Meanings
plural blunderfests
- An event, period or situation characterized by many blunders.
A great many Democrats fear that their next national convention will also be a blunderfest.—Cleveland “Leader.”
1902 July 4, American Economist, volume 30, number 1, page 102 more examples
ChessBase has the same header information for both games, that the games were played at USSR teach championship. Obviously the 55-move game is the real one; the 9-move blunderfest would seem to be either (A) a series of ridiculous typos by an operator entering games, or (B) a composed joke that somehow got into the database.
2010 July 8, Taylor Kingston, “Re: A weird game in Megabase 2010”, in rec.games.chess.misc (Usenet)So far, the blunderfest of the Republican challengers has been playing out like a variation on the 1996 election - not coincidentally, that was the last time a Republican challenger ran against an incumbent Democratic president.
2012 January 22, Mark Steese, “Re: Forgiveness only goes so far”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet)
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