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Aren't there some opening traps that involve queen forks that would make a good example. ... I've had both of these happen to me:

  • n. Qh5+ ... n+1. Qxe5
  • m. ... Qe5+ m+1. ... QxRa1

If nobody has a ready example, I'll try to dig one up... Jeff 18:24 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)

There are a couple of almost unbelievable examples of this sort of thing from games at quite a high level. Combe-Hasenfuss, Folkstone Olympiad 1933 went 1. d4 c5 2. c4 cxd4 3. Nf3 e5 4. Nxe5 Qa5+ 5. resigns. This is given in Mike Fox and Richard James' The Complete Chess Addict (1987) as the shortest ever loss by a master. I'll let somebody else put it in the article if they want, though - I'm not sure how to best format it. --Camembert
Postscript: see World records in chess for a shorter game with a similar fork. --Camembert
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