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Games of the Day Archive

Feb-09
Book Moves
Keres vs Book, 1952

Feb-08
Cirque du Suhle
Anderssen vs B Suhle, 1860

Feb-07
The Lombardy Trophy
Reshevsky vs Lombardy, 1957

Feb-06
Alex in Wonderland
Beliavsky vs Kupreichik, 1973

Feb-05
Pole Position
M Bartel vs Krasenkow, 2010

Feb-04
The Boy Who Would Beat Kings
Carlsen vs Kramnik, 2009

Feb-03
M.C. Hammered
Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2009

Feb-02
Jak-in-the-Box
D Jakovenko vs Carlsen, 2009

Feb-01
Gelfandom
Gelfand vs Leko, 2009

Jan-31
Maximus Wins the Crowd
Morozevich vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2009

Jan-30
Kamsky's Consolation Prize
Kamsky vs Topalov, 2009

Jan-29
Drawing Conclusions
Carlsen vs Kramnik, 2009

Jan-28
Teimour for the Money
Radjabov vs Aronian, 2009

Jan-27
Prep Rally
Bacrot vs Aronian, 2009

Jan-26
M-Told
Carlsen vs Topalov, 2009

Jan-25
Strength over Philosophy
V Atlas vs V Aristotelous, 2007

Jan-24
A-Major Upset
Capablanca vs S Prokofiev, 1914

Jan-23
Drawing a Crowd
Heath / Allies vs Alekhine, 1923

Jan-22
Almost Drewitt
Alekhine vs J Drewitt, 1923

Jan-21
Rash Decision
Kasparov vs Rashkovsky, 1979

Jan-20
Smeets Depress
Shirov vs J Smeets, 2010

Jan-19
The Bare Witsch Project
Nimzowitsch vs J Perlis, 1905

Jan-18
Elbow Gris
Shirov vs Grischuk, 2000

Jan-17
Loek of the Draw
Van Wely vs Leko, 1996

Jan-16
If Anything Can Go Wrong, It Will.
Morphy vs De Riviere, 1863

Jan-15
The Wizard of Oslo
Carlsen vs I Abusdal, 2003

Jan-14
Grant's Tomb
J Grant vs C Weiss, 2007

Jan-13
ET Pawn Home
Najdorf vs E Torre, 1976

Jan-12
Teimour the Merrier
Radjabov vs Carlsen, 2009

Jan-11
The Lowest Form of Tuma
P Chrz vs J Tuma, 2001

Jan-10
A Whiter Shade of Pal
Benko vs Suttles, 1964

Jan-09
Lev Levels
Polugaevsky vs E Torre, 1981

Jan-08
The Pann-handler
Fischer vs Panno, 1970

Jan-07
Pulling a Rabbit out of the Hat
Tal vs Karpov, 1987

Jan-06
The Knight who says Nh1!
Nimzowitsch vs Rubinstein, 1926

Jan-05
The Wurm Turns
H Geiger vs W Wurm, 1930

Jan-04
Abstract Art
Max Weiss vs W Pollock, 1889

Jan-03
The Two Knight Show
Gligoric vs Bidev, 1946

Jan-02
Kampen Out
R Van Kampen vs Timman, 2009

Jan-01
MMX
Deep Sjeng vs micro-Max, 2007

Dec-31
New Year's Eve
E Nuenchert vs A Glaser, 2000

Dec-30
Gunina-Pig
N Kosintseva vs V Gunina, 2009

Dec-29
The French and Indian War
Anand vs Dreev, 1991

Dec-28
Bird, Bird Bird. Bird is the Word.
Bird vs Lasker, 1892

Dec-27
Wang Zugs
Ivanchuk vs Wang Yue, 2009

Dec-26
Bach-Sing Day
M Bach vs H Strand, 2009

Dec-25
Szen's Greetings
Szen vs La Bourdonnais, 1836

Dec-24
We Three Kings
Steinitz vs Zukertort / Bird / Hoff, 1880

Dec-23
Onward Christiansen Soldiers
Christiansen vs L C Gilden, 1976

Dec-22
Old King Cole
H G Cole vs R H Newman, 1946

Dec-21
Fall of the Wall
Kasparov vs Kramnik, 2001

Dec-20
Breaking the Bank
Kasparov vs Mercury Asset Management, 1993

Dec-19
Earnest Julio Gallowed
C Van Tilbury vs J Ostos, 1978

Dec-18
Monkeying Around
R Gibbons vs G Thornton, 2003

Dec-17
Don't Luke Now
Carlsen vs McShane, 2009

Dec-16
Nowarra to Run
P F Schmidt vs H Nowarra, 1941

Dec-15
24 Karat Fine Gold
R Bauer vs B Finegold, 2001

Dec-14
Manor Down
I Manor vs Adams, 1988

Dec-13
Howell Does He Play?
D Howell vs A Bitalzadeh, 2009

Dec-12
The Postman Always Checks Twice
A E Post vs Flamberg, 1914

Dec-11
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Plaskett vs W Watson, 1983

Dec-10
What a Long Strange Trip it's Been
D Freeman vs Laufer, 1993

Dec-09
Helm's Deep
Smyth vs H Helms, 1915

Dec-08
The Norman Conquest
G Norman vs Colle, 1927

Dec-07
Korchnoi Écorché
Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1974

Dec-06
Krammed in a Corner
Kramnik vs Topalov, 2005

Dec-05
Oh my God, they Killed Kenny!
P Kenny vs H Multhopp, 2001

Dec-04
Bragging Rights
Birbrager vs Tal, 1953

Dec-03
Scotch with a Twist of Lemon
B Blumenfeld vs NN, 1903

Dec-02
Filip Flop
Kholmov vs Filip, 1954

Dec-01
Win-Win Scenario
Zaw Win Lay vs Win Zaw Tun, 1999

Nov-30
Voila, Walaa
W Sarwat vs P Dukaczewski, 2006

Nov-29
The Good, the Bad, and the Bishop
E Torre vs W So, 2009

Nov-28
Touche Guevara
C Van Tilbury vs M Guevara, 1981

Nov-27
Damascus Steel
Seirawan vs Timman, 1990

Nov-26
Banks Giving
N Banks vs Kashdan, 1926

Nov-25
London Bridge Is Cramling Down
Smyslov vs P Cramling, 1996

Nov-24
Learning your ABCs
A B Carlin vs Christiansen, 1986

Nov-23
Five Knights in Belgrade
Szabo vs Ivkov, 1964

Nov-22
What a Drag it is Getting Old
M Perunovic vs Velimirovic, 2006

Nov-21
Jurgen's Notion
Korchnoi vs J Gegner, 1986

Nov-20
Miles Ahead
Miles vs Browne, 1982

Nov-19
Death and the Maiden
Menchik vs F Schubert, 1928

Nov-18
Belovs me Knott
V Belov vs S Knott, 2004

Nov-17
The Morh Tal Game
Tal vs S Mohr, 1990

Nov-16
Mecking a Mess
Fischer vs Mecking, 1970

Nov-15
Vlad the Impaler
Kramnik vs Ponomariov, 2009

Nov-14
Ponzi Scheme
Falkbeer vs R Schurig, 1850

Nov-13
French Bulldog
E Cobo Arteaga vs Ivkov, 1963

Nov-12
Tour de France
E Formanek vs Bradford, 1979

Nov-11
Take the Lange Way Home
Max Lange vs NN, 1855

Nov-10
Reichenbach Falls
Keene vs W Reichenbach, 1975

Nov-09
Alexey Sweatin'
Korchnoi vs Suetin, 1953

Nov-08
Levon on a Jet Plane
Aronian vs Morozevich, 2006

Nov-07
Of Cabbages and Kings
Rubinstein vs Nimzowitsch, 1928

Nov-06
Dancing the Knight Away
Rubinstein vs Janowski, 1925

Nov-05
Gone 4-0 While
Fischer vs Tal, 1959

Nov-04
Char Broiler
Charousek vs J Wollner, 1893

Nov-03
Torred and Feathered
Carlos Torre vs M Schapiro, 1924

Nov-02
Rossetto Stoned
Fischer vs H Rossetto, 1959

Nov-01
Gosta Get Her
Stoltz vs H Steiner, 1952

Oct-31
Frank 'n' Stein
Steinitz vs Marshall, 1893

Oct-30
The Well Tempered Kliavin
Kliavin vs Tal, 1954

Oct-29
Mount Vesuvius
Martin vs Pompei, 1955

Oct-28
Pawned by Pons
Svidler vs Vallejo-Pons, 2004

Oct-27
Persson non Grata
T Hillarp Persson vs I Sokolov, 2009

Oct-26
Chess is Mental Torture
Kasparov vs Lautier, 1994

Oct-25
The Pelikan Brief
M Brodsky vs Kramnik, 1991

Oct-24
Tony Award
T Palmer vs R Present, 1986

Oct-23
Spidey Sense
Morozevich vs Adams, 2001

Oct-22
Veli, Vidi, Vici
A Planinc vs Velimirovic, 1975

Oct-21
Clerical Error
Nakamura vs S Muhammad, 2004

Oct-20
Hou Dunnit
J Smeets vs Yifan Hou, 2008

Oct-19
Queen's Reich
Tal vs Panno, 1958

Oct-18
Two Knight's the Knight
N Marache vs Morphy, 1857

Oct-17
Et tu, Bruzon?
L Bruzon vs Carlsen, 2005

Oct-16
Octave Above Tenner
Alekhine vs O Tenner, 1911

Oct-15
Girls Juswanto Have Fun
D Juswanto vs Zhu Chen, 2004

Oct-14
Same Old Samo
D Waterman vs Samo, 1974

Oct-13
gg
Edelman vs I Mazel, 1928

Oct-12
Pulling Rank
The King vs The Baron, 2006

Oct-11
I Shot the Sheriff
Speelman vs El Assiouti Sheriff, 1992

Oct-10
Gris is the Word
Grischuk vs Ponomariov, 2000

Oct-09
Ruda Wakening
Smyslov vs I Rudakovsky, 1945

Oct-08
Do the Strand
Carlsen vs H Strand, 2008

Oct-07
Maia Culpa
Gulko vs Chiburdanidze, 1985

Oct-06
I'm a Mac. I'm a PC.
P Charbonneau vs P MacIntyre, 2009

Oct-05
Rockin' Robson
V Akobian vs R Robson, 2009

Oct-04
Dustin' Hoffman
A Hoffman vs Nakamura, 1999

Oct-03
Marco Solo
Mieses vs G Marco, 1903

Oct-02
Thou Shalt Not, Steele
Steele vs C Stanley, 1860

Oct-01
Confuse-a-Catalan
E Polovnikova-Atalik vs J Werle, 2006

Sep-30
Deep Blue Screen of Death
Kasparov vs Deep Blue, 1996

Sep-29
Hou Wears Short's Shorts
Yifan Hou vs Short, 2008

Sep-28
It's a So-Ni
W So vs Ni Hua, 2008

Sep-27
Stalled Wagon
Ljubojevic vs Stellwagen, 2009

Sep-26
Pogo Sticks
M Lomineishvili vs N Pogonina, 2009

Sep-25
Nunn Chuks
Ivanchuk vs Nunn, 1994

Sep-24
Kashdan's Immortal
B Siff vs Kashdan, 1948

Sep-23
Profit Elijah
E Williams vs Staunton, 1851

Sep-22
Short Changed
Efimenko vs Short, 2009

Sep-21
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like Wesley
W So vs Li Chao, 2006

Sep-20
Dake Believe
Dake vs J Schmitt, 1949

Sep-19
Shortlisted
Short vs N Grandelius, 2009

Sep-19
Ponzi Scheme
D Aldrich vs S Sloan, 2007

Sep-18
Sacs and Violence
Sax vs Ljubojevic, 1980

Sep-17
Quick and Dirty
M Pein vs Anand, 1989

Sep-16
Game Euwe
Geller vs Euwe, 1953

Sep-15
Famous Amos
NN vs Burn, 1866

Sep-14
The African Queen
P Limbos vs H Bogart, 1951

Sep-13
MIT vs CalTech
T Karatekin vs P Hummel, 2003

Sep-12
The Perils of Perlis
Schlechter vs J Perlis, 1911

Sep-11
The Brazilian Immortal
J Caldas Vianna vs A Silvestre de Barros, 1900

Sep-10
In the Zonal
Geller vs Spassky, 1964

Sep-09
Dealt a Grand Slam
Karjakin vs Grischuk, 2009

Sep-08
Hammer Time
L D'Costa vs J L Hammer, 2009

Sep-07
The Devil Went Down to Gheorghiu
Gheorghiu vs Uhlmann, 1967

Sep-06
Limp Bisguit
Bisguier vs Golombek, 1965

Sep-05
Pale Ale
Alekhine vs Rubinstein, 1912

Sep-04
Not in My House!
Dlugy vs J Bonin, 1984

Sep-03
The Merry Wives of Wynn Zaw
Mok Tze Meng vs Wynn Zaw Htun, 2000

Sep-02
What's All Defosse About?
Koltanowski vs M Defosse, 1936

Sep-01
Like a Reinfeld Cowboy
F Reinfeld vs Reshevsky, 1932

Aug-31
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess
Carlsen vs H Carlsen, 2007

Aug-30
O RLY?
Keene vs Orly, 1961

Aug-29
Minor Scales
M Bluvshtein vs A Moiseenko, 2009

Aug-28
Ustinov Time to Mate
V Osnos vs G Ustinov, 1960

Aug-27
Karu Cell
A Karu vs Keres, 1931

Aug-26
Chuk E. Cheese
Ivanchuk vs Grischuk, 2009

Aug-25
Morphology
Morphy vs Anderssen, 1858

Aug-24
De Plan! De Plan!
A Planinc vs Gheorghiu, 1969

Aug-22
Chessgames Dot Csom
Nunn vs Csom, 1977

Aug-21
Bron vs Brains
Bronstein vs Deep Blue, 1996

Aug-20
Barnes Storming
T W Barnes vs Morphy, 1858

Aug-19
Music and Shashin were Always the Fashion
B Shashin vs Korchnoi, 1973

Aug-18
Knight of the Bishop
E Alekseev vs I Cheparinov, 2009

Aug-17
I'm Just a Bill
Lombardy vs Quinteros, 1973

Aug-16
The Wrong Side of the Trax
J Reinisch vs Traxler, 1890

Aug-15
Login Problems
I Kurnosov vs V A Loginov, 2002

Aug-14
The Immortal Pin Game
B Gamback vs R Nevanlinna, 2001

Aug-13
It Takes All Kinds
M Umansky vs The World, 2009

Aug-12
Reiter Wrong
Gilg vs H Reiter, 1936

Aug-11
Uros Ouroboros
U Kavcic vs R Tavcar, 1997

Aug-10
Testa Nerves
Hartlaub vs M W Testa, 1912

Aug-09
Magnus Carta
Carlsen vs Anand, 2009

Aug-08
Goering, Goering, Gone
C T Goering vs J Minckwitz, 1871

Aug-07
Rock the Kashdan
Kashdan vs Rubinstein, 1931

Aug-06
Knight Vision Boggles
Mamedyarov vs Bacrot, 2008

Aug-05
Once a Ponzi Time
D Ponziani vs D Ercole Del Rio, 1770

Aug-04
Milos to Go Before I Sleep
G Milos vs N Murshed, 1997

Aug-03
Can't Touch This
J L Hammer vs Carlsen, 2003

Aug-02
Groenn in Agony
Carlsen vs A Groenn, 2005

Aug-01
Talkin' 'bout my Variation
Velimirovic vs Sofrevski, 1965

Jul-31
Mohrlok Next Time
Tal vs D A Mohrlok, 1962

Jul-30
Cole Heats up Winter
H G Cole vs W Winter, 1919

Jul-29
Gulliver and the Lputian
Lputian vs Kasparov, 1976

Jul-28
See the Pawns Topalov
Azmaiparashvili vs Topalov, 2003

Jul-27
An Happel, a Day
H Happel vs L Day, 2001

Jul-26
Defanged
L Milman vs J Fang, 2005

Jul-25
Running on M.T.
Fischer vs Tal, 1962

Jul-24
Rook You Like a Hurricane
Serper vs C Navrotescu, 1988

Jul-23
Perecz-Stroika
L Perecz vs M Hever, 1974

Jul-22
Babar the Elephant
A Sasu-Ducsoara vs F Babar, 1993

Jul-21
Panno-Rama
Panno vs Larsen, 1971

Jul-20
French Fried
Bologan vs Vaganian, 2006

Jul-19
Alcoholic, Anonymous
Alekhine vs NN, 1925

Jul-18
The Zukes of Hazard
Anderssen vs Zukertort, 1869

Jul-17
Pound Per Pound
H Thieme vs P Ofstad, 2005

Jul-16
Game of the Dane
Fischer vs Larsen, 1970

Jul-15
Caro Bungle
Chigorin vs H Caro, 1898

Jul-14
It Was a Vera Good Year
Menchik vs Graf-Stevenson, 1937

Jul-13
Erdos Number 1
Erdos vs Lichtner, 1922

Jul-12
Kuemin Get It!
S Kuemin vs R Staechelin, 2005

Jul-11
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Parma vs C Bielicki, 1959

Jul-10
Broken English
Smyslov vs Fischer, 1970

Jul-09
The Wizard of Oz
I Rogers vs G Milos, 1992

Jul-08
Kan You Believe It?
Bronstein vs Kan, 1945

Jul-07
Judge Judit
Judit Polgar vs Anand, 1999

Jul-06
Étude in g7
Ivanchuk vs Shirov, 1996

Jul-05
The Mainz Attraction
NN vs Nakamura, 2009

Jul-04
The Mid Knight Ride of De Riviere
H Laroche vs De Riviere, 1862

Jul-03
Shredded
Rybka vs Shredder, 2009

Jul-02
Dude, You're Getting O'Dell!
O'Dell vs Keene, 1966

Jul-01
Ding Ding Ding!
Ding Liren vs Ni Hua, 2009

Jun-30
Gone with the Windmill
Alekhine vs A Fletcher, 1928

Jun-29
The Dao is Down
R Antonio vs Dao Thien Hai, 2005

Jun-28
I'll Have What Xie's Having
A Stefanova vs Xie Jun, 1996

Jun-27
c4 Yourself
Seirawan vs Browne, 1979

Jun-26
Ashes Tarrasch's
Tarrasch vs Allies, 1914

Jun-25
Better Luck to Moro
Ivanchuk vs Morozevich, 1996

Jun-24
Boogie Knights
NN vs Blackburne, 1871

Jun-23
The Way to Win a Queen is to b1
Miles vs Yusupov, 1985

Jun-22
The Full Monti
Bogoljubov vs M Monticelli, 1930

Jun-21
The Sultan of Suat
S Atalik vs Sax, 1997

Jun-20
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Tal vs Geller, 1958

Jun-19
It's Not Euwe 'til It's Over
Vidmar vs Euwe, 1929

Jun-18
Good Wil Hunting
Steinitz vs Chigorin, 1892

Jun-17
Broken Hjarted
Tal vs Hjartarson, 1987

Jun-16
Indian's Queen Defense
Topalov vs Anand, 2005

Jun-15
Knight After Knight
G MacDonnell vs Bird, 1874

Jun-14
Capa Don't Preach
Capablanca vs Lasker, 1921

Jun-13
A Fine Line
Fischer vs Fine, 1963

Jun-12
Sham-Wow
Shamkovich vs Benko, 1978

Jun-11
Who Let the Pawns Out?
Kramnik vs Kasparov, 1994

Jun-10
Holy Queen Sac, Basman!
F Babar vs M Basman, 1993

Jun-09
Bonn Fire
Kramnik vs Anand, 2008

Jun-08
The Marjanov Error
Kasparov vs Marjanovic, 1980

Jun-07
Book 'em, Panno
Panno vs Spassky, 1955

Jun-06
Kavalanche
Gufeld vs Kavalek, 1962

Jun-05
Fine Slew
Fine vs Botvinnik, 1938

Jun-04
Black Be Nimzo, Black Win Quick
H K Mattison vs Nimzowitsch, 1929

Jun-03
Mikhail's Navy
Tal vs Koblents, 1957

Jun-02
Levon a High Note
Aronian vs Leko, 2009

Jun-01
No Country for Old Men
Spassky vs Fischer, 1992

May-31
Leonid Meteor
Gligoric vs Stein, 1962

May-30
I, Krobot
J Krejcik vs K Krobot, 1908

May-29
Michael Rohde Boat Ashore
Rohde vs Seirawan, 1988

May-28
When You Wish A Pawn A Starr
N Starr vs J Trottier, 2001

May-27
Hard Day's Knight
L Day vs B Harper, 1975

May-26
A Long Walk Off a Short Peer
Short vs Timman, 1991

May-25
J.R. Euweing
Capablanca vs Euwe, 1931

May-24
Bohemian Rhapsody
Zukertort vs Steinitz, 1886

May-23
Also Schach Zarathustra
L Also vs B Rodriguez, 1992

May-22
Good Grefe, Walter Browne
J Grefe vs Browne, 1973

May-21
Tonight, Let it be Lowenthal
Morphy vs Lowenthal, 1858

May-20
On Goldin's Pawn
Goldin vs Geller, 1989

May-19
Steel Second
R Steel vs Blackburne, 1881

May-18
Kogan's Heroes
A Kogan vs W Arencibia, 2002

May-17
R to d2
L Tamarkin vs E Schiller, 1979

May-16
Take This Rook and Kramnik
Kramnik vs Shirov, 1994

May-15
Ehlvest Has Left the Building
Kasparov vs Ehlvest, 1978

May-14
Grand Theft Otto
O Borik vs C Renner, 1999

May-13
Emil Fit For A King
Sutovsky vs Smirin, 2002

May-12
Broken Mirror
Traxler vs J Samanek, 1900

May-11
Van de Loo Industries
C Van de Loo vs M Hesseling, 1983

May-10
Mama Tried
Gelfand vs Judit Polgar, 2008

May-09
I Wish I was an Oscar-Maia Winner
Chiburdanidze vs Panno, 1992

May-08
Duke Nukhim
Kupreichik vs Rashkovsky, 1986

May-07
Alison Chains
Alison vs Fink, 1979

May-06
¡Three Amigos!
L Dominguez vs Radjabov, 2004

May-05
March of the Peng Wins
Zhaoqin Peng vs A Van Weersel, 2005

May-04
Svidler on the Roof
Svidler vs Topalov, 2004

May-03
Honey, I shrunk the KID!
B Rabar vs Znosko-Borovsky, 1949

May-02
Spoiled Brat
V Brat vs Filip, 1953

May-01
I concede clearly now; Therien is gone.
Yanofsky vs J Therien, 1947

Apr-30
Pillsbury on a Roll
Pillsbury vs Showalter, 1894

Apr-29
La Vie en Rose
Rose vs Steinitz, 1886

Apr-28
Air Jordan
D Wolford vs J Jordan, 1981

Apr-27
Max Pain
Golombek vs Euwe, 1951

Apr-26
Evening Post
A E Post vs Nimzowitsch, 1905

Apr-25
The Mothers of Invention
Zappa vs Ehlvest, 2005

Apr-24
Free for Oll
Oll vs Topalov, 1993

Apr-23
So You Think You Can Dance
Karpov vs Ulf Andersson, 1975

Apr-22
Shaked Not Stirred
Shaked vs Morgan, 1993

Apr-21
Juicy Gossip
Showalter vs Gossip, 1889

Apr-20
Scotch and Tonic
Blackburne vs G MacDonnell, 1876

Apr-19
Lesiege Under Siege
Kasimdzhanov vs Lesiege, 2000

Apr-18
Max Out
Euwe vs Reti, 1920

Apr-17
Once a Pawn a Mid Knight Dreary
Aronian vs Akopian, 2009

Apr-16
King Leer
Fischer vs Petrosian, 1959

Apr-15
A Ward Winning Game
K Visweswaran vs C Ward, 2001

Apr-14
Badly Bent
Larsen vs R C Balinas, 1975

Apr-13
Shaked Rattle and Roll
G Vescovi vs Shaked, 1997

Apr-12
Eggs Pert
N Pert vs S Crockart, 2007

Apr-11
Low Rider
P Morten vs B Rider, 2003

Apr-10
Man Smart, Woman Smarter
Kosteniuk vs McShane, 2003

Apr-09
The Breyer Patch
K Havasi vs Breyer, 1917

Apr-08
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
I Rogers vs Acs, 2003

Apr-07
All the Queen's Horses
Capablanca vs A Ribera Arnal, 1935

Apr-06
Do You Like Kipping?
Morphy vs Kipping, 1858

Apr-05
Give Up Hope
Keene vs H S Hope, 1963

Apr-04
Take Another Rook
Tarrasch vs K Eckart, 1892

Apr-03
Bowdlerized
T Bowdler vs H Conway, 1788

Apr-02
Costin an Arm and a Leg
J Sachetti vs V Costin, 1898

Apr-01
The Immortal Overprotection Game
Nimzowitsch vs Systemsson, 1927

Mar-31
Holland Oats
Amsterdam vs Rotterdam, 1824

Mar-30
Little Red Wagen
Stellwagen vs Anand, 2009

Mar-29
Wolf Whistle
Reti vs H Wolf, 1922

Mar-28
Pwned
M Ortueta vs J Sanz, 1933

Mar-27
Hartoch's Heartache
Stein vs R Hartoch, 1969

Mar-26
Kram for the Exam
Carlsen vs Kramnik, 2009

Mar-25
A Thrust to the King's Gambit
Spassky vs Portisch, 1967

Mar-24
Variation from the Norm
N Van Lennep vs E Varain, 1894

Mar-23
The Big Appel
I Appel vs J A Seitz, 1938

Mar-22
Snug as a Bug in a Zug
Tal vs F Reinemer, 1992

Mar-21
Killer Queen
Morozevich vs Topalov, 1999

Mar-20
A Slav to Fashion
B Finegold vs R Gonzalez, 2006

Mar-19
A Rose is a Rose is Moroze
Morozevich vs Sakaev, 2007

Mar-18
Mayer May Not
Hovath vs L Mayer, 1917

Mar-17
Frozen in Amber
Anand vs Carlsen, 2009

Mar-16
See for Miles
V Ruban vs Miles, 1988

Mar-15
Metrick Missed 'Em
Karpov vs A Metrick, 1990

Mar-14
D-Listed
D Lister vs Keene, 1966

Mar-13
Constricted Pupols
V Pupols vs L D Evans, 1976

Mar-12
Fruit Lupi
F Lupi vs Alekhine, 1946

Mar-11
Tears for Fears
A Davis vs F Tears, 1944

Mar-10
Wang and a Prayer
Carlsen vs Wang Yue, 2009

Mar-09
Tour de Force
Fischer vs O Celle, 1964

Mar-08
Stop Dragon My Heart Around
L Dominguez vs Carlsen, 2009

Mar-07
May the Bettermann Lose
B Bettermann vs J Roscher, 1989

Mar-06
Slammin' Salmon
Morphy vs G Salmon, 1858

Mar-05
David and Goliath
Kasparov vs Radjabov, 2003

Mar-04
Chep Away
I Cheparinov vs Grischuk, 2008

Mar-03
One Life to Lev
Polugaevsky vs E Torre, 1984

Mar-02
Talk to the Hand
De Ronde vs G Hand, 1945

Mar-01
What D. Hell?
J Krejcik vs D Hell, 1921

Feb-28
Svindled
Svidler vs Rublevsky, 2003

Feb-27
That is the Question
Lipschutz vs Gossip, 1889

Feb-26
Be Dreev It or Not
Dreev vs Shirov, 1996

Feb-25
World Peace
A Nickel vs The World, 2008

Feb-24
Witte's End
Fischer vs V Witte, 1957

Feb-23
Preti Easy
Morphy vs J L Preti, 1858

Feb-22
Okily Dokily
M Kooshani vs C Flanders, 2004

Feb-21
Backwoods Rube
Rubinstein vs D Daniuszewski, 1907

Feb-20
Judd Harsh
Blackburne vs M Judd, 1889

Feb-19
I'll Come To Ye, Milad
Topalov vs I Miladinovic, 1990

Feb-18
Gata Go Now
Kamsky vs Kramnik, 1994

Feb-17
Amir Accident
Aronian vs A Bagheri, 1997

Feb-16
Atlas Shrugged
V Atlas vs Jiangchuan, 1994

Feb-15
Team Engine
Team White vs Team Black, 2008

Feb-14
Labor of Love
Alekhine vs A Love, 1923

Feb-13
Not in My House
Fischer vs J House, 1964

Feb-12
Botvinnik and Paid For
Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968

Feb-11
Thrash Metl
S Trofimov vs D Metlyakhin, 1994

Feb-10
Chuckle Off
V Chuchelov vs Shirov, 2009

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