A Game That Outlasted the Day (5) (opens in new tab)

If a game could have been legally drawn dozens of moves earlier, why was it played on? Why were obvious draw claims never made, even when repetitions were plainly visible? Why did both players repeatedly adjourn a position whose theoretical outcome was already beyond doubt? Was it artificially extended to get it recognition by Guinness? Estonian chess expert and trainer Valery Golubenko tells us about the struggle to regulate very long theoretical endings.