What's the longest game so far on chess.com? Jeff18 and I just ground out a 109 move draw

yeah - you have the record :) we checked.

I saw the position towards the end. It would be interesting to check that on a table base to see if the two knights could defeat the pawn at any time in the game.

I've never used table-bases but would be curious to see if there's anything for White. I know the files involved can be huge. Does anyone have experience with them?

 

I entered that endgame confident I couldn't lose and almost certain I wasn't going to win, unless White made a bad mistake.

 

With two knights you can't checkmate a lone king unless the king 'helps'. There is a scenario where White blockades the pawn with his king and if the White knights trap the Black king in the corner, White can release the blockade on the pawn and then checkmate. However, in this game I don't see this arising as rather than retreat the Black king, the pawn can advance. Once White takes the pawn, there is only a checkmate if Black blunders.

 

Here's a recent GM game drawn in 122 moves; apparently both sides made mistakes, but I don't have an analysis.

 

 

I recently finished a game that went 52 moves. Is there a top 10 list or something like that of longest games on Chess.com? My personal record is 78 moves.

RichardHayden wrote:

I've never used table-bases but would be curious to see if there's anything for White. I know the files involved can be huge. Does anyone have experience with them?

 

I entered that endgame confident I couldn't lose and almost certain I wasn't going to win, unless White made a bad mistake.

 

With two knights you can't checkmate a lone king unless the king 'helps'. There is a scenario where White blockades the pawn with his king and if the White knights trap the Black king in the corner, White can release the blockade on the pawn and then checkmate. However, in this game I don't see this arising as rather than retreat the Black king, the pawn can advance. Once White takes the pawn, there is only a checkmate if Black blunders.

 

Here's a recent GM game drawn in 122 moves; apparently both sides made mistakes, but I don't have an analysis.

 

 

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Yeah with two knights versus lone king the defending side caanot lose.  In your game white has to blockade the pawn with a knight but unfortunately his king is infront instead - i think your pawn is too far advanced for white to win but it was momentarily interesting!

109 moves; holy cow.  the longest game I've ever played was about 70 moves.

I go over 50+ sometimes lol