Chess and Art - The longest human mate O.T. Blathy 290 movess

[alinusD]

great vid.



[celebration81]

Ottó Bláthy invented the transformer in 1884

[geoos]

STUPID!

[mavaddat]

I often reach this position in my endgames, so it's a good one to remember.

[sharpnova2]

same here. usually when i move a bishop to the wrong color and my opponent doesn't notice.

[mavaddat]

@sharpnova2 Well of course. That is a necessary tactic to reach this easily won ending. Another important strategy is to give away all your h-pawns (all three of them) so that black gets tripled h-pawns. That is why I always bring extra h-pawns to any given match. I just keep stacking them up. Of course, this is a bit awkward when my opponent hasn't brought his own handful of extra g-pawns, but I rarely find such players anymore.

[sharpnova2]

well black's pawns could have been tripled (and doubled on c) by white's missing knights, rook, and queen

[crackerjack113]

8 pawns and 2 dark color bishops?

[WildChild80]

7 pawns, isn´t it?

[SAINTsoldi]

is dis a joke?

[soki242]

at 0:08

[soki242]

why u dont just move ur piece f5 to f6!

[klr543]

3 BISHOP

[NielsHPO]

The longest "correct" mate is a mate in 271, composed by Nenad Petrovic.

[JMRWS]

Thanks

I found it on chessbase

[NielsHPO]

Very nice, but the position is illigal, because of whites two black-squared bishops!

[JMRWS]

There are only 7 black pawns. So one can have promoted as a Bishop, no ?

[NielsHPO]

Yes, but White has 8 pawns. That is the problem

[KollingPwr]

White has 8 pawns, and two dark-squared bishops = illegal position.

[JMRWS]

Your are rigth. I was looking only black situation. I am going to write right now to O.T. Blathy

[NielsHPO]

Anyway i still enjoy it very much!

[Katu1337]

@KollingPwr In Fiscerandom aka Chess960 it's legal. So let's call it a Chess960 problem :)

[KollingPwr]

@Katu1337 Nope. In the official rules of Fischer Random, the bishops must be placed at opposite colors, and if you refer to some Fischer Random sub-variation it seems to become a bit nonsense for argumentation :)

[Katu1337]

@KollingPwr huh yeah you're right...

(I used to play Fischerandom but, as it turned out, not whit the official rules :)

[dfz12345]

He said WHITE's two dark-squared bishops. Not black's. And white has 8 pawns but two dark-squared bishops. So the position is indeed illegal...

[JMRWS]

Thanks

[ATravestyOfJustice]

@NielsHPO It's possible that white lost his light colored bishop and queened a pawn to become a black colored one

[NielsHPO]

@ATravestyOfJustice Yes, but he cannot queen, because he has 8 pawns

[bpa23]

@NielsHPO

Thats the point.

2 white bishops on black fields but 8 pawns is not possible.

[nos1lig]

chess dance????????

[aglablatte]

Musique idéalement choisie pour accompagner les allers-retours du fou noir. Il fallait vraiment la trouver!

[wolanub]

Irréel !

[ChristianDunoyer]

Un problème fantastique ! Très bonne idée !