Game |
| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
1. Alapin vs Rubinstein |
 | ½-½ | 49 | 1907 | 5th All-Russian Masters, Lodz | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
2. O Bernstein vs Rubinstein |
 | ½-½ | 26 | 1907 | Ostend Masters | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
3. L Forgacs vs Rubinstein |
 | ½-½ | 27 | 1907 | Ostend Masters | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
4. H Suechting vs Salwe |
 | ½-½ | 35 | 1907 | Ostend Masters | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
5. L Asztalos vs F Chalupetzky |
| ½-½ | 31 | 1911 | Budapest | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
6. Z Barasz vs F Chalupetzky |
| ½-½ | 35 | 1911 | Budapest | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
7. H B Uber vs V Wahltuch |
| ½-½ | 49 | 1912 | British Championship | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
8. Saemisch vs Bogoljubov |
| ½-½ | 29 | 1921 | Triberg | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
9. Bogoljubov vs Rubinstein |
 | ½-½ | 44 | 1925 | Baden-Baden | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
10. Bogoljubov vs Rubinstein |
 | ½-½ | 58 | 1925 | Breslau | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
11. Bogoljubov vs Rubinstein |
 | ½-½ | 75 | 1926 | Berlin | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
12. N Panchenko vs Botvinnik |
 | ½-½ | 49 | 1927 | Leningrad-Moscow (metallists) | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
13. Lasker vs Bogoljubov |
 | ½-½ | 70 | 1927 | Living pieces exhibition | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
14. Ed Lasker vs Kupchik |
| ½-½ | 47 | 1931 | New York International | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
15. E Steiner vs L Merenyi |
| ½-½ | 25 | 1935 | Tatatovaros | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
16. C H Alexander vs Keres |
  | ½-½ | 52 | 1938 | Hastings 1937/38 | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
17. L Abramov vs L Guldin |
| ½-½ | 53 | 1939 | 14th Ch Leningrad | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
18. S Belavenets vs Alatortsev |
| ½-½ | 43 | 1939 | Leningrad / Moscow training | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
19. Smyslov vs Levenfish |
 | ½-½ | 63 | 1939 | Leningrad / Moscow training | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
20. T Hess vs Vidmar |
| ½-½ | 37 | 1939 | Stuttgart | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
21. L Abramov vs G Stepanov (Schneideman) |
| ½-½ | 22 | 1940 | 15th Ch Leningrad | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
22. L Rellstab vs W E Kunerth |
| ½-½ | 62 | 1940 | Schlage Memorial | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
23. Boleslavsky vs Lilienthal |
 | ½-½ | 42 | 1940 | USSR Championship | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
24. Levenfish vs Lilienthal |
| ½-½ | 42 | 1940 | USSR Championship | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |
25. Smyslov vs Lilienthal |
 | ½-½ | 125 | 1941 | USSR Absolute Championship | C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin |