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Subject: Re: WC losing in 25 moves ... database question

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 05:19:03 10/25/00

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On October 25, 2000 at 07:51:45, Laurence Chen wrote:

>On October 25, 2000 at 02:23:54, Alvaro Polo wrote:
>
>>On October 25, 2000 at 01:24:15, Jim Monaghan wrote:
>>
>>>No one is perfect, we all have off days ... but it is incredible for a world
>>>champion to go down in a minature. My question to the group is: Is this the
>>>shortest loss in WC history? by a champ or by a challenger? It is probably
>>>pretty close. Anyone out there with a big enough database to pull an answer out
>>>quickly without a lot of work. Just curious ...
>>>
>>>Jim
>>
>>I remember a Karpov-Korchnoi 1974 to be also a very short game, 24 moves or so.
>>
>>Alvaro
>Fischer lost to Spassky in game 2 in 1 move in 1972.
>
>Laurence

In fischer case, he did not lose playing, he simply did not showed up. We are
looking for actual games played, and either force to resign or mate in such a
short amount of moves.

Pichard.



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