Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 09:32:24 10/25/00
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On October 25, 2000 at 10:09:49, David Dahlem wrote:
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>On October 25, 2000 at 10:02:16, David Dahlem wrote:
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>>On October 25, 2000 at 08:19:03, Jorge Pichard wrote:
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>>>On October 25, 2000 at 07:51:45, Laurence Chen wrote:
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>>>>On October 25, 2000 at 02:23:54, Alvaro Polo wrote:
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>>>>>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.
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>[Event "Montpellier ct"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1985.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Spraggett"]
>[Black "Smyslov"]
>[Result "0-1"]
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>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
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>[Event "Sanghi Nagar, FIDE Match"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1994.??.??"]
>[Round "10"]
>[White "Kamsky"]
>[Black "Anand"]
>[Result "1-0"]
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>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
Liberzon-Petrosyan,Moscow 1964:
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