On Mar 26, 4:57*pm, (SAT W-7) wrote:
* *Has there ever been a chess game that has * * *had the exact same
moves ever been recorded ?

* Understand that question ?

Lets say two players play a 47 move game or 50 move or 36 move game ,
has that game ever been played by two other people ?

In all the recorded games that you have in a computer data basse has
there ever been two games with the same moves for the whole game?

Many instances of duplicate games are known, and many other unknown
duplicates have surely occurred. One known instance is described he

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/i...of_world_chess

Scan down to CN #5466, which describes a 1939 game duplicating one
from 1860. I have read of others, but unfortunately can't recall
specifics offhand.
The example Winter gives is a 17-move game. Naturally, the chance of
duplication lessens with the length of the game. Duplicates of 50
moves would be highly improbable.

Thanks for that info , 48 games and 4 games of the same game and they
were short games.
Just think of all the millions of games played that is why i do not
thin chess will ever be solved..

"David Richerby" wrote in message
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SAT W-7 wrote:
Has there ever been a chess game that has had the exact same moves
ever been recorded ?

Yes, plenty of them. All the ones I'm aware of have been `grandmaster
draws' of under twenty moves. A while ago (probably a few years,
now), I posted some examples from Karpov's play in the Ruy Lopez but I
can't find them with Google and I don't have my copy of Fritz to hand.


At the scholastic level, there are many duplicate decisive games.
I've only been involved in scholastics a short time and have seen
1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 d6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Qxf7++ twice. I'd guess that
the short games with mates on f7 or f2 have occurred hundreds
and hundreds of times.