This record game
between Nikolic - Arsovic
(Belgrade 1989), with 269 moves, will
hardly be beaten
as
long as the 50-move rule
is in effect. The "Longest
Game" is
probably the most publicized record in Chess
history. Pilnik - Czerniak
were
in the 'Guiness Book of Records' for many years. Now, it is about
to drop out of the top-10, mainly because the 50-move rule has for
some time (until 1992) been a 100-move rule, permitting determined
players to go on twice as long as before with endings like the
dreaded Rook+Bishop
versus Rook.
--Tim Krabbé |
