| Game |
| Result | Moves |
Year |
Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. Steinitz vs Lasker |
 | ½-½ | 61 |
1894 |
Lasker-Steinitz World Championship | D67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line |
| 2. Maroczy vs Charousek |
 | 1-0 | 34 |
1895 |
Budapest m | D66 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line |
| 3. Tarrasch vs Teichmann |
 | 1-0 | 43 |
1896 |
Nuremberg | D67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line |
| 4. Pillsbury vs Showalter |
 | 1-0 | 40 |
1897 |
Pillsbury - Showalter | D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense |
| 5. Pillsbury vs Showalter |
| ½-½ | 73 |
1898 |
Vienna | D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense |
| 6. Reggio vs Schlechter |
| 0-1 | 55 |
1901 |
Monte Carlo | D66 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line |
| 7. Janowski vs Olland |
| 1-0 | 39 |
1902 |
13th DSB Kongress (Hanover) | D66 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line |
| 8. O Roething vs Lasker |
| ½-½ | 71 |
1902 |
USA tour sim | D67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line |
| 9. Leonhardt vs J Esser |
| 1-0 | 45 |
1903 |
Hilversum | D66 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line |
| 10. A J Mackenzie vs W Gunston |
 | 1-0 | 35 |
1904 |
London | D66 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line |
| 11. Schlechter vs Showalter |
| ½-½ | 38 |
1904 |
Cambridge Springs | D67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line |
| 12. R K Kieseritsky vs E E Middleton |
| 1-0 | 26 |
1905 |
Barmen Main A, GER | D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense |
| 13. J Esser vs J W Te Kolste |
| 1-0 | 58 |
1905 |
Scheveningen | D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense |
| 14. Marshall vs M Lowcki |
| 1-0 | 26 |
1912 |
18th DSB Kongress | D67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line |
| 15. Rubinstein vs O Bernstein |
| ½-½ | 23 |
1912 |
Vilnius All-Russian Masters | D66 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line |
| 16. Alekhine vs Janowski |
 | 1-0 | 36 |
1913 |
Scheveningen | D68 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Classical |
| 17. Breyer vs Z Barasz |
| 1-0 | 44 |
1913 |
Debrecen | D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense |
| 18. Alekhine vs Breyer |
 | 1-0 | 30 |
1913 |
Scheveningen | D68 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Classical |
| 19. Ed Lasker vs A Hodges |
| ½-½ | 25 |
1915 |
New York Masters | D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense |
| 20. Kupchik vs A Hodges |
| ½-½ | 31 |
1916 |
Manhattan Chess Club-ch, Prelim | D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense |
| 21. O Chajes vs A W Fox |
| 1-0 | 53 |
1916 |
Rice Memorial | D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense |
| 22. B Kostic vs J C Rosenthal |
| 1-0 | 39 |
1916 |
Rice Memorial | D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense |
| 23. B Kostic vs F K Perkins |
| 1-0 | 36 |
1916 |
Rice Memorial | D67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line |
| 24. Kupchik vs J Bernstein |
| 1-0 | 37 |
1916 |
Rice-Progressive CC-ch | D66 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line |
| 25. J Gottesdiener vs Rubinstein |
 | 0-1 | 64 |
1917 |
Lodz | D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense |