Games with no captures

[Reg Clucas]

There was a thread a while ago about the longest game without any piece being captured, but I can't find it. Anyway, in today's final round of the Georgian women's championship, the game Arabidze-Gvetadze was drawn in 62 moves without any captures.

[Matt Mackenzie]

Decisive games with no captures are rarer, but they do exist.

(not including here Fool's Mate and similar kiddie tournament trifles)

[Michael Farthing]

Ah come on, Matt, this just isn't fair. Get us excited and then not deliver the goods? Come on, give us a game!

[MJMcCready]

I think Short & Nakamura came close in the London Chess Classic one year. Think it was a Lenningrad Dutch, and position seemed closed the whole game.

[JustinHorton]

You may be thinking of this, which is not a Leningrad nor a Dutch and had its first capture on move 30 out of 90

[John Upham]

The standard place to look would be :

https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/records/records.htm

[Leonard Barden]

This is/was the classic no capture game, won in a major international tournament by a world title candidate.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1264288

[Matt Mackenzie]

Even more unusually, no captures *or* checks with that one.

[MJMcCready]

You may be thinking of this, which is not a Leningrad nor a Dutch and had its first capture on move 30 out of 90

Yes JUstin that's what I was thinking of.