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20th Century Highlights (Burgess)
Compiled by Littlejohn
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by Qindarka

'Chess Highlights of the 20th Century: The Best Chess 1900-1999 in Historical Context' by Graham Burgess.

"The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games" (1998)

"It doesn't matter how strong a player you are, if you fail to register some development in the opening, then you are asking for trouble." — John Emms

"If you want everyone to believe that you really did play a fantastic combination, be sure to play it in a tournament game." — Graham Burgess on Adams-Torre, 1920

"Knowing which pieces you want exchanged is a great help in finding the right moves." — Graham Burgess

"Stay flexible. Be ready to transform advantages from one type to another." — John Nunn

Jose Capablanca, "Chess Fundamentals" (1921)

"A book cannot by itself teach how to play. It can only serve as a guide, and the rest must be learned by experience." — Jose Capablanca

"In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the end game." — Jose Capablanca

Richard Reti, "Modern Ideas in Chess" (1923)

"In chess, we get a fighting game which is purely intellectual and excludes chance." Indeed, this is what draws some of us to chess! — Richard Reti

"Wilhelm Steinitz in his scheme of play endeavored, contrary to Paul Morphy, to bring about a closed game." — Richard Reti

"Harry Pillsbury in his play was a true American. His games ... show astonishingly big lines in their undertakings and have a refreshing effect upon the onlooker through the energy in their execution." — Richard Reti

"He is the greatest artist amongst chess players." — Richard Reti, on Akiba Rubinstein

"There never occurs in practice either quite an open or quite a close position, but that we get a position containing open and close elements." — Richard Reti

"After the world war, chess and the revival of chess tournaments have made a bridge for intercourse between erstwhile hostile nations and have thus done their part towards international reconciliation more quickly than science or art could do." — Richard Reti

Alexander Kotov, "Think Like a Grandmaster" (1970)

"Only a severe self-critical outlook will help a player to assess his strong and weak points and so further the process of improving his play." — Alexander Kotov

"Once there is the slightest suggestion of combinational possibilities on the board, look for unusual moves. Apart from making your play creative and interesting, it will help you get better results." — Alexander Kotov

On the World Champions

"He went out of his way to provoke the opponent to attack, and, reeking of contempt and crusader's zeal, devoted himself to consolidating some of the most hideously unconsolidated positions ever seen on a chessboard." — Robert Byrne on Wilhelm Steinitz

"It is no easy matter to reply correctly to Emanuel Lasker's bad moves." — W.H.K. Pollock

"The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Jose Capablanca." — Irving Chernev

"It was impossible to win against Capablanca; against Alexander Alekhine it was impossible to play." — Paul Keres

"When Max Euwe of the Netherlands won the world title in 1935 and kept going in a glorious career, that country became a beehive of chess and it still is." — Robert Byrne

"Mikhail Botvinnik was a virtuoso of counterattack and so was adept at winning with black. He also constructed fascinating opening systems." — Robert Byrne

"The peculiarity of his style is that only rarely does he make moves which no one else would make." — Max Euwe on Vassily Smyslov

"For inspiration, I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal." — Garry Kasparov

"When his opponent forces him into wild play, his performance is stunning." — Robert Byrne on Tigran Petrosian

"He was the first really versatile player. I like his extensive and comprehensive play very much." — Vladimir Kramnik on Boris Spassky

"When having an edge, Anatoly Karpov often marked time and still gained the advantage! I don't know anyone else who could do that, it's incredible." — Vladimir Kramnik

"Really deep opening research has been a hallmark of Garry Kasparov's domination of world chess. He does not just try to find new moves, but whole new plans and strategies." — Graham Burgess

"I don't know exactly how many lines he's established, but you get the impression that for the last 10 years we've only been using his ideas." — Viswanathan Anand on Vladimir Kramnik

"Vishy Anand is the most versatile world chess champion. After all, he won world championships in classical matches, knockouts, rapids and blitz and dominated the advanced chess in which players are able to consult the computers." — Lubomir Kavalek

"Magnus Carlsen has many good qualities... he is very versatile and he can play a lot of positions at a very high level. He's also very flexible. And he has this amazing talent for grinding on, as you say. So that combination I was unable to deal with." — Viswanathan Anand after the 2013 World Championship

On Bobby Fischer

"What I admired most about him (Bobby Fischer) was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him." — Magnus Carlsen

"I feel this man (Bobby Fischer) had to be the World Champion and nothing would stop him. It was a foregone conclusion. His career took a rather roundabout course but everything was already mapped out!" — Vladimir Kramnik

"Fischer...is abnormally sensitive to the slightest noise in the hall...Then there are other players, among them Spassky, Viktor Korchnoi, and myself. For us, it is simply boring to play in an empty hall. When we appear on the stage, we are artistes." — Mikhail Tal

"Towering genius, riches, international fame and a far from normal childhood might be too heady a mix for anyone to handle. For him (Bobby Fischer) they proved fatal." — Dick Cavett

Chess in Literature, Film And Television

"Amberley excelled at chess—one mark, Watson, of a scheming mind." — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Retired Colonelman" (1926)

"Y'all can't be playing no checkers on no chessboard!" — The Wire, Season 1, Episode 3: "The Buys."

"It's a game, like Monopoly." — Josh Waitzkin, played by Max Pomeranc, in Searching for Bobby Fischer

"Sorry Dave, I think you missed it." — HAL 9000, voiced by Douglas Rain, in 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL's two-move mating combination is not forced, but Dave believes it and resigns the game anyway. Annotations from the old Chessmaster series of computer games speculate that 2001 director Stanley Kubrick is foreshadowing HAL's mental decline with this scene.

Time Management

"When you play chess the idea is to make good moves, not quick ones!" — Jeremy Silman

"Come on. C'mon Vishy, make a move!" — Maurice Ashley commentating during a 1995 Armageddon game in which Viswanathan Anand took nearly two minutes (out of five allotted) on his fourth move. Note, however, that Anand eventually won the game--taking your time to make sure you know what you are doing, even in blitz, can sometimes work out!

Practicality

"If winning, clarify; if losing, complicate." — Bruce Pandolfini

"Don't resign unless you are really sure the position is hopeless." — John Nunn

"Take care in ‘dead drawn' positions; it only takes a few errors for the position to be ‘dead' rather than ‘drawn'." — John Nunn

Life Lessons

"We learn the most from our aches. The 2008 World Championship loss to Vishy was one of my greatest lessons." — Vladimir Kramnik

"I came through a system myself and it's my moral duty to give back to the community. What better way than working with a bunch of chess-crazy kids." — Vladimir Kramnik

"We learn by chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable change, and that of persevering in the search of resources." — Benjamin Franklin

Miscellany

"Pawns; they are the soul of chess: it is they alone that determine the attack and the defence, and the winning or losing of the game depends entirely on their good or bad arrangement." — François-André Danican Philidor

"Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged into the detriment of other and more serious avocations." — Paul Morphy in 1859

"I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games." — Magnus Carlsen in 2010

"In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute." — Garry Kasparov

"When you see a good move, look for a better one." — Emanuel Lasker

"When one of us first plays chess, he is like a man who has already caught a dose of microbes...Such a man walks along the street, and he does not yet know that he is ill. He is healthy, he feels fine, but the microbes are doing their work." — Mikhail Tal

"At our club, when you lose with a blunder that instantly illuminates the virtues of assisted suicide, we have a cure ... A new game, right away." — Charles Krauthammer

"Chess is not a game for dictators for numerous reasons. One, it's transparent. It's all information hundred percent available." — Garry Kasparov

"Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all." — Mikhail Chigorin

"I always loved complexity. With chess, one creates beautiful problems." — Marcel Duchamp

"Chess is a game by its form, an art by its content and a science by the difficulty of gaining mastery in it." — Tigran Petrosian

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils

I entered ten puns in our contest to see which would win. No pun in ten did.

"Above the clouds I lift my wing
To hear the bells of Heaven ring;
Some of their music, though my fights be wild,
To Earth I bring;
Then let me soar and sing!"
― Edmund Clarence Stedman

Feb-13-11 keypusher: <scutigera: They give this as one of Myagmarsuren's notable games with 162 others in the database?> notable games are selected based on how many games collections they are in.

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

"Life is fun. It's all up to the person. Be satisfied. You don't have to be ‘happy' all the time, you need to be satisfied." — Lucille Boston Lewis, eternal optimist 101 years old

"A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away." — Dr. Boyce

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." — George Adair

"He who imagines himself capable should attempt to perform. Neither originality counts, nor criticism of another's work. It is not courage, nor self-confidence, nor a sense of superiority that tells. Performance alone is the test." — Emanuel Lasker

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." — Colin Powell

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." ― Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and former U.S. Army Colonel

The Deserted Village
BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1730-1774)

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheared the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene!
How often have I paused on every charm,
The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm,
The never-failing brook, the busy mill,
The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made!
How often have I blest the coming day,
When toil remitting lent its turn to play,
And all the village train, from labour free,
Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree,
While many a pastime circled in the shade,
The young contending as the old surveyed;
And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground,
And slights of art and feats of strength went round; And still as each repeated pleasure tired,
Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired;
The dancing pair that simply sought renown
By holding out to tire each other down;
The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,
While secret laughter tittered round the place;
The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,
The matron's glance that would those looks reprove! These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their chearful influence shed, These were thy charms—But all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green:
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;
No more thy glassy brook reflects the day,
But, choaked with sedges, works its weedy way;
Along thy glades, a solitary guest,
The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest;
Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies,
And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Sunk are thy bowers, in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay:
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
A time there was, ere England's griefs began,
When every rood of ground maintained its man;
For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more:
His best companions, innocence and health;
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train
Usurp the land and dispossess the swain;
Along the lawn, where scattered hamlets rose,
Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose;
And every want to oppulence allied,
And every pang that folly pays to pride.
Those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom,
Those calm desires that asked but little room,
Those healthful sports that graced the peaceful scene, Lived in each look, and brightened all the green; These, far departing seek a kinder shore,
And rural mirth and manners are no more.
Sweet Auburn! parent of the blissful hour,
Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power.
Here as I take my solitary rounds,
Amidst thy tangling walks, and ruined grounds,
And, many a year elapsed, return to view
Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, Remembrance wakes with all her busy train,
Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. In all my wanderings round this world of care,
In all my griefs—and God has given my share— I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,
Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down;
To husband out life's taper at the close,
And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,
Amidst the swains to shew my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening groupe to draw,
And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;
And, as an hare whom hounds and horns pursue,
Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past,
Here to return—and die at home at last.
O blest retirement, friend to life's decline,
Retreats from care that never must be mine,
How happy he who crowns, in shades like these
A youth of labour with an age of ease;
Who quits a world where strong temptations try,
And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly!
For him no wretches, born to work and weep,
Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep;
No surly porter stands in guilty state
To spurn imploring famine from the gate,
But on he moves to meet his latter end,
Angels around befriending virtue's friend;
Bends to the grave with unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And, all his prospects brightening to the last,
His Heaven commences ere the world be past!
Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose;
There, as I past with careless steps and slow,
The mingling notes came soften'd from below;
The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung,
The sober herd that lowed to meet their young,
The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind,
These all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
But now the sounds of population fail,
No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale,
No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread,
For all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
All but yon widowed, solitary thing
That feebly bends beside the plashy spring;
She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread,
To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn,
To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn;
She only left of all the harmless train,
The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
A man he was, to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
Remote from towns he ran his godly race,
Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power,
By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour;
Far other aims his heart had learned to prize,
More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train,
He chid their wanderings but relieved their pain; The long-remembered beggar was his guest,
Whose beard descending swept his aged breast;
The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud,
Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allowed; The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay,
Sate by his fire, and talked the night away;
Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done,
Shouldered his crutch, and shewed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe;
Careless their merits, or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.
Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,
And even his failings leaned to Virtue's side;
But in his duty prompt at every call,
He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries,
To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies; He tried each art, reproved each dull delay,
Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Beside the bed where parting life was layed,
And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns, dismayed
The reverend champion stood. At his control
Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul;
Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
His looks adorned the venerable place;
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
The service past, around the pious man,
With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran;
Even children followed, with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest,
Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distrest: To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,
Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay,
There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule,
The village master taught his little school;
A man severe he was, and stern to view,
I knew him well, and every truant knew;
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:
Full well the busy whisper circling round,
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned;
Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault;
The village all declared how much he knew;
'Twas certain he could write, and cypher too;
Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And ev'n the story ran that he could gauge.
In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,
For even tho' vanquished, he could argue still;
While words of learned length and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.
But past is all his fame. The very spot
Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot.
Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high,
Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round.
Imagination fondly stoops to trace
The parlour splendours of that festive place;
The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door; The chest contrived a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day;
The pictures placed for ornament and use,
The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose;
The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day,
With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay;
While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for shew,
Ranged o'er the chimney, glistened in a row.
Vain transitory splendours! Could not all
Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall!
Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart
An hour's importance to the poor man's heart;
Thither no more the peasant shall repair
To sweet oblivion of his daily care;
No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale,
No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail;
No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear,
Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear;
The host himself no longer shall be found
Careful to see the mantling bliss go round;
Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest,
Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest.
Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain,
These simple blessings of the lowly train;
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art;
Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play,
The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind,
Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.
But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade,
With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed,
In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain,
The toiling pleasure sickens into pain;
And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.
Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey
The rich man's joys encrease, the poor's decay,
'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand
Between a splendid and a happy land.
Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore;
Hoards even beyond the miser's wish abound,
And rich men flock from all the world around.
Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name
That leaves our useful products still the same.
Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride
Takes up a space that many poor supplied;
Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds,
Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds:
The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth,
Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are seen,
Indignant spurns the cottage from the green:
Around the world each needful product flies,
For all the luxuries the world supplies.
While thus the land adorned for pleasure, all
In barren splendour feebly waits the fall.
As some fair female unadorned and plain,
Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes.
But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail,
She then shines forth, solicitous to bless,
In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Thus fares the land, by luxury betrayed:
In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed;
But verging to decline, its splendours rise,
Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize;
While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band;
And while he sinks, without one arm to save,
The country blooms—a garden, and a grave.
Where then, ah where, shall poverty reside,
To scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
If to some common's fenceless limits strayed,
He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade,
Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And ev'n the bare-worn common is denied.
If to the city sped—What waits him there?
To see profusion that he must not share;
To see ten thousand baneful arts combined
To pamper luxury, and thin mankind;
To see those joys the sons of pleasure know,
Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe.
Here while the courtier glitters in brocade,
There the pale artist plies the sickly trade;
Here while the proud their long-drawn pomps display, There the black gibbet glooms beside the way.
The dome where Pleasure holds her midnight reign, Here, richly deckt, admits the gorgeous train;
Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square,
The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare.
Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy!
Sure these denote one universal joy!
Are these thy serious thoughts?—Ah, turn thine eyes Where the poor houseless shivering female lies.
She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest,
Has wept at tales of innocence distrest;
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn:
Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue fled,
Near her betrayer's door she lays her head,
And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour
When idly first, ambitious of the town,
She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Do thine, sweet Auburn, thine, the loveliest train, Do thy fair tribes participate her pain?
Even now, perhaps, by cold and hunger led,
At proud men's doors they ask a little bread!
Ah, no. To distant climes, a dreary scene,
Where half the convex world intrudes between,
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Far different there from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore;
Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray,
And fiercely shed intolerable day;
Those matted woods where birds forget to sing,
But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling;
Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around;
Where at each step the stranger fears to wake
The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake;
Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey,
And savage men, more murderous still than they;
While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies,
Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies.
Far different these from every former scene,
The cooling brook, the grassy vested green,
The breezy covert of the warbling grove,
That only shelter'd thefts of harmless love.
Good Heaven! what sorrows gloom'd that parting day, That called them from their native walks away;
When the poor exiles, every pleasure past,
Hung round their bowers, and fondly looked their last, And took a long farewell, and wished in vain
For seats like these beyond the western main;
And shuddering still to face the distant deep,
Returned and wept, and still returned to weep.
The good old sire the first prepared to go
To new found worlds, and wept for others woe.
But for himself, in conscious virtue brave,
He only wished for worlds beyond the grave.
His lovely daughter, lovelier in her tears,
The fond companion of his helpless years,
Silent went next, neglectful of her charms,
And left a lover's for a father's arms.
With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes,
And blessed the cot where every pleasure rose;
And kist her thoughtless babes with many a tear, And claspt them close, in sorrow doubly dear;
Whilst her fond husband strove to lend relief
In all the silent manliness of grief.
O luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree,
How ill exchanged are things like these for thee! How do thy potions, with insidious joy,
Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy!
Kingdoms, by thee, to sickly greatness grown,
Boast of a florid vigour not their own;
At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe;
Till sapped their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round.
Even now the devastation is begun,
And half the business of destruction done;
Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand,
I see the rural virtues leave the land:
Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale,
Downward they move, a melancholy band,
Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.
Contented toil, and hospitable care,
And kind connubial tenderness, are there;
And piety with wishes placed above,
And steady loyalty, and faithful love.
And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid,
Still first to fly where sensual joys invade;
Unfit in these degenerate times of shame,
To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame;
Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried,
My shame in crowds, my solitary pride;
Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excell,
Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Farewell, and O where'er thy voice be tried,
On Torno's cliffs, or Pambamarca's side,
Whether were equinoctial fervours glow,
Or winter wraps the polar world in snow,
Still let thy voice, prevailing over time,
Redress the rigours of the inclement clime;
Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain,
Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain;
Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Tho' very poor, may still be very blest;
That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away;
While self-dependent power can time defy,
As rocks resist the billows and the sky.

Banana peels have almost no friction.
Banana peels have felled many cartoon characters, Mario Kart players, and average people alike. However, what makes it so slippery in the first place? To answer this, four Japanese scientists measured the amount of friction between a shoe, a banana skin, and the floor. Turns out, the friction coefficient was at an almost nonexistent 0.07 – walking with the banana peel was 6 times slippier than normal friction between a shoe and the floor.

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Game 1
Chigorin vs J Mortimer, 1900 
(C25) Vienna, 27 moves, 1-0

Game 2
Halprin vs Pillsbury, 1900 
(C67) Ruy Lopez, 24 moves, 1/2-1/2

Game 3
J Corzo vs Capablanca, 1901 
(C25) Vienna, 26 moves, 0-1

Game 4
Capablanca vs J Corzo, 1901 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 60 moves, 1-0

Game 5
G Marco vs J Mieses, 1901 
(B45) Sicilian, Taimanov, 30 moves, 0-1

Game 6
Pillsbury vs Janowski, 1902 
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 59 moves, 0-1

Game 7
von Bardeleben vs W E Napier, 1902 
(C77) Ruy Lopez, 41 moves, 0-1

Game 8
Janowski vs Schlechter, 1902 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 23 moves, 0-1

Game 9
A Reggio vs J Mieses, 1903 
(B45) Sicilian, Taimanov, 39 moves, 0-1

Game 10
Maroczy vs Chigorin, 1903 
(C37) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 1-0

Game 11
Chigorin vs Rubinstein, 1903 
(C00) French Defense, 33 moves, 1-0

Game 12
Spielmann vs M Elyashiv, 1903 
(C39) King's Gambit Accepted, 29 moves, 1-0

Game 13
Lasker vs W E Napier, 1904 
(B25) Sicilian, Closed, 35 moves, 1-0

Game 14
Schlechter vs Lasker, 1904 
(D55) Queen's Gambit Declined, 37 moves, 1-0

Game 15
Pillsbury vs Lasker, 1904 
(D50) Queen's Gambit Declined, 30 moves, 1-0

Game 16
Maroczy vs Tarrasch, 1905 
(B40) Sicilian, 29 moves, 0-1

Game 17
Janowski vs Tarrasch, 1905 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 37 moves, 1-0

Game 18
Marshall vs Chigorin, 1905 
(A83) Dutch, Staunton Gambit, 30 moves, 1-0

Game 19
J Mieses vs J Moller, 1906 
(B01) Scandinavian, 46 moves, 1-0

Game 20
J Mieses vs Chigorin, 1906 
(C23) Bishop's Opening, 15 moves, 1-0

Game 21
Janowski vs Salwe, 1906 
(D55) Queen's Gambit Declined, 33 moves, 1-0

Game 22
Rubinstein vs Chigorin, 1906 
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 39 moves, 1-0

Game 23
Marshall vs Lasker, 1907 
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 50 moves, 0-1

Game 24
Marshall vs Burn, 1907 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 20 moves, 1-0

Game 25
Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907  
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 0-1

Game 26
Tarrasch vs Lasker, 1908 
(C66) Ruy Lopez, 41 moves, 0-1

Game 27
Rubinstein vs Marshall, 1908  
(C49) Four Knights, 38 moves, 1-0

Game 28
A Bobrishchev-Pushkin vs Timofejew, 1911 
(C11) French, 20 moves, 1-0

Game 29
Capablanca vs Marshall, 1909 
(C62) Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense, 31 moves, 1-0

Game 30
Rubinstein vs Lasker, 1909  
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 40 moves, 1-0

Game 31
F Lazard vs A Gibaud, 1909 
(C54) Giuoco Piano, 25 moves, 1-0

Game 32
Rotlewi vs Bogoljubov, 1910 
(A53) Old Indian, 25 moves, 1-0

Game 33
Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 
(B15) Caro-Kann, 11 moves, 1-0

Game 34
Spielmann vs J Mieses, 1910 
(D52) Queen's Gambit Declined, 41 moves, 1-0

Game 35
Capablanca vs Spielmann, 1911 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 30 moves, 1-0

Game 36
Capablanca vs O Bernstein, 1911 
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 34 moves, 1-0

Game 37
Rubinstein vs Spielmann, 1912  
(A84) Dutch, 42 moves, 0-1

Game 38
S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 
(B23) Sicilian, Closed, 23 moves, 0-1

Game 39
Reti vs Flamberg, 1912 
(C37) King's Gambit Accepted, 37 moves, 1-0

Game 40
J Corzo vs Capablanca, 1913 
(A53) Old Indian, 37 moves, 0-1

Game 41
Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1913 
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 35 moves, 1-0

Game 42
J Rodzynski vs Alekhine, 1913 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 15 moves, 0-1

Game 43
A Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1914  
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 32 moves, 0-1

Game 44
A Nimzowitsch vs Capablanca, 1914 
(C62) Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense, 42 moves, 0-1

Game 45
N Grigoriev vs Alekhine, 1915 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 25 moves, 0-1

Game 46
Janowski vs O Chajes, 1916 
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 26 moves, 1-0

Game 47
Z Belsitzman vs Rubinstein, 1917 
(C48) Four Knights, 18 moves, 0-1

Game 48
Rubinstein vs Vidmar, 1918 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 24 moves, 0-1

Game 49
A Nimzowitsch vs K Behting, 1919 
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 27 moves, 1-0

Game 50
Rubinstein vs Maroczy, 1920  
(D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 35 moves, 1-0

Game 51
Capablanca vs Lasker, 1921  
(D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 48 moves, 1-0

Game 52
Alekhine vs K Sterk, 1921 
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 30 moves, 1-0

Game 53
A Nicifor vs E Kramer, 1921 
(C48) Four Knights, 25 moves, 0-1

Game 54
Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 
(A90) Dutch, 53 moves, 0-1

Game 55
Maroczy vs Tartakower, 1922 
(A84) Dutch, 35 moves, 0-1

Game 56
Alekhine vs Reti, 1922 
(C77) Ruy Lopez, 59 moves, 1/2-1/2

Game 57
Alekhine vs Yates, 1923 
(E62) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 50 moves, 0-1

Game 58
Saemisch vs A Nimzowitsch, 1923  
(E18) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 7.Nc3, 25 moves, 0-1

Game 59
Rubinstein vs Hromadka, 1923 
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 29 moves, 1-0

Game 60
Reti vs Bogoljubov, 1924  
(A13) English, 25 moves, 1-0

Game 61
Tartakower vs Capablanca, 1924 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 30 moves, 0-1

Game 62
B Verlinsky vs Levenfish, 1924 
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 28 moves, 0-1

Game 63
Torre vs Lasker, 1925 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 43 moves, 1-0

Game 64
Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 40 moves, 0-1

Game 65
Janowski vs Saemisch, 1925 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 20 moves, 1-0

Game 66
P Johner vs A Nimzowitsch, 1926 
(E47) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3, 40 moves, 0-1

Game 67
Colle vs Gruenfeld, 1926 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 27 moves, 1-0

Game 68
Rubinstein vs Alekhine, 1926 
(E16) Queen's Indian, 29 moves, 0-1

Game 69
Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927 
(D52) Queen's Gambit Declined, 36 moves, 1-0

Game 70
I Rabinovich vs Botvinnik, 1927 
(A95) Dutch, Stonewall, 42 moves, 0-1

Game 71
Spielmann vs R L'hermet, 1927 
(C10) French, 24 moves, 1-0

Game 72
A Nimzowitsch vs Marshall, 1928 
(A50) Queen's Pawn Game, 25 moves, 0-1

Game 73
Bogoljubov vs Capablanca, 1928 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 41 moves, 0-1

Game 74
Rubinstein vs Capablanca, 1928 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 32 moves, 1/2-1/2

Game 75
H Mattison vs Rubinstein, 1929 
(C68) Ruy Lopez, Exchange, 38 moves, 0-1

Game 76
Vidmar vs Euwe, 1929 
(A48) King's Indian, 37 moves, 1-0

Game 77
Alekhine vs H Steiner, 1929 
(D28) Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical, 25 moves, 1-0

Game 78
Bogoljubov vs M Monticelli, 1930 
(E21) Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights, 39 moves, 0-1

Game 79
Colle vs J O'Hanlon, 1930 
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 20 moves, 1-0

Game 80
Lilienthal vs Kertesz, 1929 
(A50) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0

Game 81
Alekhine vs A Nimzowitsch, 1931 
(C15) French, Winawer, 19 moves, 1-0

Game 82
Alekhine vs Maroczy, 1931 
(D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 28 moves, 1-0

Game 83
Marshall vs Capablanca, 1931 
(E16) Queen's Indian, 36 moves, 0-1

Game 84
S Slonim vs N Riumin, 1931 
(C45) Scotch Game, 20 moves, 0-1

Game 85
Alekhine vs Koltanowski, 1932 
(C73) Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, 31 moves, 1-0

Game 86
Alekhine vs S Khan, 1932 
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 34 moves, 1-0

Game 87
G Stoltz vs Spielmann, 1932 
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 33 moves, 1-0

Game 88
V Rauzer vs Botvinnik, 1933 
(B74) Sicilian, Dragon, Classical, 29 moves, 0-1

Game 89
Flohr vs Kashdan, 1933 
(A18) English, Mikenas-Carls, 30 moves, 1-0

Game 90
Capablanca vs H Steiner, 1933 
(C49) Four Knights, 25 moves, 1-0

Game 92
Alekhine vs Bogoljubov, 1934 
(D48) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran, 37 moves, 1-0

Game 93
Euwe vs Lasker, 1934 
(D51) Queen's Gambit Declined, 50 moves, 0-1

Game 95
C Baranov vs Y Rokhlin, 1935 
(C10) French, 40 moves, 1-0

Game 96
Lasker vs Pirc, 1935 
(B85) Sicilian, Scheveningen, Classical, 20 moves, 1-0

Game 97
Keres vs W Winter, 1935 
(B29) Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein, 19 moves, 1-0

Game 98
Alekhine vs C H Alexander, 1936  
(E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 27 moves, 1-0

Game 99
Capablanca vs Lilienthal, 1936 
(A12) English with b3, 54 moves, 1-0

Game 100
Stahlberg vs Keres, 1936 
(E26) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 27 moves, 0-1

Game 101
Alekhine vs Euwe, 1937 
(D10) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 23 moves, 1-0

Game 102
Keres vs Flohr, 1937 
(E60) King's Indian Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Game 103
Panov vs Bondarevsky, 1937 
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 30 moves, 0-1

Game 104
Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 
(E40) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, 41 moves, 1-0

Game 105
Keres vs Capablanca, 1938 
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 38 moves, 1-0

Game 106
Alekhine vs E Book, 1938 
(D26) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 1-0

Game 107
Yanofsky vs A Ismodes Dulanto, 1939 
(C11) French, 28 moves, 1-0

Game 108
Euwe vs Keres, 1940 
(E19) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3, 34 moves, 0-1

Game 109
Kotov vs M Yudovich Sr, 1939 
(D39) Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin, Vienna Variation, 31 moves, 1-0

Game 110
Keres vs Petrov, 1940 
(C32) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0

Game 111
Bondarevsky vs Lisitsin, 1940 
(E09) Catalan, Closed, 33 moves, 1-0

Game 112
Bogoljubov vs L Rellstab, 1940 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 22 moves, 1-0

Game 113
P Schmidt vs H Nowarra, 1941 
(C11) French, 27 moves, 1-0

Game 114
Keres vs Botvinnik, 1941 
(E34) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation, 22 moves, 0-1

Game 115
Boleslavsky vs Lilienthal, 1941 
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 17 moves, 1-0

Game 116
Alekhine vs K Junge, 1942 
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 29 moves, 1-0

Game 117
Keres vs K Richter, 1942  
(A28) English, 59 moves, 0-1

Game 118
Alekhine vs K Junge, 1942  
(C86) Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack, 28 moves, 1-0

Game 119
V Vinogradov vs Boleslavsky, 1943
(B59) Sicilian, Boleslavsky Variation, 7.Nb3, 44 moves, 0-1

Game 120
Botvinnik vs A Konstantinopolsky, 1943 
(B14) Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack, 52 moves, 1-0

Game 121
G Ravinsky vs Panov, 1943 
(B80) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 36 moves, 1-0

Game 122
Smyslov vs Botvinnik, 1944 
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 40 moves, 0-1

Game 125
Tolush vs Kotov, 1945 
(B80) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 41 moves, 1-0

Game 126
I A Horowitz vs Flohr, 1945 
(B16) Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation, 41 moves, 1-0

Game 127
Fine vs H Steiner, 1945 
(D29) Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical, 25 moves, 1-0

Game 128
Najdorf vs Botvinnik, 1946 
(E34) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation, 40 moves, 1-0

Game 129
Denker vs Smyslov, 1946 
(E29) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 43 moves, 0-1

Game 130
Ragozin vs I Solin, 1946 
(E70) King's Indian, 35 moves, 1-0

Game 131
Keres vs Levenfish, 1947 
(E08) Catalan, Closed, 30 moves, 1-0

Game 132
Tolush vs Alatortsev, 1947 
(D46) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 35 moves, 1-0

Game 133
R Nezhmetdinov vs Suetin, 1947 
(B60) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, 29 moves, 1-0

Game 134
Botvinnik vs Keres, 1948 
(E28) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch Variation, 23 moves, 1-0

Game 135
Lilienthal vs Najdorf, 1948 
(E29) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 25 moves, 1-0

Game 137
Tartakower vs Euwe, 1948 
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 42 moves, 0-1

Game 138
Kotov vs Geller, 1949 
(E67) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 40 moves, 0-1

Game 139
A Fuderer vs Gligoric, 1949 
(B63) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 41 moves, 0-1

Game 140
Rossolimo vs O'Kelly, 1949 
(B31) Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation, 24 moves, 1-0

Game 141
Lilienthal vs Najdorf, 1950 
(B52) Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack, 37 moves, 0-1

Game 142
Alatortsev vs Boleslavsky, 1950 
(A54) Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3, 27 moves, 0-1

Game 144
Botvinnik vs Bronstein, 1951 
(E60) King's Indian Defense, 57 moves, 1-0

Game 145
O Moiseev vs Simagin, 1951 
(E70) King's Indian, 30 moves, 0-1

Game 146
E Gereben vs O Troianescu, 1951 
(E17) Queen's Indian, 35 moves, 1-0

Game 147
Szabo vs Petrosian, 1952 
(B93) Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4, 47 moves, 0-1

Game 148
Botvinnik vs Keres, 1952 
(D35) Queen's Gambit Declined, 37 moves, 1-0

Game 149
Keres vs Geller, 1952 
(C86) Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack, 41 moves, 1-0

Game 150
Averbakh vs Kotov, 1953 
(A55) Old Indian, Main line, 51 moves, 0-1

Game 151
Euwe vs Najdorf, 1953 
(E60) King's Indian Defense, 37 moves, 1-0

Game 152
L Schmid vs M Udovcic, 1953 
(B07) Pirc, 34 moves, 1-0

Game 153
Botvinnik vs Smyslov, 1954 
(E45) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Bronstein (Byrne) Variation, 30 moves, 1-0

Game 154
O Bernstein vs Najdorf, 1954 
(A55) Old Indian, Main line, 37 moves, 1-0

Game 155
Korchnoi vs Geller, 1954 
(B64) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

Game 156
Spassky vs Pilnik, 1955 
(B98) Sicilian, Najdorf, 31 moves, 1-0

Game 157
G Idigoras vs Panno, 1955 
(E63) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation, 41 moves, 1-0

Game 158
Keres vs Botvinnik, 1955 
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 27 moves, 1-0

Game 159
D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956  
(D92) Grunfeld, 5.Bf4, 41 moves, 0-1

Game 160
Tal vs Simagin, 1956 
(B07) Pirc, 45 moves, 1-0

Game 161
Botvinnik vs Gligoric, 1956 
(A37) English, Symmetrical, 30 moves, 1-0

Game 162
Keres vs Tolush, 1957 
(B97) Sicilian, Najdorf, 29 moves, 1-0

Game 164
Barcza vs Keres, 1957 
(D78) Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6, 41 moves, 1-0

Game 165
Spassky vs Polugaevsky, 1958 
(B94) Sicilian, Najdorf, 41 moves, 1-0

Game 166
H Rossetto vs R Cardoso, 1958 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 47 moves, 1-0

Game 167
Polugaevsky vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1958 
(A53) Old Indian, 33 moves, 0-1

Game 168
Tal vs Smyslov, 1959 
(B10) Caro-Kann, 26 moves, 1-0

Game 169
Kholmov vs Keres, 1959 
(B30) Sicilian, 29 moves, 1-0

Game 170
Geller vs Korchnoi, 1960 
(B03) Alekhine's Defense, 35 moves, 0-1

Game 171
Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 
(C36) King's Gambit Accepted, Abbazia Defense, 23 moves, 1-0

Game 172
Uhlmann vs Kholmov, 1960 
(A21) English, 27 moves, 0-1

Game 173
R Nezhmetdinov vs Tal, 1961 
(B84) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 29 moves, 1-0

Game 174
L Belov vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1961 
(C59) Two Knights, 31 moves, 0-1

Game 175
Hort vs Keres, 1961 
(C71) Ruy Lopez, 53 moves, 0-1

Game 176
Stein vs Portisch, 1962 
(B42) Sicilian, Kan, 21 moves, 1-0

Game 177
Tal vs H Hecht, 1962 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 49 moves, 1-0

Game 178
Gufeld vs Kavalek, 1962 
(C64) Ruy Lopez, Classical, 32 moves, 0-1

Game 179
Fischer vs Benko, 1963 
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 21 moves, 1-0

Game 180
R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963  
(E60) King's Indian Defense, 21 moves, 0-1

Game 181
Tal vs N Padevsky, 1963 
(C16) French, Winawer, 28 moves, 1-0

Game 182
Tal vs G Tringov, 1964 
(B06) Robatsch, 17 moves, 1-0

Game 183
I Aloni vs Botvinnik, 1964 
(A56) Benoni Defense, 36 moves, 0-1

Game 184
Kholmov vs Bronstein, 1965 
(B99) Sicilian, Najdorf, 7...Be7 Main line, 34 moves, 1-0

Game 186
Tal vs Larsen, 1965  
(B82) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 37 moves, 1-0

Game 187
Korchnoi vs Keres, 1965 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 40 moves, 0-1

Game 188
Filip vs Petrosian, 1965 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 40 moves, 0-1

Game 189
Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 
(E63) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation, 30 moves, 1-0

Game 190
Larsen vs Petrosian, 1966 
(B39) Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Breyer Variation, 30 moves, 1-0

Game 191
B Gurgenidze vs A Lein, 1967 
(B29) Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein, 21 moves, 1-0

Game 192
Fischer vs Stein, 1967 
(C92) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 56 moves, 1-0

Game 193
Uhlmann vs Spassky, 1967 
(D58) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst, 22 moves, 0-1

Game 194
Matulovic vs Fischer, 1968 
(B91) Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation, 40 moves, 0-1

Game 195
Smyslov vs V Liberzon, 1968 
(A25) English, 41 moves, 1-0

Game 196
Spassky vs Petrosian, 1969 
(B94) Sicilian, Najdorf, 24 moves, 1-0

Game 197
B Jacobsen vs Ljubojevic, 1970 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 20 moves, 0-1

Game 198
Fischer vs Panno, 1970 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 36 moves, 1-0

Game 201
Fischer vs Petrosian, 1971 
(B42) Sicilian, Kan, 34 moves, 1-0

Game 202
Karpov vs Hort, 1971 
(B81) Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack, 33 moves, 1-0

Game 203
Geller vs Velimirovic, 1971 
(E66) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav Panno, 50 moves, 1-0

Game 204
Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 
(D59) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower, 41 moves, 1-0

Game 205
J Bednarski vs Adorjan, 1972 
(B32) Sicilian, 27 moves, 0-1

Game 206
Bagirov vs Gufeld, 1973 
(E84) King's Indian, Samisch, Panno Main line, 32 moves, 0-1

Game 207
B Rytov vs Timman, 1973 
(E45) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Bronstein (Byrne) Variation, 24 moves, 0-1

Game 209
Karpov vs Spassky, 1974 
(B83) Sicilian, 35 moves, 1-0

Game 210
Portisch vs Petrosian, 1974 
(D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 33 moves, 1-0

Game 211
Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1974 
(B77) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 27 moves, 1-0

Game 212
Romanishin vs Petrosian, 1975 
(A17) English, 30 moves, 1-0

Game 213
Ljubojevic vs Tal, 1975 
(B81) Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack, 33 moves, 1/2-1/2

Game 214
Karpov vs Spassky, 1975 
(E17) Queen's Indian, 44 moves, 1-0

Game 215
Reshevsky vs Vaganian, 1976 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 28 moves, 0-1

Game 216
Hodgson vs D Paunovic, 1976 
(B78) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long, 20 moves, 1-0

Game 217
Lputian vs Kasparov, 1976 
(E80) King's Indian, Samisch Variation, 38 moves, 0-1

Game 218
Korchnoi vs Spassky, 1977 
(D58) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst, 48 moves, 1-0

Game 219
S Tatai vs Karpov, 1977 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 30 moves, 0-1

Game 220
Westerinen vs G Sigurjonsson, 1977 
(B96) Sicilian, Najdorf, 32 moves, 1-0

Game 221
Korchnoi vs Karpov, 1978 
(E47) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3, 39 moves, 0-1

Game 222
Balashov vs Miles, 1978 
(D24) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 29 moves, 1-0

Game 223
Polugaevsky vs Tal, 1979 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 28 moves, 0-1

Game 224
Tal vs Huebner, 1979 
(B18) Caro-Kann, Classical, 41 moves, 1-0

Game 225
R Byrne vs Andersson, 1979 
(B42) Sicilian, Kan, 41 moves, 0-1

Game 226
Kasparov vs J Pribyl, 1980 
(D85) Grunfeld, 31 moves, 1-0

Game 227
V Kovacevic vs Seirawan, 1980 
(B07) Pirc, 33 moves, 0-1

Game 228
Polugaevsky vs E Torre, 1981 
(D44) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 40 moves, 1-0

Game 229
Kasparov vs Andersson, 1981 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 30 moves, 1-0

Game 230
I Kopylov vs S Korolev, 1981 
(B29) Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein, 36 moves, 1-0

Game 231
Kavalek vs Kasparov, 1982 
(E90) King's Indian, 27 moves, 0-1

Game 232
Korchnoi vs Kasparov, 1982 
(A64) Benoni, Fianchetto, 11...Re8, 36 moves, 0-1

Game 233
Karpov vs Sax, 1983 
(B81) Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack, 39 moves, 1-0

Game 234
Kasparov vs Portisch, 1983 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 35 moves, 1-0

Game 235
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1984 
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 70 moves, 1-0

Game 236
V McCambridge vs Hjartarson, 1984 
(D85) Grunfeld, 48 moves, 1-0

Game 237
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 
(B44) Sicilian, 40 moves, 0-1

Game 238
de Firmian vs P Nikolic, 1985 
(C92) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 37 moves, 1-0

Game 239
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1986 
(C92) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 41 moves, 1-0

Game 240
Chandler vs Vaganian, 1986 
(C18) French, Winawer, 37 moves, 1-0

Game 241
Nunn vs M Marin, 1987 
(B80) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 27 moves, 1-0

Game 242
Tal vs Hjartarson, 1987 
(C97) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 43 moves, 1-0

Game 243
Salov vs M Gurevich, 1987 
(E42) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein), 25 moves, 0-1

Game 244
C Hoi vs Gulko, 1988 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0

Game 245
Taimanov vs Kaidanov, 1988 
(A13) English, 22 moves, 0-1

Game 246
Kasparov vs Salov, 1989 
(A15) English, 29 moves, 1-0

Game 247
Portisch vs Nunn, 1989 
(E92) King's Indian, 31 moves, 0-1

Game 248
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1990 
(C92) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 41 moves, 1-0

Game 249
Seirawan vs Timman, 1990 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 26 moves, 1-0

Game 250
Shirov vs A Hauchard, 1990 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 32 moves, 1-0

Game 252
Ivanchuk vs A Yusupov, 1991 
(E67) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 39 moves, 0-1

Game 252
Short vs Timman, 1991 
(B04) Alekhine's Defense, Modern, 34 moves, 1-0

Game 253
Ivanchuk vs Anand, 1992 
(B62) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, 45 moves, 0-1

Game 254
D Norwood vs S Marsh, 1992 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 36 moves, 1-0

Game 255
Van der Sterren vs Petursson, 1992 
(D17) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 26 moves, 1-0

Game 256
Gelfand vs Anand, 1993 
(D20) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 40 moves, 0-1

Game 257
Kamsky vs Shirov, 1993 
(D44) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 31 moves, 0-1

Game 258
Topalov vs Bareev, 1994 
(C11) French, 23 moves, 0-1

Game 259
Karpov vs Topalov, 1994 
(A32) English, Symmetrical Variation, 39 moves, 1-0

Game 260
Kasparov vs Anand, 1995 
(C80) Ruy Lopez, Open, 38 moves, 1-0

Game 261
Kramnik vs Ehlvest, 1995 
(D44) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 25 moves, 1-0

Game 262
R Cifuentes vs Zvjaginsev, 1995 
(D45) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 35 moves, 0-1

Game 263
Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1996 
(B22) Sicilian, Alapin, 37 moves, 1-0

Game 264
Ivanchuk vs Shirov, 1996 
(D44) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 35 moves, 1-0

Game 265
Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997 
(C93) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense, 45 moves, 1-0

Game 266
Anand vs Lautier, 1997 
(B01) Scandinavian, 25 moves, 1-0

Game 267
Gelfand vs Shirov, 1998 
(D85) Grunfeld, 39 moves, 1-0

Game 268
Topalov vs Shirov, 1998 
(D85) Grunfeld, 53 moves, 0-1

Game 269
Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 
(B07) Pirc, 44 moves, 1-0

Game 270
Nunn vs I Nataf, 1999 
(B32) Sicilian, 28 moves, 0-1

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