| Jan-15-07 | | Akuni: Wow, an entire game without any captures |
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May-26-07
 | | MrMelad: Say no to violence! :)
This is actualy the longest decisive game without captures acording to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_...
Missing games in chessgames.com from the article:
Robert Hübner - Kenneth Rogoff -
... agreed to make a draw after one move was played (1. c4) - this was actually beneficial to the whole team ... the arbiters insisted that they play some moves, so they made up a score sheet with ludicrous moves (according to the tournament book the game went 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Ng1 Bg7 4. Qa4 0-0 5. Qxd7 Qxd7 6. g4 Qxd2+ 7. Kxd2 Nxg4 8. b4 a5 9. a4 Bxa1 10. Bb2 Nc6 11. Bh8 Bg7 12. h4 axb4 draw agreed). The referees didn't accept that either — and as Hübner still resisted making a move, it was counted as a win for Rogoff Filipowicz - Smederevac, Polanica Zdroj 1966, lasted 70 moves without a single capture. The game ended as a draw. |
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| Jun-24-07 | | Jake Robertson: Thats the funniest game I have ever seen. I think they may have done it as a publicity stunt |
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| Nov-19-07 | | Whitehat1963: INCREDIBLE?? Or is it merely a composition? |
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| Feb-08-08 | | D.Observer: Just to make the record of the longest decisive game without captures, black rather chose to resign than to continue with 31. ...  f7 32. xf7#. |
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| Jun-14-08 | | Trigonometrist: The last move contradicts the soft and quiet moves of the game.. Startling.. |
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Jun-15-08
 | | hedgeh0g: <D.Observer> ...d5 prolongs the mate by another move. |
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| Dec-29-08 | | Sem: It seems a case of 'No prisoners taken'. |
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| Feb-23-09 | | WhiteRook48: No pieces taken for the entire game! |
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| Apr-18-09 | | DoubleCheck: White has a practical won game after his 11th move
11. Rad1
Whites pieces are far superior in communication in attack and claiming the centre rather than blacks pieces, who is very passive and has a defensive setup. |
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| Apr-18-09 | | chessman95: Very interesting game. I've never seen a game go so long without any captures and not be drawn. <White has a practical won game after his 11th move 11. Rad1>
I don't entirely agree. In that position:
click for larger viewwhite has used a very classical development while black has gone all-out hypermodern. Of course black's position is slightly passive, but it is also solid. I think the main mistake that black made to lose this game was refusing to open it up with some exchanges, especially in the center where the game could've changed drastically. I'm guessing that black was for some reason trying to get a draw here, and so refused any exchanges. In the final position
click for larger viewthe winning sequence for white (30.Bg6+! and then 31.Qa2+ winning the queen) is simply the result of a cramped position. It is so locked up that black's only chance to win would have been to trade pawns in the center a few moves before, but white would have won eventually assuming he did not make any blunders. |
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Jul-25-09
 | | Kinghunt: 29...Nc6 was the fatal mistake, although white had a very strong and likely winning position before that too. 29...Rg8 and 29...exd4 would have both held on for much longer. Whether this is a composition or actually played doesn't matter. This is a fun game to play through. |
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| Sep-06-09 | | WhiteRook48: peace treaty |
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Sep-08-10
 | | FSR: <DoubleCheck> Certainly the classical writers like Fine and Reinfeld would agree that White has a won game, but modern praxis doesn't support this. See, e.g., Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (1/2, 49), Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (1/2, 39), and Kavalek vs Suttles, 1974 (0-1, 42). Black used a similar "Hippopotamus" setup in each of these games, except that in the last of them his knight was on f6. |
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Sep-08-10
| | FSR: <DoubleCheck> GM Tiger Hillarp Persson's games as Black with the Robatsch also illustrate Black's possibilities: http://tinyurl.com/2emhyh5 |
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| Nov-21-10 | | Tigranny: I've never seen a none-capturing game. |
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Dec-25-11
| | FSR: This is the longest known decisive game with no captures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o... |
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| Dec-25-11 | | Penguincw: With all 32 pieces still on the board, there will be about 31 after black's next move (not counting resiging). |
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