Pretty Maids All in a Row

Pretty Maids All in a Row
Compiled by Phony Benoni

They are if you're the player with the three connected pawns on the seventh rank who can expect to have all sorts of pretty maids livening up the party in a move or two. Your pponent may feel differently about the whole experience.

With a theme like this, there is always the temptation to go for the row of pawns even when it's not necessary, especially if the opponent is helpless. Not wanting to encourage such behavior, I will simply mention M Matto vs A Mossiaguine, 2008 for the sake of completeness but not add it to the collection. I'm sure the perpetrator will be shamed into never doing such a thing again.

After 57...b2+; 4 connected pawns on the 7th rank
F J Lee vs H Shoosmith, 1904
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 61 moves, 0-1
After 37...e2
McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834
(B32) Sicilian, 37 moves, 0-1
After 37.f7+
Morphy vs S Boden, 1858
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 38 moves, 1-0
After 67.e7
Janowski vs Ed Lasker, 1924
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 71 moves, 1/2-1/2
After 54.a7
Dreev vs Kamsky, 1987
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 56 moves, 1-0
After 40.d7
V Mikhalevski vs Azmaiparashvili, 1995
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 40 moves, 1-0
After 41.d7
D Birnbaum vs E Relange, 1995
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 43 moves, 1/2-1/2
After 38.b7
S Blaho vs T Profant, 1996
(A80) Dutch, 46 moves, 1-0
After 52...c2
Yudasin vs D Monokroussos, 2002
(C63) Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense, 56 moves, 0-1
After 38...c2
T Studnicka vs L Cernousek, 2003
(D44) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 43 moves, 0-1
After 41.d7
K Kokolias vs F Sigalas, 2005
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 43 moves, 1/2-1/2
After 62...b2
R Al-Mahmoud vs L E Rincon Gonzalez, 2010
(B32) Sicilian, 62 moves, 0-1

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