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The worst chess move EVER!
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May 19, 2008
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I've actually played this against someone (I was white). It was a long time ago in a school tournement. Needless to say I went through to the next round very quickly.
lol...that is the worst possible move EVER in that situation!
I think I know this one. White was talking about a magnet under the king or something for a while so black wanted to check the bottom. He HAD to move the king with only one legal move which leads to a mate.
bastiaan wrote: I think I know this one. White was talking about a magnet under the king or something for a while so black wanted to check the bottom. He HAD to move the king with only one legal move which leads to a mate.
The urban legend improved by rumors!
There's an article here about it. http://www.chess.com/article/view/shortest-game-ever-recorded the players were 1600 and 1700.
Explains a lot. White should have been chucked out the tournament, very unsporting. Black should have j' EXCUSE
that is a colossal disaster. it violates all the basics of the game.
Quixotical wrote: There's an article here about it. http://www.chess.com/article/view/shortest-game-ever-recorded the players were 1600 and 1700.
Nice, I didn't see it before! However, I suspect from the begining that it is only "an urban legend", spreading as legends did! I found it in the booklet, printed the first time in CCCP (Soviet union!) in 1960's!
Doesn't get much worse...
but LydiaBlonde 's game also occured as a recorded tournament game; Masterful_Forfeit's game is only one of the first things novices are taught (often with 1.f3 instead) - was the latter officially recorded in a tournament or match? If not, then as the yanks say - close, but no cigar.
Soo, so, benws wrote:
actually, here is a shorter game: http://www.exeterchessclub.org.uk/Praxis/simple.html
So, you claim that 1.... resign is worser move then 2... Ke7? 
About short games - an another example from a real OTB tournament:
What happened? White was a "caffe" player, proud to not spent more then 15 mins for 40 moves. When a game started, it was 18:00 or so, he make a move and then went to a caffe. He come back in 19:45 to finish the game. However, he didn't know that the time limit is shortened, from 2 hours for 40 moves to 90 minutes... 
So, the next candidate for a worser move in the chess history:
2. go to a caffe.
this needs pedantry [shortest possible game - 1. resigns but this is recorded as walkover - maybe there was a time it wasn't :) ] - so - read the title as "shortest recorded game ever ending in checkmate - but also include games endings resignation owing to seeing a mate-in-x line, with the "resign" replaced by one of the said mate-in-n sequences.
LydiaBlonde wrote:
and :)
So, you claim that 1.... resign is worser move then 2... Ke7?
So, the next candidate for a worser move in the chess history:
2. go to a caffe.
and :)
Isnt 1 F4 considered to be the worst chess opening ever?
Look this short game:
The second move of the black - the worst move possible in chess in general!