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Subject: Re: Some chess trivia - slightly off topic

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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