My longest ever OTB tournament game (5 hours, 111 moves)

I played this OTB tournament game today and man, it was exhausting. The game took almost 5 hours. We started at 7:30pm and finished after midnight. Towards the end, the entire tournament hall was empty except me, my opponent and the arbiter, because everyone else had finished and gone home.

And after a grueling 111 move game... We finally agree to a draw. So here it is (I'm black):

This game was FIDE rated btw. We each started the clock with 90 minutes + a 30 second increment per move. And towards the end, we were both surviving off our 30 second increments.

It was fun and I'm happy with the result. But I'm hoping round 2 isn't this intense lol.

Thank you. And sure: http://www.chesschat.org/showthread.php?18282-2021-MCC-Australia-Day-Weekender-(22-24-amp-26-Jan)

It is really frustrating when your up pawns and winning if your opponent and you had no queens, the engine says before during some times of the standoff Black was 2+ etc but its harder to convert for us humans. 

A very interesting post! Yet, unfortunately, there aren't so many comments here compared to those trashy ones...

The link I gave you lists all the tournament pairings and all the results so far.

We've just finished round 3 and I've had a good run so far: beat a 1700 and got 2 draws against 1800s. No losses yet.

As for the endgame: you can't trust the Chess.com engine. You need to use a tablebase for this. I looked it up on the tablebase and the endgame is a dead draw.

I did have a chance to win the endgame back when we both had 2 sets of Queens, but after we converted into the Q vs Q+P endgame, it became a drawn position.

Thank you! Yeah I thought it was a pretty interesting complex game. Especially the part where we both had 2 queens.

What do you mean? Scroll down and you'll see it. All the round pairings and results are in that thread.

You might need to refresh the page. It's constantly being updated.

A game that long is rare in the current time control structure.

With the advent of sudden death time controls you no longer have long sessions like the pre-sudden-death US Open tournaments (50/150, 20/60) where rounds started at 7 PM, midnight was the first available adjournment time for games between non-locals (resume at 10 AM), 2 AM was the first available adjournment time for games that had a local that worked during the day, and 100 move games could go past nine hours.

Dear Mr. Jetoba,

perhaps you should less complicate when playing the chess. Remember : you play it for fun, not for the winning. 

With all the respect to the master I suppose you are, from Slovenia.

(Maybe we could have dealed for a round or two someday, I you would like.)

(I hope my English is grammaticaly correct. You should excuse me, I am not a native speaker. However, I have been learning this language for fourteen years actively, since the very beggining of the primary school)

With all the respect,

Jure Januš

Dear Mr. O'Donoghue,

be please more concrete : would you agree to play a round tomorrow at seven p.m.? Otherwise, suggest another termine, but please not among 9. a.m. at 10:30 a.m. - I have an exam at that very interval (I am the first - year student, I study history and philosophy, by - the - way. And you? Are you a student or you already have an occupation?).

Kind regards,

(Jure)

WoW crazy game

There's a difference between engine analysis and tablebase analysis. Endgame tablebases say it's a draw. Black can't escape White's queen's checks as far as I can see, so that's probably why it's a draw.