Author: Bill Gletsos
Date: 17:30:27 10/25/00
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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 Jim, Only the following decisive games were 25 moves or less in world championship finals. I included Fide and PCA and even Fischers match with Spassky in 1992. Steinitz - Zukertort 1886 1st world championship game 20 1-0 19 moves Steinitz - Chigorin 1889 2nd world championship game 4 1-0 22 moves Steinitz - Chigorin 1892 4th world championship game 8 0-1 24 moves Lasker - Marshall 1907 7th world champioship game 14 1-0 21 moves Lasker - Janowsky 1910 11th world championship game 1 1-0 22 moves Alekine - Euwe 1937 17th world championship game 6 1-0 23 moves Smyslov - Botvinnik 1954 20th world championship game 9 1-0 25 moves Smyslov - Botvinnik 1958 22nd world championship game 11 1-0 24 moves Spassky - Petrosian 1969 27th world championship game 19 1-0 24 moves Kasparov - Karpov 1985 32nd World Championship game 11 1-0 25 moves Fischer - Spassky 1992 (world champ according to Fischer) game 9 1-0 21 moves Anand - Kasparov 1995 PCA world championship game 13 0-1 25 moves Kramnik - Kasparov 2000 Braingames world championship game 10 1-0 25 moves As can be seen Steinitz holds the record for the fastest win and Euwe the fastest loss by a reigning world champ and Kasparov is the only champ to win with the black pieces. Bill
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