On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 12:15:33PM -0400, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > > Suggested diff below. > > .... Ken > > Index: fortunes2 > =================================================================== > 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
i would say maybe not to stick the url in. otherwise fine by me. jmc
