oops, here it is with the replay option: http://en.lichess.org/N9MjmZWQ
and then he resigns......... what
it can be even longer if you really try hard.
chegm8 (#8): whaaaat.... I don't think I had ever seen that one!
I vaguely remember one where it doesn't end in a draw, it's symmetrical up until the last move where Black was going to get mated or something like that...
I vaguely remember one where it doesn't end in a draw, it's symmetrical up until the last move where Black was going to get mated or something like that...
@tisnjh Thank you, that's exactly it!
"Broken Mirror"...
priceless.
priceless.
Though not a perfect mirror, this 1918 game between Capablanca and the mysterious (also, possibly immortal) NN illustrates the advantage to White in these situations:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1242914
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1242914
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