On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 12:24:41PM +0059, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 06:55:11AM -0400, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 08:09:48AM +0059, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> > > from a recent commit from j...@freebsd. any chess heads want to yay or
> > > nay it?
> > >
> > > i'll add the whole fortune after the diff for convenience.
> > >
> > > jmc
> >
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm, 'Shortest Game' link.
> >
> > Some salient points:
> >
> > 1) There is (now) a shorter decisive game in a serious tournament.
> >
> > Djordjevic - Kovacevic, Bela Crkva, 1984. And Vassallo - Gamundi,
> > tt Spain, Salamanca 1998.
> >
> > 1.d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 c6 3. e3 Qa5+ 4. Resigns.
> >
> > 2. Gibaud - Lazard was not a master games, White was possibly not
> > Gibaud, it wasn't played in 1924. And the actual moves reported in
> > Lazard's autobiography were
> >
> > 1. d4 d5 2. b3 Nf6 3. Nd2 e5 4. dxe5 Ng4 5. h3 Ne6 6. Resigns.
> >
> > Other than that the diff appears correct even if expressed in archaic
> > notation. :-).
> >
> > .... Ken
> >
>
> do you want to update the entry for the shortest game then? in whichever
> notation fancies your tickle...
>
> jmc
>
Suggested diff below.
.... Ken
Index: fortunes2
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RCS file: /cvs/src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2,v
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -u -p -r1.32 fortunes2
--- fortunes2 26 Jul 2010 14:53:59 -0000 1.32
+++ fortunes2 4 Sep 2010 15:58:42 -0000
@@ -35675,20 +35675,19 @@ 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.
+
+http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.html
%
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
