Can anyone win faster than this

Originally posted by Dragon Fire
Since starting this thread I have noticed that there are loads of games resigned after just one move.

Why to people do this? They simply spoil things for the rest of us.

Perhaps such activity should also be against TOS and if done consistently (a couple of times is consistent enough) the player should be banned and all the pointless spurious games removed from the database.

Many players resign games without making a move so that they do not have to continue and do not lose any rating points.

Originally posted by Freddie2006
Many players resign games without making a move so that they do not have to continue and do not lose any rating points.

I was playing a game on uchess this morning 15/0

And the guy made one move after 5 minutes,a few 1 minute later, then typed, be back in 9 minutes.

Totally wasted 15 minutes of my chess session 😠

Originally posted by Essex 3
It's not actually faster, but I'm surprised nobody has brought up the following game, which shows that this sort of thing can happen at almost the highest level.
R.J. Fischer v Oscar Panno : Interzonal Tournament, Palma de
Mallorca, 1970
1. c4 resigns.
(http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1335872)
The story behind this game ...[text shortened]... ced to play his game
at a different time from all the others, and after the others had ended.

Fischer hates Jews, I think his father was Jewish though...? Anyhow, according to someone on CG.com his religion was actually this...

Herbert Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God, which, incidentally, banned board games. Fischer ignored this rule obviously. This organization is Christian-based but is not considered mainstream among Christian groups.