On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 12:15:33PM -0400, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:
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> Suggested diff below.
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> .... Ken
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> Index: fortunes2
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> RCS file: /cvs/src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2,v
> retrieving revision 1.32
> diff -u -p -r1.32 fortunes2
> --- fortunes2	26 Jul 2010 14:53:59 -0000	1.32
> +++ fortunes2	4 Sep 2010 15:58:42 -0000
> @@ -35675,20 +35675,19 @@ The faster I go, the behinder I get.
>  		-- Lewis Carroll
>  %
>  The Fastest Defeat In Chess
> -	The big name for us in the world of chess is Gibaud, a French chess
> -master.
> -	In Paris during 1924 he was beaten after only four moves by a
> -Monsieur Lazard.  Happily for posterity, the moves are recorded and so
> -chess enthusiasts may reconstruct this magnificent collapse in the comfort
> -of their own homes.
> -	Lazard was black and Gibaud white:
> -	1: P-Q4, Kt-KB3
> -	2: Kt-Q2, P-K4
> -	3: PxP, Kt-Kt5
> -	4: P-K6, Kt-K6/
> -	White then resigns on realizing that a fifth move would involve
> -either a Q-KR5 check or the loss of his queen.
> -		-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"
> +The shortest recorded serious tournament chess game, as of 2009, is
> +
> +Djordjevic - Kovacevic, Bela Crkva, 1984. And Vassallo - Gamundi, tt Spain,
> +Salamanca 1998.
> +
> +1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 c6 3. e3 Qa5+ 4. Resigns.
> +
> +The oft-mentioned Gibaud - Lazard 1924 game (1. d4 d5 2. b3 Nf6 3.
> +Nd2 e5 4. dxe5 Ng4 5. h3 Ne3 6. Resigns) was longer, not a serious
> +tournament game, may or may not have involved Gibaud, and occurred
> +in 1922 according to Lazard's autobiography.
> +
> +http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.html
>  %
>  The father, passing through his son's college town late one evening on a
>  business trip, thought he would pay his boy a surprise visit.  Arriving at the

i would say maybe not to stick the url in. otherwise fine by me.
jmc