On 2 Feb 2017 Strange thing happened in 15th edition of Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, when 22 year old current women world champion Hou Yifan Resigned after only five moves in the tenth and last round of the tournament against Indian Grandmaster Lalith Babu. This strange resignation by the Hou Yifan stunned everyone. This strange game also broke the record previously held by Vishwanathan Anand for the shortest game by a Grandmaster.
In the final round Hou Yifan playing with the white pieces arrived 25 minutes late and started the game with strange move g4, and from their game lasted for only 5 moves.
Here is the full game
In a post game interview with International Master Tania Sachdev, she apologized to all the chess fans for creating such a game. Further she told that she was not happy and dissatisfied with, not only her personal pairings but also with the pairings of other women players. So the pairings was the reason for her strange resignation and she played such a game to show some kind of protest.
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| GM Lalith Babu
In a post game interview with Indian GM Lalith Babu, he said that he thought Hou Yifan might skip the game and will not come. Further he added that when after 25 minutes she came and play g4 he was really scared after seeing the move and he thought it might be some kind to preparation and he responded with the move d5 and in response when she quickly played the move f3 he realized that something was wrong with her and may be she didn't want to play the game.Further he said that the rest of the game was not so important and he didn't know anything that why she was playing like this, he also said that he was still in shock that he won the game in just five moves in such a manner.
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