Does anyone know of any games were there were no captures made before
victory was achieved?

I'm not talking 2 or 3 move mates either, but games that made it past
the opening.

"Silent Dragon" wrote in message
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Does anyone know of any games were there were no captures made before
victory was achieved?

I'm not talking 2 or 3 move mates either, but games that made it past
the opening.

The place to go to check out questions of this sort is Tim Krabbé's Chess
Curiosities page, http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/chess.html, follow the
link to "Records."

Here is the game he gives as the record-setter:
Nuber - Keckeisen, Mengen 1994
1.e4 b6 2.d4 e6 3.Bd3 Bb7 4.Nf3 g6 5.O-O Bg7 6.Nbd2 Ne7 7.Re1 O-O 8.Nf1 d6
9.Qe2 Nd7 10.Bg5 Qe8 11.Rad1 a5 12.c3 Rc8 13.Ng3 Kh8 14.Qd2 Ng8 15.h3 e5
16.Bc2 h6 17.Be3 Rd8 18.Nh2 Kh7 19.f4 f6 20.Qf2 Ne7 21.Rd2 Rh8 22.f5 g5
23.Bd1 Rb8 24.Bh5 Qf8 25.Ng4 Ba6 26.Red1 b5 27.b4 a4 28.a3 Bb7 29.Rd3 Nc6
30.Bg6+ Kg8 31.Qa2+ and Black resigned.

Bob