Author: Mridul Muralidharan
Date: 23:06:44 11/16/03
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On November 16, 2003 at 19:56:15, steven blincoe wrote: > >>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 http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm#greatest number of castlings There are 3 castling happening in this game ! I was under the impression that once king maves , you cant castle again ... am I correct ? or is this game pre-dating this rule ? a confused Mridul
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