connors@drutx.UUCP (ConnorsPA) (05/13/85)
[] Here's a VERY short game I played in a rated tournament in Boston recently. White: Paul Connors (2019) Black: Alan Bennett (2056) 1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 Qe7 6. Nc3 d6 At this point Black turned white and resigned. (I'll let you figure out why). Anyone got anything shorter at this level of play? Paul Connors Email: ihnp4!drutx!connors Phone: (303)-538-4047
aouriri@ittvax.UUCP (Chedley Aouriri) (05/20/85)
> [] > > Here's a VERY short game I played > in a rated tournament in Boston recently. > > White: Paul Connors (2019) Black: Alan Bennett (2056) > 1. d4 e6 > 2. c4 f5 > 3. g3 Nf6 > 4. Bg2 Bb4+ > 5. Bd2 Qe7 > 6. Nc3 d6 > > At this point Black turned white and resigned. > (I'll let you figure out why). > > Anyone got anything shorter at this level of play? > > Paul Connors > Email: ihnp4!drutx!connors > Phone: (303)-538-4047 Yes. Here 's an equally short international post-chess game I played a couple years ago. In the post-mortem, my opponent (who is playing white) explained that he could have held-on much longer , but prefered to save the cost of the air-mail stamps!! 1) e4 - e5 2) f4 - exf4 3) Nf3- Be7 4) Bc4- Bh4+ 5) g3 - f4xg3 6) Bxf7+ - Kf8! and white resigned!! Note that any black move other than the mentioned move (Kf8) leads to a rather quick black debacle!
quiroz@rochester.UUCP (Cesar Quiroz) (05/22/85)
On the subject of very short games played at a high level, I remember there is a particularly short game (in the order of 4 moves) at Master level! If I remember correctly, the players were Gibaud and Lazard, the year 1924 (?). I was looking for it, but it seems I no longer have the sources (oops, the script). Maybe somebody can post it for the amusement of the net. Cesar
dfw@ll1.UUCP (Dan Webster) (05/25/85)
> On the subject of very short games played at a high level, I remember > there is a particularly short game (in the order of 4 moves) at > Master level! If I remember correctly, the players were Gibaud and Lazard, > the year 1924 (?). I was looking for it, but it seems I no longer have > the sources (oops, the script). Maybe somebody can post it for the > amusement of the net. The shortest mate played at Master Level that I know of was Arnold vs. Hanauer, Budapest Defense, Philadelphia, 1936. I know it was a five (or six??) move mate, but I too have lost the moves. D. F. Webster
dfw@ll1.UUCP (Dan Webster) (05/25/85)
> > On the subject of very short games played at a high level, I remember > > there is a particularly short game (in the order of 4 moves) at > > Master level! If I remember correctly, the players were Gibaud and Lazard, > > the year 1924 (?). I was looking for it, but it seems I no longer have > > the sources (oops, the script). Maybe somebody can post it for the > > amusement of the net. > > > The shortest mate played at Master Level that I know of was > Arnold vs. Hanauer, Budapest Defense, Philadelphia, 1936. I know > it was a five (or six??) move mate, but I too have lost > the moves. I found the first game refered to in this article, It was played in Paris (1924) between Gibaud and Lazard (Masters!!) and went as follows: 1) P-Q4 N-KB3 2) N-Q2 P-K4 3) P*P N-N5 4) P-KR3?? N-K6! 5) Exit... Stage Left D. F. Webster
wallace@ucbvax.ARPA (David E. Wallace) (05/27/85)
There was a five-mover between two International Masters in Men's Round 15 of the 1984 U.S. Chess Championships here in Berkeley last July (this tournament was the qualifier for the Interzonal competition this year). White: Kamran Shirazi (2563) Black: John Peters (2581) 1. P-K4 P-QB4 2. P-QN4 PXP 3. P-QR3 P-Q4 4. PXQP QXP 5. PXP?? Q-K4ch 6. Resigns I understand the game took less than a minute to play. The commentator noted that Shirazi had been blitzing out his moves, and probably just grabbed the pawn without thinking. There were some other real doozies in the tournament, many of them in the women's section, but none as fast as this. It's nice to know that even the great can stumble occasionally -- it gives ordinary mortals like myself hope. Dave Wallace (...!ucbvax!wallace wallace@Berkeley)