On 2010-09-04 18:24, Jason McIntyre wrote: > 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 >
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