Big Mac and French Fries
La Bourdonnais vs McDonnell, 1834  (D20) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 36 moves, 0-1
O Brother, Where art thou?
T Loyd vs I Loyd, 1856  (C44) King's Pawn Game, 27 moves, 1-0
If Anything Can Go Wrong, It Will
Morphy vs de Riviere, 1863  (C38) King's Gambit Accepted, 56 moves, 0-1
Fiddling While Burn Roams
Burn vs J Owen, 1874  (B07) Pirc, 14 moves, 1-0
Blackburne Singing in the Dead of Knight
Blackburne vs J Schwarz, 1881  (C01) French, Exchange, 28 moves, 1-0
Alapin, But Not a Safety Alapin
Tarrasch vs Alapin, 1892  (D11) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 33 moves, 1-0
Allons Enfants de la Patrie
Amsterdam vs Marseille, 1900  (C39) King's Gambit Accepted, 32 moves, 0-1
Careful with Attacks, Eugene
Chigorin vs Znosko-Borovsky, 1903  (C31) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 31 moves, 1-0
Carl's Bad Day
Teichmann vs Schlechter, 1911  (C90) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 25 moves, 1-0
The Unfinished Sacrifice
Reti vs F Schubert, 1915  (D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 28 moves, 0-1
Karl's Good
Gilg vs Rubinstein, 1929  (D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 58 moves, 1-0
e = Nc4
Einstein vs Oppenheimer, 1933  (C70) Ruy Lopez, 24 moves, 1-0
Don't Take Your Kotov
Petrosian vs Kotov, 1952  (B50) Sicilian, 17 moves, 0-1
Crouching Tigran, Hidden Dragon
Keres vs Petrosian, 1959  (B39) Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Breyer Variation, 51 moves, 0-1
The 11th Hour
A Saidy vs Fischer, 1964  (A33) English, Symmetrical, 56 moves, 0-1
A Knight in Tunisia
Ivkov vs M Cuellar Gacharna, 1967  (A03) Bird's Opening, 45 moves, 1-0
Mate You at the Corner
B Wall vs W Wall, 1969  (C10) French, 12 moves, 1-0
I Am Not a Rook
R Nixon vs A Anselmo, 1973  (A07) King's Indian Attack, 25 moves, 0-1
Tis but a scratch
Black Knight vs Kaissa, 1977  (B01) Scandinavian, 57 moves, 0-1
Neto Fiddles while Romanishin Burns
J Sunye Neto vs Romanishin, 1980  (A24) English, Bremen System with ...g6, 36 moves, 0-1
And Miles To Go b4 Lev Slips
Miles vs Polugaevsky, 1984  (A00) Uncommon Opening, 42 moves, 1/2-1/2
A Miss Is As Good As a Miles
Chiburdanidze vs Miles, 1989  (C45) Scotch Game, 74 moves, 1-0
All the Lonely Pieces, Where Do They All Belong?
J L Vehre vs D Rigby, 1991  (B42) Sicilian, Kan, 36 moves, 1-0
Pun: Anupama: "I Won! Now I Am A Pun, Anup!"
A Gokhale vs A Deshmukh, 1994  (A57) Benko Gambit, 44 moves, 0-1
Pun Denied
I Krush vs Y Wang, 1996  (A56) Benoni Defense, 36 moves, 0-1
Boy, You're Gonna Garry that Weight
Kasparov vs V Atlas, 1997  (E15) Queen's Indian, 54 moves, 1-0
La Donna E Mobile
D Caruso vs E Paoli, 2001  (C47) Four Knights, 27 moves, 1-0
I am the Wall, Russ
G Wall vs R Granat, 2006  (B30) Sicilian, 36 moves, 1-0
Veni, Vidi, WC
Kramnik vs Topalov, 2006  (E10) Queen's Pawn Game, 43 moves, 1-0
May the Fork be With You
McShane vs Wojtaszek, 2011  (B23) Sicilian, Closed, 38 moves, 1-0
Opening Is Error. Resign! - I. Nepo
M Yilmaz vs Nepomniachtchi, 2013  (A35) English, Symmetrical, 20 moves, 0-1
Lord of the Files
J Rudd vs A Golding, 2015  (E94) King's Indian, Orthodox, 52 moves, 0-1
Duda saw part Q trap was a dud
Duda vs G Gajewski, 2016  (B50) Sicilian, 78 moves, 1-0
Tata Steal
Giri vs Shankland, 2019  (C50) Giuoco Piano, 45 moves, 1-0
I rig a draw award - A. Giri
Giri vs Carlsen, 2019  (B33) Sicilian, 30 moves, 1/2-1/2
Justin Time
V Kovalev vs Carlsen, 2022  (C01) French, Exchange, 59 moves, 0-1
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