Ware Art Thou, O' Fredthebear? Strange Days Here

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Ware Art Thou, O' Fredthebear? Strange Days Here
Compiled by fredthebear

"He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.'
Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates." ― George Orwell, 1984

This collection was started by Fredthebear for unorthodox openings but grew to include uncommon playing features. It's not FTB's best collection, but it's one of his favorites. FTB is inclined to avoid editing and leave much alone, although 1.Na3 games were removed for the sake of additional room.

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There's plenty of bad chess herein. The games are not necessarily related to odd ball openings. Most likely, something uncommon happened during play.

Thank you bharat292.
Do see unique themes: fourth division, by kevin86.

What's the worst opening?? "Gedult, D-Sauzedde" is a curious term indeed. 1.f3 is most often called the Barnes Opening in England (and 1.e4,f6 the Barnes Defense), after Thomas Wilson Barnes, who believe it or not actually beat Morphy with the defense. Gedult's Opening is perhaps the more common name in other countries.

Alekhine's Defense (Brooklyn Defense)
1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Ng8

Amar Gambit
1. Nh3 d5 2. g3 e5 3. f4 Bxh3 4. Bxh3 exf4 5. O-O

Amazon
1. d4 d5 2. Qd3

Baker Defense
1. e4 a6

Basman Defense
1. e4 g5

Battambang
1. Nc3 2. a3

Black Knights' Tango
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 Nc6

Colorado Counter
1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 f5

Dada Gambit
1. g3 e5 2. Bg2 d5 3. b4

Damiano's Defense
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6

Dory Defense
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 Ne4

Guatemala Defense
1. e4 b6 2. d4 Ba6

Heinrich Wagner Gambit
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bg5 c5 4. e4

Hippopotamus
...g6,...f6,...e6,...d6

Latvian Gambit (Corkscrew Variation)
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. Ne5 Nf6 4. Bc4 fxe4 5. Nxf7 Qe7 6. Nxh8 d5

Lemming
1. e4 Na6

Lisitsin Gambit
1. Nf3 f5 2. e4

Mengarini Attack
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Qc2

Mieses Opening
1. d3

Modern Defense (Pterodactyl)
1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. c4 d6 4. Nc3 c5 5. Nf3 Qa5

Modern Defense (Randspringer Variation)
1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. c4 d6 4. Nc3 f5

Napoleon
1. e4 e5 2. Qf3

Pantelidakis Countergambit
1.e4 e5 2.f4 f5

Paris Opening
1. Nh3

Ponziani Opening
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3

Queen's Bishop Attack
1. d4 d5 2. Bg5

Santasiere's Folly
1. Nf3 d5 2. b4

Saragossa Opening
1. c3

Van't Kruij's Opening
1. e3

Venezolana
d3, Nc3, g3

Woozle
1. d4 c5 2. d5 Nf6 3. Nc3 Qa5

* Unusual Opening Names: Game Collection: Unorthodox Games; Unusual Names (ECO=A,D,E)

After replaying tens of thousands of chess games, some of these don't seem so strange anymore to FTB, but the reader might enjoy a look-see anyway. Others will always be cool no matter how scrutinized.

* Tim Krabbe's (far out) Chess Records:
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* 15 minutes of TV fame: Game Collection: Chess players on gameshows

The Wolf, the Mother, And Her Child

This wolf another brings to mind,
Who found dame Fortune more unkind,
In that the greedy, pirate sinner,
Was balked of life as well as dinner.
As says our tale, a villager
Dwelt in a by, unguarded place;
There, hungry, watched our pillager
For luck and chance to mend his case.
For there his thievish eyes had seen
All sorts of game go out and in –
Nice sucking calves, and lambs and sheep;
And turkeys by the regiment,
With steps so proud, and necks so bent,
Theyed make a daintier glutton weep.
The thief at length began to tire
Of being gnawed by vain desire.
Just then a child set up a cry:
"Be still," the mother said, "or I
Will throw you to the wolf, you brat!"
"Ha, ha!" thought he, "what talk is that!
The gods be thanked for luck so good!"
And ready at the door he stood,
When soothingly the mother said,
"Now cry no more, my little dear;
That naughty wolf, if he comes here,
Your dear papa shall kill him dead."
"Humph!" cried the veteran mutton-eater.
"Now this, now that! Now hot, now cool!
Is this the way they change their metre?
And do they take me for a fool?
Some day, a nutting in the wood,
That young one yet shall be my food."
But little time has he to dote
On such a feast; the dogs rush out
And seize the caitiff by the throat;
And country ditchers, thick and stout,
With rustic spears and forks of iron,
The hapless animal environ.
"What brought you here, old head?" cried one.
He told it all, as I have done.
"Why, bless my soul!" the frantic mother said, – "You, villain, eat my little son!
And did I nurse the darling boy,
Your fiendish appetite to cloy?"
With that they knocked him on the head.
His feet and scalp they bore to town,
To grace the seigneur's hall,
Where, pinned against the wall,
This verse completed his renown:
"You honest wolves, believe not all
That mothers say, when children squall!"

King Tutankhamun had lots of cool toys, but one of his most intriguing may have been a dagger, discovered in his tomb in 1925, made of meteoric metal. It wasn't until recently that scientists were able to confirm the material, using a technique called portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. They determined that the dagger's composition of iron, nickel, and cobalt "strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin."

* Riddle-zeez-piddle: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch...

Immortal jellyfish
There is a species of jellyfish that never dies. Known as Turritopsis dohrnii—or colloquially, the immortal jellyfish—this sea creature is able to revert back into its adolescent state after going through adulthood, a "process that looks remarkably like immortality."

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." ― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion

A Game of Chess -
by T. S. Eliot
II. A GAME OF CHESS

The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion;
In vials of ivory and coloured glass
Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes, Unguent, powdered, or liquid — troubled, confused And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air That freshened from the window, these ascended
In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone, In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues, " Jug Jug " to dirty ears.
And other withered stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
Footsteps shuffled on the stair.
Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be savagely still. " My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. " Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak.
— " What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? " I never know what you are thinking. Think. "

I think we are in rats' alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.

" What is that noise? "
The wind under the door.
" What is that noise now? What is the wind doing? " Nothing again nothing.
" Do
" You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember " Nothing? "

— I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
" Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head? " But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag —
It's so elegant
So intelligent
" What shall I do now? What shall I do? "
" I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street
" With my hair down, so. What shall we do to-morrow? " What shall we ever do? "
The hot water at ten.
And if it rains, a closed car at four.
And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.

When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said —
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself,
H URRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart. He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you To get yourself some teeth. He did, I was there. You have them all out, Lil, and get a nice set,
He said, I swear, I can't bear to look at you.
And no more can't I, I said, and think of poor Albert, He's been in the army four years, he wants a good time, And if you don't give it him, there's others will, I said. Oh is there, she said. Something o' that, I said. Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a straight look. H URRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
If you don't like it you can get on with it, I said. Others can pick and choose if you can't.
But if Albert makes off, it won't be for lack of telling. You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique. (And her only thirty-one.)
I can't help it, she said, pulling a long face,
It's them pills I took, to bring it off, she said. (She's had five already, and nearly died of young George.) The chemist said it would be all right, but I've never been the same. You are a proper fool, I said.
Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said, What you get married for if you don't want children? H URRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon, And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot — H URRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
H URRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight. Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.
Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.

"Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another." — Marcel Duchamp

"Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game." — Being Caballero

"If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure." — Garry Kasparov

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." — Ernest Hemingway

"You win some, you lose some, you wreck some." — Dale Earnhardt

"In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate." ― Isaac Asimov

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." ― Albert Einstein

"When in doubt, don't." ― Benjamin Franklin

<There once was a player from Maine,

Who played chess on a fast train.
He took a move back
And was thrown off the track,
And he never played chess again.>
― NM Bill Wall

"If you open it, close it. If you turn it on, turn it off. If you take it out, put it back. If you empty it, fill it. If you fill it, empty it." — Kathryn Malter, St. Paul, MN

* Dec-12-20 MissScarlett: My advice to <acapo> is to close the pop-up ads by clicking on the little <x> in the top right corner.

<"From this day to the ending of the world,

But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,

And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."

― William Shakespeare, Henry V>

"They made us many promises, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land -- and they did." — Chief Red Cloud, Oglala-Lakota Sioux, 1822-1909.

"There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better." ― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

Q: What do you call the lights on Noah's Ark?
A: Flood lights.

Q: What do you call a snobby criminal walking down the steps? A: A condescending con descending!

Q: What do you call a dollar frozen in a block of ice? A: Cold hard cash.

Q: What do you call a dead pine tree?
A: A nevergreen.

Q: What do you call a pencil that is broken?
A: Pointless.

Q: What do you call two birds in love?
A: Tweethearts!

Q: What do you call a sad coffee?
A: Depresso.

Q: What do you call a priest that becomes an attorney? A: Father-in-Law.

Q: What do you call a man with a toilet on his head? A: John.

<My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.>

The moon has moonquakes.
Just as earth has earthquakes, the moon has—you guessed it—moonquakes. Less common and less intense than the shakes that happen here, moonquakes are believed by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists to occur due to tidal stresses connected to the distance between the Earth and the moon.

Riddle Question: Roots and branches, yet I bear no fruit; my leaves tell stories of your family's pursuit. What am I?

The Persian epic Explanation of Chatrang and the Invention of Nard tells the story of chess being introduced to the royal court by an envoy from India.

Riddle Answer: Family tree

The heads on Easter Island have bodies.
The iconic stone heads protruding from the ground on Easter Island are familiar to most, but many don't realize what lies beneath the surface. In the '10s, archaeologists studying the hundreds of stone statues on the Pacific Island excavated two of the figures, revealing full torsos, which measure as high as 33 feet.

InkHarted wrote:

Checkmate.
I started off as an equal
I have everything that they do
my life was one and the same as my foe
childish battles of lesser
I won baring cost of a little
but as time outgrew my conscience
I found that the pieces were moving against me
with time my company reduced
they left one by one
all in time forgetting me
my castles collapsed
my religion dissuaded
my protectors in hiding
I could not run anymore
I have been cornered to a wall
as the queen left silently
without saying goodbye
I could not live any longer
she was most precious to me
I could not win without her by my side
so the king knelt down and died.

"Everyone should know how to play chess." — José Raúl Capablanca

Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

'Finders keepers, losers weepers'
No, turn it over to Lost and Found.

Drive sober or get pulled over.

"For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable." — Assiac (‘Deutsch von Heinrich Fraenkel')

Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.' — W.E. Napier (1881-1952)

The Words Of Socrates

A house was built by Socrates
That failed the public taste to please.
Some blamed the inside; some, the out; and all
Agreed that the apartments were too small.
Such rooms for him, the greatest sage of Greece!

"I ask," said he, "no greater bliss
Than real friends to fill even this."
And reason had good Socrates
To think his house too large for these.
A crowd to be your friends will claim,
Till some unhandsome test you bring.
There's nothing plentier than the name;
There's nothing rarer than the thing.

* Weird is what you're not used to: https://chessentials.com/weird-ches...

<limerick, entitled ‘The Solver's Plight' was by ‘A.J.F.' A.J. Fink and was published on page 22 of Chess Potpourri by Alfred C. Klahre (Middletown, 1931):

There was a man from Vancouver
Who tried to solve a two-mover;
But the boob, he said, ‘"Gee",
I can't find the "Kee",
No matter HOW I manouvre.'>

The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Three Kings came riding from far away,
Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar;
Three Wise Men out of the East were they,
And they travelled by night and they slept by day,

For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star.

The star was so beautiful, large and clear,
That all the other stars of the sky
Became a white mist in the atmosphere,
And by this they knew that the coming was near
Of the Prince foretold in the prophecy.

Three caskets they bore on their saddle-bows,
Three caskets of gold with golden keys;
Their robes were of crimson silk with rows
Of bells and pomegranates and furbelows,
Their turbans like blossoming almond-trees.

And so the Three Kings rode into the West,
Through the dusk of the night, over hill and dell, And sometimes they nodded with beard on breast, And sometimes talked, as they paused to rest,
With the people they met at some wayside well.

"Of the child that is born," said Baltasar, "Good people, I pray you, tell us the news;
For we in the East have seen his star,
And have ridden fast, and have ridden far,
To find and worship the King of the Jews."

And the people answered, "You ask in vain;
We know of no King but Herod the Great!"
They thought the Wise Men were men insane,
As they spurred their horses across the plain,
Like riders in haste, who cannot wait.

And when they came to Jerusalem,
Herod the Great, who had heard this thing,
Sent for the Wise Men and questioned them;
And said, "Go down unto Bethlehem,
And bring me tidings of this new king."

So they rode away; and the star stood still,
The only one in the grey of morn;
Yes, it stopped—it stood still of its own free will, Right over Bethlehem on the hill,
The city of David, where Christ was born.

And the Three Kings rode through the gate and the guard, Through the silent street, till their horses turned And neighed as they entered the great inn-yard; But the windows were closed, and the doors were barred, And only a light in the stable burned.

And cradled there in the scented hay,
In the air made sweet by the breath of kine,
The little child in the manger lay,
The child, that would be king one day
Of a kingdom not human, but divine.

His mother Mary of Nazareth
Sat watching beside his place of rest,
Watching the even flow of his breath,
For the joy of life and the terror of death
Were mingled together in her breast.

They laid their offerings at his feet:
The gold was their tribute to a King,
The frankincense, with its odor sweet,
Was for the Priest, the Paraclete,
The myrrh for the body's burying.

And the mother wondered and bowed her head,
And sat as still as a statue of stone,
Her heart was troubled yet comforted,
Remembering what the Angel had said
Of an endless reign and of David's throne.

Then the Kings rode out of the city gate,
With a clatter of hoofs in proud array;
But they went not back to Herod the Great,
For they knew his malice and feared his hate,
And returned to their homes by another way.

The world's first traffic light was installed in 1868. The modern traffic light system dates back to 1868 when the world's first traffic light was installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London. However, it was manually operated and didn't feature the familiar red, yellow, and green signals we know today.

Question: What was the first patented service uniform in the United States? Answer: Playboy Bunny

Pablo Picasso would often carry around a pistol loaded with blanks. He would fire it at people he found boring or anyone who insulted the Post-Impressionist painter, Paul Cézanne.

Question: What is the oldest authenticated age ever for a human? Answer: 122

pocket aces A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat.

As Earth orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 23.9 hours. It takes 365.25 days to complete one trip around the Sun. That extra quarter of a day presents a challenge to our calendar system, which counts one year as 365 days. To keep our yearly calendars consistent with our orbit around the Sun, every four years we add one day. That day is called a leap day, and the year it's added to is called a leap year.

Earth's axis of rotation is tilted 23.4 degrees with respect to the plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun. This tilt causes our yearly cycle of seasons. During part of the year, the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, and the southern hemisphere is tilted away. With the Sun higher in the sky, solar heating is greater in the north producing summer there. Less direct solar heating produces winter in the south. Six months later, the situation is reversed. When spring and fall begin, both hemispheres receive roughly equal amounts of heat from the Sun.

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* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev Game Collection: Instructive Games (Chernev)

* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1

* Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century

* "Always remember, your focus determines your reality." ― George Lucas

<Fundamental Chess Principles according to CJS Purdy

On Combinations

One simultaneous double threat is better than a great many successive single threats. That is the main lesson of chess. A double threat is a combination of two threats. (pg. 31)

A combination (threat plus restraint or threat plus obstruction) may be called a "net". It is the most important kind of combination because every mate, without exception, is a "net". (pg. 32)

Watch out for pieces of limited mobility, especially pieces without retreat. Remember that one retreat may not be enough.(pg. 32 / 33)

On Tied Pieces

An important rule for avoiding a trap is this:
Where feasible, avoid using a piece to defend something that is attacked. Either protect the attaced unit with a pawn or move it away. (pg. 34)

A knight is the worst defender because he cannot possibly maintain the defense if forced to move. (pg. 34)

The best protector is a pawn - for three reasons:

There is no possibility of it being attacked by a unit of lesser value; It is a complete defense against any piece bigger than the one attacked; above all, a menial task is suited to it, whereas a piece used for defending one particular thing is wasting its talents. (pg. 35)

If you must use pieces to protect something, perhaps because it cannot move away, try to use one more than necessary! You are then free to moe any one of the protectors; not a single one is absolutely tied to its defensive task. (pg. 35)

On Position Play

Position play is the art of improving your position in small ways when no sound combination is possible. (pg. 40)

One can say that an endgame has arrived when neither side has more pieces than the equivalent of Queen plus pawn (with of course, the Kings, who are always with us). (pg. 41)

Combinations are of primary importance, position play of secondary importance. (pg. 41)

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‘May your Departures equal your Landfalls!'

The Cloud
By Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one,
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,
As she dances about the sun.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.

I sift the snow on the mountains below,
And their great pines groan aghast;
And all the night 'tis my pillow white,
While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers,
Lightning my pilot sits;
In a cavern under is fettered the thunder,
It struggles and howls at fits;
Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion,
This pilot is guiding me,
Lured by the love of the genii that move
In the depths of the purple sea;
Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills,
Over the lakes and the plains,
Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream,
The Spirit he loves remains;
And I all the while bask in Heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains.

The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes,
And his burning plumes outspread,
Leaps on the back of my sailing rack,
When the morning star shines dead;
As on the jag of a mountain crag,
Which an earthquake rocks and swings,
An eagle alit one moment may sit
In the light of its golden wings.
And when Sunset may breathe, from the lit sea beneath, Its ardours of rest and of love,
And the crimson pall of eve may fall
From the depth of Heaven above,
With wings folded I rest, on mine aëry nest,
As still as a brooding dove.

That orbèd maiden with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the Moon,
Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor,
By the midnight breezes strewn;
And wherever the beat of her unseen feet,
Which only the angels hear,
May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer;
And I laugh to see them whirl and flee,
Like a swarm of golden bees,
When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent,
Till calm the rivers, lakes, and seas,
Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, Are each paved with the moon and these.

I bind the Sun's throne with a burning zone,
And the Moon's with a girdle of pearl;
The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim, When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl.
From cape to cape, with a bridge-like shape,
Over a torrent sea,
Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof,
The mountains its columns be.
The triumphal arch through which I march
With hurricane, fire, and snow,
When the Powers of the air are chained to my chair, Is the million-coloured bow;
The sphere-fire above its soft colours wove,
While the moist Earth was laughing below.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.
For after the rain when with never a stain
The pavilion of Heaven is bare,
And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air,
I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
And out of the caverns of rain,
Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

"Where there's a will, there's a way."

Q: How do poets say hello?
A: "Hey, haven't we metaphor?"

Bluetooth" technology is named after a 10th century king, King Harald Bluetooth. Bluetooth united the tribes of Denmark, just like the wireless technology united cell phones and computers.

Q: How does the ocean say hi?
A: It waves!

Page 166 of The Personality of Chess by I.A. Horowitz and P.L. Rothenberg (New York, 1963) gave ‘a hitherto unpublished limerick-acrostic:

Caissa, the goddess of Chess,
Has this task, no more and no less;
Every game, match and damn bit,
Sicilian and gambit
She must ever be ready to bless.

<from the simpleton poet:

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.

Chess is creative.
And a journey too.

Good in the morning.
Or just before bed.

Play cheater_1, with engine.
Or OTB, all in your head.>

Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever.

"The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third." ― Gale Sayers

"To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?" — Queen Elizabeth II

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ― Benjamin Franklin

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." ― Denis Waitley

Luck never gives; it only lends. ~ Scottish Proverb

"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal." — Criss Jami

Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

"God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world." — Billy Graham

"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness." — Billy Graham

Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction."

"A wise man will know what game to play to-day, and play it. We must not be governed by rigid rules, as by the almanac, but let the season rule us. The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature's. Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. Where the good husbandman is, there is the good soil. Take any other course, and life will be a succession of regrets. Let us see vessels sailing prosperously before the wind, and not simply stranded barks. There is no world for the penitent and regretful." — Henry David Thoreau

We Give Our Thanks
Traditional

For food that stays our hunger,

For rest that brings us ease,

For homes where memories linger,

We give our thanks for these.

In Jesus name we pray,
Amen

"It's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish."

"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read." — Francis Bacon

The cat's play is the mouse's death. ~ German Proverb

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." ― Theodore Roosevelt

Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet."

John 10:10
"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." ― Lord Jesus

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Father Stu

The alleged "shortest master game" at that time
A Gibaud vs F Lazard, 1924
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 4 moves, 0-1
Indian Game: Lazard Gambit (A45) 0-1 Addition to Lazard's Mini
Munteanu vs Cioara, 1948
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 5 moves, 0-1
The shortest decisive master game (not a forfeit or protest)
Z Djordjevic vs M Kovacevic, 1984
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 3 moves, 0-1
When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Morphy vs NN, 1857
(000) Chess variants, 18 moves, 1-0
Fischer Random
Leko vs Adams, 2001
(000) Chess variants, 32 moves, 1/2-1/2
Fischer forks himself on the 13th move in namesake opening?!?
Fischer vs Tal, 1959
(B87) Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5, 52 moves, 0-1
Did Fischer have a perfect score with the English Opening?!
Fischer vs Panno, 1970
(A10) English, 1 moves, 1-0
What wasn't playing against Petrov's Defense??!
Fischer vs G Thornell, 1964
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 38 moves, 0-1
Fool's Mate
L Darling vs R Wood, 1983
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 2 moves, 0-1
Fool's Mate
W T Mayfield vs W R Trinks, 1959
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 3 moves, 1-0
Fool's Mate: Bird's Opening
Van Kessel vs Rensen, 1990
(A03) Bird's Opening, 3 moves, 0-1
Fool's Mate: Black's mobile phone went off
A Jain vs R Norinkeviciute, 2007
(B06) Robatsch, 2 moves, 1-0
Fool's Mate in 3
H Klip vs T Bottema, 1990
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 3 moves, 1-0
Carr Defense 1.e4 h6 2.b3 e6 (B00) 0-1; Q sac creates a passer
F Babar vs M Basman, 1993
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 36 moves, 0-1
Ware 1.a4 transposes to the Polish Opening.
G Welling vs P A Boll, 1986
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 9 moves, 1/2-1/2
Ware Opening 1.a4; Giuoco Piano gone bad.
P Ware vs J Congdon, 1880
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 79 moves, 1/2-1/2
How can he risk his pawn structure and survive the MG?
P Ware vs E Delmar, 1880
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 57 moves, 0-1
Creepy Crawly miniature more like a Polish
G Welling vs F Obers, 1992
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 17 moves, 1-0
Van't Kruijs Opening 1.e3 (A00) 1-0 f6 is viable against b3
J Owen vs Burn, 1875
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 50 moves, 1-0
Van't Kruijs Opening transposes to French Exchange 4.c4 Nf6
Tartakower vs H Fahrni, 1911
(C01) French, Exchange, 50 moves, 0-1
Van't Kruijs Opening (A00)0-1 First castling on record; P storm
NN vs Lucena, 1497
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 26 moves, 0-1
Unwise Opening beats Wise Man from the East.
D Gedult vs Melchior, 1968
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 7 moves, 1-0
Gedult Opening/Barnes Opening 1.f3 turned into a gambit
Boquay vs NN, 1864
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 17 moves, 1-0
"Gedult Opening" transpose C-K Fantasy Var: 1e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.f3
Fine vs J Rappaport, 1931
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 28 moves, 1-0
Barnes/Gedult Opening 1.f3? (A00) 0-1 Masterly foolishness
B Schneider vs Van Wely, 2005
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 12 moves, 0-1
Barnes Opening: Hammerschlag (A00) 1-0 Castle by hand
S Williams vs M Simons, 1999
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 40 moves, 1-0
Uncommon Opening, the worst defense (A00) · 1/2-1/2
D Alaslar vs B De Cat, 2001
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 32 moves, 1/2-1/2
Barnes Opening: Walkerling (A00) 1-0 1 defender isn't enough
H Walkerling vs Nagy, 1930
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 12 moves, 1-0
Bad 1...f6 (A00) 0-1 Exchanges aid Fried Fox defense?!?!
R Kruis vs C van Dongen, 2001
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 80 moves, 0-1
Saragossa Opening 1.c3 (A00) 1-0 White gains space
A D Martin vs M Basman, 1984
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 37 moves, 1-0
Saragossa Opening 1c3 (A00) 1-0 Played back in 1515
Lucena vs Quintana, 1515
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 32 moves, 1-0
Saragossa Opening 1.c3 (A00) 1-0 Transposes to Torre vs Tartak
Hort vs P Cramling, 1984
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 42 moves, 1-0
Saragossa Opening (A00) 1/2-1/2Gains time, Bs of same color EG
Tartakower vs Reti, 1925
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 78 moves, 1/2-1/2
Saragossa Opening (A00) 0-1 5 pawns on 3rd w/fianchetto loses
R Ortega vs Ivkov, 1962
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 39 moves, 0-1
Saragossa Opening (A00) 1-0 Target the loose rook
T Gelashvili vs I Chighladze, 2003
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 28 moves, 1-0
That's what you get for not showing up.
K Grigorian vs Savon, 1973
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 1 moves, 1-0
1.h4 Kadas Opening Miniature Outnumbered Capture w/Check
G Welling vs E ten Haaf, 1981
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 8 moves, 1-0
Kadas Opening 1.h4 (A00) 1-0 Tranposes to Q Pawn
J Hector vs P Boersma, 1986
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 32 moves, 1-0
Caro-Kann 2.h4 (B10) 1-0 Exchanges change everything!
U Stock vs A Nickel, 1989
(B10) Caro-Kann, 47 moves, 1-0
Kadas Opening 1.h4 (A00) 1/2-1/2
R Fabry vs L Dobrovolsky, 1978
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 66 moves, 1/2-1/2
Kadas Opening 1.h4?! (A00) 1-0 Fritz played like a wood pusher
E Nemeth vs Fritz, 2000
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 40 moves, 1-0
Kadas Opening 1.h4 (A00) 0-1 Weak pawn structure, blockade
R Fabry vs Z Radojevic, 1978
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 31 moves, 0-1
Van Geet (Dunst) (A00)1-0 Right-handed version of Legall's Mate
D Moody vs S Bender, 1977
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 9 moves, 1-0
Sodium Creepy Crawly; Black Combo Fails
D Martinidesz vs S Docx, 1992
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 34 moves, 1-0
Anderssen Opening 1.a3 (A00) 1-0 Plenty of counterplay
Anderssen vs Morphy, 1858
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 77 moves, 1-0
Anderssen Opening 1.a3 /Creepy Crawly (A00) 1-0She grabbed a P
R Lichtenscheidt vs J Kohtz, 1862
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 40 moves, 1-0
Anderssen Opening (A00) 1/2-1/2 Read blogger notes
L Evans vs H Gordon, 1946
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 13 moves, 1/2-1/2
Kolty could sac!
Koltanowski vs Love, 1949
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 21 moves, 1-0
Grob Opening (A00) 1-0 Black opens w/10 straight pawn moves
C Bloodgood vs L Bostic, 1964
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 42 moves, 1-0
Grob Opening (A00) 0-1Nakamura drove computer crazy w/6 bishops
Rybka vs Nakamura, 2008
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 255 moves, 0-1
Black resigns down a pawn thinking he'll lose more material
Koltanowski vs NN, 1960
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 7 moves, 1-0
Unusual game w/a King shuffle
R Nezhmetdinov vs M Ujtelky, 1964
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 75 moves, 0-1
Alexander Alekhine's Best Games, a stunning rook lift debated
Reti vs Alekhine, 1925
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 40 moves, 0-1
Clemenz Opening 1.h3 into Colle (A00) 1-0Terrific Kside attack
Fine vs A Simonson, 1932
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 22 moves, 1-0
Anti-computer strategy; Horsing around w/6 Kts...won't resign
Crafty vs Nakamura, 2007
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 155 moves, 0-1
Blackburne won a "Special Brilliancy Prize" for this game
Blackburne vs A Nimzowitsch, 1914
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 42 moves, 1-0
Uncommon (A00) 1-0 Like a Lion/Philidor Defense Bxf7
E Reinhardt vs Reiss, 1934
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 10 moves, 1-0
Amar Opening: Gent Gambit (A00) 1-0 Bad opening, good recovery
G Welling vs T Peleman, 1986
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 42 moves, 1-0
Earliest piece sac in the DB (exchange sac on move 2)
A Smirnov vs V Shepelev, 2005
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 22 moves, 1-0
Kramnik - Topalov World Championship Match (2006) 0-1 Photos
Kramnik vs Topalov, 2006
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 0 moves, 0-1
Wall of Shame is a bad imitation of a White Hedgehog A00 0-1 13
O Onishko vs M Leonov, 2002
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 13 moves, 0-1
Link to "Memory and Chess" discusses Fischer's memory
Fischer vs W Beach, 1963
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 24 moves, 1-0
Hungarian Opening/Dbl Fio Reti (A00) 1-0 4Knights no guarantees
M Hennigan vs Chandler, 1999
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 38 moves, 1-0
Hungarian Bg2, Bb2 v Dutch Stonewall (A00) 1/2-1/2 She's a 10
D Kokarev vs V Ponfilenok, 2010
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 30 moves, 1/2-1/2
Polish Opening Exchange ML (A00) 0-1 En passant Mate!
I Korepanova vs A Tishkov, 2007
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 38 moves, 0-1
Polish 1.b4 c5 Birmingham Gambit (A00) 1-0 Swallow's Tail #
B Tiller vs L Lovik, 2009
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 21 moves, 1-0
Zukertort Opening: Santasiere's Folly (A06) 0-1 4 in the b-file
O Gritsayeva vs O Girya, 2014
(A06) Reti Opening, 55 moves, 0-1
Van Geet (Dunst) Opening (A00) 1-0 Notes by Eric Schiller
D van Geet vs Guyt, 1967
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 15 moves, 1-0
Van Geet (Dunst) Opening (A00) 1-0 Good shooting Emperor!
Napoleon Bonaparte vs Madame De Remusat, 1804
(C41) Philidor Defense, 14 moves, 1-0
Van Geet (Dunst): Reversed Nimzowitsch (A00) 1-0 Legall's Mate
O Bjarnason vs V Dittler, 2001
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 7 moves, 1-0
Hungarian Opening: Myers Defense (A00)
N McInnes vs B De Cat, 2001
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 22 moves, 1/2-1/2
Hungarian Opening: Paris Gambit (A00) 1-0 The six pawn gambit?!
H E Myers vs T Alvarez, 1966
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 18 moves, 1-0
Hungarian Opening e5, d5 (A00) 1-0 13.Re5 lift is rare indeed!
Larsen vs Gruenfeld, 1961
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 55 moves, 1-0
Bird Opening: From Gambit (A02) 0-1 White musn't move on qside
M Greenwalt vs B Wall, 1983
(A02) Bird's Opening, 6 moves, 0-1
8 Pawns on the 4th Rank beats the computer
B Alterman vs Deep Fritz, 2000
(A03) Bird's Opening, 87 moves, 1-0
"The Pearl of Poznan"; Bird Opening, sacs for passers
Tylkowski vs A Wojciechowski, 1931
(A03) Bird's Opening, 40 moves, 0-1
Artic Defense? (A04) Take my R or N; connected doubled pawns!?
P Hammargren vs E Diemer, 1974
(A04) Reti Opening, 27 moves, 0-1
Yeah, don't develop, move pawns! Hilarious mate!
NN vs E Diemer, 1984
(A04) Reti Opening, 16 moves, 0-1
Zukertort Opening: Sicilian Invite (A04) 0-1 Protest->Expelled
I Penko vs Jernej Novak, 2001
(A04) Reti Opening, 10 moves, 0-1
1.Nf3 g5?!? Herrstrom Gambit (A04) 0-1 Blindfold simul charge!?
El Dorado vs T Gareyev, 2016
(A04) Reti Opening, 30 moves, 0-1
English Anglo-Scandinavian Def. Schulz G (A10) 1-0 Q+ & fork Kt
H Lehmann vs W Schulz, 1950
(A10) English, 4 moves, 1-0
English Opening: Halibut Gambit (A10) 0-1 Hanging Queen
E Pedersen vs I Burchard, 1995
(A10) English, 24 moves, 0-1
English Opening: Halibut Gambit (A10) · 0-1
M Goetz vs T Gietl, 1997
(A10) English, 41 moves, 0-1
English Opening: Halibut Gambit (A10) · 0-1
F Cathely vs M Hadzikaric, 1995
(A10) English, 31 moves, 0-1
English Opening: Halibut Gambit (A10) · 0-1
R Nurmi vs A Dunne, 1994
(A10) English, 18 moves, 0-1
English Opening: Halibut Gambit (A10) · 0-1
E A Apps vs R Schlenker, 1974
(A10) English, 24 moves, 0-1
English Opening: Halibut Gambit (A10) · 0-1
H Sieber vs L Frenzel, 1989
(A10) English, 30 moves, 0-1
English Opening: Halibut Gambit (A10) · 0-1
P Sassi vs D Lardot, 1996
(A10) English, 43 moves, 0-1
Halibut Gambit (A10) 1-0 After promotion, White is up a R
Knobloch vs R Schlenker, 1983
(A10) English, 8 moves, 1-0
English Opening: Great Snake Variation (A10) 0-1 Opening Q Sac
H Uuetoa vs A Mayo, 1999
(A10) English, 48 moves, 0-1
English Opening (A10) 1/2-1/2 Stalemate in 10 moves?!?!
J Upmark vs R Johansson, 1995
(A10) English, 10 moves, 1/2-1/2
English Opening: Myers Variation (A10) 0-1 Smothered Mate
Taylor vs P Cody, 1980
(A10) English, 9 moves, 0-1
U ever seen Discovered Check response by Discovered Check!?!
R Garcia vs E Figueroa, 1963
(A10) English, 28 moves, 1-0
Why did Korchnoi resign here?
Korchnoi vs I Sokolov, 1994
(A20) English, 14 moves, 0-1
Englund Gambit, Mosquito Gambit (A40) 1/2-1/2Agreed beforehand
Miles vs Huebner, 1985
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 5 moves, 1/2-1/2
Benoni Def: King's Indian System (A56) 1/2-1/2 A world-record?!
K Rogoff vs A H Williams, 1969
(A56) Benoni Defense, 106 moves, 1/2-1/2
Benko Gambit: Accepted. Fully (A58) 1/2-1/2 What are the odds?
H MacGrillen vs E Formanek, 1973
(A58) Benko Gambit, 59 moves, 1/2-1/2
You won't believe your eyes.
V Malinin vs V Savinov, 1988
(A58) Benko Gambit, 36 moves, 1-0
White R captures pawn, 2 R's, Q & B. Never saw anything like it
Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922
(A90) Dutch, 53 moves, 0-1
Ripley loses in 11, believe it or not
J M Ripley vs O Hardy, 1963
(A97) Dutch, Ilyin-Genevsky, 11 moves, 0-1
Hippopotumus gates mated in 31 moves w/out any captures!!
R Nuber vs R Keckeisen, 1994
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 31 moves, 1-0
Notes by Tony Miles, edited by Ray Keene
Karpov vs Miles, 1980
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 46 moves, 0-1
A definition of "syracrophy" anyone?
Speelman vs T K Hemingway, 1972
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 30 moves, 0-1
Macho Grob Spike/Borg Defense (B00) mouse click malfunction
M Pavlovic vs M Umansky, 2003
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 20 moves, 0-1
Macho Grob Spike/Borg Defense (B00) White has issues
L Horta vs M Dos Santos, 1984
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 23 moves, 0-1
Macho Grob Spike/Borg defense takes down a GM!
Speelman vs M Basman, 1980
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 46 moves, 0-1
Uncommon KP (B00) 0-11st move didn't matter; unclean breakthru
J Grundy vs P Ware, 1880
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 57 moves, 0-1
Franco-Nimzowitsch; Black King is stripped of pawn shield
T Abrahamyan vs W Duckworth, 2012
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 22 moves, 1-0
Macho Grob Spike/Borg Defense: General (B00) · 0-1
R Lancaster vs M Basman, 1982
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 39 moves, 0-1
St. George Def (B00) 0-1 Bizarre. Both sides sac Qs to promote.
L Forgacs vs Maroczy, 1902
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 27 moves, 0-1
Uncommon KP (B00) 0-11st move didn't matter; White beat himself
A G Sellman vs P Ware, 1880
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 33 moves, 0-1
Uncommon KP (B00) 0-11st move didn't matter; Black passer
A Cohnfeld vs P Ware, 1880
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 39 moves, 0-1
Uncommon KP (B00) 0-11st move didn't matter; must blockade!
J Congdon vs P Ware, 1880
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 60 moves, 0-1
St. George Def. (B00) 0-1Rare extended fianchetto on BOTH sides
Z Plecsko vs S Biro, 1997
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 26 moves, 0-1
Borg Defense: Borg Gambit (B00) 0-1 Deflect the Defender
H Guennewig vs H Alber, 1988
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 11 moves, 0-1
Borg Defense: Borg Gambit (B00) 0-1 Neither K castled
C Pritchett vs M Basman, 1986
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 38 moves, 0-1
Owen Def. transposes to Hippo (B00) 1-0 aesthetic or pathetic?
Ivanchuk vs N Gaprindashvili, 2006
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 30 moves, 1-0
Goldsmith Defense (B00) 0-1 Pin to win and work it over
Fritz vs E F Pecci, 2001
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 28 moves, 0-1
Owen Defense (B00) 1-0 He resigned instead of forcing stalemate
M Klinova vs D Spence, 2006
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 42 moves, 1-0
Scandinavian Defense: Panov Transfer (B01) 1-0 BF missed # in 2
Fischer vs S Rubin, 1964
(B01) Scandinavian, 39 moves, 1-0
Three Moves!!! Have a look at the kibitz to see what happened.
Lindemann vs Echtermeyer, 1893
(B01) Scandinavian, 3 moves, 0-1
Alekhine's Defense; Brooklyn Variation; Awful!
Pillsbury vs E Chatard, 1900
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 16 moves, 1-0
Alekhine Def: The Squirrel (B02) 1-0 Had a few too many nuts
Hill vs C Janeway, 1946
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 12 moves, 1-0
Earliest Promoted Pawns: 4 queens by move 7
T Casper vs K Heckert, 1975
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 23 moves, 1-0
Alekhine Defense: Normal (B02) 1-0 Misplaced K; pile on the pin
E Steiner vs Colle, 1926
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 27 moves, 1-0
Alekhine Defense: Buckley Attck; early Na3 is reasonable enough
G Franchini vs S Mikheev, 2001
(B03) Alekhine's Defense, 30 moves, 0-1
Alekhine Def: 4Pawns Attack. Trifunovic Var (B03) 1/2-Perpetual
M Wootton vs W Kilmer, 2007
(B03) Alekhine's Defense, 11 moves, 1/2-1/2
Modern Defense: 2.h4 (B06) 0-1 wonky game, wonky Dovetail Mate
V Rothuis vs F Olafsson, 2007
(B06) Robatsch, 26 moves, 0-1
Lion Defense: Lion's Jaw (B07) 1-0 17 straight pawn moves
E Diemer vs T Heiling, 1984
(B07) Pirc, 45 moves, 1-0
Caro-Kann Def. Two Knights Attk (B11) 0-1 White attacks himself
A Stripunsky vs Onischuk, 2012
(B11) Caro-Kann, Two Knights, 3...Bg4, 11 moves, 0-1
King enters battlefield early as cramped opponent is squeezed
Vachier-Lagrave vs Ding Liren, 2013
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 39 moves, 1-0
13.0-0; I can't ever remember seeing a move like that, where th
Van der Wiel vs Karpov, 1987
(B17) Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation, 30 moves, 1/2-1/2
Bizarre Sicilian! White should have taken a draw.
Y Treger vs S Agaian, 2003
(B20) Sicilian, 68 moves, 0-1
Nakamura punished for 2.Qh5?!?
Nakamura vs A Volokitin, 2005
(B20) Sicilian, 23 moves, 0-1
Marshall pushes pawns...for 14 straight moves.
Marshall vs H Rogosin, 1940
(B20) Sicilian, 26 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Alapin 2.c3 Barmen Def Central X$(B22) 1-0Common unpin
S Jackson vs B Sinka, 1981
(B22) Sicilian, Alapin, 27 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Grand Prix Attack (B23) 1/2-1/2 Squeezed too tight
C El Idrissi vs A Laaroussi, 2001
(B23) Sicilian, Closed, 51 moves, 1/2-1/2
Sicilian Closed f4-Nf3-Bc4 (B23) 1-0 Video link
Short vs Gelfand, 1991
(B23) Sicilian, Closed, 31 moves, 1-0
Scandi Blackburne-Kloosterboer Gambit (B01) · 0-1
Alekhine vs L Morelli, 1923
(B01) Scandinavian, 34 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Closed. Fianchetto (B24) 1-0 Clown Knights Mischief
A Lehtinen vs T Simola, 1995
(B24) Sicilian, Closed, 41 moves, 1-0
Romantic classic; amazing finish...most unusual promotion
McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834
(B32) Sicilian, 37 moves, 0-1
Perhaps VA lost on time but VK had insufficient mating material
Anand vs Kramnik, 1994
(B31) Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation, 71 moves, 1/2-1/2
Old Sicilian. Open (B32) 1-0 Fingerfehler!?
Bagirov vs Korchnoi, 1960
(B32) Sicilian, 27 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Lasker-Pelikan. Sveshnikov (B33) 1-0 blunder on 121!
Short vs Krasenkow, 2004
(B33) Sicilian, 122 moves, 0-1
Sicilian, French Variation (B40) 1-0 He gave her away
L Bruzon Batista vs Krasenkow, 2005
(B40) Sicilian, 64 moves, 1-0
Anderssen and Kolisch first to use time limit
Kolisch vs Anderssen, 1861
(B40) Sicilian, 22 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Four Knights (B40) 0-1 Unusual finish
A Reggio vs Tarrasch, 1902
(B45) Sicilian, Taimanov, 15 moves, 0-1
Sicilian 4.Qc2?! (B50) 0-1 Bronstein's creativity fizzles
Bronstein vs Stein, 1965
(B50) Sicilian, 56 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Delayed Alapin/KIA (B50) 1/2-1/2 Mutual overlook
J Emma vs Stein, 1966
(B50) Sicilian, 48 moves, 1/2-1/2
The first consultation match of chessgames....Amazing!
M Ronteltap / Allies vs R Barber / Allies, 2006
(B53) Sicilian, 55 moves, 1/2-1/2
Free cake! Three kNights are given away as pawn food.
Tal vs E Nievergelt, 1959
(B63) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 37 moves, 1-0
This is more like a creepy crawly game w/queenside action
J Polgar vs Shirov, 1995
(B06) Robatsch, 21 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Bowlder Attack (B20) 1-0 Mini 0-0-0#! A castle mate!
A Kvicala vs NN, 1869
(B20) Sicilian, 18 moves, 1-0
One variation has promotion mate 14.gxh8=Q#
B Koch vs W Kuppe, 1932
(B62) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, 12 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Dragon. Yugoslav Attack Panov (B76) 0-1 Ring-a-ling!
Korbut vs N Pogonina, 2007
(B76) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 22 moves, 0-1
Chaotic Insanity
Morozevich vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2009
(B80) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 76 moves, 0-1
SicRichter-Rauzer (B60) Both White Knights occupy Black thrones
A Foldeak vs F Nagy, 1942
(B60) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, 13 moves, 1-0
After Ne3 it is actually white that is winning!
B Jonasson vs H Angantysson, 1986
(B33) Sicilian, 27 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Najdorf. English Attack (B90) 1-0Who needs SIX Queens?
E Szalanczy vs T Nguyen, 2009
(B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 75 moves, 1/2-1/2
"World Wrestling Entertainment(WWE) Chess!"
Y Shen vs J Zhou, 2005
(B92) Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation, 114 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Najdorf (B94) 1-0 This game will drive you nuts
A Volokitin vs Mamedyarov, 2012
(B94) Sicilian, Najdorf, 34 moves, 1-0
5 Queens
Z Mackic vs A Maksimenko, 1994
(B96) Sicilian, Najdorf, 51 moves, 0-1
Resigning in a won position
V Bilinski vs I David Glaz, 1982
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 33 moves, 1-0
Sicilian, Najdorf. Poisoned P (B97) 1/2-1/2 All 8 Black pieces
I Johannesson vs S Bergsson, 2007
(B97) Sicilian, Najdorf, 23 moves, 1/2-1/2
Very Uncommon Corner Mate by the Very Uncommon Morphy
Morphy vs Le Carpentier, 1849
(000) Chess variants, 13 moves, 1-0
Chess variants (000) 1-0 "Look Ma! No pawns!"
W R Ballard vs J Fagan, 1884
(000) Chess variants, 30 moves, 1-0
This shows how to win in a dozen moves -- WITHOUT A QUEEN!!
Tarrasch vs Schroeder, 1890
(000) Chess variants, 12 moves, 1-0
Rat Defense: Small Center (C00) 1-0 Pin the tail on the rat!
Paulsen vs Blackburne, 1861
(C00) French Defense, 33 moves, 1-0
French: Bird Invitation (C00) 1-0 Transposes to St. George
Bird vs J Heral, 1873
(C00) French Defense, 34 moves, 1-0
French Advance Main Line (C02) 0-1 48 moves before exchanging?!
Houdini vs Stockfish, 2013
(C02) French, Advance, 114 moves, 0-1
After 10…Bb7 Alekhine castled with his queen!
Alekhine vs P de Unamuno, 1944
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 39 moves, 0-1
French Burn Var (C11) 1-0 Bathroom break affected Benko's brain
Fischer vs Benko, 1962
(C11) French, 39 moves, 1-0
15 yr. old Radjabov upsets Kasparov
Kasparov vs Radjabov, 2003
(C11) French, 39 moves, 0-1
French McCutcheon. Grigoriev Var (C12) Fictional 5 Queens Game
Alekhine vs NN, 1915
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 29 moves, 1-0
French, Alekhine-Chatard Attack (C13) 1-0 Uncastled win!
Bogoljubov vs Spielmann, 1922
(C13) French, 28 moves, 1-0
K pawn Alapin Opening (C20) 1-0 Black made 5 kNight moves!
J Ask vs O Von Bahr, 2013
(C20) King's Pawn Game, 23 moves, 1-0
King Pawn Game 1.e4 e5 2.h3 (C20) 1-0 Kside attack
Morphy vs NN, 1848
(C20) King's Pawn Game, 19 moves, 1-0
Athens sacrifices queen-wins in 10 moves! London broiled.
London vs Athens, 1897
(C20) King's Pawn Game, 10 moves, 0-1
P-K4 Parham Attack (C20) 0-1 Castlemate by two unknowns
NN vs Eric, 2017
(C20) King's Pawn Game, 19 moves, 0-1
Chigorin mistook the king for the queen
Chigorin vs H Caro, 1898
(C29) Vienna Gambit, 36 moves, 1-0
KG Panteldakis Countergambit (C30) 0-1 What would you do?
C W Kennaugh vs K Shirazi, 2003
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 42 moves, 0-1
Pantelidakis Countergambit, 1.e4 e5 2.f4 f5
Chigorin vs V Hruby, 1882
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 19 moves, 1-0
KG Panteldakis CG. Greco Var (C30) 0-1 Unusual start and finish
NN vs Greco, 1625
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 18 moves, 0-1
King's Gambit (C30) 1-0 Puzzling end -- overlooked zwischenzug
G Welling vs R Douven, 1982
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 9 moves, 1-0
K's Gambit Copycat (C30) 1-0 Underpromotion PxR=N#
H Reinle vs Lange, 1936
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 8 moves, 1-0
KGD Mafia Defense 2...c5 (C30) 1-0 Confession to the Bishops!!
B Raphael vs H Montgomery, 1856
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 12 moves, 1-0
KGD Panteldakis Countergambit (C30)1-0 BF draws K out into cntr
Fischer vs Michalopoulos, 1964
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 15 moves, 1-0
To 0-0+ is good // to interpose w/Discovered Check is better
NN vs M Bier, 1903
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 13 moves, 0-1
Falkbeer CG. Blackburne Attack (C31) 1-0 Sneaky tactics
Tarrasch vs K Eckart, 1892
(C31) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0
4...b5?! Popular line mid-1800s ~Kieseritsky's Immortal Game L
Short vs Kasparov, 1993
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 15 moves, 1-0
King's Gambit: Accepted. Tumbleweed (C33) 1-0What can be said?
D Rigby vs J Moylan, 1976
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 21 moves, 1-0
Black's resignation is enigmatic to say the least.
W Shinkman vs T Thompson, 1875
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 15 moves, 1-0
KGA Schallop Def (C34) 0-1 A World Championship Blunder???
Chigorin vs Steinitz, 1892
(C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 32 moves, 0-1
David Bronstein beats computer in style.
Bronstein vs M20, 1963
(C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 23 moves, 1-0
KGA. King's Knight Gambit (C34) 1-0 Mate by an unmoved piece?!!
Allgaier vs NN, 1807
(C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 14 moves, 1-0
KGA Salvio Gambit (C37) 0-1 Mated by a King's move!
A Smitten vs A Dadian, 1896
(C37) King's Gambit Accepted, 22 moves, 0-1
This is a well know spurious game
F Deacon vs Morphy, 1859
(C38) King's Gambit Accepted, 46 moves, 1-0
A royal family fork checkmate, rare and precious indeed!!!
NN vs Zukertort, 1872
(C39) King's Gambit Accepted, 20 moves, 0-1
A rare NN miniature victory in 6 moves!
NN vs Cornelissen, 1974
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 6 moves, 1-0
Scotch Game: Mieses Var (C45) 1-0 Nice shootin' by 9-year old!
A Liang vs L Kaufman, 2012
(C45) Scotch Game, 37 moves, 1-0
Four Knights Scotch Accepted (C47) 0-1 10.Bxf6 wins a piece
Alekhine vs James Madison HS, 1932
(C47) Four Knights, 45 moves, 0-1
Italian Four Knights d3, Nc3 (C50) 1-0 Notes by R. Teichmann
Mason vs Tarrasch, 1895
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 30 moves, 1-0
Scotch Gambit (C55) 1-0 Check out the a1-h8 diagonal after 13.
M Corden vs Smyslov, 1970
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 55 moves, 1-0
This game is absurd!
Teichmann vs Schlechter, 1904
(C60) Ruy Lopez, 25 moves, 1/2-1/2
Definately NOT your typicaly Ruy Lopez!?!
Westerinen vs A Planinc, 1970
(C60) Ruy Lopez, 40 moves, 0-1
A wonderfully entertaining game
Anderssen vs M Lange, 1859
(C61) Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense, 19 moves, 0-1
Spanish Schliemann Def. Exchange (C63) 0-1 En Passant+
B Becker vs Short, 2011
(C63) Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense, 16 moves, 0-1
White undevelops with 9.Nb1?! losing two tempi
S Tatai vs M Lazic, 2001
(C69) Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation, 65 moves, 1/2-1/2
9 passed pawns aboard after 59.Rxf6
Smyslov vs Botvinnik, 1941
(C77) Ruy Lopez, 60 moves, 0-1
longest decisive game without captures
A Medina Garcia vs Gligoric, 1968
(C93) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense, 29 moves, 0-1
Pseudo-Stonewall Attack; The Original Alekhine's Block?!
Alekhine vs V Ostrogsky, 1910
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 1-0
Not a real Colle System (D05) 0-1 Lost sight of the position
Alekhine vs Ecole Polytechnique Paris, 1925
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 23 moves, 0-1
checkers/whist/blind chess simul (1900) 1-0, 21 moves Boden's #
Pillsbury vs NN, 1900
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 21 moves, 1-0
Black K never moves! Less common up close Q fork ends game.
Pillsbury vs Marshall, 1894
(D06) Queen's Gambit Declined, 34 moves, 0-1
The Crazy Rook Draw: Immunity or Stalemate capture
E Post vs A Nimzowitsch, 1905
(D07) Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense, 98 moves, 1/2-1/2
Slav Czech. Wiesbaden Sharp line (D17) · 1/2-1/2
Kramnik vs Lautier, 1994
(D17) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 61 moves, 1/2-1/2
Check by castling nabs the wayward rook
NN vs G Abrahams, 1929
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 11 moves, 0-1
Semi-Slav, Marshall Gambit (D31) 1-0 Tripled Pawns Win
J Turn vs K Makarczyk, 1936
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 35 moves, 1-0
White plays five moves---announces mate in eight!!!
J Taylor vs NN, 1862
(C27) Vienna Game, 13 moves, 1-0
Philidor Def 5.g4 Shirov Gambit (C41) 1-0 Ks on orignal squares
Shirov vs L Cyborowski, 2008
(C41) Philidor Defense, 23 moves, 1-0
Philidor Defense (C41) 1-0 Black resigned (pin) w/a winning pos
von Popiel vs G Marco, 1902
(C41) Philidor Defense, 36 moves, 1-0
The game was of course agreed drawn in advance.
Miles vs L Christiansen, 1987
(C42) Petrov Defense, 20 moves, 1/2-1/2
Russian Game French Attack (C42) 1-0 Don't assume he'll play d4
Tarrasch vs Alapin, 1889
(C42) Petrov Defense, 6 moves, 1-0
The Immortal Desperado (and the most hilarious chess game ever)
Bogoljubov vs L Schmid, 1949
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 25 moves, 0-1
Both players miss the hangers
D Zagorskis vs B Gasiorowski, 2006
(D52) Queen's Gambit Declined, 22 moves, 1-0
They dyed my shoes. Open those shoes by offramp
Giri vs Caruana, 2016
(D70) Neo-Grunfeld Defense, 96 moves, 1/2-1/2
He did not lose on time. It's a score keeping violation.
So vs V Akobian, 2015
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 6 moves, 0-1
Two underpromotions to BISHOPS!? (It didn't much matter.)
Vidmar vs Maroczy, 1932
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 129 moves, 1/2-1/2
QGD Tarrasch Def (D32) 0-1 Black won by making only pawn moves!
NN vs H Bruening, 1907
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 6 moves, 0-1
QGD Capablanca (D43) 1-0 Victory w/tripled pawns is rare
Torre vs M A Schapiro, 1924
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 31 moves, 1-0
Castle-mate
Anand vs Svidler, 1999
(D97) Grunfeld, Russian, 31 moves, 1-0
Gruenfeld Def. Russian. Prins Var (D97) 1-0 Black Q never moves
J Piket vs Kasparov, 1995
(D97) Grunfeld, Russian, 41 moves, 1-0
The worst blunder by a reigning world champion
Deep Fritz vs Kramnik, 2006
(D20) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 35 moves, 1-0
No Way to Treat A Lady: The best game prize at Gibraltar
L Javakhishvili vs R Edouard, 2015
(D20) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 32 moves, 0-1
An underpromotion+ saves the draw in a basic R vs P ending
A Evdokimov vs Sveshnikov, 2003
(D45) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 86 moves, 1/2-1/2
White could have claimed a draw by three-time repetition
Rotlewi vs Teichmann, 1911
(D61) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, 69 moves, 0-1
Nh3
L Boeye vs E Denayer, 2001
(E00) Queen's Pawn Game, 44 moves, 0-1
Eight passed pawns on eight files
Short vs Gelfand, 1991
(C67) Ruy Lopez, 61 moves, 1-0
Gunderam Defense (C40) 0-1 The Joke Promotion (Underpromotion)
V Salnikov vs A Bezgodov, 1991
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 64 moves, 0-1
Yet ANOTHER Top Grandmaster Simply Hangs His Queen
Bacrot vs E Inarkiev, 2008
(C69) Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation, 23 moves, 0-1
Beautiful finish found in Reinfeld books
H Clemenz vs F Eisenschmidt, 1862
(C51) Evans Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0
Experience wins over Youth (Sammy was just 9!)
Reshevsky vs Ed Lasker, 1921
(C80) Ruy Lopez, Open, 29 moves, 0-1
An unusual trap of a rook by a bishop-so queen can gobble it
Smyslov vs Tolush, 1961
(E10) Queen's Pawn Game, 17 moves, 1-0
Bogo-Indian Defense: Grünfeld Var (E11) 1-0 Trapped pair of Rs
Ivkov vs I Kanko, 1963
(E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 41 moves, 1-0
215 moves in about 5 minutes is amazing... Q sac stalemate!
Ivanchuk vs Leko, 2007
(E15) Queen's Indian, 215 moves, 1/2-1/2
Pterodactyl Defense: Eastern. Pterodactyl (B06) 0-1 What a day
J Mestel vs L Day, 1982
(B06) Robatsch, 25 moves, 0-1
Modern Defense (B06)1-0 White wins w/out developing either N?!!
E Diemer vs P Cerff, 1983
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 30 moves, 1-0
Modern Defense: K Pawn Fianchetto (B06) 0-1 Missed Spearhead #
Aronian vs K Urban, 1996
(B06) Robatsch, 19 moves, 0-1
Pirc Defense: Byrne (B07) 1-0 Opera House reminder after 22.
Tal vs Gufeld, 1968
(B07) Pirc, 44 moves, 1-0
Modern Defense 1...g6 2.h4 (B06) 1/2-1/2 Castle into Q sac?!
J Mora Corbera vs Suttles, 1964
(B06) Robatsch, 16 moves, 1/2-1/2
Sicilian Velimirovic Attack (B89) 1-0 12 straight pawn moves!
F Amonatov vs A Timofeev, 2007
(B89) Sicilian, 32 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Closed 3.g4 (B23) 1-0 Odd start, 0-0-0, N fork
Nakamura vs A Zhigalko, 2009
(B23) Sicilian, Closed, 30 moves, 1-0
Caro-Kann Def. Maroczy Variation (B12) 1-0 WC lost on time
Smyslov vs Botvinnik, 1958
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 55 moves, 1-0
JimmyVermeer's blog: Forced mate in 42
Y Stepak vs Y Mashian, 1980
(E19) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3, 193 moves, 1-0
The wife and mistress in the same playing hall. Poor Don Jose.
Saemisch vs Capablanca, 1929
(E24) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 62 moves, 1-0
Horowitz said "One bad move ruins forty good ones."
G Garcia vs Ivkov, 1965
(E10) Queen's Pawn Game, 37 moves, 1-0
Korchnoi to arbiter: "Can I castle if my rook is attacked?"
Korchnoi vs Karpov, 1974
(E17) Queen's Indian, 19 moves, 1-0
Bogo-Indian Defense (E11) 1-0 Black meant to defend w/4...Qe7
L Palau vs S Kalabar, 1927
(E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 5 moves, 1-0
The Black b8 knight makes six moves to stalemate itself
Alekhine vs N E Schwartz, 1926
(E62) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 54 moves, 1-0
Near structural symmetry after 20.Rdd1 but Black win in 5 moves
R Pruun vs Keres, 1931
(E60) King's Indian Defense, 24 moves, 0-1
Odd Name Claim to Fame (not really, but that's life)
O Arvoll vs O K Lie, 1965
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 28 moves, 0-1
Barry Attack vs NY System (D00) 1/2-1/2 it got WhAcKy
Jobava vs R Hovhannisyan, 2014
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 49 moves, 1/2-1/2
Four(!) pawns are sent to the 2nd rank to seize the win!
F J Lee vs H W Shoosmith, 1904
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 61 moves, 0-1
QGD Copycat (D02) 1-0 Quad Pawns in 18, Hogs on 8th
E E Colman vs H Jacobs, 1911
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 28 moves, 1-0
QGD Albin Countergambit (D08) 0-1 Very, VERY unique mate!!
S S Dodge vs J Houghteling, 1905
(D08) Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit, 16 moves, 0-1
Flohr Bewitched by an Illusion D02 0-1 25
Flohr vs H Grob, 1933
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 25 moves, 0-1
P-Q4 Krause Variation (D02) 1-0 Royal fork+ loses?!
Swiderski vs J Berger, 1908
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 30 moves, 1-0
A "rainbow of bishops and knights" à la Dodge-Houghteling
V Sultanov vs S Kamaletdinov, 2011
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 21 moves, 1-0
Rook Trio: Underpromotion prevents Q sac for Stalemate
D Wagner vs Kosteniuk, 2018
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 117 moves, 0-1
The worst game in world championship history?
Topalov vs Kramnik, 2006
(D18) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch, 63 moves, 0-1
"V for Victory"; a unique formation and slick break through
Capablanca vs K Treybal, 1929
(D11) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 58 moves, 1-0
White drops a piece on move 5, but wins. The loser becomes WC!
L Galojan vs A Ushenina, 2012
(D11) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 38 moves, 1-0
Stonewall Attack puts 4 Bs on c-file (D00) 1/2-Down to the last
S Khan vs Tartakower, 1931
(D04) Queen's Pawn Game, 69 moves, 1/2-1/2
Colle System (D05) 1/2-1/2 The wrong-colored bishop
Carlsen vs Giri, 2017
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 123 moves, 1/2-1/2
Classical Tarrasch Gambit(D34) 0-1Worlds longest roller coaster
B Gundavaa vs S Collins, 2010
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 101 moves, 0-1
Nimzo-Indian Def: Leningrad Var (E30) 0-1 Queen's Knight Tour
Alie H/Hasan vs Alekhine, 1933
(E30) Nimzo-Indian, Leningrad, 39 moves, 0-1
LINK TO CHESS ENGINES IN BLOGGER NOTES
Aronian vs Caruana, 2015
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 39 moves, 1-0
Tarrasch Def, Schara G (D32) 1-0 4 consecutive pawn captures!
D Fidlow vs A Maier, 1959
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 8 moves, 1-0
Three pawns on the 7th rank isn't the half of it.
D Birnbaum vs E Relange, 1995
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 43 moves, 1/2-1/2
Grandmaster plays ONLY move that allows an instant mate
A Beliavsky vs L E Johannessen, 2002
(D58) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst, 69 moves, 0-1
Semi-Slav Def: Botvinnik System (D44) 0-1 Unordinary Rooks
M Szigeti vs Benko, 1945
(D44) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 38 moves, 0-1
63...Ra7 is a draw by threefold repetition. Anand blew tie 1st
Radjabov vs Anand, 2008
(D44) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 85 moves, 1-0
Swindled into a capture stalemate or immune perpetual check
L Evans vs Reshevsky, 1963
(E55) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System, Bronstein Variation, 50 moves, 1/2-1/2
KID Normal. K's Knight Var (E60) 1/2-1/2 Stalemate blunder
Karpov vs J Polgar, 1998
(E60) King's Indian Defense, 75 moves, 1/2-1/2
Giving away a won game: Swallow's Tail/Gueridon Mate in one
Y Xu vs I Charkhalashvili, 2001
(E63) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation, 88 moves, 0-1
KID Yugoslav Exch (E66) 0-1 Petro returned to table, blundered
Petrosian vs Bronstein, 1956
(E66) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav Panno, 36 moves, 0-1
Bonnerjee Mohishunder helped generate the term "Indian Defense"
Cochrane vs Moheschunder, 1853
(E76) King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack, 39 moves, 1-0
KID. Four Pawns Attack (E76) 1/2-1/2 Movie scene fabrications
J Sarwer vs J Waitzkin, 1986
(E76) King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack, 63 moves, 1/2-1/2
KID Saemisch Variation (E80) 1/2-1/2 Fortress; No Breakthrough
A Petrosian vs L Hazai, 1970
(E80) King's Indian, Samisch Variation, 55 moves, 1/2-1/2
16.Nxd4Ne5 for those that like shape shifting
Hort vs R Byrne, 1962
(E80) King's Indian, Samisch Variation, 18 moves, 1-0
K's Indian Def. Orthodox. Glek Def (E94) 1-0Blindfold blunder
Kramnik vs Shirov, 2001
(E94) King's Indian, Orthodox, 14 moves, 1-0
This is the longest game (over 20 hours) of chess history
I Nikolic vs G Arsovic, 1989
(E95) King's Indian, Orthodox, 7...Nbd7, 8.Re1, 255 moves, 1/2-1/2
French Def: AbNormal Variation (C00) 1-0 The Joke is on it
Zzzzzz vs Joker, 2006
(C00) French Defense, 48 moves, 1-0
French Defense: 2.b3 Horwitz Attack (C00) 1-0 Meet the new boss
B Wall vs E Bosse, 1969
(C00) French Defense, 11 moves, 1-0
The hegemony of matter was shattered at a stroke and the era of
A Nimzowitsch vs Systemsson, 1927
(C00) French Defense, 24 moves, 1-0
French Defense: Exchange (C01) 1-0 Dim knights win?!
G Schories vs J O'Hanlon, 1906
(C01) French, Exchange, 26 moves, 1-0
Coolest # by en passant ! ! ! Dbl Check & NEITHER piece moves
G Gundersen vs A H Faul, 1928
(C02) French, Advance, 15 moves, 1-0
French Advance (C02) 0-1 Ns on the outer files make do
V Chekhov vs E Kengis, 1991
(C02) French, Advance, 57 moves, 0-1
Short resigns after retracting his illegal 0-0-0!
W N Watson vs Short, 1983
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 24 moves, 1-0
Black draw despite having two seventh rank pawns vs a rook!!!
Keres vs Eliskases, 1938
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 57 moves, 1/2-1/2
French Rubinstein. Blackburne Def (C10) 0-1 Suspicious fire
P Dimitrov vs V Akobian, 2008
(C10) French, 26 moves, 0-1
First game to have a non-admin user post a kibitz (unofficial)
Steinitz vs Bird, 1866
(C10) French, 12 moves, 1-0
Game ends in a NINEfold repetition
I Cheparinov vs Ljubojevic, 2008
(C10) French, 84 moves, 1/2-1/2
All Black's pieces return to their original squares by move 14!
N Kosintseva vs E Berg, 2007
(C10) French, 42 moves, 0-1
French Def. Steinitz. Boleslavsky (C11) 1-0 35.Double R Blunder
Z Gofshtein vs M Gurevich, 2001
(C11) French, 39 moves, 1-0
French Def. Steinitz Var. Gledhill Attack (C11) 0-1 35...0-0
Marshall vs Maroczy, 1926
(C11) French, 41 moves, 0-1
Winawer wins shortly after making an illegal move
Mason vs Winawer, 1883
(C13) French, 43 moves, 0-1
French Def. Alekhine-Chatard Attk (C13) 0-1 4 "exchange" sacs!
Smeets vs Y Hou, 2008
(C13) French, 58 moves, 0-1
145 moves with no change of material (K+R vs. K+R+P)
Stockfish vs AlphaZero, 2018
(C14) French, Classical, 255 moves, 1/2-1/2
French Winawer. Maroczy-Wallis (C18) 1-0 Side Philidor's Legacy
Saemisch vs O Menzinger, 1953
(C18) French, Winawer, 30 moves, 1-0
French Def: Winawer. Advance (C18) 0-1 Simul Dbl, Dbl R sacs!!
Fischer vs C Powell, 1964
(C18) French, Winawer, 21 moves, 0-1
Horwitz Bishops face-off, a rare and short-lived sight
Mason vs Schlechter, 1900
(C22) Center Game, 27 moves, 0-1
1st recorded Blindfold game, nice endgame win
J Bruehl vs Philidor, 1783
(C23) Bishop's Opening, 47 moves, 0-1
Jul-25-17 FSR: He spells the LONGEST NAMES in chess!
Otto vs von der Lasa, 1839
(C23) Bishop's Opening, 24 moves, 0-1
Twas played between James A. Leonard & Frederick Perrin
J Leonard vs F Perrin, 1861
(C42) Petrov Defense, 25 moves, 1-0
Vienna Gambit. Paulsen Attack (C29) 0-1 The best response to +
NN vs B Winkelman, 1945
(C29) Vienna Gambit, 14 moves, 0-1
KGD. Falkbeer Cntrgambit. Hinrichsen Gambit (C31) 1-0Weird, fun
Winkel vs Alkmaar, 1856
(C31) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 36 moves, 1-0
KGD Falkbeer CG. Blackburne Attack (C31) 0-1! No combo, K walk!
NN vs Lasker / Maroczy, 1900
(C31) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 12 moves, 0-1
Hypermodern founders play the king of gambits!! C32 1-0 19
Reti vs Breyer, 1918
(C32) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 19 moves, 1-0
longest mate by a bishop...never heard of that!
Gunsberg vs NN, 1879
(C35) King's Gambit Accepted, Cunningham, 20 moves, 1-0
Schulze-Muller Gambit (C44) 1-0 A.K.A. Chicago / Irish Gambit
D T Phillips vs Pillsbury, 1899
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 45 moves, 1-0
Damiano Defense 8.Qg3+ instead of 8.h4 (C40) 1-0 8White Ps left
Lenderman vs S Sloan, 2007
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 26 moves, 1-0
Gunderam Defense: General (C40) 1-0 wowzeroo!
B Amin vs I H Labib, 2001
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 46 moves, 1-0
Black's 18th...Was that a bird? A plane? Superman? It's MORPHY!
Bird vs Morphy, 1858
(C41) Philidor Defense, 29 moves, 0-1
Computer Chess Silicon Giveaway in the Endgame
Deep Junior vs Deep Fritz, 2001
(C42) Petrov Defense, 109 moves, 1-0
Scotch Game: Relfsson Gambit (C44) 1-0 U don't C this Everyday
Birchbeer vs NN, 1995
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 8 moves, 1-0
A beautiful and rare example of semi-perpetual check.
C Goering vs G Neumann, 1872
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 26 moves, 1/2-1/2
White's e-pawn does everything a pawn can do.
Morphy vs I T Hart, 1854
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 23 moves, 1-0
Scotch Game 4...Ne5 Copycat (C45) 1-0 Black forgot the Bourbon
K Busch vs H Emser, 1987
(C45) Scotch Game, 12 moves, 1-0
Magnus plays the Halloween Gambit with an a3 prep
Carlsen vs S Nyysti, 2002
(C46) Three Knights, 42 moves, 1-0
58.Ke6?? is Short's only composed helpmate
Short vs A Beliavsky, 1992
(C48) Four Knights, 58 moves, 0-1
Loss by Capa to a strong but then unknown female player
Capablanca vs M Bain, 1933
(C48) Four Knights, 11 moves, 0-1
Four Knights Game: Spanish. Rubinstein (C48) 0-1 Double Trouble
Blitz vs Belle, 1978
(C48) Four Knights, 14 moves, 0-1
July 6: Broken Mirror [Also May-12-09]
Traxler vs J Samanek, 1900
(C49) Four Knights, 16 moves, 1-0
Italian Game: Rousseau Gambit (C50) 1-0 This should be a draw
V Spasov vs P Dimitrov, 2008
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 40 moves, 1-0
Italian Game: Schilling-Kostic Gambit Accepted?! (C50) 1-0
Franz Schett vs B Schoerghuber, 2000
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 40 moves, 1-0
Italian, Classical. Giuoco Pianissimo (C53) 1-0Unusual White Ns
C Bauer vs J M Iruzubieta Villaluenga, 2010
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 22 moves, 1-0
12...0-0 - A rare example of castling when facing the enemy
F A Hoffmann vs A Petrov, 1844
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 20 moves, 0-1
Italian Game: Classical. De la Bourdonnais (C53) 1-0tpstarNotes
P Leonhardt vs Teichmann, 1905
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 26 moves, 1-0
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit (C55) 1-0 Heavy Pieces Polka
R Zelcic vs G Szlabey, 1991
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 34 moves, 1-0
Italian, 2 Ns Def. Modern B's Opening (C55) 1-0 4 Bs on b-file!
A Kosten vs M Hebden, 1987
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 25 moves, 1-0
What's worse than double isolated pawns? See for yourself...
Edelman vs I Mazel, 1928
(C57) Two Knights, 17 moves, 0-1
NEVER assume that there is no "Zwischenzug mit Mittelschmerz".
G Elliott vs D Mitchell, 1951
(C57) Two Knights, 14 moves, 0-1
a P capture for promotion w/double check is not the best move!!
A W Gentil vs T M Ault, 1876
(C57) Two Knights, 20 moves, 1-0
The most exciting game ever between three Roberts
Fischer vs R Henry / R Thacker, 1964
(C57) Two Knights, 31 moves, 0-1
American Chess Bulletin, December 1922, p. 191
I Spero vs Showalter, 1922
(C58) Two Knights, 33 moves, 1/2-1/2
A one of a kind knight sacrifice for an underpromotion mate!!!
A Robbins vs Showalter, 1890
(C59) Two Knights, 22 moves, 0-1
Instead of the normal variation, she sacrificed a bishop!
M F Olsen vs B Tilenbaev, 2004
(C60) Ruy Lopez, 34 moves, 0-1
En passant capture piles on the pin to end this game.
I Khairullin vs M Kobalia, 2004
(C60) Ruy Lopez, 44 moves, 0-1
Spanish Game: Classical. Cordel Gambit (C64) 0-1All 8 Ps remain
Gufeld vs Kavalek, 1962
(C64) Ruy Lopez, Classical, 32 moves, 0-1
Spanish, Classical. Cordel Gambit (C64) 0-1 "Nez Dispenser"!
R Nezhmetdinov vs Myagmarsuren, 1965
(C64) Ruy Lopez, Classical, 51 moves, 0-1
Time control was 15 moves an hour, beginning on the first move!
Tarrasch vs Chigorin, 1893
(C66) Ruy Lopez, 62 moves, 0-1
Spanish Game: Berlin Def. Rio Gambit Accepted (C67) 1-0 Lovely!
C De Vere vs J I Minchin, 1871
(C67) Ruy Lopez, 18 moves, 1-0
Spanish, Berlin Def. Rio de Janeiro Var (C67) 0-1 Good grief
K Lepge vs Paulsen, 1863
(C67) Ruy Lopez, 59 moves, 0-1
Scene in Stanley Kubrick's movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Roesch vs W Schlage, 1910
(C77) Ruy Lopez, 15 moves, 0-1
In a drawn ending Black blocks the bishop's view to the promo.
Carlsen vs Shirov, 2008
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 80 moves, 1-0
An amazing inverted pawn pyramid after 50. ... d3
J Polgar vs Bacrot, 1999
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 75 moves, 0-1
Incredible game. Svidler agreed to a draw in a won position!
Svidler vs Anand, 1999
(C80) Ruy Lopez, Open, 69 moves, 1/2-1/2
Kasparov moves his knight five times in a row and the game ends
Kasparov vs Leko, 2001
(C84) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 31 moves, 1-0
48..Ke8 What a stunning move !! Artistic Zugswang
Shirov vs Aronian, 2006
(C89) Ruy Lopez, Marshall, 58 moves, 0-1
b2-b4 is mate!
W N Watson vs J Littlewood, 1991
(C91) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 41 moves, 1-0
Spanish Game: Closed. Flohr System (C92) 0-1 Rare loss on time
Anand vs Kamsky, 1995
(C92) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 32 moves, 0-1
Stalemate with all the pieces on the board
J Hohmeister vs T Frank, 1993
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 12 moves, 1/2-1/2
KIA vs. mutated Sicilian/Zukertort Opening: Basman Defense (A04
P Szabo vs P R Scott, 2001
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 69 moves, 1/2-1/2
Ugly Black defense but White loses time, space, disconnected Rs
J Matynia vs L Day, 1966
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 37 moves, 0-1
English vs Hippo (A10) 1-0N sac opens diagonal for g7 crossfire
E Ghaem Maghami vs R Bancod, 2004
(A10) English, 23 moves, 1-0
Indian Game: Pyrenees Gambit (A50) 0-1 Mate threat on h-file
Kasparov vs W Cotrina, 1993
(A50) Queen's Pawn Game, 37 moves, 0-1
Notes by Raymond Keene: English Opening, Bellon gambit
Keene vs K Wockenfuss, 1977
(A22) English, 20 moves, 1-0
Polish Defense Formation: King's Indian Attack (A07) · 0-1
W Duckworth vs R Yankovsky, 2012
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 29 moves, 0-1
Modern Defense: Beefeater Variation (A40) · 0-1
G Taylor vs I Ivanov, 1985
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 25 moves, 0-1
English Symmetrical. Botvinnik System (A36) 1-0 2 Q's lose!
A Reshko vs V Faibisovich, 1969
(A36) English, 25 moves, 1-0
Indian Game: Pawn Push Variation (A45) · 0-1 Never seen before
M Muslimovic vs F Bistric, 2003
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 26 moves, 0-1
Uncommon but not unsound
D J Hacche vs I Bjelobrk, 2001
(A04) Reti Opening, 34 moves, 0-1
Soller Gambit Deferred (A40) 0-1 He went 82 years between wins!
Baumgartner vs F Borsdorff, 1973
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 29 moves, 0-1
Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit 2.g4 vs Indian Def (A45) 1-0 K walks
D Barron vs P Gardner, 2001
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 48 moves, 1-0
K's English 4 Knights Fianchetto (A29)1/2-1/2 Stalemate blunder
Kasparov vs K Georgiev, 1988
(A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 78 moves, 1/2-1/2
Q sacrifice, B check, and a rarity...K move to checkmate
D Cummings vs G Basanta, 1999
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 33 moves, 1-0
Agincourt Defense; 23.Ne4 ! Offering the d3 Rook (...Nxd3)
Tal vs Van der Wiel, 1982
(A13) English, 24 moves, 1-0
Very unusual...the winning White K walks to h8 in the MG!
J van Ruitenburg vs S Castellani, 2000
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 27 moves, 1-0
Gain time on queen while building a battery against the block
Alekhine vs O Chajes, 1911
(A13) English, 24 moves, 1-0
King's English. Reversed Sicil (A21) 0-1 Q sac avoids perpetual
R Toran vs Tal, 1961
(A21) English, 25 moves, 0-1
Bird Opening: From G. 2 Knights (A02) 1-0 White survives K walk
H Danielsen vs R Theissl Pokorna, 2003
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 60 moves, 1-0
Polish Defense (A40) 0-1 Played like an Owen Defense
Alekhine vs L Prins, 1933
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 47 moves, 0-1
English, Anglo-Indian Defense QID Formation (A15) Too Mobile
E Agrest vs Ponomariov, 2003
(A15) English, 28 moves, 1-0
Creepy Crawly 5 pawns on the 6th; W had no advantage until pin
N Schouten vs P du Chattel, 1975
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 63 moves, 1-0
St. George / Horwitz Def 1...e6 2...b5?! (A40) 1-0 2 vs 1 EG
Q L Le vs Mamedyarov, 2009
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 60 moves, 1-0
Stonewall / Colle-Rubinstein (A45) 1/2-1/2 Dry race to exchange
Marshall vs Euwe, 1929
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1/2-1/2
King's English. Four Knights Fianchetto (A29) 1-0 B Underpromo
A Reshko vs O Kaminsky, 1972
(A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 71 moves, 1-0
Classical Dutch, the Mason-Bird episode.
Mason vs Bird, 1882
(A85) Dutch, with c4 & Nc3, 30 moves, 0-1
Dutch Def. Blackmar's Second G. (A80)1-0 Uncommon Ns Strategy
Tal vs K Klasups, 1952
(A80) Dutch, 64 moves, 1-0
Black moves the same Knight 13 times in the first 27 moves!
J M Hernando Rodrigo vs D Duarte, 2001
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 45 moves, 1/2-1/2
P-Q4 / Nh6 French Advance (A40) 0-1 Up the exchange
G Yiapanis vs V Sipila, 2010
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 0-1
Old Indian Defense: Janowski Var (A53) 0-1 Ng2 & Ng7?!
S Strating vs V Georgiev, 2000
(A53) Old Indian, 33 moves, 0-1
English Opening: Symmetrical. 2 Knts (A37) 1-0Check-less K hunt
Botvinnik vs Gligoric, 1956
(A37) English, Symmetrical, 30 moves, 1-0
Abdusattorov & Zhigalko share the same birthday (September 18)
Abdusattorov vs A Zhigalko, 2014
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 68 moves, 1-0
Black essentially eliminates White's R from the game until he..
L Aronson vs Tal, 1957
(A97) Dutch, Ilyin-Genevsky, 36 moves, 0-1
Yuri Averbakh protested legal 0-0-0?!?
Averbakh vs C Purdy, 1960
(A16) English, 48 moves, 1-0
English, Anglo-Indian Def. Qs Indian(A17) 1-0 7th Q will decide
D Anton Guijarro vs A Franco, 2011
(A17) English, 82 moves, 1-0
Indian Game: Wade-Tartakower Def (A46) 1-0 Q blunder
Bacrot vs M Vukic, 2004
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 29 moves, 1-0
Trompowsky Attack (A45) 0-1 Watch the solo K charge!
A Bigg vs P Dimitrov, 2008
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 33 moves, 0-1
Rat Defense (A41) 0-1 Rather UNIQUE play!
Goryachkina vs A Bodnaruk, 2016
(A41) Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6), 77 moves, 0-1
Bird begins with his move 1 f4-pawn NEVER moves thereafter.
Bird vs Lasker, 1892
(A03) Bird's Opening, 102 moves, 1-0
Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Modern (A01) 1-0 Uncommon finish
A Sokolov vs S Milliet, 2015
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 25 moves, 1-0
Nimzo-Larsen Attack vs 1...a5 (A01) 0-1 Ugly step-child chess
Rapport vs A Adly, 2015
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 29 moves, 0-1
Rat Defense: English Rat (A41) 0-1 Four minors on the 6th rank
H Sonntag vs L Christiansen, 1989
(A41) Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6), 16 moves, 0-1
KIA. Yugoslav Var (A07) 1-0 3 of 4 knights on the rim?!
Kramnik vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2015
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 38 moves, 1-0
Modern Def. g6 Fianchetto (A40) 1-0 Caught by Correspondence
J F Campbell vs A Ehrlich, 1990
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 3 moves, 1-0
Friendly Blitz - Bronstein only managed to defeat Spassky once
Bronstein vs Spassky, 1961
(A80) Dutch, 17 moves, 1-0
Old Indian Defense: Two Knights (A54) 0-1 The Bxe2+ sacrifice
V Iotov vs M Nikolov, 2004
(A54) Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3, 32 moves, 0-1
Let's trade... but you keep your knight, I'll keep my pawn.
Mecking vs J F Cubas, 2017
(A06) Reti Opening, 32 moves, 1/2-1/2
the immortal repitititititition gamemememe
G Neumann vs Steinitz, 1870
(A83) Dutch, Staunton Gambit, 124 moves, 0-1
Picturesque final position, with an underpromotion leading to #
P Ware vs J S Ryan, 1880
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 81 moves, 0-1
English Symmetrical. Normal (A34) 0-1 4 different units in mid
Quinteros vs Dzindzichashvili, 1980
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 35 moves, 0-1
Mr. Day's personal record for Slow Castling is 43 moves!
D Norwood vs L Day, 1989
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 61 moves, 1/2-1/2
A novel finish with two en prise queens...
L Trent vs D Tan, 2002
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 27 moves, 1-0
English, Anglo-Indian Def. K's Knt Var (A15) 0-1 Waiting works
Kharlov vs M Kobalia, 2004
(A15) English, 66 moves, 0-1
A04 0-1 75 A most embarrassing Queen sacrifice??
N J Fries-Nielsen vs C Hoi, 1981
(A04) Reti Opening, 75 moves, 0-1
White didn't move d or e pawn for 27 moves!!
S Polgar vs Chiburdanidze, 2004
(A17) English, 39 moves, 1-0
Zukertort Opening: Ross Gambit (A04) 0-1 Never seen this before
I Theodorovich vs H Ridout, 1976
(A04) Reti Opening, 33 moves, 0-1
Double Duck Formation (A02) 1-0 Double diagonal checks
E Williams vs W Henderson, 1845
(A02) Bird's Opening, 15 moves, 1-0
Historic 500 first-place victories ! ! ! ! !
P Salathe vs J Curdo, 1994
(A83) Dutch, Staunton Gambit, 29 moves, 0-1
50 moves rule successfully applied for a draw.
Sindarov vs G Jones, 2018
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 122 moves, 1/2-1/2
Hungarian Opening: General(A00) 1/2-Castle by hand - fianchetto
Sveshnikov vs Alburt, 1978
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 41 moves, 1/2-1/2
Benoni Defense: Modern Var (A60) 0-1 She didn't move an inch
J Mileika vs Tal, 1953
(A60) Benoni Defense, 23 moves, 0-1
A pretty mate with two discovered checks by Blacks' king.
Dorfman vs Tseshkovsky, 1978
(A04) Reti Opening, 55 moves, 0-1
Check out this stunning finish and the final position!!
Benko vs W Hartmann, 1984
(A16) English, 21 moves, 0-1
16 consecutive pawn moves to start (8 ply) D20 1-0 23
Greco vs NN, 1620
(D20) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 23 moves, 1-0
Castle with Check
Y Wang vs Ivanchuk, 2009
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 25 moves, 0-1
Queen's Gambit Declined: Traditional, 4 Knights Gambit(D30) 0-1
A Schmied vs J Aagaard, 1995
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 9 moves, 0-1
Semi-Slav Def. Anti-Moscow Gambit (D44) 1-0 Unusual X-ray mate
Carlsen vs A Groenn, 2005
(D44) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 24 moves, 1-0
You take my kingdom and I'll have yours
A Roos vs B Fleurquin, 2014
(D43) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 64 moves, 1-0
56 moves in Queens D70 1/2-1/2 93
C Pilnick vs Reshevsky, 1942
(D70) Neo-Grunfeld Defense, 93 moves, 1/2-1/2
Neo-Grünfeld Def: Delayed Exchange (D76) 0-1 g-file log jam!?
Van Wely vs Carlsen, 2015
(D76) Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O Nb6, 44 moves, 0-1
Duras Gambit (B00) 1-0 Blind Swine into Arabian Mate
O Sarapu vs Z Frankel, 1951
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 40 moves, 1-0
Alekhine Def: Brooklyn Var (B02) 1-0 Reasonable play follows
R Tischbierek vs G Welling, 1990
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 41 moves, 1-0
Modern Def. Two Knights. Suttles Var (B06) 1-0 Dbl Dbl Octopus
Kasparov vs Radjabov, 2002
(B06) Robatsch, 25 moves, 1-0
Black Hippopotamus (A00) 1-0 She beat her future husband!
A Skripchenko vs Fressinet, 2002
(B06) Robatsch, 37 moves, 1-0
Modern Defense: Bc4 vs temporary Bg7 (B06) 1-0 Rather unusual
S Sulskis vs Bologan, 2000
(B06) Robatsch, 54 moves, 1-0
A game full of unexpected moves and weird positions
E Diemer vs F Trommsdorf, 1973
(B07) Pirc, 47 moves, 1/2-1/2
White never moves Kside B, N, R, yet wins anyway...seems unfair
T Cagasik vs J Brooke, 2007
(B07) Pirc, 23 moves, 1-0
Caro-Kann Def. Euwe Attack (B10) 1/2-?? Easy Black win awaits
H Stefansson vs Karpov, 1994
(B10) Caro-Kann, 60 moves, 1/2-1/2
Caro-Kann Advance. Tal Var (B12) 0-1 Karpov plays 12...Kf7
Ivanchuk vs Karpov, 1993
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 52 moves, 0-1
C-K Panov Attk. Modern Def Mieses Line (B13) 0-1R+ traps itself
V Zaltsman vs D Lucky, 1985
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 37 moves, 0-1
Caro-Kann Def Panov Attk 4...e5 pseudo Albin CG (B13) 0-1 Simul
Alekhine vs M Scholtz, 1932
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 48 moves, 0-1
Bizarre, Entertaining K jaunt
Karpov vs A Zaitsev, 1970
(B17) Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation, 72 moves, 1-0
Caro-Kann Defense: Classical (B18) 0-1 Amazing final position!
I Cabrijan vs V Piro, 2010
(B18) Caro-Kann, Classical, 49 moves, 0-1
Sicilian theory in Europe has re-arranged the f-file somewhat.
Robert Zieba vs V Plat, 2017
(B20) Sicilian, 27 moves, 0-1
Rare example of a player moving all of his pawns before moving
Alekhine vs E Frahm, 1933
(B20) Sicilian, 35 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Handshake Declined? 1-0 It's a head-shaker.
Short vs I Cheparinov, 2008
(B20) Sicilian, 1 moves, 1-0
Combination will even up the material, but Black resigns
S J Wexler vs B Germalm, 1967
(B21) Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4, 12 moves, 1-0
Adams did not claim a draw by threefold repetition of position
Adams vs Anand, 1992
(B22) Sicilian, Alapin, 58 moves, 0-1
Incredible blindfold victory uses B+N# pattern into B's corner
Ljubojevic vs J Polgar, 1994
(B22) Sicilian, Alapin, 106 moves, 0-1
Sicilian 3.f4 5.Bb5+ Grand Prix Attk (B23) 0-1Dbld Isolanis win
M Thesing vs Ftacnik, 2012
(B23) Sicilian, Closed, 32 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Closed Bc5 (B23) 0-1 Royal family fork#
A Hugaert vs B Gundavaa, 2009
(B23) Sicilian, Closed, 50 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Def. Katalimov Var (B27) 1-0 Black wins P, loses game!
Koronghi vs Szemegyi, 1985
(B27) Sicilian, 10 moves, 1-0
Has Nail ever played Skrew? B29 1-0 10
B Hammer vs Boldt, 1977
(B29) Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein, 10 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Nimzowitsch. Closed (B29) 1-0 Discovered Attk
A Shiplay vs E Shipley, 1977
(B29) Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein, 12 moves, 1-0
In Kentucky it's illegal to remarry the same man four times.
B Belopolsky vs B M Kogan, 1984
(B30) Sicilian, 57 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Lasker-Pelikan. Sveshnikov Var (B33) 1-0 Missing Spear
V Spasov vs Saric, 2008
(B33) Sicilian, 38 moves, 1-0
Delayed Alapin (B22) 0-1 5 minor pieces stacked like flapjacks
J Shaw vs Short, 2003
(B40) Sicilian, 51 moves, 0-1
Mate by moving both knights to one's 8th rank (note also pin)
J Sherwin vs A Feuerstein, 1957
(B41) Sicilian, Kan, 57 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Def. Kan. Modern Var (B42) 1-0Weird B clearance works!
M Esserman vs P Nutzman, 2009
(B42) Sicilian, Kan, 28 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Kan. Modern Var (B42) 1-0 Double underpromotion
S Schweber vs B Wexler, 1964
(B42) Sicilian, Kan, 47 moves, 1-0
White sacs Queen to turn 7th rank into bowling alley for Rook
Rublevsky vs Harikrishna, 2006
(B51) Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack, 28 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def. Canal Attack. ML (B52) 0-1 White N returns home
Kamsky vs Giri, 2013
(B52) Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack, 43 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Def. Chekhover (B53) 1-0 Black resigns w/3 W en prise?
H Seifert vs M Szmyd, 2009
(B53) Sicilian, 21 moves, 1-0
White was reaching out to play 38 Qh5-h8# when his flag fell!!
A Ivanov vs Yermolinsky, 1993
(B57) Sicilian, 37 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Dragon. Yugoslav Attk (B77) 0-1 6 passers island
E N Cooke vs W J Aramil, 2003
(B77) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 52 moves, 0-1
First game ever played in the history of Chess Olympiads
Yates vs O Naegeli, 1927
(B83) Sicilian, 21 moves, 1-0
One of the strangest GM games that Fredthebear has ever seen??
M Kobalia vs Khismatullin, 2004
(B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 84 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Najdorf. Opocensky Var (B92) 0-1Reversed Opera House #
Mac Hack VI vs Fischer, 1977
(B92) Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation, 39 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Najdorf. Amsterdam (B93) 0-1 Beaten like rented mules
Van der Wiel vs Browne, 1980
(B93) Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4, 53 moves, 0-1
Philidor Def: Nimzowitsch. Rellstab Var (C41) 1-0Much different
L Rellstab vs F Surmann, 1947
(C41) Philidor Defense, 40 moves, 1-0
Queen's Gambit Accepted: General (D20) 1-0Big grin on your face
H Bernstein vs A Bisguier, 1946
(D20) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 46 moves, 1-0
QGD: Harrwitz Attack. Fianchetto Def (D37) 1/2-1/2 Surprise!
Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2019
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 47 moves, 1/2-1/2
#4876 in Laszlo Polgar's Book "5334 Problems, Combos & Games."
Spielmann vs Tartakower, 1909
(B15) Caro-Kann, 22 moves, 1-0
56...d1=N+ (9 pieces, no pawns)
S Sergienko vs G Vescovi, 2010
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 64 moves, 1/2-1/2
KIA Dbl Fio vs Rev Botvinnik System (A07) 0-1 Unique Ns Mate!!
T Becker vs R Ramesh, 2001
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 31 moves, 0-1
Alexey Troitzky Mate w/2 Knights
C McNab vs M Karttunen, 2006
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 80 moves, 1-0
Vienna Game, Paulsen-Mieses Var (C26) 0-1 Rare Knights EG# in 3
R Mamedov vs M Panchanathan, 2009
(C26) Vienna, 85 moves, 0-1
English, Symmetrical. Botvinnik System (A36) 1-0Speed promotion
G Minchev vs K Kolev, 1991
(A36) English, 37 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Chekhover Var (B53) 1-0 Is your roof on fire?
R Mamedov vs U Bajarani, 2010
(B53) Sicilian, 32 moves, 1-0
Owen's Def (A40/B00) 1-0 Opening N trap, en passant mate!
F Rhine vs NN, 2017
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 33 moves, 1-0
Bird Opening: General (A02) 1-0 Maniac chess by Basman
M Basman vs A Whiteley, 1973
(A02) Bird's Opening, 48 moves, 1-0
Odd Lies and Comments, Songs & 1972 Fischer-Spassky Copycat
R Thimann vs O K Lie, 1977
(C95) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer, 37 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Scheveningen. Classical (B84) 0-1 Underpromotion #!!
W Mueller vs K Junge, 1942
(B84) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 38 moves, 0-1
KGA. Mason-Keres Gambit (C33) 0-1 Rook clearance sacrifice
Keres vs Bronstein, 1965
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 22 moves, 0-1
Four Knights Game: Scotch (C47) 1-0 Bishop so bad, it's evil
Tarrasch vs von Scheve, 1887
(C47) Four Knights, 22 moves, 1-0
Scotch Game: Göring Gambit. Double P Sac (C44) 1-0 Whirlwind Ns
I A Zaitsev vs V Storozhenko, 1970
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 28 moves, 1-0
Black drops his Q, misses 2 mates, then draw agreed erroneously
Schiffers vs Chigorin, 1897
(C20) King's Pawn Game, 34 moves, 1/2-1/2
King's Indian. Fianchetto Var (A49) 1-0 A dozen moves of minors
K Klaman vs L Potucek, 1946
(A49) King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4, 33 moves, 1-0
Piazzini's sitting center...! A strange way to victory...
C Guimard vs L Piazzini, 1938
(A83) Dutch, Staunton Gambit, 34 moves, 0-1
Italian Game: 2Ns Def. Traxler Counterattk B sac line (C57) 1/2
T Pudas vs S Sulskis, 2012
(C57) Two Knights, 27 moves, 1/2-1/2
2.P-Q4 Steinitz Countergambit (D00) 1-0 I'll be dogged ?!?
F Vass vs P Hogarty, 2006
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 16 moves, 1-0
Mrs. Gilbert announced mate in 18 on her move 24.
E Gilbert vs W J Berry, 1875
(C80) Ruy Lopez, Open, 24 moves, 1-0
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