Wednesday 28 March 2007

Tim Krabbé's Chess Curiosities

Tim Krabbé's Chess Curiosities website is one of the real gems on the net. Running since before there were blogs, the website contains a vast collection of the weird, fabulous, bizarre and downright silly in the world of chess.
And while most players use "The Complete Chess Addict" as the standard reference work in the area of chess trivia, it is worth noting that Tim Krabbé had written a number of books of this type prior to the release of TCCA, including Chess Curiosities, published in 1985.
The reason I'm highlighting the site today is a recent entry that Tim added to his section on chess records. The game between Vince Suttor and Zhigen Wilson Lin from the 2006-07 Australian Open Championship is listed under the heading of Longest unclaimed repetition. From move 32 to move 62 the position was repeated 15 consecutive times, with neither player claiming the draw. Black then broke the repetition with his 62nd move, although the game was eventually drawn on move 119.

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