Early Attack of King in the middle.
Greco vs NN, 1620  (C37) King's Gambit Accepted, 23 moves, 1-0
Pawn storm on castled King-back rank mate
Greco vs NN, 1620  (C41) Philidor Defense, 21 moves, 1-0
Rapid development, central control, King in center.
Morphy vs J Schulten, 1857  (C50) Giuoco Piano, 12 moves, 1-0
Early Morphy game
Morphy vs E Morphy, 1856  (C52) Evans Gambit, 25 moves, 1-0
Better Development--> Initiative --> Winning Attack
Morphy vs Hart, 1854  (C44) King's Pawn Game, 23 moves, 1-0
Better development trumps premature attack
A Meek vs Morphy, 1855  (C44) King's Pawn Game, 21 moves, 0-1
Total Initiative, piece coordination, tactics & central control
Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858  (C41) Philidor Defense, 17 moves, 1-0
Morphy Demo of opposite side castling
Morphy vs Loewenthal, 1858  (C01) French, Exchange, 25 moves, 1-0
Initiative, central control vs lost time, weak sqr =Quick Win
Spielmann vs R Wahle, 1926  (C01) French, Exchange, 17 moves, 1-0
Black punished elegantly for neglecting development
Nimzowitsch vs Alapin, 1914  (C11) French, 18 moves, 1-0
Technique, Struggle, and chess psychology all in one came
Lasker vs Capablanca, 1914  (C68) Ruy Lopez, Exchange, 42 moves, 1-0
Great strategical masterpiece
Schlechter vs Janowski, 1900  (C67) Ruy Lopez, 45 moves, 1-0
White square domination, subtle strangulation
N Mannheimer vs Nimzowitsch, 1930  (C01) French, Exchange, 44 moves, 0-1
Positional game where tactics is key
H Kestler vs Keres, 1973 (A07) King's Indian Attack, 35 moves, 0-1
Instructive Russian game analyzed by Pandolfini
Dolmatov vs I Rogers, 1985  (B01) Scandinavian, 34 moves, 1-0
Pandolfini Russian Chess #1 Practical Strategy & Tactics
Chernin vs Miles, 1985  (E10) Queen's Pawn Game, 32 moves, 1-0
"Tough uncompromising game" Yusopov notes
Miles vs Yusupov, 1985  (B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 24 moves, 0-1
Famous Spanish Game Fischer
Fischer vs Spassky, 1992  (C69) Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation, 21 moves, 1-0
Initiaitive/domination from early middle game
Polgar vs Dominguez Perez, 2011  (B23) Sicilian, Closed, 36 moves, 1-0
Where Advance Preparation Rules
Anand vs Kasparov, 1991  (B93) Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4, 29 moves, 1-0
Carlsen Deconstructs Benko Gambit
Carlsen vs Bologan, 2012  (A59) Benko Gambit, 40 moves, 1-0
Game4 Dynamic Chess RN Coles
L Asztalos vs Breyer, 1913  (D45) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 26 moves, 0-1
Breyer vs J Esser, 1917  (D10) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 47 moves, 1-0
Breyer win annotated by Reti in Modern Ideas in Chess
Breyer vs K Havasi, 1918  (A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0
Tarrasch combines strategy and tactics to win
Tarrasch vs Pillsbury, 1898  (C49) Four Knights, 46 moves, 1-0
Simple minority attack win. Capa makes it look easy!
Capablanca vs Golombek, 1939  (E34) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation, 29 moves, 1-0
Minority attack--> winning endgame
Rubinstein vs S Takacs, 1926  (D65) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, Main line, 53 moves, 1-0
Queen is better than 3 pieces in a Pirc
Short vs R J Miles, 1976  (B07) Pirc, 25 moves, 1-0
Topping Topalov w Tactics
Rublevsky vs Topalov, 2004  (B40) Sicilian, 40 moves, 1-0
Caro exchange- Black eliminates bad bishop
E Perelshteyn vs Yudasin, 2001 (B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 36 moves, 0-1
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