the oldest chess game recorded

I suppose it would depend on the point at which the game became "chess" as opposed to a precursor game. A related question might be when was the game first called "chess?"

A search of Chessbase Mega Database would give one answer. According to their description of the database, this would be the first game played and published ("recorded"). That game was played in 1560.

For some reason or other I'm not that impressed with Chessbase's authority here. Their specialty is chess software, not chess history. Also "the first game played and PUBLISHED" is hardly the equivalent of the first RECORDED game.

Maybe the game here is the winner, but what I'm leery of is how many chess "authorities" just blindly quote someone else until

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.  Lenin  Russian Communist politician & revolutionary (1870 - 1924) 

For some reason or other I'm not that impressed with Chessbase's authority here. Their specialty is chess software, not chess history. Also "the first game played and PUBLISHED" is hardly the equivalent of the first RECORDED game.

Maybe the game here is the winner, but what I'm leery of is how many chess "authorities" just blindly quote someone else until

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.  Lenin  Russian Communist politician & revolutionary (1870 - 1924) 

al-Suli created a shatranj problem called "al-Suli's Diamond" that went unsolved for over a thousand years.[1] As this is a shatranj, the "queen" (counsellor) is a very weak piece, able to move only a single square diagonally. It is also possible to win in shatranj by capturing all pieces except the king.

David Hooper and Ken Whyld studied this problem in the mid-1980s but were unable to crack it. It was finally solved by Russian Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh.[2][3] The solution given is 1. Kb4 in Hans Ree's "The Human Comedy of Chess".

Thanks, Ayoubi-W.

As-Suli was a remarkable man. Donner admired him because of his tall stories about his travels and the opponents he had beaten, "a falsifier and a plagiarizer, in short — the first chess journalist."

excuse me, but I didn't understand the solution of this puzzle ?? 

could you please explain it for me :)

I really don't get it either ,and it seems not many do.I just included it for interest sake .Al-Suli was a genius it seems.

Nice of you to share this game OP. The old chess pieces are quite interesting, with different names and moves from the current. I wonder, what did they call the game then?

Im gonna look through that game when I have time. I love the idea that centuries ago two people where thinking about the moves and made them.

al-Suli created a shatranj problem called "al-Suli's Diamond" that went unsolved for over a thousand years.[1] As this is a shatranj, the "queen" (counsellor) is a very weak piece, able to move only a single square diagonally. It is also possible to win in shatranj by capturing all pieces except the king.

David Hooper and Ken Whyld studied this problem in the mid-1980s but were unable to crack it. It was finally solved by Russian Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh.[2][3] The solution given is 1. Kb4 in Hans Ree's "The Human Comedy of Chess".

The oldest chess game of all time occured in what was then loosely translated as fakeistan c.2700 bc. This quasi/apocryphal country was situated within what is now Macedonia. The famous 'Watergate' stone excavated by archaeologist Ivor Watergate 111 in 1946. It shows the outline of a chess board 7 inches (approx.) by 6 ie. 42 squares. The people of Fakeistan - it has been suggested -  advocated polygamy as each player had three queens. The moves were recorded by a bastardisation of near eastern and Icelandic runes. The result of the game will never be known as the tablet was lost due to a shipwreck on route back to Watergate's private museum in Hiksville Missouri (U.S.A) before any attempt was made to decifer by the C.I.A.

not a draw because according to the rules the first KxCounsellor wins. Black doesn't have the chance to KxC because when white did the game ended immediately.