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author | Kenneth R Westerback <krw@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2010-09-04 17:07:44 +0000 |
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committer | Kenneth R Westerback <krw@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2010-09-04 17:07:44 +0000 |
commit | 456d91d16810afef694254ce6770d8fd6b4c9a9d (patch) | |
tree | 94f325d32184b71b9666e9f6cecc8fae9650eb2a /games | |
parent | 9be15a80e811b23a716cd6d9b266612e72721ab8 (diff) |
Update 'Fastest Defeat In Chess' fortune, trying to dispel Gibaud
- Lazard 1924 myth.
prompted by and ok jmc@
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 index 5ff5fdcc9f5..d12abf410c4 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 @@ -35675,20 +35675,17 @@ The faster I go, the behinder I get. -- Lewis Carroll % The Fastest Defeat In Chess - The big name for us in the world of chess is Gibaud, a French chess -master. - In Paris during 1924 he was beaten after only four moves by a -Monsieur Lazard. Happily for posterity, the moves are recorded and so -chess enthusiasts may reconstruct this magnificent collapse in the comfort -of their own homes. - Lazard was black and Gibaud white: - 1: P-Q4, Kt-KB3 - 2: Kt-Q2, P-K4 - 3: PxP, Kt-Kt5 - 4: P-K6, Kt-K6/ - White then resigns on realizing that a fifth move would involve -either a Q-KR5 check or the loss of his queen. - -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures" +The shortest recorded serious tournament chess game, as of 2009, is + +Djordjevic - Kovacevic, Bela Crkva, 1984. And Vassallo - Gamundi, tt Spain, +Salamanca 1998. + +1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 c6 3. e3 Qa5+ 4. Resigns. + +The oft-mentioned Gibaud - Lazard 1924 game (1. d4 d5 2. b3 Nf6 3. +Nd2 e5 4. dxe5 Ng4 5. h3 Ne3 6. Resigns) was longer, not a serious +tournament game, may or may not have involved Gibaud, and occurred +in 1922 according to Lazard's autobiography. % The father, passing through his son's college town late one evening on a business trip, thought he would pay his boy a surprise visit. Arriving at the |