page 1 of 36; games 1-25 of 900  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Tarrasch vs Schlechter   1-0 65 1902 Monte Carlo C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 2. W Meiners vs Duras   ½-½ 57 1903 Hilversum C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 3. Schlechter vs J N Berger   1-0 29 1907 Carlsbad it, CZE C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 4. Maroczy vs E Cohn   1-0 39 1907 Carlsbad it, CZE C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 5. Przepiorka vs Rubinstein 0-1 31 1907 Lodz C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 6. Schlechter vs Salwe 1-0 32 1908 Prague C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 7. Von Bardeleben vs Prokes   0-1 63 1908 Prague C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 8. Z von Balla vs Hromadka   1-0 28 1912 Bad Pistyan it, CZE C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 9. E Steiner vs Bogoljubov   0-1 29 1921 Budapest (Hungary) C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 10. Maroczy vs Capablanca 0-1 57 1924 New York C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 11. Lasker vs W Frere 0-1 41 1926 USA sim C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 12. Grob vs M Censer   1-0 33 1927 1st olm final C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 13. Keres vs A Friedman   1-0 41 1935 Tallinn C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 14. Ragozin vs Levenfish   ½-½ 58 1939 Ch URS C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 15. Samisch vs K Junge 0-1 42 1942 Czech Republic C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 16. R Keller vs K Junge   0-1 63 1942 Lublin/Warsaw/Cracow C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 17. Ravinsky vs Simagin   0-1 45 1947 Ch Moscow C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 18. Simagin vs Szily   1-0 47 1949 Budapest (Hungary) C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 19. O'Kelly vs Bogoljubov   ½-½ 72 1949 OLdenburg C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 20. Rautenberg vs O Sarapu   0-1 39 1949 OLdenburg C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 21. Ivkov vs Puc 1-0 46 1950 Bled C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 22. Niephaus vs C B Van den Berg   ½-½ 41 1951 FRG-NED m C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 23. Yanofsky vs J Pederson 1-0 21 1955 USA C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 24. Aronin vs Novotelnov   ½-½ 23 1956 URS-ch sf C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 25. Bannik vs G Borisenko   1-0 41 1956 URS-ch sf C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed  page 1 of 36; games 1-25 of 900    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

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Dec-28-05    Rocafella: Not suprised no-one's kibitzed here. I tend to follow the old experession 'The knight on the rim is grim.' I just felt that the space on this page was unnecessarily boring! The knight on a5 presures the bishop which can easily move out of harms way and the knight then looks ridiculous with no good moves. Dec-28-05    Rocafella: This does however carry on into lines like Chigorin defence?, which is OK for black. Oct-06-06    Joshka: I don't have access now to any larger database than we have here, but I'd like to know if 15...Re8 as my opponent just played, has any merit, or is it still book in other lines?...15...ed4 seems to be the only line in this chessgames database. I lost the game, but probably due to some wrong middle game moves on my part:-)..thanks in advance Oct-06-06    e4Newman: exactly which position are you talking about after 10...c5 11.d4 as you know, there are a few posibilities between there and 15... in the Chigorin Oct-06-06    Joshka: After my 11.d4 my opponent went ...Nd7 then 12.Nbd2...cd4 13.cd4...Bf6 14.Nf1...Nc6 15.Be3....then he plays the Re8. I was shocked at myself that I was able to follow theory for the first 15 moves for white! All I was doing was just trying to use logic, cause there are just too many lines for me to remember anyway...thanks for responding. Oct-19-06    e4Newman: <Joshka> sorry i forgot all about this thread i like the logic behind many of the closed lopez lines - your memory is great, moving the QN over to the K-side none of my references show 15...Re8 in the position mentioned although we see it in other Chigorins, don't we maybe he was just playing with the move order or couldn't remember the move begs for white to play d5 with unclear results as far as i can tell, perhaps just a short lived initiative...never seen it OTB 16.d5 Na5 or ...Nb4 look playable and now the black KN can jump to c5...hmmm 16.dxe5 doesn't look necessary yet, not that bad though 16.Ng3 hoping to get to f5 may be a plan, not very decisive though how did it turn out?? Mar-13-08    whiteshark: A summary of the recent theory on this new <Marshall-Gambit>, written by Lars Schandorff, can be found here: http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten... Position after <10...d5> / games in this db: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Dec-01-08    refutor: i'm excited about the 10. ...d5 move in the tchigorin. i played the tchigorin years and years ago but i found that White got an advantage without trying very hard, just playing the normal Nb1-d2-f1-g3 and going at the king. i'm happy to have the closed lopez back in my repertoire :) Jan-17-09    refutor: after 2 months of considering 10. ...d5 is it for shock value only? the 11.exd5 e4 lines look good for Black, but 11.d4 (in particular) and some others look pretty tough for Black. if black wants to play ...d5 should he do it on the 8th move only? any theoreticians out there wishing to comment?

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