Game 1: Constriction Strategy Steinitz vs A Sellman, 1885  (C11) French, 35 moves, 1-0 Game 2: Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883  (A13) English, 33 moves, 1-0 Game 3: French 2.Qe2 Chigorin vs Tarrasch, 1893  (A07) King's Indian Attack, 62 moves, 0-1 Game 4: Vidmar vs Tarrasch, 1906  (D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 38 moves, 1-0 Game 6: Lasker vs L Forgacs, 1909  (C62) Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense, 38 moves, 1-0 Game 8: Capablanca vs Janowski, 1911  (D40) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 66 moves, 1-0 Game 9: Rubinstein vs Spielmann, 1912   (A84) Dutch, 42 moves, 0-1 Game 10: Nimzowitsch vs J Bernstein, 1923  (D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 49 moves, 1-0 Game 11: Reti vs T Gruber, 1923  (A15) English, 27 moves, 1-0 Game 12: Nimzowitsch vs Alekhine, 1926  (B02) Alekhine's Defense, 53 moves, 1/2-1/2 Game 13: Time Pressure Rubinstein vs Saemisch, 1926 (E38) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 4...c5, 92 moves, 1/2-1/2 Game 14: Znosko-Borovsky vs H Mattison, 1926  (D46) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 42 moves, 1-0 Game 15: Yates vs Kmoch, 1927  (C77) Ruy Lopez, 63 moves, 0-1 Game 17: Bogoljubov vs Botvinnik, 1936   (A47) Queen's Indian, 25 moves, 0-1 Game 19: Euwe vs Bisguier, 1948 (D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 40 moves, 1-0 Battle Chess ~ Knight's End La Bourdonnais vs McDonnell, 1834   (C23) Bishop's Opening, 39 moves, 0-1 Battle Chess ~ The Immortal Game Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851   (C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 23 moves, 1-0 Battle Chess ~ The Ultimate Queen Sacrifice Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857   (C48) Four Knights, 28 moves, 0-1 Battle Chess ~ The Lost Draw Bird vs Morphy, 1858  (C41) Philidor Defense, 29 moves, 0-1 Battle Chess ~ The Great Spite Check Burn vs Duras, 1912  (D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 36 moves, 0-1 Battle Chess ~ Positional Precision Flamberg vs Alekhine, 1914  (C83) Ruy Lopez, Open, 39 moves, 0-1 Battle Chess ~ The Most Beautiful Game of Chess _ Ever Seen Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922  (A90) Dutch, 53 moves, 0-1 Battle Chess ~ The Immortal Zugzwang Game Saemisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923   (E18) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 7.Nc3, 25 moves, 0-1 Battle Chess ~ Reti's Folly Reti vs Alekhine, 1925  (A00) Uncommon Opening, 40 moves, 0-1 Battle Chess ~ When the Threat Is Greater Than the Execution Goglidze vs A A Smorodsky, 1928  (D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 42 moves, 1-0 Battle Chess ~ Trapped in the Hypermodern Fortress N Mannheimer vs Nimzowitsch, 1930   (C01) French, Exchange, 44 moves, 0-1 Battle Chess ~ Pieces for Pawns Chekhover vs Botvinnik, 1931  (A47) Queen's Indian, 49 moves, 0-1 Battle Chess ~ Innocuous Queen Sacrifice Spielmann vs Eliskases, 1932  (D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 32 moves, 0-1 Battle Chess ~ Legal's Legacy Euwe vs Keres, 1940  (E19) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3, 34 moves, 0-1 Battle Chess ~ Petrosian's Perfect Pawn Play Benko vs Petrosian, 1959  (A04) Reti Opening, 34 moves, 0-1 Battle Chess ~ The Minority Attack Benko vs Taimanov, 1960  (A13) English, 40 moves, 1-0 Battle Chess ~ Fischer Slays the Dragon Fischer vs F Olafsson, 1961  (B27) Sicilian, 38 moves, 1-0 Battle Chess ~ To Lure a King Petrosian vs L Schmid, 1961  (A79) Benoni, Classical, 11.f3, 31 moves, 1-0 Battle Chess ~ The Double Exchange Sacrifice Spassky vs Ghitescu, 1967  (A56) Benoni Defense, 36 moves, 1-0 Chautauqua ~ Flashback! Shirov vs Radjabov, 2004  (E97) King's Indian, 66 moves, 1-0 "What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?" Marshall vs Schlechter, 1907  (D27) Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical, 29 moves, 1-0 Petrosian's earliest win with the Caro-Kann suggested I study Smilga vs Petrosian, 1946  (B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 46 moves, 0-1 Chautauqua ~ Rook who is winning now Leko vs Kramnik, 2004   (C42) Petrov Defense, 65 moves, 0-1 Chautauqua ~ My Favorite Fischer Letelier vs Fischer, 1960  (E70) King's Indian, 23 moves, 0-1 Chautauqua ~ (K)Night Moves K Emmrich vs B Moritz, 1922  (D08) Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit, 28 moves, 1-0 This game showed me the magic of Tal Tal vs Straume, 1953  (C84) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 58 moves, 1-0 Chautauqua ~ The Sorcerer Attacks! Bronstein vs Keres, 1955  (E41) Nimzo-Indian, 39 moves, 1-0 Miles sets a standard for creative play against the textbooks Karpov vs Miles, 1980   (B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 46 moves, 0-1 My favorite chess writers clash in this gem of a game Bronstein vs Larry Evans, 1964  (E80) King's Indian, Samisch Variation, 57 moves, 1-0 The "Evans Defense" to the Smith-Morra Gambit K R Smith vs Larry Evans, 1972  (B21) Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4, 40 moves, 0-1 One of my favorite moves: Svidler's 29.Rxe5 Svidler vs Adams, 2000  (C78) Ruy Lopez, 34 moves, 1-0 Just a WOW game. Tigran wins with a knight and a few pawn sacs. Szabo vs Petrosian, 1952  (B93) Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4, 47 moves, 0-1 This is a game I wish I had played. Bronstein is the best. Bronstein vs Ljubojevic, 1973  (B03) Alekhine's Defense, 41 moves, 1-0 Not Kramnik's best, but a good indicator of why he's great Ivanchuk vs Kramnik, 1996  (B62) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, 32 moves, 0-1 Chautauqua ~ Smyslov's First Win K Gerasimov vs Smyslov, 1935  (D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 22 moves, 0-1 This game showed the brilliance of Kasparov Kasparov vs Petrosian, 1982   (E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 24 moves, 1-0 Instructional QGD, Tarrasch against a very aggressive attacker. Larry Evans vs Larsen, 1957  (D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 28 moves, 0-1 Chautauqua ~ Piece Activity! Shirov vs Piket, 1990  (E97) King's Indian, 41 moves, 1-0 Chautauqua ~ Such Excellence Smyslov vs Kotov, 1943  (A07) King's Indian Attack, 42 moves, 1-0 Chautauqua ~ The Mirror Game Capablanca vs NN, 1918  (C50) Giuoco Piano, 14 moves, 1-0 Delete this. Mohishunder vs Cochrane, 1855  (C44) King's Pawn Game, 14 moves, 0-1 A Ornstein vs W Schmidt, 1975  (B05) Alekhine's Defense, Modern, 31 moves, 1-0 QGA: Old Variation (D20) 1-0 He missed his shot! H Gifford vs B W Blijdenstein, 1873  (D20) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 52 moves, 1-0 58 games