2600 Rated Player Down In 18 Moves !!!

Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromfics
How in the world did this happen?
In a French Exchange, no less ???

[pgn]
[Site "Dortmund"]
[Date "1995"]
[White "Nigel Short"]
[Black "Alexander Beliavsky"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.exd5 exd5 5.Bd3 Nc6 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3
Qf6 8.Rb1 Nge7 9.Ne2 Ng6 10.O-O O-O 11.f4 Bf5 12.Bxf5 Qxf5 13.Ng3 Qd7 14.f5 Nge7 15.f6 Nc8 16.fx ...[text shortened]... ng at some French Exchange games and came across this.
How did black go down so fast?

Nice refutation of myth that strong players can`t play some games in very low level.