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From: wallace@ucbvax.ARPA (David E. Wallace)
Newsgroups: net.chess
Subject: Re: VERY short game
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Date: Sun, 26-May-85 19:36:35 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 26 19:36:35 1985
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There was a five-mover between two International Masters in Men's Round 15 of
the 1984 U.S. Chess Championships here in Berkeley last July (this tournament
was the qualifier for the Interzonal competition this year).

White: Kamran Shirazi (2563)	Black: John Peters (2581)
1. P-K4		P-QB4
2. P-QN4	PXP
3. P-QR3	P-Q4
4. PXQP		QXP
5. PXP??	Q-K4ch
6. Resigns

I understand the game took less than a minute to play.  The commentator noted
that Shirazi had been blitzing out his moves, and probably just grabbed the
pawn without thinking.  There were some other real doozies in the tournament,
many of them in the women's section, but none as fast as this.  It's nice
to know that even the great can stumble occasionally -- it gives ordinary
mortals like myself hope.

Dave Wallace	(...!ucbvax!wallace	wallace@Berkeley)