Nine passed pawns on move 59 Smyslov vs Botvinnik, 1941  (C77) Ruy Lopez, 60 moves, 0-1 8 passed pawns (one on each file) on move 51 Short vs Gelfand, 1991  (C67) Ruy Lopez, 61 moves, 1-0 4 Queens at move 58 N S W Alfred vs E N Cooke, 2001  (E04) Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3, 86 moves, 1/2-1/2 5 Queens Alekhine vs NN, 1915  (C12) French, McCutcheon, 29 moves, 1-0 No captures at all throughout the game! A Medina Garcia vs Gligoric, 1968  (C93) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense, 29 moves, 0-1 All eight pawns gone for white in only 28 moves! W R Ballard vs J Fagan, 1884   (000) Chess variants, 30 moves, 1-0 Flohr resigns but could easily win! (See Kibitz at the bottom) Flohr vs Grob, 1933  (D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 25 moves, 0-1 A game that G Marco could win in a few moves - and he resigned! Von Popiel vs G Marco, 1902  (C41) Philidor Defense, 36 moves, 1-0 An promotion on move seven - to a knight! Korody vs Bologh, 1933  (D08) Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit, 8 moves, 0-1 This game involves a promotion - to a BISHOP!? A Reshko vs O Kaminsky, 1972  (A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 71 moves, 1-0 White was 11 points down, going to lose, and.... forces a draw! Evans vs Reshevsky, 1963  (E55) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System, Bronstein Variation, 50 moves, 1/2-1/2 Black would have got 5 queens - and white forces a stalemate! J Congdon vs E Delmar, 1880  (C61) Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense, 44 moves, 1/2-1/2 Black was a queen down and got a draw! Yates vs Marshall, 1929  (D51) Queen's Gambit Declined, 62 moves, 1/2-1/2 Sneaky tactics to draw against Kasparov even when you're losing Kasparov vs N McDonald, 1986  (E94) King's Indian, Orthodox, 55 moves, 1/2-1/2 Kasparov resigned but he could have forced a draw. Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997  (C93) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense, 45 moves, 1-0 Forks galore in only 11 moves! F Perrin vs NN, 1883  (C11) French, 11 moves, 1-0 Oldest game in the database F de Castellvi vs N Vinyoles, 1475  (B01) Scandinavian, 21 moves, 1-0 Kasparov forced a draw when he was a queen and a bishop up! Kasparov vs K Georgiev, 1988  (A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 78 moves, 1/2-1/2 The black knight is en prise for 27 and a half moves (12 - 39) Miles vs Ljubojevic, 1986  (A04) Reti Opening, 60 moves, 1-0 The black queen is en prise for 4 and a half moves (18 - 22) Timman vs Ljubojevic, 1983  (B99) Sicilian, Najdorf, 7...Be7 Main line, 40 moves, 1-0 The shortest game in the database with zero moves Janosevic vs Geller, 1968  (A00) Uncommon Opening, 0 moves, 1/2-1/2 Three queen sacrifices from black Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922  (A90) Dutch, 53 moves, 0-1 Another promotion to a bishop - but not as spectacular V Malakhov vs E Shaposhnikov, 2001  (A17) English, 64 moves, 1-0 This game has the most number of knights at one time! (Move 49) Szabo vs Ivkov, 1964  (A57) Benko Gambit, 93 moves, 0-1 This is the longest game in the database with 269 moves! I Nikolic vs G Arsovic, 1989  (E95) King's Indian, Orthodox, 7...Nbd7, 8.Re1, 255 moves, 1/2-1/2 Four white pawns on the same file!! Alekhine vs V Nenarokov, 1907  (D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 43 moves, 0-1 And again... Van der Wiel vs Hort, 1981  (B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 40 moves, 1-0 No captures until move 29! Fischer vs Spassky, 1992  (C95) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer, 50 moves, 1-0 A mate on move 7 by an underpromotion to a knight Wiede vs A Goetz, 1880  (C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 7 moves, 0-1 Take her... See if I care.... E Z Adams vs Torre, 1920  (C41) Philidor Defense, 23 moves, 1-0 Exploiting symmetry Capablanca vs NN, 1918  (C50) Giuoco Piano, 14 moves, 1-0 Knight's tour (???) I Penko vs Jernej Novak, 2001  (A04) Reti Opening, 10 moves, 0-1 Lovely stalemate in 12 moves! J Hohmeister vs T Frank, 1993  (A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 12 moves, 1/2-1/2 Horsing around A Lehtinen vs T Simola, 1995  (B24) Sicilian, Closed, 41 moves, 1-0 17 pawn moves E Diemer vs T Heiling, 1984  (B07) Pirc, 45 moves, 1-0 An amazing inverted pawn pyramid after 50. ... d3 Polgar vs Bacrot, 1999  (C78) Ruy Lopez, 75 moves, 0-1 The great wall of pawns B Alterman vs Deep Fritz, 2000  (A03) Bird's Opening, 87 moves, 1-0 Quadruple rooks on the 8th rank M Szigeti vs Benko, 1945  (D44) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 38 moves, 0-1 A barrage of sacrifices Edwards vs NN, 1963  (C35) King's Gambit Accepted, Cunningham, 16 moves, 1-0 39 games