Author: David Dahlem
Date: 07:09:49 10/25/00
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On October 25, 2000 at 10:02:16, David Dahlem wrote: > >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 I found a shorter loss, 14 moves. Here are both games. [Event "Montpellier ct"] [Site "?"] [Date "1985.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Spraggett"] [Black "Smyslov"] [Result "0-1"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 a5 5. Nc3 O-O 6. e3 d6 7. Qc2 Nbd7 8. Bd3 e5 9. O-O Re8 10. e4 exd4 11. Nxd4 c6 12. Rae1 Ne5 13. h3 Bc5 14. Be3 Bxh3 0-1 [Event "Sanghi Nagar, FIDE Match"] [Site "?"] [Date "1994.??.??"] [Round "10"] [White "Kamsky"] [Black "Anand"] [Result "1-0"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. c3 g6 4. Bg5 Qb6 5. Qb3 Ne4 6. Bf4 Nc6 7. d5 Nd8 8. Nbd2 Nf6 9. e4 d6 10. Bb5+ Bd7 11. a4 Qc7 12. O-O Bg7 13. e5 Nh5 14. exd6 exd6 15. Rfe1+ Kf8 16. Bxd7 Qxd7 17. Qb5 1-0
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