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Subject: Re: Shortest Stalemate by Samuel Loyd

Author: Pierre Bourget

Date: 08:42:12 03/02/01

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On March 02, 2001 at 05:09:58, Ed Schröder wrote:

>I just came across this beauty from Samuel Loyd:
>
>[Event "Shortest Stalemate"]
>[Site "Samuel Loyd"]
>[Date "2001.03.02"]
>[White "Player_A"]
>[Black "Player_B"]
>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>
>1. d4 d6 2. Qd2 e5 3. a4 e4 4. Qf4 f5 5. h3 Be7 6. Qh2 Be6 7. Ra3 c5
>8. Rg3 Qa5+ 9. Nd2 Bh4 10. f3 Bb3 11. d5 e3 12. c4 f4 1/2-1/2
>
>[d]rn2k1nr/pp4pp/3p4/q1pP4/P1P2p1b/1b2pPRP/1P1NP1PQ/2B1KBNR w Kkq -
>
>Who can do better than this :)
>
>Ed

Sam Loyd himself has the record with 10 moves.

[PlyCount "19"]
[Event "Strategy"]
[Date "1878.??.??"]
[White "Shortest stalemate game"]
[Black "Loyd, Sam"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[EventDate "1878.??.??"]
[ECO "A10"]
[MLNrOfMoves "9"]


1. c4 h5 2. h4 a5 3. Qa4 Ra6 4. Qxa5 Rah6 5. Qxc7 f6 6. Qxd7+ Kf7 7. Qxb7 Qd3 8.
Qxb8 Qh7 9. Qxc8 Kg6 10. Qe6 1/2-1/2

[D]5bnr/4p1pq/4Qpkr/7p/2P4P/8/PP1PPPP1/RNB1KBNR b KQ - 0 10

Pierre




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