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Subject: Re: Some chess trivia - slightly off topic

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:35:47 11/17/03

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On November 17, 2003 at 02:06:44, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:

>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


Yes this is the rule but if the sides do not know the rule and nobody watch the
game to tell them that the king moved then practically we can have
3 castling in a game.

Another option is that the side have memory problems and simply do not remember
that the king already moved and castled only to go back to its original square.

Uri



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