02.17.1989 The Longest Chess Game

The longest chess game lasted over 200 moves. More precisely 269 moves. This took place on February 17th, 1989 (34 years ago) The game took 20+ hours to claim a draw. But there is a 50 Move Rule stating no captures or pawn moves for 50 moves preventing chess games going on forever. The endgame was a Rook and a Bishop against a Rook which is a theoretically hard ending.