Caruana vs E Berg, 2008  (C10) French, 28 moves, 1-0
savage attacking
Aronian vs V Popov, 2005  (D10) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 37 moves, 1-0
Alekhine vs H Fahrni, 1914  (C13) French, 23 moves, 1-0
Krasenkow vs S Kindermann, 2001  (A04) Reti Opening, 23 moves, 1-0
There are always lots of threats.
Caruana vs Kramnik, 2012  (C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 53 moves, 1-0
Controlling squares and shit like that.
Kasparov vs Kramnik, 1994  (B33) Sicilian, 36 moves, 1-0
Carlsen vs D Rylander, 2003  (A89) Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with Nc6, 33 moves, 1-0
Kasparov vs Salov, 1989  (A15) English, 29 moves, 1-0
God dang.
Gelfand vs Grischuk, 2014  (D83) Grunfeld, Grunfeld Gambit, 66 moves, 0-1
Tal vs Y Rantanen, 1979  (B30) Sicilian, 30 moves, 1-0
good Sicilian kingside attack
Unzicker vs Fischer, 1966  (B92) Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation, 77 moves, 1/2-1/2
Tal vs G Tringov, 1964  (B06) Robatsch, 17 moves, 1-0
Capablanca vs H L Brooke, 1919  (D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 29 moves, 1-0
Aronian vs Svidler, 2014  (D85) Grunfeld, 57 moves, 1-0
Carlsen vs Aronian, 2015  (D38) Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation, 47 moves, 1-0
Keres vs Szabo, 1955  (B64) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 23 moves, 1-0
Kasparov vs S Begun, 1978  (D42) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 7.Bd3, 24 moves, 1-0
sacrificing pawns for piece activity
Kasparov vs Najdorf, 1982  (E12) Queen's Indian, 25 moves, 1-0
Korchnoi is lentless and relentless.
Huebner vs Korchnoi, 1986  (C80) Ruy Lopez, Open, 42 moves, 0-1
Caruana vs D Bocharov, 2012  (B42) Sicilian, Kan, 33 moves, 1-0
Control of open board
Korchnoi vs Ree, 1968  (A22) English, 29 moves, 1-0
Perplexing attack
L M Kovacs vs Korchnoi, 1969  (C01) French, Exchange, 25 moves, 0-1
I can't believe Carlsen maintained enough firepower to fruition
Carlsen vs Caruana, 2014  (C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 47 moves, 1-0
Caruana vs Carlsen, 2020  (B03) Alekhine's Defense, 32 moves, 0-1
complicated but effective piece coordination
Mamedyarov vs Rapport, 2021  (D49) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran, 54 moves, 1-0
A Liang vs V Artemiev, 2021  (C72) Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, 5.O-O, 25 moves, 0-1
Weakness of doubled kingside pawns
Carlsen vs H Wang, 2011  (B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 29 moves, 1-0
Carlsen vs Giri, 2020  (D41) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 34 moves, 1-0
Carlsen vs G Jones, 2018  (B76) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 42 moves, 1-0
Svidler vs Carlsen, 2019  (B30) Sicilian, 33 moves, 0-1
Carlsen vs Le Quang Liem, 2022  (E10) Queen's Pawn Game, 34 moves, 1-0
it is pretty good
Carlsen vs Duda, 2022  (D35) Queen's Gambit Declined, 31 moves, 1-0
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