Aug-29-12 Averbakh vs Botvinnik, 1955
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WhoKeres: Botvinnik's use of the bishop pair and more active king to win this endgame, against a great endgame specialist like Averbakh, is most instructive and impressive.
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| | Mar-27-12 Goglidze vs Lasker, 1935
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WhoKeres: Lasker's win was due to his consistently more active pieces; first his King, then his Knight, and lastly the Rook. It didn't hurt that Goglidze hung a piece, either.
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| | Feb-11-12 Christiansen vs Vaganian, 1990
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WhoKeres: White's 20th and 22nd moves are the mark of a great attacker like Christiansen. The calculation to see he wins back a piece on move 27 is very deep. A beautiful attacking game!
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| | Jan-14-12 Carlsen vs V Gashimov, 2012 
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WhoKeres: 39. Nf2 threatens 40. Bxf7. Carlsen's handling of his knight reminds me of some of Tchigorin's games...beautiful.
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| | Dec-31-11 Chigorin vs S Rosenthal, 1883
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WhoKeres: Chigorin had a won position in this game for about the last 30 moves. Money must have been at stake for Rosenthal to keep playing on. I can't imagine a modern GM playing this position out.
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| | Dec-22-11 Polugaevsky vs Keres, 1973
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WhoKeres: Keres tried the unusual move 5...cxd4 three times at the Zurich Candidates tournament in 1953, scoring 2.5/3! However, Polugaevsky was an excellent openings specialist and he was obviously well prepared for Keres' pet line. I think the line is dubious as black has the simpler, ...
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| | Nov-29-11 R Renter vs Simagin, 1947
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WhoKeres: Some pretty play by Simagin to force his Q-side pawn majority through to a passed pawn, and then a queen!
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| | Oct-29-11 Keres vs Bondarevsky, 1951
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WhoKeres: This game is listed as part of a training tournament. Apparently Bondaresky was interested in helping Keres gain experience winning when he was three pawns up!
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| | Mar-19-11 Nunn vs Tarjan, 1977
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WhoKeres: Tarjan shows that a more active King in the endgame is an advantage not to be underestimated. This shows the technique of a strong GM as well.
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| | Mar-05-11 G Irion vs Tarrasch, 1888
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WhoKeres: Tarrasch's games against these minor masters of the 1880's and 1890's are very impressive. In this game his Bishop pair dominates white's knights and he skillfully takes advantage of white's doubled King pawns. When you play through games like this you realize just how great a ...
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