 Nxc6 38.e6 Qe5+ 39.Qxe5 Nxe5 40.d7+
>>Nxd7 0-1.
>>
>>(castling in moves 10, 16 and 33)
>There are 2 possibilities:
>1)This game was not chess because in chess 33.0-0-0 is illegal
>2)The game was chess but black knew that he can win the game even with illegal
>moves of the opponent so black decided not to tell the opponent that castling is
>illegal.
>
>It is easy to break the record of castling 3 times by defining another game with
>similiar rules to chess when the target is to be the first side to castle 10
>times when castling is allowed every time that it is allowed in a similiar
>position in chess when the pieces are in the same squares and other moves are
>legal when they are legal in chess.
I only know of two instances of irregularities in castling involving
grandmasters. One was some 15 years ago and if memory serves (I'm really not
sure) it was between Korchnoi and Sokolov. Sokolov hadn't castled and played
early in the game Rad8 and a few moves later, Ra8 again. Some 5-10 moves later
he castled! Neither player noticed this, even after the game, and it was only
noticed by someone when it was published in the Informant several months later.
The other case, was a game between Illescas and Kamsky. Illescas had sacrificed
on f7, Kamsky took, and then put the king back on e8. On move 25 or so, Kamsky
tried to castle queenside, but Illescas stopped him and Kamsky was forced to
play the king leading to an immediate loss, so he resigned.
Albert
>
>Uri
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