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The shortest ever recorded game of chess was won in one move by 15-year-old Heinz Baumleiter in a match played in Ulm in 1765. Baumleiter, playing black, made the exciting but unorthodox reply to white's 1.E6 of 1. ... QXD1+. White, a clergyman from Copenhagen, immediately resigned. When it was pointed out to Baumleiter that this move was illegal on several counts, he threatened those observing the game with a loaded musket. He was later, by his opponent's account, found to have been threatening white under the table for the entire game with another loaded musket. Baumleiter added nothing more to the annals of chess history, becoming a security guard at the Cathedral of Ulm. However, his memorable game made a footnote in the strategy books as the "Verrückte Dame Verteidigung" (Insane Queen Defence.)
william lee
Saturday, 16 April 2005

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