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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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Dec-28-15
 | | Phony Benoni: One of those games you're glad Black didn't play it out to mate. |
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Dec-28-15
| | Penguincw: Hmm. Looks like I was here about 4 years, and made some pointless, bs comment. And also made a typo. Ah, some things never change... |
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| Dec-28-15 | | ajile: lol
So much for Black's cute hedgehog idea. |
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| Dec-28-15 | | kevin86: The black squares were secure...too bad black could not guard the white squares at all. The queen and bishop mate. |
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Dec-28-15
 | | scutigera: No captures, maybe, but Black appears to have sacrificed his KB by turning it into a taller, pointier pawn; his kingside after 22 ..g5 is a better illustration of leucopenia than any of Kmoch's own examples, which Black then worsens with 29 ..Nc6. He spent most of the intervening moves crippling his QB. He gave up so many things other than material, that the wonder is that he survived to move 31. |
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| Dec-28-15 | | indomega: No captures?!?!?!?!?!
Qf7 Qxf7 mate
1 CAPTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(and mate) |
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| Jun-30-17 | | Lossmaster: Mate would of course have needed a capture on White's next move. For the purists, here are games that were actually played capturelessly through to checkmate: Game Collection: Captureless games played through to checkmate. |
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Feb-05-19
 | | Korora: The author of Chess Openings for Dummies clearly hadn't heard of this game, having listed A Medina Garcia vs Gligoric, 1968 as "probably the longest" bloodless chess game. I do not know the records for longest bloodless games in Xiangqi, Sittuyin, Makruk, Shogi, etc. |
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Feb-05-19
 | | saffuna: Would 30. Qa2 have mated as well? |
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| Feb-05-19 | | Granny O Doul: <Whether this is a composition or actually played doesn't matter. This is a fun game to play through.> If it is a composition, that destroys any interest the game might have had, which was already quite minimal considering Black's crass blunder at move 30. |
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| Mar-28-20 | | posoo: oh man. i just came here from wikipedia, which said dat DIS was da longest game without capture. I thot - WOW - dat sounds INTERETSTING even if it is a cumposition! Must be two big minds going at it! Looks like Granney Odol thinks dat sum moves are CRASS and others, tho OBVIOUSLY WRONG under analisis, are not so CRASS. Da old posoo may be crass, but i like to think of chusgums as a welcoming site. We are ALL crass when it coms to da hopelessness of our mooves. In LIFE as in CHESS. |
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