The quickest way to mate
L Darling vs R Wood, 1983  (A00) Uncommon Opening, 2 moves, 0-1
Surrounded by ladies
Ed. Lasker vs Alekhine, 1913  (A80) Dutch, 46 moves, 0-1
Four Knights' Opening!
A Lehtinen vs T Simola, 1995  (B24) Sicilian, Closed, 41 moves, 1-0
Six queen offers IN A ROW!
E Z Adams vs Torre, 1920  (C41) Philidor Defense, 23 moves, 1-0
Mate on move seven...by underpromotion!
Wiede vs A Goetz, 1880  (C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 7 moves, 0-1
Carbon copy of the game above
H Reinle vs Lange, 1936  (C30) King's Gambit Declined, 8 moves, 1-0
Not your average Grandmaster draw...
I Nikolic vs G Arsovic, 1989  (E95) King's Indian, Orthodox, 7...Nbd7, 8.Re1, 255 moves, 1/2-1/2
Have you no respect for symmetry?
Traxler vs J Samanek, 1900  (C49) Four Knights, 16 moves, 1-0
Stalemate with every single piece on the board
J Hohmeister vs T Frank, 1993  (A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 12 moves, 1/2-1/2
29-move decisive game with no captures or checks
A Medina Garcia vs Gligoric, 1968  (C93) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense, 29 moves, 0-1
A different kind of king hunt
H Weenink vs L Gans, 1923  (C25) Vienna, 27 moves, 1-0
Black's f-pawn stays on its starting square for 171 moves
Seirawan vs J Xu, 1988  (D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 191 moves, 1/2-1/2
The famous faked five-queen game
Alekhine vs NN, 1915  (C12) French, McCutcheon, 29 moves, 1-0
Eight pawns on the fourth rank
B Alterman vs Deep Fritz, 2000  (A03) Bird's Opening, 87 moves, 1-0
A very strange mate
A Dadian vs M Bitcham, 1892  (C56) Two Knights, 20 moves, 1-0
Four pieces return to the back rank--and still he wins!
Petrosian vs Aronin, 1961  (A04) Reti Opening, 40 moves, 1-0
The word "bind" doesn't do it justice.
B Harper vs R Zuk, 1971  (E97) King's Indian, 39 moves, 0-1
Wanna see a rook attempt suicide 36 times?
E Post vs A Nimzowitsch, 1905  (D07) Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense, 98 moves, 1/2-1/2
A seven-rank king hunt without a single check
Botvinnik vs Gligoric, 1956  (A37) English, Symmetrical, 30 moves, 1-0
One knight. Ninety-two moves.
Lipschutz vs Bird, 1889  (B25) Sicilian, Closed, 159 moves, 1/2-1/2
Karpov's pieces return home
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1993  (E86) King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox, 7.Nge2 c6, 27 moves, 0-1
The four horsemen of the apocalypse
H Clemenz vs F Eisenschmidt, 1862  (C51) Evans Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0
Back rank mate...no, the opponent's back rank!
G Janny vs I Gudju, 1920  (C51) Evans Gambit, 22 moves, 1-0
"Uncommon opening?" Bit of an understatement...
O Onishko vs M Leonov, 2002  (A00) Uncommon Opening, 13 moves, 0-1
18 consecutive white-square moves for Karpov (21-38)
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985  (D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 63 moves, 1-0
Mate by en passant
G Gundersen vs A H Faul, 1928  (C02) French, Advance, 15 moves, 1-0
In 28 moves, White sacrifices all his pawns...
W R Ballard vs J Fagan, 1884  (000) Chess variants, 30 moves, 1-0
...while here 115 moves go by without either player losing one.
Z Zhang vs G Timoscenko, 2002  (C97) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 115 moves, 1/2-1/2
Quadrupled pawns
Alekhine vs V Nenarokov, 1907  (D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 43 moves, 0-1
Not the Knight he bargained for
Reshevsky vs G N Treysman, 1938  (E00) Queen's Pawn Game, 42 moves, 1-0
Shortest possible stalemate
J Upmark vs R Johansson, 1995  (A10) English, 10 moves, 1/2-1/2
Two bishop underpromotions in the same game.
Vidmar vs Maroczy, 1932  (D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 129 moves, 1/2-1/2
Oh-oh-oh! Check!
NN vs G Abrahams, 1929  (D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 11 moves, 0-1
A very overworked lady
Mackenzie vs Mason, 1882  (C41) Philidor Defense, 144 moves, 1/2-1/2
Three en passant captures in one game
Kudrin vs R Douven, 1989  (B18) Caro-Kann, Classical, 51 moves, 1-0
Underpromotion leads to king-hunt and an all-minor-piece mate
R Fontaine vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2007  (A89) Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with Nc6, 39 moves, 0-1
All the pretty horses
Crafty vs Nakamura, 2007  (A00) Uncommon Opening, 155 moves, 0-1
37 games |