Author: Albert Silver
Date: 10:10:52 12/27/04
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On December 27, 2004 at 12:31:55, Mike Byrne wrote:
>Korchnoi, 73, vs. Carlsen, 14
>
>
>http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?section=SPORTS&oid=65683
>
>interestingly Victor Korchnoi once played Grigory Levenfish who once played Amos
>Burn who once played Henry Bird who once played Howard Staunton.
>
>In this game, Levenfish was 64 years young and Victor was 22.
>
>[Event "Leningrad"]
>[Site "Leningrad"]
>[Date "1953.??.??"]
>[EventDate "?"]
>[Round "?"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[White "G Levenfish"]
>[Black "Viktor Kortchnoi"]
>[ECO "D94"]
>[WhiteElo "?"]
>[BlackElo "?"]
>[PlyCount "84"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. e3 Bg7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 b6 7. O-O Bb7
>8. Bd2 e6 9. Rc1 Ne4 10. cxd5 exd5 11. b4 Re8 12. Qb3 c6 13. Rfd1 Nd7
>14. Be1 Qe7 15. Nxe4 dxe4 16. Nd2 Rac8 17. Qa4 a6 18. Qb3 b5 19. Qb1
>Nb6 20. Nb3 Nd5 21. Nc5 Rcd8 22. a4 Bf8 23. Qb3 Bc8 24. Ra1 Qg5 25.
>axb5 axb5 26. Ra3 Bxc5 27. dxc5 Bg4 28. Bxg4 Qxg4 29. h3 Qe6 30. Rd4
>Ra8 31. Bc3 Ra4 32. Rxa4 bxa4 33. Qc4 a3 34. Ba1 Nc7 35. Qxe6 Nxe6 36.
>Rd6 Rd8 37. Bf6 Rxd6 38. cxd6 Nf8 39. Kf1 Nd7 40. Bd4 f5 41. Ke2 Kf7
>42. Kd2 Ke6 0-1
>
>Another game played Korchnoi may be the quickest recorded loss by a future World
>Champion
>
>[Event "Leningrad"]
>[Site "Leningrad"]
>[Date "1948.??.??"]
>[EventDate "?"]
>[Round "?"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[White "Viktor Kortchnoi"]
>[Black "Boris Spassky"]
>[ECO "B71"]
>[WhiteElo "?"]
>[BlackElo "?"]
>[PlyCount "24"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. f4 Bg4 7. Bb5+
>Nbd7 8. Bxd7+ Qxd7 9. Qd3 e5 10. Nf3 Bxf3 11. Qxf3 Qg4 12. Nd5 1-0
>
>[d]r3kb1r/pp3p1p/3p1np1/4p3/4PPq1/2N2Q2/PPP3PP/R1B1K2R w KQkq - 0 12
>
>Qg4 was a first rate blunder -- what's the winning move before you check it with
>your computer.
Check with the computer... A nice sense of humor. It took about 2 seconds to
see, I can't imagine giving it to the computer on top of it. :-)
Anyhow, there are many such miniatures in chess history. How about Anand's loss
in 7 moves, while already well past 2600? Or Karpov's loss in 12 moves to
Christiansen even though he was still well past 2700, and no.2 in the world at
the time? I think Bareev may have the record of ultra-short losses for a super
GM though.
Albert
>
>Spassky can be excused here - he was 11 years old at the time.
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