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Games with no captures
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:56 pm
by Reg Clucas
There was a thread a while ago about the longest game without any piece being captured, but I can't find it. Anyway, in today's final round of the Georgian women's championship, the game Arabidze-Gvetadze was drawn in 62 moves without any captures.
Re: Games with no captures
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 8:06 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
Decisive games with no captures are rarer, but they do exist.
(not including here Fool's Mate and similar kiddie tournament trifles)
Re: Games with no captures
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 10:27 pm
by Michael Farthing
Ah come on, Matt, this just isn't fair. Get us excited and then not deliver the goods? Come on, give us a game!
Re: Games with no captures
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 10:49 am
by MJMcCready
I think Short & Nakamura came close in the London Chess Classic one year. Think it was a Lenningrad Dutch, and position seemed closed the whole game.
Re: Games with no captures
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:18 am
by JustinHorton
You may be thinking of
this, which is not a Leningrad nor a Dutch and had its first capture on move 30 out of 90
Re: Games with no captures
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:38 am
by John Upham
Re: Games with no captures
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:10 pm
by Leonard Barden
This is/was the classic no capture game, won in a major international tournament by a world title candidate.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1264288
Re: Games with no captures
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:28 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
Even more unusually, no captures *or* checks with that one.
Re: Games with no captures
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:32 pm
by MJMcCready
JustinHorton wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:18 am
You may be thinking of
this, which is not a Leningrad nor a Dutch and had its first capture on move 30 out of 90
Yes JUstin that's what I was thinking of.