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Amusing Games Oddball or funny games 103 games, 1620-2007 Double Rook Sacrifices While the elegant Queen sacrifice is more famous, the double rook sac. is giving up more material for an usually more breath-taking mate. 61 games, 1765-2008 Games where check is answered with checkmate As the saying goes, "the best defense is a good offense" 8 games, 1850-2002 Mate on 64 Squares (under construction) Over chess history, mate has been delivered on each of the 64 squares that make up a chessboard. This collection will show the best example for each square. (If you know a mate for a square not in the collection yet, or a better game, please drop a line on my message board!) 60 games, 1620-2008 Queenmate Anyone can catch a piece that can only move one square at a time. No, the accomplishment is to corner the mobile queen! This is a collection of Queenmates. If she can escape to a square only to get forked with the King on the next move, that's not it. If she could run to safety if she wasn't pinned to her mate, that's not it. Only when she's attacked and all the squares she could move to are covered by the opponents' pieces is it a Queenmate. 154 games, 1620-2013 sleepyirv's favorite games 107 games, 1834-2012 Tigran, Tigran, burning bright TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? -William Blake Some Tigran Petrosian games that I want to keep track of. 97 games, 1942-1981