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Posted in Entertainment, Trivia by Greg Ross on January 18th, 2008

The shortest decisive tournament chess game ever played was Dordevic-Kovacevic, Bela Crkva 1984:

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 c6 3. e3

shortest chess game

3. … Qa5+ wins the bishop. Dordevic resigned.