- The ultimate Epic Fail of Chess: Fool's Mate
. A few variations exist, but they all have one common element: White loses in two moves. - Shorter games have occurred, though. The unbreakable world record is held by Bobby Fischer, who refused to turn up for the second game of his World Championship match against Boris Spassky in 1972. Since Fischer had the first move in the game, and made none, the game score can arguably be held to read "1. Resigns", which cannot possibly be improved upon. (Remarkably, Fischer, though two games down against an opponent he had never won against before, proceeded to curb-stomp Spassky in the remainder of the match.)
- AI against GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura delivers checkmate with six knights.
- One rather... unorthodox opening is the Bongcloud Attack or Bongcloud Opening, which is among the worst openings in chess. It is Too Dumb to Live in chess form, as it leaves the king exposed, impedes the movement of the queen and the bishop, aborts the ability to castle, and doesn’t improve the player’s position in the slightest. Andrew Fabbro created a joke manual on the opening.
- These drawbacks didn't stop high-level chess players (we’re looking at you, Hikaru) from using the obviously terrible opening in actual matches. Hilarity Ensues when Carlsen and Hikaru play the first ever Double Bongcloudnote in a professional tournament. Even though the game didn't matter, it was still quite the sight.
- How about the one that started this madness? Lenny_Bongcloud? The Chess.com user who employed this tactic often in a bid to win? If his 24 win/278 loss record is any indication, then it doesn't exactly seem to have been a resounding success.
- The Immortal Overprotection Game was a good-natured parody of eccentric grandmaster Nimzowitsch by fellow GM Hans Kmoch. The joke, lampooning Nimzo's grandiose style of commentary and his favored chess tactics, is that he's actually playing completely incompetently.
- It used to be possible to promote pieces to the opposite color, to leave a promoted piece as a pawn, and to castle vertically thanks to weird loopholes.
- ChatGPT plays chess with some... rather unusual moves.
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