Chess history trivia

[MJMcCready]

I should have added the answer is restricted to titled players.

[John Moore]

Castellanos Rodriguez (IM) v the aforementioned Iturrizaga Bonelli (GM) Benasque Open 2013 which is 37 letters - or will the rules be changed again?

[NickFaulks]

I should have added the answer is restricted to titled players.

I have taken my ball and gone home.

[Ian Thompson]

Menvielle Laccourreye vs. Villavicencio Martinez is 43 letters.

If that doesn't count, Reinaldo Castineira vs. Villavicencio Martinez is 41 letters.

[Leonard Barden]

Praggnanandhaa_Rameshbabu v Abdusattorov_Nodirbek

44

Not only both titled, but both teenage GMs. And not only that, but (slightly truncated) both made it to the same Guardian headline....

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/ ... rld-record

[Matt Mackenzie]

Its possible that the Iranian lady player often mercifully abbreviated to Sara Khadem might feature here?

[Kevin Thurlow]

Manibharathi Periasamymanjula played in Surrey, and volunteered to be known as "Mani Peri".

[Ian Thompson]

Praggnanandhaa_Rameshbabu v Abdusattorov_Nodirbek

44

The rules said surnames only, so Nodirbek doesn't count. We need a ruling on whether patronymic names are allowed and what counts as a 'surname' for them if they are.

[John Moore]

Perhaps M J might give us his ruling. I should also like to know what his proposed answer is.

[John Upham]

Perhaps M J might give us his ruling. I should also like to know what his proposed answer is.

I suspect that the "correct" answer will be highly dependant on the answers provided.

[John Moore]

John, so do I.

[MJMcCready]

Perhaps M J might give us his ruling. I should also like to know what his proposed answer is.

Yes okay but I need to restate things, it was the surnames only of titled opposition that counts. The question itself comes from a teenage fascination of a game between Azmaiparashvili v Konstantinopolsky. Letter count =32. As I teen I used to think there can't be a recorded game between opponents with longer names than those two but of course I stand to be corrected as in some Asian countries, Sri Lanka in particular, names can be very long.

So I thought that counting the surnames only of these two titles players Azmaiparashvili v Konstantinopolsky can't be beaten. Am I wrong? As a teen I found Soviet chess to be exotic, partly because you encountered names of players that were almost unpronounceable.

[John Moore]

The trouble is Konstantinopolsky largely stopped playing OTB chess in 1955, turning to correspondence chess and training. Azmaiparashvili wasn't born until 1960. There is, perhaps not surprisingly, no record on Megabase of any game between the two.

[MJMcCready]

Oops, well than that's a faux pa or just false memory on my side. It was in Guinness: The chess records, which I lost in 1989 and haven't looked at since. So the question remains open then since I remembered wrongly.

[Leonard Barden]

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1444108
32. B-Z was a Soviet national master, though not a Fide IM. Perhaps this name was misremembed.