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10 Shortest Grandmaster Defeats

Yury Markushin
Yury Markushin
01.21.2014
Category: General Information
Tags: chess games, grandmaster quick games, shortest chess games,

If you think chess masters don’t make mistakes in their games, you should review these 10 shortest games. Many of them ended up with a checkmate, all under 12 moves. This is not a compilation of GM blunders as I presented in Top 10 Biggest Blunders Grandmasters Made at Chess, but rather a compilation of short games lost by the strong players.

Here it is, for you to judge.

 

Game 1: N. Tchinenoff – R. Maillard (Paris, 1925)

Game 2: R. Reti – S. Tartakower (Vienna, 1910)

Game 3: NN – Du Mont (1802)

Game 4: Molinari – Bordais (1979)

Game 5: C. Gurnhill – H. Banks (St. Louis, 1984)

Game 6: G. Greco – NN (1620)

Game 7: Deming – Cornell (Indiana, 1980)

Game 8: Barney – Mccrum (Dayton, 1969)

Game 9: D. Andreikin – S. Karjakin (Moscow, 2010)

Game 10: A. Zapata – V. Anand (Biel, 1988)

Don’t forget to leave a comment on these games!

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Alessandro Gil
05.30.2015 06:51

About interesting game 9: There’s a comment that 7…Nxd4 would gain a piece. But what about 8.Bxe7 !? Black queen would be trapped…
By the way, the article mentions GM blunders, but there’s even one “NN”! 😉

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Kick
05.05.2015 20:55

Karpov lost a game to Christiansen in about 10 moves to a simple yet not often seen piece fork.

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Demian
01.19.2015 17:57

If white moves D5 after blacks moves Qe2?

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Nick Antoniadis
01.19.2015 12:18

[quote name=”BugHousePlayer101″][quote name=”Sanjay”][quote name=”Sherlock Holmes”]In the last game what would happen if Anand had played Qe7 after Qe2?[/quote]
Nd5[/quote]
… After Nd5 Qd7 because the knight was attacking the blundered piece but no more[/quote]

Then d3 and the piece is gone

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Yury
10.23.2014 18:42

Losing a piece usually means losing the game, even on 1700 level 🙄

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BugHousePlayer101
11.27.2014 15:50

[quote name=”Sanjay”][quote name=”Sherlock Holmes”]In the last game what would happen if Anand had played Qe7 after Qe2?[/quote]
Nd5[/quote]
… After Nd5 Qd7 because the knight was attacking the blundered piece but no more

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Philip Kim
10.19.2014 04:38

(For game 10) Does losing a minor piece for nothing really merit a forfeit at the GM level?

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Sanjay
10.10.2014 20:01

[quote name=”Sherlock Holmes”]In the last game what would happen if Anand had played Qe7 after Qe2?[/quote]
Nd5

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CHERGUI Fathi
10.18.2014 15:12

Blunders in chess are expected !!

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Yunier
05.02.2014 05:16

Qb5+ is a big mistake,you cant take the bishop,the correct move against Qe7 is Nd5 threatening queen and C7 pawn,

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Lohad
05.01.2014 10:16

I really like the Game 9.

At 1st sight, i’d have played 10) Nh6 ???

Ng4 leads to a mate in 2, whatever the black plays.

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igordm
03.29.2014 16:00

[quote name=”marcelob2″][quote name=”Sherlock Holmes”]In the last game what would happen if Anand had played Qe7 after Qe2?[/quote]
Qb5+ wins a Knight or a Bishop[/quote]
The correct move is Nd5. The black Queen would have to move then, and white Knight’s can take c7+, forking. If 6. … Qe7 7. Qb5+ c6! 8. Qxf5 Nxc3! And black is better.

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igordm
03.29.2014 16:10

Qb5+ wins a Knight or a Bishop[/quote]
The correct move is Nd5. The black Queen would have to move then, and white Knight’s can take c7+, forking. If 6. … Qe7 7. Qb5+ c6! 8. Qxf5 Nxc3! And black is better.[/quote]
Actually 8. … Ng3+!, taking the queen. The move Nxc3 just equal the game, that was my mistake…

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marcelob2
03.26.2014 23:18

[quote name=”Sherlock Holmes”]In the last game what would happen if Anand had played Qe7 after Qe2?[/quote]
Db5+ wins a Knight or a Bishop

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Ajay Bhadoria
03.26.2014 15:28

very nice collection.

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ehsan
03.26.2014 09:49

@ julius donald lopez
if 6… Qe7 7.Nd5 Qe6 8.Nxc7
if 6… Qe7 7.Nd5 Qd7 8.d3

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ehsan
03.26.2014 09:43

game 9 is so interesting!

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Sherlock Holmes
03.26.2014 07:42

In the last game what would happen if Anand had played Qe7 after Qe2?

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MUHAMMAD BILAL
03.26.2014 03:04

nice to see some great stuff.

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julius donald lopez
03.26.2014 02:57

In last game anand have to movf Qe7

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Sergio Edgar Scalfar
03.26.2014 02:18

d3 win a piece!.

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Cpprasad
03.26.2014 01:47

[quote name=”Rahul”][quote name=”Sravan Krishnan”]Good Collection!
In the last game what would happen if Anand had played d5 after Qe2? :-*[/quote]

Simple, White’s next move would have been 7. d3, threatening to capture the pinned knight with a pawn.[/quote]

Is that a mistake in anand plays he takes on a knight for a pawn.and in match 9 D. Andreikin – S. Karjakin (Moscow, 2010)

Knight could have taken queen why it not so happened?

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Frederick Rhine
02.27.2014 22:02

Very entertaining games! A couple of comments: you say that this is “a compilation of short games lost by the strong players.” Anand, Tartakower, and Karjakin are obviously strong, but most of the losers of these games were quite weak. In annotating Game 9, you say “In fact, taking the other way, 7…Nxd4 just wins a piece, but taking this way, loses a game.” 7…Nxd4 would lose Black’s queen to 8.Bxe7. Black is lost, but 7…f6 is his best try. This is a well-known trap; instead of 6…Nge7?, Black should have played 6…Nce7!, as in Gufeld-Petrosian, USSR Championship 1969. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1106803

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Sravan Krishnan
03.05.2014 00:56

Good Collection!
In the last game what would happen if Anand had played d5 after Qe2? :-*

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Rahul
03.05.2014 09:41

[quote name=”Sravan Krishnan”]Good Collection!
In the last game what would happen if Anand had played d5 after Qe2? :-*[/quote]

Simple, White’s next move would have been 7. d3, threatening to capture the pinned knight with a pawn.

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Herry
02.21.2014 11:14

GOOD GAME

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Mubashir Sami
01.23.2014 18:48

What a great motivational stuff this is! 🙂 Thank You so much for sharing it.

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Yury
01.23.2014 02:49

Thanks for your comments and feedback!

Stay tuned, we will provide more excellent stuff shortly! 🙂

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Giuseppe Balacco
01.22.2014 21:49

Very funny and instructive at the same time. I liked it very much.

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LERATO THABA NCHU SA
01.22.2014 20:11

THANK U VERY MUCH FOR SHOWING THOSE BLUNDERS! THIS JUST PROVES HOW WEAK SOME OF THESE SO CALLED MASTERS REALLY R!

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Yury
01.27.2014 04:17

You are welcome, Mubashir Sami! Your comments is a great motivation for me to write more!

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