Win a chess game in 2 moves!

20/01/2008 by Nikita

Nigel Short, British GM won this game due to the Fide-rule that chess players should shake hands at the start of a game. He offered his hand twice to his opponent. Read the press report here on Corus and you can also listen to Nigel Short in the Youtube video.

January 20 2008 – Corus Chess Press

At the start of round 8 of the Corus Chess Tournament, Ivan Cheparinov, top seed in Grandmaster Group B, lost his game against Nigel Short for refusing to shake the Brit’s hand. According to an article on the FIDE website:

“Any player who does not shake hands with the opponent (or greets the opponent in a normal social manner in accordance with the conventional rules of their society) before the game starts in a FIDE tournament or during a FIDE match (and does not do it after being asked to do so by the arbiter) or deliberately insults his/her opponent or the officials of the event, will immediately and finally lose the relevant game.”

Chief Arbiter Thomas van Beekum was a witness when Cheparinov refused Short’s offer to shake hands twice and the Bulgarian’s game was declared a loss as a result.

The Tournament Organization has received an official protest by Mr. Ivan Cheparinov regarding his loss against Mr. Nigel Short. The matter will be put forward to the Appeals Committee

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On this video you can see what happened.

Two moves checkmate is: 1.f4 e6 2.g4 Qh4#

Four move checkmate….1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nc6 3.Qh5 Nc6 4.Qxf7#

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6 Responses

on 20/01/2008 at 19:03 mykopop

Oh, I just wanted to say that’s a very chauvinistic rule, they should allow kissing as well, but now I see they do allow other manners of greeting!
on 20/01/2008 at 19:50 Nikita

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on 21/01/2008 at 22:30 Nigel Short 1 Cheparinov 0 « Chessalee

[…] Corus Chess, Ivan Cheparinov, Nigel Short | After what happened yesterday, you can read THIS LINK where Nigel claimed a win due to Cheparinov not shaking his hand when he offered his hand twice […]
on 30/04/2008 at 23:44 Baku Chess round 9 « Chessalee

[…] ….yeah, yeah, yeah….let’s do it…before they call it a 2move-checkmate-game! […]
on 09/08/2009 at 04:46 booger

so what if he dint want to shake…there is such a thing called a germofobe
- on 09/08/2009 at 09:50 Nikita
  
  hi booger…Welcome to my blog. The Fide rule is to shake hands. If germs is a concern, then Fide should take that into account and if you’re a chessplayer, you should be aware of it and get away with your phobes…lol! Wear gloves! 🙂