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Games You Should Know
Compiled by Ziryab
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Beginning a list of games that aspiring players would do well to study. Of course, there are many such lists and hundreds of games that belong on them.

Turkey Camp, Spokane 2023

Material: On the board vs. in the battle
Greco vs NN, 1620 
(C54) Giuoco Piano, 17 moves, 1-0

Footnote to Greco
Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858  
(C41) Philidor Defense, 17 moves, 1-0

Fishing pole
C Mayet vs Anderssen, 1851 
(C64) Ruy Lopez, Classical, 12 moves, 0-1

Encore to the Opera game
J Schulten vs Morphy, 1857 
(C31) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 23 moves, 0-1

Smash through
J Rosanes vs Anderssen, 1862 
(C31) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 19 moves, 0-1

Open the center
Morphy vs A Morphy, 1849 
(C51) Evans Gambit, 21 moves, 1-0

Tempi
A Meek vs Morphy, 1855 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 21 moves, 0-1

King hunt
Ed Lasker vs G Thomas, 1912 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 18 moves, 1-0

King Safety
J Reinisch vs Traxler, 1890  
(C57) Two Knights, 17 moves, 0-1

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

Pins
Rubinstein vs E Heilmann, 1905 
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 19 moves, 1-0

C J Corte vs J Bolbochan, 1946 
(C54) Giuoco Piano, 18 moves, 1-0

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

Playing a closed position—flexibility
Morphy vs A Meek, 1857 
(C00) French Defense, 30 moves, 1-0

Destroy the pawn shield
Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857  
(C48) Four Knights, 28 moves, 0-1

Steinitz vs A Mongredien, 1862 
(B06) Robatsch, 22 moves, 1-0

Tactics flow from a superior position
Fischer vs J Sherwin, 1957 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 33 moves, 1-0

Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851  
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 23 moves, 1-0

Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852 
(C52) Evans Gambit, 20 moves, 1-0

Pawn storm
McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834 
(B32) Sicilian, 37 moves, 0-1

Inspired by Rotlewi — Rubinstein
Aronian vs Anand, 2013 
(D47) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 23 moves, 0-1

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

Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 
(A03) Bird's Opening, 38 moves, 1-0

King in the endgame
Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924  
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 52 moves, 1-0

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

Topalov vs Anand, 2005 
(E15) Queen's Indian, 52 moves, 1-0

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