Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 17:26:21 11/16/03
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On November 16, 2003 at 19:56:15, steven blincoe wrote: >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" Thanks for reminding me of Tim Krabbe's site, which I browsed now and then earlier and found very enjoying. He shares another hobby with me - cycling. He also wrote (at least) one book about cycling. >the url dealing with late captures: > >http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm#Latest%20first%20capture >i dont think he considers internet games because the chances for a "cooked" game >is to great Out of curiosity and after looking at Krabbe's site again, and because it was very easy to program I just looked at the latest castling category. Not an internet games but an engine game: [Event "WB 09/2000 League D"] [Site "LYAPKO,Mukachevo,AMD K6-2/450"] [Date "2000.09.05"] [Round "10"] [White "Golem_01"] [Black "BabyChess_102"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "A40h"] [Variation "Englund Gambit"] [Annotator ""] [Source ""] [Remark ""] 1. d3 e5 2. d4 e4 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 c6 6. Be3 b6 7. Qd2 Bb7 8. c4 h6 9. f3 d5 10. cxd5 cxd5 11. O-O-O f5 12. h4 Nc6 13. fxe4 fxe4 14. g4 a5 15. a4 Qf6 16. g5 hxg5 17. hxg5 Qxf1 18. Rxh8 Qf8 19. c4 Qa3+ 20. Kb1 Qb3+ 21. Ka1 Qa3+ 22. Kb1 Qb3+ 23. Ka1 Qa3+ 24. Kb1 Qb3+ 25. Ka1 Qa3+ 26. Kb1 Qb3+ 27. Ka1 Qa3+ 28. Kb1 Qb3+ 29. Ka1 Qa3+ 30. Kb1 Qb3+ 31. Ka1 Qa3+ 32. Kb1 Qb3+ 33. Ka1 Qa3+ 34. Kb1 Qb3+ 35. Ka1 Qa3+ 36. Kb1 Qb3+ 37. Ka1 Qa3+ 38. Kb1 Qb3+ 39. Ka1 Qa3+ 40. Kb1 Qb3+ 41. Ka1 Qa3+ 42. Kb1 Qb3+ 43. Ka1 Qa3+ 44. Kb1 Qb3+ 45. Ka1 Qa3+ 46. Kb1 Qb3+ 47. Ka1 Qa3+ 48. Kb1 Qb3+ 49. Ka1 Qa3+ 50. Kb1 Qb3+ 51. Ka1 Qa3+ 52. Kb1 Qb3+ 53. Ka1 Qa3+ 54. Kb1 Qb3+ 55. Ka1 Qa3+ 56. Kb1 Qb3+ 57. Ka1 Qa3+ 58. Kb1 Qb3+ 59. Ka1 Qa3+ 60. Kb1 Qb3+ 61. Ka1 Qa3+ 62. Kb1 Qb3+ 63. Ka1 Qa3+ 64. Kb1 Qb3+ 65. Ka1 Qa3+ 66. Kb1 Qb3+ 67. Ka1 Qa3+ 68. Kb1 Qb3+ 69. Ka1 Qa3+ 70. Kb1 Qb3+ 71. Ka1 Qa3+ 72. Kb1 Qb3+ 73. Ka1 Qa3+ 74. Kb1 Qb3+ 75. Ka1 Qa3+ 76. Kb1 Qb3+ 77. Ka1 Qa3+ 78. Kb1 Qb3+ 79. Ka1 Qa3+ 80. Kb1 Qb3+ 81. Ka1 Qa3+ 82. Kb1 Qb3+ 83. Ka1 Qa3+ 84. Kb1 Qb3+ 85. Ka1 Qa3+ 86. Kb1 Qb3+ 87. Ka1 Qa3+ 88. Kb1 Qb3+ 89. Kc1 Qxc4+ 90. Qc2 Qxc2+ 91. Kxc2 O-O-O 92. Kc1 Nge7 93. Rxd8+ Kxd8 94. Rf1 Ke8 95. Nh3 Bc8 96. Nf4 Bd7 97. Rh1 Nb4 98. Rh8+ Kf7 99. Rb8 Bxa4 100. Rxb6 Nc2 101. Bg1 Nf5 102. g6+ Ke8 103. Re6+ Kd7 104. Re5 Ne7 105. Nxd5 Nxg6 106. Nb6+ Kc7 107. Nxa4 Nxe5 108. dxe5 Nb4 109. Bb6+ Kc6 110. Bxa5 Na6 111. Bd2 Nb8 112. e6 e3 113. Bxe3 Na6 114. e7 Kd7 115. Nc5+ Nxc5 116. Bxc5 g5 117. e4 Ke8 118. Kd2 g4 119. Ke3 Kd7 120. e5 Ke8 121. e6 g3 122. Kf3 g2 123. Kxg2 1/2-1/2 seems to beat the latest castling games mentioned by Krabbe by quite a bit - black castled at move 91. I have no doubt, that that game is not cooked. Unfortunately, I have no means, to search for "human-only" games in a bigger database. In the before mentioned 2600.pgn, the latest castling is at move 38: [Event "Corfu"] [Site "Corfu GRE"] [Date "1991.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Sokolov, Ivan"] [Black "Georgiev, Kiril D"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2615"] [BlackElo "2610"] [ECO "E92"] [PlyCount "114"] [EventDate "1991.??.??"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.Be3 c6 8.d5 Ng4 9. Bg5 f6 10.Bh4 Na6 11.Nd2 Nh6 12.a3 c5 13.Bd3 Qd7 14.f3 f5 15.Rb1 Bf6 16. Bf2 Qe7 17.b4 Nf7 18.Na4 Bh4 19.g3 Bg5 20.h4 Bh6 21.Qc2 b6 22.Nc3 Bd7 23. Nb5 Kh8 24.Rb3 Qf6 25.Qd1 Rfc8 26.Bc2 cxb4 27.axb4 Bxd2+ 28.Qxd2 Rxc4 29. Na3 Rcc8 30.Bd3 Nc7 31.Be2 Ne8 32.Ba6 Rc7 33.Nb5 Bxb5 34.Bxb5 Ng7 35.g4 Rac8 36.Bc6 Ne6 37.g5 Qe7 38.O-O Nf4 39.Be3 Nh5 40.exf5 gxf5 41.f4 Ng3 42. Rf3 Ne4 43.Qh2 Rf8 44.Qh3 Nd8 45.fxe5 Qxe5 46.Bc1 Nxc6 47.dxc6 Kg8 48.b5 a6 49.bxa6 Qd4+ 50.Kh1 Nf2+ 51.Rxf2 Qxf2 52.Qe3 Qxh4+ 53.Kg2 Qc4 54.Rc3 Qd5+ 55.Kh2 f4 56.Qe2 f3 57.Qf2 Qe5+ 0-1 Regards, Dieter
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