| Game |
| Result | Moves |
Year |
Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. Maroczy vs Capablanca |
 | 0-1 | 57 |
1924 |
New York | C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 2. Lasker vs Ed Lasker |
 | ½-½ | 103 |
1924 |
New York | C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd |
| 3. Kupchik vs Carlos Torre |
| ½-½ | 38 |
1925 |
New York m, USA | C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
| 4. G A Thomas vs Gruenfeld |
| 0-1 | 100 |
1925 |
Baden Baden | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
| 5. Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs Botvinnik |
| ½-½ | 49 |
1926 |
Leningrad | C90 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 6. J Dobropistsev vs Botvinnik |
 | 0-1 | 45 |
1926 |
Leningrad ch-city | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
| 7. Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs L Savitsky |
 | ½-½ | 43 |
1932 |
Leningrad Championship | C90 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 8. Keres vs Vidmar |
 | 1-0 | 65 |
1936 |
Bad Nauheim | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
| 9. K Poschauko vs Biedermann |
| 0-1 | 45 |
1938 |
Krakow | C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 10. Smyslov vs Levenfish |
| ½-½ | 63 |
1939 |
Leningrad/Moscow training | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
| 11. T Hess vs Vidmar |
| ½-½ | 37 |
1939 |
Stuttgart | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
| 12. S Belavenets vs Alatortsev |
| ½-½ | 43 |
1939 |
Leningrad/Moscow training | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
| 13. R Keller vs K Junge |
| 0-1 | 63 |
1942 |
Lublin/Warsaw/Cracow | C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 14. Konstantinopolsky vs Bronstein |
| ½-½ | 41 |
1945 |
USSR Championship | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
| 15. Yanofsky vs O Bernstein |
| ½-½ | 26 |
1946 |
Groningen | C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 16. O'Kelly vs H Steiner |
 | 0-1 | 48 |
1946 |
Groningen | C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
| 17. M Christoffel vs O Bernstein |
| 1-0 | 39 |
1946 |
Groningen | C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
| 18. Smyslov vs Botvinnik |
| ½-½ | 41 |
1947 |
Moscow | C90 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 19. Boleslavsky vs Botvinnik |
| ½-½ | 16 |
1947 |
Moscow | C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 20. Boleslavsky vs Smyslov |
| ½-½ | 58 |
1947 |
it, Warsaw (Poland) | C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
| 21. Pachman vs Novotelnov |
| ½-½ | 50 |
1947 |
Moscow | C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
| 22. K Galia vs Szabo |
| 1-0 | 35 |
1947 |
Schlechter mem | C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd |
| 23. C H Alexander vs Keres |
| 0-1 | 72 |
1947 |
London, GB-SU team m | C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 24. L Steiner vs Szabo |
 | 0-1 | 39 |
1948 |
Saltsjobaden | C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
| 25. Yanofsky vs Pachman |
| ½-½ | 56 |
1948 |
Izt Stockholm | C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |