
FSR

- Boden's Mate
14 games, 1853-1994 - Drawing lines
These are short games (or in a few cases long games that could have been agreed drawn much earlier) that end in a draw as a logical consequence of the position, usually by perpetual check or other repetition of position, or by an agreed draw in a very drawish endgame.
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| 229 games, 1872-2013 - FSR's favorite games
65 games, 1851-2012 - Games I submitted to chessgames.com
39 games, 1896-2013 - Games I want to study
10 games, 1913-2012 - Games with notation errors
These are games where the score as given by chessgames.com is apparently wrong.
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| 77 games, 1897-2012 - Great comebacks
These are games where one player got a losing position early on (for example, by blundering away a piece), but came back to win or draw the game.
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| 3 games, 1851-2012 - Great players lose miniatures
15 games, 1890-2006 - Lilienthal!
Andre Lilienthal, who died in 2010 at age 99, met or played every world champion except Steinitz, beating Lasker, Capablanca, Euwe, Botvinnik (twice), and Smyslov (four times). According to his biography, he also beat Alekhine "in a serious game," but I haven't seen that game.
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| 15 games, 1933-1952 - Miniatures
5 games, 1910-2002 - Modern - Dzindzi's 4...Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 f5
31 games, 1985-2012 - Outrageous swindles
15 games, 1843-2005 - Puns I submitted
Each of these games was made Game of the Day by chessgames.com using the pun I had submitted for it.
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| 52 games, 1789-2011 - Reshevsky plays 11 world champions
Reshevsky played every world champion from Lasker to Karpov, winning games against seven of them, and drawing at least one game against each of the other four.
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| 11 games, 1935-1991 - Spectacular draws
8 games, 1863-2007 - Stalemate!
34 games, 1846-2013 - The Novotny theme
These are games in which the rare and beautiful Novotny theme, the sacrifice of a piece at the intersection of two lines (e.g. a rank or file, and a diagonal), with the result that one of the opponent's defensive lines is blocked, often resulting in an immediate win for the player playing the Novotny move.
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| 5 games, 1910-2007
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