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Duck

h3 lmaoooooooo

Nytemere

Garry Kasparov had a game zero moves short

NikitaFaidun

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/killer-king-5

Jai_10

why would he resign

 

Fisikhad
I think its probably mine.Maybe not.Here’s the funny story

I was heading to my old group chat where my classmates chat each other talking about some things.I challenged all of them in a chess match.My most smartest classmate agreed.But instead of going to their houses and play a game of chess,we play the chess correspondently.Playing chess correspondently is just like the daily chess in chess.com.I told them that I will play white and they play black.They agreed as usual.I started with the respond “1.)e4”.My Opponent automatically resigned for these reasons:

1.)They don’t know how to read chess notations
2.)They don’t know how to respond to it.Even if they know,they’ll struggle.This is because they are often comfortable when their opponent plays d4 or Nc3 while e4 leads to sharp openings

I took the win,but not really.And still,this is the shortest game I have ever played
Jai_10

he shouldn't have resigned

Nytemere
kindlestenssoro wrote:
Nytemere escreveu:

Garry Kasparov had a game zero moves short

Which one was that? Could you post it here? Or post a link to the news..

Did you know that Garry Kasparov didn't play a 1+ move game to get his World Champion title? I think his opponent never arrived, or just resigned from the start

lt1410
dragon27 wrote:

I think this is a wrong statement... THe two move checkmate is the shortest game in history... i even know some people who resign after thier first move, SO THIS IS FAKE! ;)

This is not a record for the shortest game ever. It is the record for the shortest game ever recorded between two grandmasters. And I'm sure the people you know who resign after one move are not GMs, therefore, no, this is not fake.

vihaan_redkar
dragon27 wrote:

I think this is a wrong statement... THe two move checkmate is the shortest game in history... i even know some people who resign after thier first move, SO THIS IS FAKE! ;)

Actually, this is the shortest game played against 2 Grand masters, not random players wink.png 

No offence 

Professor_Gobbles
obelix101 wrote:

This is a rough translation from a norwegian Guinness book of Records, from 1968:

The shortest game ever registered between two grand masters, was in four moves. Lazard defeated Gibaud in a chess cafè in Paris in 1924.

 

...and that's why it's called the lazard gambit!

RangerGummyBear
dragon27 wrote:

I think this is a wrong statement... THe two move checkmate is the shortest game in history... i even know some people who resign after thier first move, SO THIS IS FAKE! ;)

 

 

it’s the shortest RECORDED match between two GRANDMASTERS. Not the shortest of all time. Learn to read lol

 

Silver_Sd
cofail wrote:

why did white resign??

Checkmate or loss of the queen

 

LeoTSimoes26
cofail escreveu:

why did white resign??

Or give the queen or get checkmated with Qh4 in the next move

ThrillerFan

I swear to God I literally witnessed this game right around the turn of the century.

The guy playing Black is a complete and total jacka$$, and I no longer attend his club as there is a far better one now in Charlotte, but no joke, this game literally happened.

White was a player in the 1800s and Black continues to bang on his 2000 rating floor.

 

 

Duck
ebillgo wrote:

 Guiness Records are full of pointless entries. Some are irksome: the longest fingernails etc. The record game here is also pointless. When a record is so easy to achieve, what 's the point  ?  A more meaningful example is the longest winning streak etc. 

Longest shower, longest facetime call, longest hug.... 

uwillnvrknowmyusrname

Its not the shortest game in chess shortest game    Postcard

Postcard no 1 by white   e4.                      Postcard no 2 by black g6 any Bg7

postcard no 2 by white bh6    Black resigned because in his first postcard he said whatever white plays after g6 he will play bg7   and bh6 bh7 bxh7 e3 bxh8

shivam15ag
cool
NewMouseGuy

Look at this lol

CouldntFindAGoodUsername
obelix101 wrote:

This is a rough translation from a norwegian Guinness book of Records, from 1968:

The shortest game ever registered between two grand masters, was in four moves. Lazard defeated Gibaud in a chess cafè in Paris in 1924.

 

GG

vishwasv1402

Wow