Author: steven blincoe
Date: 16:56:15 11/16/03
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>While watching Kasparov-Fritz tonight, I recognized, that the first capture was >rather late in the game (at move 29). I wondered, how often such late first >captures happen. I wrote a little routine to search PGN files for late captures. A great web site for Chess Curiosities such as late captures,late castling.etc is the site maintained by the Dutchman Tim Krabbe a pretty good chess player in his day(2400 elo)Krabbe has written a wonderful book about these type of oddities "Chess Curiosities" the url dealing with late captures: http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm#Latest%20first%20capture according to Krabbe the latest capture is 71 moves and there is a game with no captures at all ..70 moves i dont think he considers internet games because the chances for a "cooked" game is to great Steve
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