President of The National Chess Federation of the Philippines decided that the game between Rogelio Antonio Jr. and Wesley So that was drawn after 22 moves (!) has to be replayed.

http://tournaments.chessdom.co...o-antonio-short-draw


It is not the first time that a game has to be replayed, but it is somewhat unusual, especially since it wasn't an ultra short draw (like in under 10 moves).



Such things always remind me on a funny situation at World Student Team Championship in 1972. There Robert Huebner played one move and offered a draw to Kenneth Rogoff who accepted. However, the arbiters insisted that some moves be played, so the players played the following (ridiculous) game:

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Ng1 Bg7 4. Qa4 0-0 5. Qxd7 Qxd7 6. g4 Qxd2+ 7. Kxd2 Nxg4 8. b4 a5 9. a4 Bxa1 10. Bb2 Nc6 11. Bh8 Bg7 12. h4 axb4 1/2-1/2

The arbiters ruled that both players must apologize and play an actual game. Rogoff appeared and apologized, but Huebner refused to do any of this. Huebner's clock was started, and after an hour passed Rogoff was declared the winner



I wonder what would happen if Antonio Jr. and So would come and just move the pieces randomly for 30 moves and then agree to a draw

Here is the above mentioned game between Huebner and Rogoff annotated:

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5322


Huebner used the anti-Rogoff system and his 5.Qxd7 was "an incredibly deep sacrifice"



By the way, here is another April's fool joke that includes Ivanchuk. They even made a video to make it more realistic. In the last part you can see a game between Ivanchuk and Fontaine. Ivanchuk won by kissing Fontaine's queen with his bishop

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5320

I thought so!

I saw this article last night, and after last year's April Fools joke, I was very skeptical... with all the references to "naked queen", "stripping the queen", etc., I knew it couldn't be for real.

I guess I'm learning...