chess story #2

the longest chess game ever was over 2 and half years

how many moves a day dut to thats long

No way was that the longest. I have heard of games played one move each Christmas.

Perhaps everyone who played those one move each Christmas games resigned after just one move..?

lol fail

I found this on chessbase.com - an 8 year move, and a complete 16 year game:

from page 215 of CHESS, 17 May 1957:

‘H. Jarvis, Croydon, played postal chess from 1931 (when he went on holiday to Germany) onwards, with Eberhardt Wilhelm, secretary of the international correspondence chess organization. When the war started, it was Mr Jarvis to move. Naturally the game was abruptly interrupted, and after the war ended it was two years before normal postal services were resumed. Wilhelm thereupon wrote and pointed out that it had been Mr Jarvis’ move for eight years and said that if he did not reply by return he would claim the game. Mr Jarvis had the move ready; he despatched a move at once and the games were duly concluded. So the one move took eight years. “Is this a record” asks Mr Jarvis “for the longest time ever taken to play a chess move?”’

The same C.N. item also gave a game which took about 16 years and was widely published in the mid-1870s: