Shortest legitimate games

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IM Jack Rudd
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Re: Shortest legitimate games

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:21 pm

I also won this game in the Cambridge College League once. My opponent failed to spot the value of the tempo not playing e4 saved me:


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Re: Shortest legitimate games

Post by Wadih Khoury » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:44 pm

My son won this one when he was starting chess, he was particularity happy as it was a Legal's mate and remembered seeing it in one of the Yusupov books.


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Re: Shortest legitimate games

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Sun Jun 06, 2021 5:19 pm

In the Covid event, I managed this old favourite, 1.d4 Nf6, 2.c4 e5, 3.dxe5 Ng4, 4.Nc3 Nc6, 5.Bf4 Bb4+, 6.Nd2 Qe7, 7.a3 Ngxe5, 8.axb4 Nd3 Mate

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Re: Shortest legitimate games

Post by Steve Lloyd » Mon Jun 07, 2021 6:24 pm

There may have been shorter games, but I recall this 9 move victory at the opening round of the Minor at Crewe in February 1997



Game lasted less than 20 minutes. I then had to wait until 11pm as the person who drove me was last to finish in the Intermediate.

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Re: Shortest legitimate games

Post by LawrenceCooper » Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:55 pm

I'm not sure if opening traps in blitz arenas should count but I finally managed to find a victim in this off beat line of the Dutch tonight:

1 d4 f5 2 h3 Nf6 3 g4 hg 4 hg Ng4 5 Qd3 Nf6 6 Rh7 Rh7 7 Qg6 mate.

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Re: Shortest legitimate games

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Mon Jul 05, 2021 2:53 pm

I emulated Justin with 1.f4 e5, 2.fxe5 d6, 3.exd6 Bxd6, 4.Nf3 g5, 5.h3 Bg3M in an online Rapidplay recently.

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Re: Shortest legitimate games

Post by Kevin O'Rourke » Tue Jul 13, 2021 5:14 pm

sorry if been mentioned but Gary Kasparov lost a quicky recently by playing the queens gambit accepted.
Think it was only 7 moves

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Re: Shortest legitimate games

Post by JustinHorton » Tue Jul 13, 2021 6:11 pm

"Do you play chess?"
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