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10 instructive games (according to I. Chernev)
Compiled by athyn
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I looked for 18 of the 62 games from his book, but 8 of them are not on this website. <a href="User: uglybird">uglybird</a> has the other <a href="Game Collection: The most instructive games of chess ever played">44 games in the book</a>.

Every Move a Threat!
M Porges vs Lasker, 1896  
(C67) Ruy Lopez, 33 moves, 0-1

The Isolated Pawn
Lasker vs Tarrasch, 1914  
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 46 moves, 1-0

Systematic Strangulation
Tarrasch vs Showalter, 1898 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 42 moves, 1-0

Good Bishop and Bad Bishop
L Barden vs Rossolimo, 1950 
(B85) Sicilian, Scheveningen, Classical, 38 moves, 0-1

The Sheltering Pawn
W Schlage vs Reti, 1928 
(B29) Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein, 47 moves, 0-1

That Old Black Magic
O Bernstein vs J Mieses, 1904 
(B45) Sicilian, Taimanov, 49 moves, 1-0

The Singular Strategy of Steinitz
Steinitz vs A G Sellman, 1885 
(C11) French, 35 moves, 1-0

The Pillsbury Bind
V Chekhover vs I Rudakovsky, 1945 
(D61) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, 39 moves, 1-0

The Galloping Knight
Tarrasch vs Vogel, 1910 
(C66) Ruy Lopez, 37 moves, 1-0

The Roving Rook
Pillsbury vs Showalter, 1897 
(D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 66 moves, 1-0

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