A Game That Outlasted the Day (6) (opens in new tab)

What do a teenage endgame played almost blindfolded (in every sense) in 1977 and a 239-move grandmaster game from the Czech Extraliga in 2016 have in common? In Part 6 of this series, Valery Golubenko combines personal memory, endgame tablebases, and hard logic to show how easily won positions can turn into marathon absurdities – and why some “record” games may owe their length not to difficulty, but to something far more human.