Cooke–'R_g', Cape Town Chess Club handicap tournament 1908 (remove Black's f-pawn) 1.e4 g5? 2.Qh5#. In a tournament game at odds of pawn and move, White delivered checkmate on move 2: W. Glebov, Ukrainian under-8 championship, Yevpatoria 2007 (1.f4 e6 2.g4? Qh4#). Bill Wall lists, in addition to Darling–Wood, three other games that ended with Black checkmating on the second move. Wood, 1983, that was published on April Fool's Day in Northwest Chess magazine (1.g4 e6 2.f4? Qh4#). This has been known to occur in amateur play. The fewest moves required to deliver checkmate in chess is two, in what is known as the fool's mate (1.g4 e5 2.f3 ? Qh4 # and variants thereof). The game lasted for 8 hours, 15 minutes and 40 seconds. The longest game played in a world championship is the 6th game of the 2021 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi, which Carlsen won in 136 moves by resignation. Fressinet, apparently wanting to be consistent, did not try to claim a draw against Kosteniuk in the same situation. Earlier in the tournament, Korchnoi had successfully invoked the rule to claim a draw against Fressinet the arbiters overruled Fressinet's argument that Korchnoi could not do so without keeping score. Fressinet could have claimed a draw under the fifty-move rule, but did not do so since neither player was keeping count, it being a rapid chess game. The last 116 moves were a rook and bishop versus rook ending, as in Nikolić – Arsović. The second-longest decisive tournament game is Fressinet– Kosteniuk, Villandry 2007, which Kosteniuk won in 237 moves. Although he managed to do so, his team (TŽ Třinec) was relegated from the highest league in the end. In the 9th round of THT Extraliga (highest Czech team league), Danin needed to win his game to make the match end in a 4:4 draw. The longest decisive tournament game is Danin– Azarov, Turnov 2016, which Danin won in 239 moves.

FIDE has since rescinded that modification to the rule. At the time this game was played, FIDE had modified the fifty-move rule to allow 100 moves to be played without a piece being captured in a rook and bishop versus rook endgame, the situation in Nikolić versus Arsović. The longest tournament chess game (in terms of moves) ever to be played was Nikolić–Arsović, Belgrade 1989, which lasted for 269 moves and took 20 hours and 15 minutes to complete a drawn game.

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