Author: Jim Monaghan
Date: 19:26:34 10/25/00
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On October 25, 2000 at 20:30:27, Bill Gletsos 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 > >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 Thank you, Bill. Excellent research. I had no idea that there were so many short losses (13!) at this level while playing for the title. I guess it's not so unusual really. Jim
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