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

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 07:02:16 10/25/00

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On October 25, 2000 at 08:19:03, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>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.
Anand lost to Kamsky in 17 moves in 1994 Fide Championship.
Dave



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