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"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective." – Alexander Alekhine

"Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble." -- Stanley Kubrick

"Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules, take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment." – Garry Kasparov

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game." – Savielly Tartakower

"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter." ― Winston S. Churchill

The Use Of Knowledge

Between two citizens
A controversy grew.
The one was poor, but much he knew:
The other, rich, with little sense,
Claimed that, in point of excellence,
The merely wise should bow the knee
To all such moneyed men as he.
The merely fools, he should have said;
For why should wealth hold up its head,
When merit from its side has fled?
"My friend," said Bloated-purse,
To his reverse,
"You think yourself considerable.
Pray, tell me, do you keep a table?
What comes of this incessant reading,
In point of lodging, clothing, feeding?
It gives one, true, the highest chamber,
One coat for June and for December,
His shadow for his sole attendant,
And hunger always in the ascendant.
What profits he his country, too,
Who scarcely ever spends a sou –
Will, haply, be a public charge?
Who profits more the state at large,
Than he whose luxuries dispense
Among the people wealth immense?
We set the streams of life a-flowing;
We set all sorts of trades a-going.
The spinner, weaver, sewer, vender,
And many a wearer, fair and tender,
All live and flourish on the spender –
As do, indeed, the reverend rooks
Who waste their time in making books."
These words, so full of impudence,
Received their proper recompense.
The man of letters held his peace,
Though much he might have said with ease.
A war avenged him soon and well;
In it their common city fell.
Both fled abroad; the ignorant,
By fortune thus brought down to want,
Was treated everywhere with scorn,
And roamed about, a wretch forlorn;
Whereas the scholar, everywhere,
Was nourished by the public care.

Let fools the studious despise;
There's nothing lost by being wise.

When the heart is full the tongue will speak.
Scottish Proverb

The Two Friends

Two friends, in Monomotapa,
Had all their interests combined.
Their friendship, faithful and refined,
Our country can't exceed, do what it may.
One night, when potent Sleep had laid
All still within our planet's shade,
One of the two gets up alarmed,
Runs over to the other's palace,
And hastily the servants rallies.
His startled friend, quick armed,
With purse and sword his comrade meets,
And thus right kindly greets:
"You seldom com'st at such an hour;
I take you for a man of sounder mind
Than to abuse the time for sleep designed.
Have lost your purse, by Fortune's power?
Here's mine. Have suffered insult, or a blow,
I have here my sword – to avenge it let us go." "No," said his friend, "no need I feel
Of either silver, gold, or steel;
I thank you for your friendly zeal.
In sleep I saw you rather sad,
And thought the truth might be as bad.
Unable to endure the fear,
That cursed dream has brought me here."

Which think you, reader, loved the most!
If doubtful this, one truth may be proposed:
There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:
Not only is he prompt to lend –
An angler delicate, he fishes
The very deepest of your wishes,
And spares your modesty the task
His friendly aid to ask.
A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,
When pointing at the object dear.

In days of old when knights were bold
and toilets weren't invented
they did their load
beside the road
and walked away contented

The Triumph of Life
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Swift as a spirit hastening to his task
Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth
Rejoicing in his splendour, & the mask
Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth.
The smokeless altars of the mountain snows
Flamed above crimson clouds, & at the birth
Of light, the Ocean's orison arose
To which the birds tempered their matin lay,
All flowers in field or forest which unclose
Their trembling eyelids to the kiss of day,
Swinging their censers in the element,
With orient incense lit by the new ray
Burned slow & inconsumably, & sent
Their odorous sighs up to the smiling air,
And in succession due, did Continent,
Isle, Ocean, & all things that in them wear
The form & character of mortal mould
Rise as the Sun their father rose, to bear
Their portion of the toil which he of old
Took as his own & then imposed on them;
But I, whom thoughts which must remain untold
Had kept as wakeful as the stars that gem
The cone of night, now they were laid asleep,
Stretched my faint limbs beneath the hoary stem
Which an old chestnut flung athwart the steep
Of a green Apennine: before me fled
The night; behind me rose the day; the Deep
Was at my feet, & Heaven above my head
When a strange trance over my fancy grew
Which was not slumber, for the shade it spread
Was so transparent that the scene came through
As clear as when a veil of light is drawn
O'er evening hills they glimmer; and I knew
That I had felt the freshness of that dawn,
Bathed in the same cold dew my brow & hair
And sate as thus upon that slope of lawn
Under the self same bough, & heard as there
The birds, the fountains & the Ocean hold
Sweet talk in music through the enamoured air.
And then a Vision on my brain was rolled.

As in that trance of wondrous thought I lay
This was the tenour of my waking dream.
Methought I sate beside a public way
Thick strewn with summer dust, & a great stream
Of people there was hurrying to & fro
Numerous as gnats upon the evening gleam,
All hastening onward, yet none seemed to know
Whither he went, or whence he came, or why
He made one of the multitude, yet so
Was borne amid the crowd as through the sky
One of the million leaves of summer's bier.— Old age & youth, manhood & infancy,
Mixed in one mighty torrent did appear,
Some flying from the thing they feared & some
Seeking the object of another's fear,
And others as with steps towards the tomb
Pored on the trodden worms that crawled beneath, And others mournfully within the gloom
Of their own shadow walked, and called it death … And some fled from it as it were a ghost,
Half fainting in the affliction of vain breath.
But more with motions which each other crost
Pursued or shunned the shadows the clouds threw
Or birds within the noonday ether lost,
Upon that path where flowers never grew;
And weary with vain toil & faint for thirst
Heard not the fountains whose melodious dew
Out of their mossy cells forever burst
Nor felt the breeze which from the forest told
Of grassy paths, & wood lawns interspersed
With overarching elms & caverns cold,
And violet banks where sweet dreams brood, but they Pursued their serious folly as of old ….
And as I gazed methought that in the way
The throng grew wilder, as the woods of June
When the South wind shakes the extinguished day.— And a cold glare, intenser than the noon
But icy cold, obscured with blank light
The Sun as he the stars. Like the young moon
When on the sunlit limits of the night
Her white shell trembles amid crimson air
And whilst the sleeping tempest gathers might
Doth, as a herald of its coming, bear
The ghost of her dead Mother, whose dim form
Bends in dark ether from her infant's chair,
So came a chariot on the silent storm
Of its own rushing splendour, and a Shape
So sate within as one whom years deform
Beneath a dusky hood & double cape
Crouching within the shadow of a tomb,
And o'er what seemed the head, a cloud like crape, Was bent a dun & faint etherial gloom
Tempering the light; upon the chariot's beam
A Janus-visaged Shadow did assume
The guidance of that wonder-winged team.
The Shapes which drew it in thick lightnings
Were lost: I heard alone on the air's soft stream The music of their ever moving wings.
All the four faces of that charioteer
Had their eyes banded . . . little profit brings Speed in the van & blindness in the rear,
Nor then avail the beams that quench the Sun
Or that his banded eyes could pierce the sphere
Of all that is, has been, or will be done.—
So ill was the car guided, but it past
With solemn speed majestically on . . .
The crowd gave way, & I arose aghast,
Or seemed to rise, so mighty was the trance,
And saw like clouds upon the thunder blast
The million with fierce song and maniac dance
Raging around; such seemed the jubilee
As when to greet some conqueror's advance
Imperial Rome poured forth her living sea
From senatehouse & prison & theatre
When Freedom left those who upon the free
Had bound a yoke which soon they stooped to bear. Nor wanted here the true similitude
Of a triumphal pageant, for where'er
The chariot rolled a captive multitude
Was driven; althose who had grown old in power
Or misery,—all who have their age subdued,
By action or by suffering, and whose hour
Was drained to its last sand in weal or woe,
So that the trunk survived both fruit & flower;
All those whose fame or infamy must grow
Till the great winter lay the form & name
Of their own earth with them forever low,
All but the sacred few who could not tame
Their spirits to the Conqueror, but as soon
As they had touched the world with living flame
Fled back like eagles to their native noon,
Of those who put aside the diadem
Of earthly thrones or gems, till the last one
Were there;—for they of Athens & Jerusalem
Were neither mid the mighty captives seen
Nor mid the ribald crowd that followed them
Or fled before . . Now swift, fierce & obscene
The wild dance maddens in the van, & those
Who lead it, fleet as shadows on the green,
Outspeed the chariot & without repose
Mix with each other in tempestuous measure
To savage music …. Wilder as it grows,
They, tortured by the agonizing pleasure,
Convulsed & on the rapid whirlwinds spun
Of that fierce spirit, whose unholy leisure
Was soothed by mischief since the world begun,
Throw back their heads & loose their streaming hair, And in their dance round her who dims the Sun
Maidens & youths fling their wild arms in air
As their feet twinkle; they recede, and now
Bending within each other's atmosphere
Kindle invisibly; and as they glow
Like moths by light attracted & repelled,
Oft to new bright destruction come & go.
Till like two clouds into one vale impelled
That shake the mountains when their lightnings mingle And die in rain,—the fiery band which held
Their natures, snaps . . . ere the shock cease to tingle One falls and then another in the path
Senseless, nor is the desolation single,
Yet ere I can say where the chariot hath
Past over them; nor other trace I find
But as of foam after the Ocean's wrath
Is spent upon the desert shore.—Behind,
Old men, and women foully disarrayed
Shake their grey hair in the insulting wind,
Limp in the dance & strain, with limbs decayed,
Seeking to reach the light which leaves them still Farther behind & deeper in the shade.
But not the less with impotence of will
They wheel, though ghastly shadows interpose
Round them & round each other, and fulfill
Their work and to the dust whence they arose
Sink & corruption veils them as they lie
And frost in these performs what fire in those.
Struck to the heart by this sad pageantry,
Half to myself I said, "And what is this?
Whose shape is that within the car? & why"-
I would have added—"is all here amiss?"
But a voice answered . . "Life" . . . I turned & knew (O Heaven have mercy on such wretchedness!)
That what I thought was an old root which grew
To strange distortion out of the hill side
Was indeed one of that deluded crew,
And that the grass which methought hung so wide
And white, was but his thin discoloured hair,
And that the holes it vainly sought to hide
Were or had been eyes.—"lf thou canst forbear To join the dance, which I had well forborne," Said the grim Feature, of my thought aware,
"I will now tell that which to this deep scorn Led me & my companions, and relate
The progress of the pageant since the morn;
"If thirst of knowledge doth not thus abate,
Follow it even to the night, but I
Am weary" . . . Then like one who with the weight Of his own words is staggered, wearily
He paused, and ere he could resume, I cried,
"First who art thou?" . . . "Before thy memory "I feared, loved, hated, suffered, did, & died, And if the spark with which Heaven lit my spirit Earth had with purer nutriment supplied
"Corruption would not now thus much inherit
Of what was once Rousseau—nor this disguise
Stained that within which still disdains to wear it.— "If I have been extinguished, yet there rise
A thousand beacons from the spark I bore."—
"And who are those chained to the car?" "The Wise, "The great, the unforgotten: they who wore
Mitres & helms & crowns, or wreathes of light,
Signs of thought's empire over thought; their lore "Taught them not this—to know themselves; their might Could not repress the mutiny within,
And for the morn of truth they feigned, deep night "Caught them ere evening." "Who is he with chin Upon his breast and hands crost on his chain?" "The Child of a fierce hour; he sought to win
"The world, and lost all it did contain
Of greatness, in its hope destroyed; & more
Of fame & peace than Virtue's self can gain
"Without the opportunity which bore
Him on its eagle's pinion to the peak
From which a thousand climbers have before
"Fall'n as Napoleon fell."—I felt my cheek Alter to see the great form pass away
Whose grasp had left the giant world so weak
That every pigmy kicked it as it lay—
And much I grieved to think how power & will
In opposition rule our mortal day—
And why God made irreconcilable
Good & the means of good; and for despair
I half disdained mine eye's desire to fill
With the spent vision of the times that were
And scarce have ceased to be . . . "Dost thou behold," Said then my guide, "those spoilers spoiled, Voltaire, "Frederic, & Kant, Catherine, & Leopold,
Chained hoary anarch, demagogue & sage
Whose name the fresh world thinks already old— "For in the battle Life & they did wage
She remained conqueror—I was overcome
By my own heart alone, which neither age
"Nor tears nor infamy nor now the tomb
Could temper to its object."—"Let them pass"— I cried—"the world & its mysterious doom
"Is not so much more glorious than it was
That I desire to worship those who drew
New figures on its false & fragile glass
"As the old faded."—"Figures ever new
Rise on the bubble, paint them how you may;
We have but thrown, as those before us threw,
"Our shadows on it as it past away.
But mark, how chained to the triumphal chair
The mighty phantoms of an elder day—
"All that is mortal of great Plato there
Expiates the joy & woe his master knew not;
That star that ruled his doom was far too fair— "And Life, where long that flower of Heaven grew not, Conquered the heart by love which gold or pain
Or age or sloth or slavery could subdue not—
"And near blank walk the blank twain,
The tutor & his pupil, whom Dominion
Followed as tame as vulture in a chain.—
"The world was darkened beneath either pinion
Of him whom from the flock of conquerors
Fame singled as her thunderbearing minion;
"The other long outlived both woes & wars,
Throned in new thoughts of men, and still had kept The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors
"If Bacon's spirit blank had not leapt
Like lightning out of darkness; he compelled
The Proteus shape of Nature's as it slept
"To wake & to unbar the caves that held
The treasure of the secrets of its reign—
See the great bards of old who inly quelled
"The passions which they sung, as by their strain May well be known: their living melody
Tempers its own contagion to the vein
"Of those who are infected with it—I
Have suffered what I wrote, or viler pain!—
"And so my words were seeds of misery—
Even as the deeds of others."—"Not as theirs," I said—he pointed to a company
In which I recognized amid the heirs
Of Caesar's crime from him to Constantine,
The Anarchs old whose force & murderous snares
Had founded many a sceptre bearing line
And spread the plague of blood & gold abroad,
And Gregory & John and men divine
Who rose like shadows between Man & god
Till that eclipse, still hanging under Heaven,
Was worshipped by the world o'er which they strode For the true Sun it quenched.—"Their power was given But to destroy," replied the leader—"I
Am one of those who have created, even
"If it be but a world of agony."—
"Whence camest thou & whither goest thou?
How did thy course begin," I said, "& why?
"Mine eyes are sick of this perpetual flow
Of people, & my heart of one sad thought.—
Speak."—"Whence I came, partly I seem to know, "And how & by what paths I have been brought
To this dread pass, methinks even thou mayst guess; Why this should be my mind can compass not;
"Whither the conqueror hurries me still less.
But follow thou, & from spectator turn
Actor or victim in this wretchedness,
"And what thou wouldst be taught I then may learn From thee.—Now listen . . . In the April prime When all the forest tops began to burn
"With kindling green, touched by the azure clime Of the young year, I found myself asleep
Under a mountain which from unknown time
"Had yawned into a cavern high & deep,
And from it came a gentle rivulet
Whose water like clear air in its calm sweep
"Bent the soft grass & kept for ever wet
The stems of the sweet flowers, and filled the grove With sound which all who hear must needs forget
"All pleasure & all pain, all hate & love,
Which they had known before that hour of rest:
A sleeping mother then would dream not of
"The only child who died upon her breast
At eventide, a king would mourn no more
The crown of which his brow was dispossest
"When the sun lingered o'er the Ocean floor
To gild his rival's new prosperity.—
Thou wouldst forget thus vainly to deplore
"Ills, which if ills, can find no cure from thee, The thought of which no other sleep will quell
Nor other music blot from memory—
"So sweet & deep is the oblivious spell.—
Whether my life had been before that sleep
The Heaven which I imagine, or a Hell
"Like this harsh world in which I wake to weep, I know not. I arose & for a space
The scene of woods & waters seemed to keep,
"Though it was now broad day, a gentle trace
Of light diviner than the common Sun
Sheds on the common Earth, but all the place
"Was filled with many sounds woven into one
Oblivious melody, confusing sense
Amid the gliding waves & shadows dun;
"And as I looked the bright omnipresence
Of morning through the orient cavern flowed,
And the Sun's image radiantly intense
"Burned on the waters of the well that glowed
Like gold, and threaded all the forest maze
With winding paths of emerald fire—there stood "Amid the sun, as he amid the blaze
Of his own glory, on the vibrating
Floor of the fountain, paved with flashing rays, "A shape all light, which with one hand did fling Dew on the earth, as if she were the Dawn
Whose invisible rain forever seemed to sing
"A silver music on the mossy lawn,
And still before her on the dusky grass
Iris her many coloured scarf had drawn.—
"In her right hand she bore a crystal glass
Mantling with bright Nepenthe;—the fierce splendour Fell from her as she moved under the mass
"Of the deep cavern, & with palms so tender
Their tread broke not the mirror of its billow,
Glided along the river, and did bend her
"Head under the dark boughs, till like a willow Her fair hair swept the bosom of the stream
That whispered with delight to be their pillow.— "As one enamoured is upborne in dream
O'er lily-paven lakes mid silver mist
To wondrous music, so this shape might seem
"Partly to tread the waves with feet which kist The dancing foam, partly to glide along
The airs that roughened the moist amethyst,
"Or the slant morning beams that fell among
The trees, or the soft shadows of the trees;
And her feet ever to the ceaseless song
"Of leaves & winds & waves & birds & bees
And falling drops moved in a measure new
Yet sweet, as on the summer evening breeze
"Up from the lake a shape of golden dew
Between two rocks, athwart the rising moon,
Moves up the east, where eagle never flew.—
"And still her feet, no less than the sweet tune To which they moved, seemed as they moved, to blot The thoughts of him who gazed on them, & soon
"All that was seemed as if it had been not,
As if the gazer's mind was strewn beneath
Her feet like embers, & she, thought by thought, "Trampled its fires into the dust of death,
As Day upon the threshold of the east
Treads out the lamps of night, until the breath
"Of darkness reillumines even the least
Of heaven's living eyes—like day she came,
Making the night a dream; and ere she ceased
"To move, as one between desire and shame
Suspended, I said—'If, as it doth seem,
Thou comest from the realm without a name,
" ‘Into this valley of perpetual dream,
Shew whence I came, and where I am, and why—
Pass not away upon the passing stream.'
" ‘Arise and quench thy thirst,' was her reply, And as a shut lily, stricken by the wand
Of dewy morning's vital alchemy,
"I rose; and, bending at her sweet command,
Touched with faint lips the cup she raised,
And suddenly my brain became as sand
"Where the first wave had more than half erased The track of deer on desert Labrador,
Whilst the fierce wolf from which they fled amazed "Leaves his stamp visibly upon the shore
Until the second bursts—so on my sight
Burst a new Vision never seen before.—
"And the fair shape waned in the coming light
As veil by veil the silent splendour drops
From Lucifer, amid the chrysolite
"Of sunrise ere it strike the mountain tops— And as the presence of that fairest planet
Although unseen is felt by one who hopes
"That his day's path may end as he began it
In that star's smile, whose light is like the scent Of a jonquil when evening breezes fan it,
"Or the soft note in which his dear lament
The Brescian shepherd breathes, or the caress
That turned his weary slumber to content.—
"So knew I in that light's severe excess
The presence of that shape which on the stream
Moved, as I moved along the wilderness,
"More dimly than a day appearing dream,
The ghost of a forgotten form of sleep
A light from Heaven whose half extinguished beam "Through the sick day in which we wake to weep Glimmers, forever sought, forever lost.—
So did that shape its obscure tenour keep
"Beside my path, as silent as a ghost;
But the new Vision, and its cold bright car,
With savage music, stunning music, crost
"The forest, and as if from some dread war
Triumphantly returning, the loud million
Fiercely extolled the fortune of her star.—
"A moving arch of victory the vermilion
And green & azure plumes of Iris had
Built high over her wind-winged pavilion,
"And underneath aetherial glory clad
The wilderness, and far before her flew
The tempest of the splendour which forbade
Shadow to fall from leaf or stone;—the crew
Seemed in that light like atomies that dance
Within a sunbeam.—Some upon the new
"Embroidery of flowers that did enhance
The grassy vesture of the desart, played,
Forgetful of the chariot's swift advance;
"Others stood gazing till within the shade
Of the great mountain its light left them dim.— Others outspeeded it, and others made
"Circles around it like the clouds that swim
Round the high moon in a bright sea of air,
And more did follow, with exulting hymn,
"The chariot & the captives fettered there,
But all like bubbles on an eddying flood
Fell into the same track at last & were
"Borne onward.—I among the multitude
Was swept; me sweetest flowers delayed not long, Me not the shadow nor the solitude,
"Me not the falling stream's Lethean song,
Me, not the phantom of that early form
Which moved upon its motion,—but among
"The thickest billows of the living storm
I plunged, and bared my bosom to the clime
Of that cold light, whose airs too soon deform.— "Before the chariot had begun to climb
The opposing steep of that mysterious dell,
Behold a wonder worthy of the rhyme
"Of him whom from the lowest depths of Hell
Through every Paradise & through all glory
Love led serene, & who returned to tell
"In words of hate & awe the wondrous story
How all things are transfigured, except Love;
For deaf as is a sea which wrath makes hoary
"The world can hear not the sweet notes that move The sphere whose light is melody to lovers—-
A wonder worthy of his rhyme—the grove
"Grew dense with shadows to its inmost covers, The earth was grey with phantoms, & the air
Was peopled with dim forms, as when there hovers "A flock of vampire-bats before the glare
Of the tropic sun, bring ere evening
Strange night upon some Indian isle,—thus were "Phantoms diffused around, & some did fling
Shadows of shadows, yet unlike themselves,
Behind them, some like eaglets on the wing
"Were lost in the white blaze, others like elves Danced in a thousand unimagined shapes
Upon the sunny streams & grassy shelves;
"And others sate chattering like restless apes On vulgar paws and voluble like fire.
Some made a cradle of the ermined capes
"Of kingly mantles, some upon the tiar
Of pontiffs sate like vultures, others played
Within the crown which girt with empire
"A baby's or an idiot's brow, & made
Their nests in it; the old anatomies
Sate hatching their bare brood under the shade
"Of demon wings, and laughed from their dead eyes To reassume the delegated power
Arrayed in which these worms did monarchize
"Who make this earth their charnel.—Others more Humble, like falcons sate upon the fist
Of common men, and round their heads did soar,
"Or like small gnats & flies, as thick as mist On evening marshes, thronged about the brow
Of lawyer, statesman, priest & theorist,
"And others like discoloured flakes of snow
On fairest bosoms & the sunniest hair
Fell, and were melted by the youthful glow
"Which they extinguished; for like tears, they were A veil to those from whose faint lids they rained In drops of sorrow.—I became aware
"Of whence those forms proceeded which thus stained The track in which we moved; after brief space
From every form the beauty slowly waned,
"From every firmest limb & fairest face
The strength & freshness fell like dust, & left
The action & the shape without the grace
"Of life; the marble brow of youth was cleft
With care, and in the eyes where once hope shone Desire like a lioness bereft
"Of its last cub, glared ere it died; each one Of that great crowd sent forth incessantly
These shadows, numerous as the dead leaves blown "In Autumn evening from a popular tree—
Each, like himself & like each other were,
At first, but soon distorted, seemed to be
"Obscure clouds moulded by the casual air;
And of this stuff the car's creative ray
Wrought all the busy phantoms that were there
"As the sun shapes the clouds—thus, on the way Mask after mask fell from the countenance
And form of all, and long before the day
"Was old, the joy which waked like Heaven's glance The sleepers in the oblivious valley, died,
And some grew weary of the ghastly dance
"And fell, as I have fallen by the way side,
Those soonest from whose forms most shadows past And least of strength & beauty did abide."—
"Then, what is Life?" I said . . . the cripple cast His eye upon the car which now had rolled
Onward, as if that look must be the last,
And answered …. "Happy those for whom the fold Of …

"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

Saragossa Opening 1.c3 (A00) 1-0 Arabian Mate plus 1 move
Lucena vs Quintana, 1515 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 32 moves, 1-0

Sodium Attack Na3 (A00) 1-0 A good place to spend the knightf6
Carlsen vs S Grover, 2018 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 35 moves, 1-0

Van't Kruijs Opening/English (A00) 1-0 Smothered #
B Corneliussen vs Martin Jensen, 1991 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 6 moves, 1-0

Van't Kruijs Opening 1.e3 (A00) 1-0 Develop instead of ...h6??
J Krejcik vs NN, 1908 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 6 moves, 1-0

Modern Def. 3...Nd7? (A00) 1-0 Bxf7+ followed by Ng5+
Lusgin vs A L Ioffe, 1968 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 5 moves, 1-0

Kiev (1896) Uncommon Opening/Modern Def (A00) 1-0 Bxf7+, Ng5+
A Dadian vs Doubrava, 1896 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 6 moves, 1-0

Uncommon Opening/Modern (A00) 1-0 Smothered Queen
J Cukierman vs NN, 1934 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 6 moves, 1-0

Uncommon Opening/Modern Def (A00) 1-0 Unpin and penetrate holes
M Miannay vs F Bruneau, 1991 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 9 moves, 1-0

Uncommon Opening (A00) 1-0 miniature: Bxf7+, Ng5+, Qf3+ etc.
H van der Heijden vs Feenstra, 1982 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 8 moves, 1-0

Hungarian Opening: Indian Def (A00) 1-0 Intermezzo snag
Korchnoi vs A Pomar, 1970 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 26 moves, 1-0

Hungarian Opening (A00) 1-0 kNight fork wins a piece
N M Rendlev vs S Skjolingstad, 2014
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 24 moves, 1-0

Grob Gambit. Declined d5, e5 (A00) 1-0 Ns help trap Q
H Grob vs Sperling, 1952 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 12 moves, 1-0

Grob Opening: Grob Gambit. Fritz Gambit (A00) · 1-0, 10 moves
C Bloodgood vs J Boothe, 1972 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 10 moves, 1-0

Grob Opening: Grob Gambit. Fritz Gambit (A00) · 1-0, 13 moves
C Bloodgood vs R W Christy, 1957 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 13 moves, 1-0

Grob Gambit. Fritz Gambit (A00) 1-0Blind Swine; Stockfish notes
C Bloodgood vs D Casteen, 1960 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 37 moves, 1-0

Grob Opening, Long fianchetto vs Cntr Pawn Duo (A00) 1-0 Weak P
G Welling vs P Bekkers, 1996 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 28 moves, 1-0

Reversed Alekhine's Defense; Beautiful Miniature w/a Q Sac
D van Geet vs W Versnel, 1950 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 12 moves, 1-0

Van Geet (Dunst) Opening: General (A00) 1-0 Interference
J Hector vs L B Hoyos Millan, 1989 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 7 moves, 1-0

Van Geet (Dunst) Opening (A00) 1-0 Nxf7 sac, Q&B battery hit e6
Myers vs Savon, 1959 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 7 moves, 1-0

Van Geet (Dunst) Opening (A00) 1-0 Discovered check looms
D van Geet vs W Litmanowicz, 1964 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 16 moves, 1-0

Van Geet (Dunst) Opening (A00) 1-0 Notes by Eric Schiller
D van Geet vs Guyt, 1967  
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 15 moves, 1-0

Van Geet (Dunst), Tuebingen Gambit (A00) 1-0 Tapping c7 twice
Anders vs Samendankas, 1988 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 10 moves, 1-0

Van Geet (Dunst) Opening 3.Nxe4 (A00) 1-0 Active White knights
Nakamura vs I Krush, 2011 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

Creepy Crawly miniature more like a Polish
G Welling vs F Obers, 1992 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 17 moves, 1-0

Polish O (A00) 0-1 miniature: Develop, don't expand both sides
R Zile vs Nyberg, 1984 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 10 moves, 0-1

Game 150: "Wonders and Curiosities of Chess"
Capablanca vs A Kevitz, 1924 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 13 moves, 0-1

Polish Opening: Schiffler-Sokolsky Var (A00) 0-1 A dirty bird
L Fishman vs P Gaile, 1976 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 11 moves, 0-1

Polish, Exchange w/odd follow-up (A00) 1-0 Two pieces up
P G Jonsson vs E Palmarsson, 2014
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 28 moves, 1-0

Nimzo-Larsen Attack (A01) 0-1Develop last N before pawns expand
Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 17 moves, 0-1

Nimzo-Larsen Attk: Modern Var (A01) 1-0 Risky play by the champ
Carlsen vs S Grover, 2017 
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 20 moves, 1-0

Bird Opening: From Gambit. Declined (A02) 0-1 Awesome unpin
N Barsalou vs B Wall, 1980 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 9 moves, 0-1

Bird Opening: From Gambit (A02) 0-1 What will s/he do next?
B Lowenthal vs K Wendeker, 1934 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 10 moves, 0-1

Bird Opening: Gunsberg Defense (A02) 0-1 Brothers?
V Palermo vs C Garcia Palermo, 2001 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 14 moves, 0-1

Bird Opening 1.f4 f5 (A02) 1-0 Rob the pin not Fredthebear
Koltanowski vs Reinhold, 1931 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 10 moves, 1-0

Nimzo-Larsen/White hedgehog (A04) VERY efficient model game!
Plachetka vs L Zinn, 1974 
(A04) Reti Opening, 13 moves, 1-0

Zukertort /d6 Dutch or Dbl K-Pawn 3 Knights? (A04) 1-0Discovery
Carlsen vs Dolmatov, 2004 
(A04) Reti Opening, 19 moves, 1-0

Zukertort: Lisitsyn Gambit (A04) · 1-0 Must Know Crusher
H Haberditz vs Hysek, 1938 
(A04) Reti Opening, 8 moves, 1-0

Spassky takes down the Maroczy Bind
Furman vs Spassky, 1957 
(A04) Reti Opening, 23 moves, 0-1

Zukertort Opening: Dutch Var (A04) 1-0 Pin the pawn to royalty
K Schulz vs M Maenner, 1994 
(A04) Reti Opening, 12 moves, 1-0

Zukertort Opening: Kingside Fianchetto (A04) 1-0 See 13 moves
Korchnoi vs Dzindzichashvili, 1985 
(A04) Reti Opening, 20 moves, 1-0

Tennison Gambit (A06) 1-0 Nxf7+ Removes King as defender
G Welling vs A Faber, 1978 
(A06) Reti Opening, 6 moves, 1-0

Tennison Gambit (A06) 1-0 Q is going, Going, GONE!
J Krejcik vs S Takacs, 1920 
(A06) Reti Opening, 6 moves, 1-0

Tennison Gambit (A06) 1-0 Smothered Mate
A Schroeder vs R Black, 1912 
(A06) Reti Opening, 7 moves, 1-0

Zukertort Opening: QP Defense (A06) 0-1 Knights trap Queen
V Castaldi vs Reshevsky, 1950 
(A06) Reti Opening, 13 moves, 0-1

KIA e5 vs d4 (A07) 1-0 Dbl N sacs for Kside assault!
D Boros vs V Ryzhkov, 2015 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 22 moves, 1-0

King's Indian Attack (A07) 1-0 Discovery
A Kochyev vs I Ivanov, 1976 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 9 moves, 1-0

King's Indian Attack: Yugoslav Var(A07) 1-0 Black Q trapped
Movsesian vs S Gramlich, 2005 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 16 moves, 1-0

King's Indian Attack (A07) 0-1 Discovery Q trap in 8 moves
R Fleming vs Nichter, 1990 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 8 moves, 0-1

Closed Sicilian (B25) 1-0 Deflection, h-file attack
Capablanca vs J C Rather, 1936 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 20 moves, 1-0

KIA vs Sicilian/French (A07) 1-0 The Nxd5 sac is old hat in KIA
A Filipowicz vs B Pietrusiak, 1964 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 23 moves, 1-0

KIA vs Bg7 (A07) 1-0Black Q a gonner, but it's worse than that!
W Beckemeyer vs A Delanoy, 1991 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 12 moves, 1-0

KIA smashes Dutch Stonewall Def (A07) 1-0 Shattered Pawns
R M McKay vs P M Giulian, 1988 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 12 moves, 1-0

King's Indian Attack (A07) 1-0 NxNf6+ Remove the Guard
A Avila Fraire vs S Logothetis, 2019 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 11 moves, 1-0

KIA vs Sicilian e6, Bg7 (A08) 1-0 Force count insufficient
A van Weersel vs M Middelveld, 2007 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 22 moves, 1-0

Reti vs Sicilian/Tarrasch (A08) 1-0 Nxf7 Discovery
B G Christensen vs E Guindy, 1996 
(A08) King's Indian Attack, 9 moves, 1-0

Reti Gambit (A09) 0-1 N+; it's one or the other
B Andonov vs Lputian, 1987 
(A09) Reti Opening, 12 moves, 0-1

English Opening: English Defense (A40) 1-0 Remove the Guard
C Van Tilbury vs M Guevara Cano, 1981 
(A10) English, 18 moves, 1-0

English Anglo-Scandinavian Def. Schulz G (A10) 1-0 Q+ & fork Kt
H Lehmann vs W Schulz, 1950 
(A10) English, 4 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Myers Variation (A10) 0-1 Smothered Mate
Taylor vs P Cody, 1980 
(A10) English, 9 moves, 0-1

English 1.c4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Qb3, draw by repetition
Aronian vs Anand, 2014 
(A11) English, Caro-Kann Defensive System, 19 moves, 1/2-1/2

Double knight sacs assist h-file attack
Portisch vs E Haag, 1959 
(A13) English, 19 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Agincourt Def (A13) 0-1 Unpin, Elephant Trap
J A Fernandez vs R Garbarino, 2001 
(A13) English, 5 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Agincourt Def (A13) 0-1 Black's Elephant Trap
Werner vs Makhno, 1990 
(A13) English, 9 moves, 0-1

English, Anglo-Indian Def. K's Knt Var (A15) 1-0 K or Q falls
J Lokvenc vs Gilg, 1939
(A15) English, 21 moves, 1-0

English, Anglo-Indian Def. QID Var (A17) 1-0Ana wins w/N on 6th
A Srebrnic vs A Benderac, 2007 
(A17) English, 26 moves, 1-0

Anglo-Indian Def. Flohr-Mikenas-Carls Var (A18)1/2-1/2 12 moves
Keene vs D Anderton, 1977 
(A18) English, Mikenas-Carls, 12 moves, 1/2-1/2

Anglo-Indian Def. Flohr-Mikenas-Carls Var (A18) 1-0 Enticement
Smyslov vs I Farago, 1977 
(A18) English, Mikenas-Carls, 17 moves, 1-0

Eng. Anglo-Indian Def. Flohr-Mikenas-Carls Nei G.(A18) 1-0Smoke
L Christiansen vs C Brasket, 1978 
(A19) English, Mikenas-Carls, Sicilian Variation, 18 moves, 1-0

King's English Variation (A23) 1-0 Next White N move traps Q
J Hanken vs J Yehl, 2004 
(A20) English, 17 moves, 1-0

Kasparov loses with White in just 25 moves!
Kasparov vs P Wolff, 1988 
(A20) English, 25 moves, 0-1

King's English. Reversed Sicilian (A21) 1-0 Six N moves??
Marshall vs E McCormick, 1938 
(A21) English, 12 moves, 1-0

English Miniature; Q fork 2 LPDO minors in shooting gallery
Kaprinay vs H Hubner, 1926 
(A25) English, 8 moves, 1-0

%One pin makes for a decoy sacrifice, the other sets royal fork
Sanahuja vs Fernandez, 1983 
(A27) English, Three Knights System, 8 moves, 1-0

King's English. 3Knights (A27) 1-0 Standard fianchetto trap
D Andreikin vs Karjakin, 2010 
(A27) English, Three Knights System, 10 moves, 1-0

An old, lethal queen sac miniature vs. Kside fianchetto defense
Muller vs NN, 1928 
(A27) English, Three Knights System, 10 moves, 1-0

King's English. Three Knights System (A27) 1-0 minors pop c7
Onischuk vs A Kovacevic, 1991 
(A27) English, Three Knights System, 12 moves, 1-0

K's English. Three Knights System (A27) 1-0 Black took the bait
J Loy vs R Erickson, 1989 
(A27) English, Three Knights System, 10 moves, 1-0

K's English. 3 Knights System (A27) 1-0 Pin, Q sac>weak squares
P Schoeber vs E Bouwmans, 1981 
(A27) English, Three Knights System, 9 moves, 1-0

Tough Puzzle: Self-imposed pin and pin-busting, N fork
Y Anikaev vs A Khasin, 1990 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 29 moves, 0-1

English, Symmetrical. Anti-Benoni (A31) 0-1 Drubbing by a kid!
J Costa vs J Polgar, 1987 
(A31) English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation, 22 moves, 0-1

English, Symmetrical. Anti-Benoni Spielmann Def (A32) 1-0 Qd5
Adorjan vs L Zsinka, 1982 
(A32) English, Symmetrical Variation, 12 moves, 1-0

English Miniature; Smothered Mate in 5
De Fraenkell vs NN, 1934 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 5 moves, 1-0

English Miniature; Black moves the queen's knight 3 times
J Coffey vs NN, 1978 
(A35) English, Symmetrical, 8 moves, 1-0

Englund Gambit 1.d4 e5?! 5...Nd3 smothered mate coming
Bohmann vs Ulfheden, 1938 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 5 moves, 0-1

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

Owen's Defense (B00) 1-0 8.Nxe6 creates light square issues
F Tahirov vs S Pukkinen, 2006 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 8 moves, 1-0

Rat Defense (A41) 1-0 Royalty gets kicked around by two knights
K Jensen vs W Norton, 1981 
(A41) Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6), 11 moves, 1-0

Benoni Defense (A43) 0-1 Qa5+ forks LPDO Ne5 shooting gallery
R Combe vs W Hasenfuss, 1933 
(A43) Old Benoni, 4 moves, 0-1

Benoni Gambit Accepted (A43) · 1-0 Pin Qc6
F Kraus vs V Costin, 1913 
(A43) Old Benoni, 8 moves, 1-0

Benoni Defense: Benoni-Indian Defense (A43) 1-0 Double R sac
Alekhine vs Levenfish, 1912 
(A43) Old Benoni, 19 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Omega Gambit (A45) 1-0 Black got smoked
R Reynolds vs H Winston, 1971 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 14 moves, 1-0

Must Know Veresov Mini: Indian Game: Maddigan Gambit (A45) 1-0
A Roesch vs R Ruessel, 1990 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 9 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit. Accptd (A45) 0-1 Ugly
V Drueke vs F Baranowski, 1982 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 9 moves, 0-1

Not the shortest decisive "master game" anymore
A Gibaud vs F Lazard, 1924 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 4 moves, 0-1

Double knight sacrifices crack the h-file for the Q/R battery
O Frink vs F J Le Count, 1923 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 13 moves, 0-1

Indian Game/Veresov (A45) 1-0 Remove the Guard
J Hector vs N Kirkegaard, 2006 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 12 moves, 1-0

Trompowsky Attack (A45) 0-1 in 7 moves; watch those kNights!
M Wickert vs Adams, 1992 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 7 moves, 0-1

Trompowsky Attack (A45) 0-1 Fork mating square and LPDO rook
Hondema vs C Baljon, 1977 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 6 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Lazard Gambit (A45) 0-1 Addition to Lazard's Mini
Munteanu vs Cioara, 1948 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 5 moves, 0-1

Trompowsky Attack: Edge Variation (A45) 1-0 Stunning Discovery
Mamedyarov vs J Polgar, 2014 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 11 moves, 1-0

Trompowsky Attack (A45) 1-0 Discovery Q trap, or Smothered Mate
C Landenbergue vs M Roeder, 1993 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 11 moves, 1-0

Trompowsky Attack vs. Pseudo-Stonewall Def (A45) 1-0Discovered#
Janowski vs W Michel, 1926 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 15 moves, 1-0

Trompowsky Attack (A45) 1-0 Fast 3 piece attack
M Sabol vs J Votava, 1995 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 10 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Wade-Tartakower Def (A46) 1-0 N dance ends 0-0-0!
Marshall vs Burn, 1907 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 20 moves, 1-0

London vs Dbl Fio Hedgehog (A48) 0-1 Minors target White Q
A Jadrijevic vs Z Kozul, 2011 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 17 moves, 0-1

Mexican Def./Black Knights Tango (A50) 0-1 Played on a ship
Marshall vs Torre, 1925 
(A50) Queen's Pawn Game, 7 moves, 0-1

Mexican Defense (A50) 0-1 Smothered attack nets Q for N & B
Venert vs V Mechkarov, 1970 
(A50) Queen's Pawn Game, 6 moves, 0-1

Budapest Defense: Fajarowicz Var (A51) 0-1 Flying Q, dying Q
M Ciszek vs S Pielaet, 1987 
(A51) Budapest Gambit, 11 moves, 0-1

Budapest Def, Fajarowicz Var, (A51) 0-1 10 mover Q Trap
Najmes vs J Balogh, 1943 
(A51) Budapest Gambit, 10 moves, 0-1

Budapest Defense (A52) 0-1, 17 moves. Dbl R sacs, K walk
Helmer vs J Krejcik, 1917 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 17 moves, 0-1

Old Indian/KID Miniature (A53) 1-0 Q Trap on the edge
H van der Heijden vs Salam, 1978 
(A53) Old Indian, 8 moves, 1-0

Old Indian Def. Janowski M L (A53) 0-1 En prise Black minors
R J Gross vs L Christiansen, 1973 
(A53) Old Indian, 12 moves, 0-1

Old Indian Miniature: Ukrainian Var (A54) 1-0 Pile on the Pin
H Sonntag vs M Auer, 1990 
(A54) Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3, 9 moves, 1-0

Old Indian Defense: Ukrainian(A54) 1/2-1/2 N sac, Q+ perpetual
O Chernikov vs Vasiukov, 2005 
(A54) Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3, 12 moves, 1/2-1/2

OID, Ukrainian Var (A53) 0-1 Akin to Harrwitz Trap (unpin) QGD
A Koukolik vs R Sykora, 1994 
(A54) Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3, 8 moves, 0-1

Benoni, Hromadka System (A56) 0-1 Pin it to win it FAILED!
L Spassov vs Adorjan, 1977 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 11 moves, 0-1

Benko G: Zaitsev Var. Nescafe Frappe Attack (A57) 1-0 Smothered
P Hultin vs T Fromm, 1992 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 9 moves, 1-0

Benko Gambit (A57) 0-1 Stunning Q sac is a decoy for a N+ fork.
E Thorvaldsson vs P Vaitonis, 1936 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 20 moves, 0-1

Benoni Defense: Modern Var (A60) 0-1 She didn't move an inch
J Mileika vs Tal, 1953 
(A60) Benoni Defense, 23 moves, 0-1

Benoni Taimanov Var (A67) 1-0 Hangman's noose via cross pin
Kasparov vs F A Cuijpers, 1980 
(A67) Benoni, Taimanov Variation, 28 moves, 1-0

Benoni Defense: Taimanov Var (A67) 1-0 Notes
Kasparov vs Nunn, 1982  
(A67) Benoni, Taimanov Variation, 21 moves, 1-0

Benoni Defense: Four Pawns Attack (A68) 0-1 12...NxNc3 does it
I Arakelov vs S A Ivanov, 1995 
(A68) Benoni, Four Pawns Attack, 12 moves, 0-1

Dutch Def Raphael Var (A80) 1-0 Standard a3 Q trap
A Vaisser vs A Mutzner, 1989 
(A80) Dutch, 8 moves, 1-0

Dutch (A80) 1-0 Exchange sacrifice on h-file will mate
F Oberndoerfer vs J Gabriel, 1996 
(A80) Dutch, 9 moves, 1-0

Dutch Def: Hopton Attack (A80) 0-1 Swarming Ns, threat of pin
A Donchenko vs C van Oosterom, 2011
(A80) Dutch, 16 moves, 0-1

Dutch Staunton Gambit. Accepted (A82) 0-1 Capture, Recapture &
P Silva vs A Peixoto, 2001 
(A82) Dutch, Staunton Gambit, 18 moves, 0-1

Dutch Staunton G. (A83) 1-0 Simple yet effective, intermezzo+
A Stefanova vs R Tozer, 1997 
(A83) Dutch, Staunton Gambit, 17 moves, 1-0

Dutch Leningrad: Queen's Knight Var (A85) 1-0 g-file demolition
Sakaev vs Kramnik, 1989 
(A85) Dutch, with c4 & Nc3, 21 moves, 1-0

Dutch Defense (A85) 0-1 White knight can't take either one!
V Litvinov vs Veresov, 1958 
(A85) Dutch, with c4 & Nc3, 13 moves, 0-1

Dutch Defense: Q's Knight Variation (A85) 1-0 Sudden Switch
Staunton vs Horwitz, 1846 
(A85) Dutch, with c4 & Nc3, 12 moves, 1-0

11...Nxe5! puts two knights enprise for two clearance options
Gruenfeld vs Torre, 1925 
(A90) Dutch, 13 moves, 0-1

Dutch; messed up Stonewall Def (A90) 1-0 LPDO
Euwe vs N Cortlever, 1940 
(A90) Dutch, 11 moves, 1-0

Game 72 in The Greatest Ever Chess Strategies by Sam Collins
Wojtaszek vs S Williams, 2011 
(A96) Dutch, Classical Variation, 20 moves, 0-1

Dutch Classical. Ilyin-Zhenevsky (A97) 0-1 Mean pawn discovery!
J M Ripley vs O Hardy, 1963 
(A97) Dutch, Ilyin-Genevsky, 11 moves, 0-1

Hungarian Opening: Symmetrical (A00) 1-0 From Qside to Kside
Suttles vs R Zuk, 1971
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 37 moves, 1-0

Reti/Zukertort (A04) 0-1 N & R sac make way for N & R
G Brhlik vs F Berebora, 1995 
(A04) Reti Opening, 27 moves, 0-1

Zukertort Opening: Kside Fianchetto (A04) 1-0RaymondKeene notes
Keene vs Timman, 1974  
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 26 moves, 1-0

Zukertort vs Dutch (A04) 1-0 Too many Black pawn moves
Krasenkow vs S Kindermann, 2001 
(A04) Reti Opening, 23 moves, 1-0

Lisitsyn Gambit vs Dutch 1Nf3 f5 2e4 (A04) 1-0 Ng5 anchor
A Smelov vs V I Ivanov, 2000 
(A04) Reti Opening, 15 moves, 1-0

KIA. Double Fianchetto (A07) 1-0 Knight in corner pocket finish
Petrosian vs R Teschner, 1962 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 41 moves, 1-0

KIA Dbl Fio Bg2, Bb2 vs Reversed Botvinnik System (A07) 1-0
Reshevsky vs R Byrne, 1969 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 31 moves, 1-0

G90: Ludwig Steinkohl: 99 Schönheitspreise aus 150 Schachjahren
Lobron vs Dzindzichashvili, 1979 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 36 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Halibut Gambit 1.c4 b5 2.cxb5 g5 weird(A10)0-1
F Cathely vs M Hadzikaric, 1995 
(A10) English, 31 moves, 0-1

Chess Endings for the Practical Player by Pachman, pages 9-10
Pachman vs C Guimard, 1955 
(A10) English, 83 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Anglo-Slav Var (A11) 1-0 Pin to win for White!
J Hoffmann vs M Frenz, 1989
(A11) English, Caro-Kann Defensive System, 11 moves, 1-0

English, Agincourt Def. Catalan Def (A13) 1-0 N zwischenzug!?
Alekhine vs Milner-Barry, 1938 
(A13) English, 52 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Agincourt Def (A13) 0-1 N outpost
Staunton vs E Williams, 1851 
(A13) English, 37 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Agincourt Def. King's Knight (A13) 1-0 26.?
F Duz-Khotimirsky vs A Bannik, 1949 
(A13) English, 29 moves, 1-0

Co-authors of Chess Made Easy by C.J.S. Purdy and G. Koshnitsky
C Purdy vs G Koshnitsky, 1932 
(A13) English, 47 moves, 0-1

English, Anglo-Indian Def. K's Knight (A15) 1-0 Pesky White Ns!
Granda Zuniga vs Seirawan, 1993 
(A15) English, 56 moves, 1-0

K's English. 2 Knts Smyslov System (A22) 1-0 Lasting initiative
Kharlov vs M Kobalia, 2003 
(A22) English, 50 moves, 1-0

English Symmetrical. Hedgehog (A30) 0-1 Gradually driven back
Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2008 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 57 moves, 0-1

Game 10 in 'Larsen: Move by Move' by Cyrus Lakdawala.
Larsen vs Andersson, 1982 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 38 moves, 1-0

Game 199 of Chess Informant Best Games 101-200
Uhlmann vs Ljubojevic, 1975 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 37 moves, 0-1

English Symmetrical. Normal (A34) 0-1 4 different units in mid
Quinteros vs Dzindzichashvili, 1980 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 35 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Symmetrical. 4 Knights (A35) 1-0 Illusory Pin
Tal vs B Ivanovic, 1988 
(A35) English, Symmetrical, 32 moves, 1-0

Modern Def. Double Fianchetto (A41) 1-0 Greco's # is coming!
A Saidy vs H Karner, 1973 
(A41) Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6), 28 moves, 1-0

Modern Def Averbakh Var (A42) 1-0 2 Knights on 6th
Uhlmann vs J Barendregt, 1961 
(A42) Modern Defense, Averbakh System, 21 moves, 1-0

Old Benoni (A43) 0-1 Castle while you have the chance
G Braun vs O Nedeljkovic, 1932 
(A43) Old Benoni, 25 moves, 0-1

Stonewall Attk vs Indian Be7, Bb7 (A45) 0-1 Pin gets worse
S A Mudrev vs Botvinnik, 1929 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 28 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit. Acceptd (A45) 1-0Count
P Specht vs S Knoll, 1982 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 18 moves, 1-0

Gallagher finds Schlechter's idea 79 years later
S Terentiev vs J Gallagher, 1990 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 22 moves, 0-1

Trompowsky Attk: 3.h4 Raptor Var(A45) 1-0 Two Ns too much
Hodgson vs Adams, 1993 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 48 moves, 1-0

Trompowsky Attack Minority/IQP (A45) 1-0 K&N tough together
Dzindzichashvili vs Vaganian, 1988 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 55 moves, 1-0

Trompowsky Attack 2...Ne4 3.Bf4 (A45) 0-1 Hanging out w/malice
Kotov vs Boleslavsky, 1945 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 29 moves, 0-1

Trompowsky Attk: Classical Def. Big Center Var (A45) 1-0Hole f6
Hodgson vs D Haessel, 1997 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 26 moves, 1-0

Torre Attk: Classical Def (A46) 0-1 Artful P roller, Crossfire
Spassky vs Petrosian, 1966 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 43 moves, 0-1

Colle 5.c3 Closed Cntr vs Yusupov-Rubinstein(A46) 1-0 Sweet Ne4
J Enevoldsen vs A Nimzowitsch, 1933 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 40 moves, 1-0

Torre Attk vs Hedgehog (A46) 1-0 There's a Sting in the Tail
M Hebden vs R Palliser, 2005 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 28 moves, 1-0

Great move! The Shak demolished the Shok
Mamedyarov vs S Shoker, 2013 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 28 moves, 1-0

Benko/KID (A48) 0-1 Discovered attack by N&B
A Caoili vs N Starr, 2002 
(E60) King's Indian Defense, 31 moves, 0-1

Two Knts vs Kside Fio/ Gruenfeld (A48) 1-0 Attacks on f7, h2
M Hebden vs McShane, 1998 
(A48) King's Indian, 22 moves, 1-0

Torre Attack: Fianchetto Def (A48) 1-0 Support penetration
Sasikiran vs Kotronias, 2007 
(A48) King's Indian, 38 moves, 1-0

Game 48 in The Immortal Games of Capablanca by Fred Reinfeld
Capablanca vs Yates, 1924 
(A48) King's Indian, 77 moves, 1-0

Old Indian Defense: Normal Var (A55) 1-0 Heated finish!
Gulko vs K Grigorian, 1971 
(A55) Old Indian, Main line, 40 moves, 1-0

Benko Gambit: Accepted. Dlugy Variation (A57) 1-0 K walk
I Nyzhnyk vs S Siebrecht, 2011 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 34 moves, 1-0

Benko G. Declined. Sosonko Var (A57) 0-1 Mutual Kside attacks
J R Markus vs S Polgar, 1995
(A57) Benko Gambit, 27 moves, 0-1

Benko Gambit: Accepted. Dlugy Var (A57)1-0 0-0-0 to opposing R
Dlugy vs Alburt, 1991 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 47 moves, 1-0

Benoni Def Classical Var (A70) 1-0 Exchange sac, Nxh6+
Botvinnik vs Y Rokhlin, 1927 
(A70) Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3, 28 moves, 1-0

Dutch Def: Hopton/Torre Attack (A80) 0-1 Exchange sac, N+ fork
A Volodin vs I Haitin, 2011 
(A80) Dutch, 28 moves, 0-1

Dutch Def. vs Hopton Attack 2.Bg5 h6 (A80) 1-0Excellent example
B Nickoloff vs D Ross, 1993 
(A80) Dutch, 26 moves, 1-0

Dutch Defense (A84) 1-0 Brief double octopus backs Black down
Lasker vs J Mieses, 1889 
(A80) Dutch, 37 moves, 1-0

Dutch Defense: Leningrad. Warsaw Var (A88) 1-0 Knights advance
Korchnoi vs Dolmatov, 1999 
(A88) Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with c6, 22 moves, 1-0

What a mating combo!! From discoveries to underpromotion...
R Fontaine vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2007 
(A89) Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with Nc6, 39 moves, 0-1

Dutch Defense: Raphael 3.Bg5 (A80) 1-0Brutal elegance on Qside
V Akobian vs P Tregubov, 2009 
(A80) Dutch, 27 moves, 1-0

g3, Bg2, Nh3 vs Dutch Bd6 Stonewall (A90) 1-0 N gets around
Kasparov vs E Gueye, 1988
(A90) Dutch, 24 moves, 1-0

Dutch Def Classical. Stonewall (A95) 1-0White Ns trample center
A Truscott vs D Mardle, 1951 
(A95) Dutch, Stonewall, 32 moves, 1-0

Game 29 in Starting Out: The Dutch by Neil McDonald
D Dumitrache vs S Williams, 2003 
(A96) Dutch, Classical Variation, 28 moves, 0-1

Hungarian Opening/Dbl Fio Reti (A00) 1-0 4Knights no guarantees
M Hennigan vs Chandler, 1999 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 38 moves, 1-0

Anderssen Opening/Sicilian Dragon (A00) 1-0 29.?
Carlsen vs K Holm, 2018 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 34 moves, 1-0

Hungarian Opening/English, Rev Sicil (A00) 0-1 Early N invasion
Morozevich vs V Laznicka, 2013 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 74 moves, 0-1

Bird Opening w/Bb2 vs Dbl Fio Bg7, Bb7 (A02) 0-1 Complete crush
G Szilagyi vs J Bolbochan, 1966 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 33 moves, 0-1

Bird Opening Octopus (A02) 0-1 Exhibition fisticuffs
Larsen vs Fischer, 1962 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 47 moves, 0-1

Zukertort Opening: Dutch Var (A04) 1/2-1/2 KEG annotates!
W Cohn vs von Popiel, 1900 
(A04) Reti Opening, 53 moves, 1/2-1/2

King's Indian Attack: Symmetrical Defense (A05) 1-0 16.?
N Minev vs I Novak, 1974 
(A05) Reti Opening, 19 moves, 1-0

Reti-Polish double fianchetto (A06) 0-1 Extreme knights
Smyslov vs Spassky, 1961 
(A06) Reti Opening, 38 moves, 0-1

KIA e5 strong point vs French Ne8 (A07) 1-0 K stripped bare
Harikrishna vs Naiditsch, 2010 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 42 moves, 1-0

King's Indian Attack vs Dbl Fio (A07) 1-0 Bs on long diagonal
C Johansson vs NN, 1977 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 10 moves, 1-0

KIA vs Tartakower Bb7, Be7 (A07) 0-1 Ns shake things up!
J D Sullivan vs Ivanchuk, 1986 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 50 moves, 0-1

KIA vs Double K Pawn e4-e5 (A07) 1-0 N robs the pin of g-file
L Buggiani vs J Brunelle, 2001 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 35 moves, 1-0

KIA 2.Qe2 (A07) 1-0 Kside attack comes in the Qside
Chigorin vs Showalter, 1898 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 43 moves, 1-0

KIA 2.Qe2 vs French Def (A07) 1-0 N infiltration fork
Chigorin vs A Zinkl, 1897 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 31 moves, 1-0

KIA vs Horwitz Defense (A40) 1-0 White N cracks Ps for Q enter
P Lagowski vs M Skrzypnik, 2001 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 36 moves, 1-0

KIA Dbl Fio vs C-K (A07) 1-0 Overworked P, promotion battle
J Trapl vs P Haba, 1986
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 58 moves, 1-0

KIA vs Yugoslav (A07) 1-0 Add to the King's EAD
Vaganian vs Kaidanov, 1994
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 41 moves, 1-0

King's Indian Attack vs Sicilian (A07) 0-1 Terrific finish!
J Rudd vs E Dearing, 2004 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 38 moves, 0-1

King's Indian Attack (A07) 0-1 When the knights come off, the g
J Trapl vs M Manik, 2003 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 39 moves, 0-1

English, Agincourt Def. K's Knight(A13)1-0 f-pawn launch, R sac
Kramnik vs Fridman, 2013 
(A13) English, 34 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Agincourt Defense (A13) 1-0 Minority Attack
Benko vs Taimanov, 1960 
(A13) English, 40 moves, 1-0

English, Anglo-Indian Def. Mikenas-Carls Var (A15) 1-0Fantastic
Euwe vs Colle, 1926 
(A15) English, 65 moves, 1-0

Anglo-Indian Def. Nimzo-English Opening (A17) 1-0 Discovery
Balashov vs Romanishin, 1976 
(A17) English, 35 moves, 1-0

King's English. Two Knights' Variation Keres Var (A23) 0-1
Nakamura vs H Wang, 2012 
(A23) English, Bremen System, Keres Variation, 41 moves, 0-1

King's English. Four Knights (A28) 1-0 Bxg7 sac sets the fire
Flohr vs Koltanowski, 1935 
(A28) English, 39 moves, 1-0

English Symmetrical Dbl Fio (A30) 1-0 Tal sacs like Tal for a K
Tal vs Velimirovic, 1979 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 30 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Symmetrical (A30) 1-0 Backdoored
Larsen vs Tal, 1980 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 40 moves, 1-0

English, Symmetrical (A33) 1-0 Can u finish what u start?
Ganguly vs Wei Yi, 2019 
(A33) English, Symmetrical, 16 moves, 1-0

Rat Defense (A41) 1-0 Her best thus far to impress Fredthebear
A Kashlinskaya vs Sevian, 2018 
(A41) Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6), 37 moves, 1-0

Old Benoni. Russian Var (A44) 1-0 Rob the pinned N's coverage
Pelletier vs J Daudzvardis, 1992
(A44) Old Benoni Defense, 33 moves, 1-0

Sarratt Attk vs KID/Benoni Bg7, Bb7 (A45) 0-1 N pair on 3rd
P Ortega Morales vs G Bisignano, 2011
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 34 moves, 0-1

Veresov Attk (A45) 1-0 N intermezzo is biggest threat
Koltanowski vs W Winter, 1931 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 33 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Yusupov-Rubinstein System (A46) 1-0Stockfish notes
Lobron vs Korchnoi, 1998 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 28 moves, 1-0

Torre Attack: Fianchetto Def (A48) 1-0 Light Squared Symphony!
P Trifunovic vs M Aaron, 1962 
(A48) King's Indian, 31 moves, 1-0

King's Indian. Fianchetto Bg2 vs Bg7 (A49) 0-1 Black keeps adv
H Karner vs Ehlvest, 1985
(A49) King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4, 27 moves, 0-1

Budapest Def: General Nh3 (A52) 1-0 N journey, minority attk, Z
N Davies vs R Chakvetadze, 1993 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 75 moves, 1-0

Old Indian Def. (A53) 0-1 Who's better when the Q's come off?
O Bernstein vs Burn, 1909 
(A53) Old Indian, 33 moves, 0-1

Old Indian Def. (A53) 1/2-1/2 N perpetual; White has B pair
M Ragger vs A Rakhmanov, 2015
(A53) Old Indian, 34 moves, 1/2-1/2

Old Indian Def. (A53) 0-1Down the exchange, N on 6th delivers!
V Osnos vs M Shofman, 1970 
(A53) Old Indian, 39 moves, 0-1

Old Indian Defense: Ukrainian Var (A54) 0-1 Q Sac, King walk
Polugaevsky vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1958 
(A53) Old Indian, 33 moves, 0-1

G154 in Chess Highlights of the 20th Century by Graham Burgess
O Bernstein vs Najdorf, 1954 
(A55) Old Indian, Main line, 37 moves, 1-0

Capablanca's only win aginst AKIBA R. was at Berlin 1928
S Rubinstein vs Capablanca, 1913 
(A55) Old Indian, Main line, 31 moves, 0-1

Benko Gambit: Declined. Sosonko Var (A57) 0-1Remove the Guard
A Jaunooby vs E Iturrizaga Bonelli, 2013
(A57) Benko Gambit, 39 moves, 0-1

Nice Interference/Knight fork shot, + endgame technique
Mamedyarov vs Carlsen, 2007 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 58 moves, 0-1

WOW!!! Sacrifice after Sacrifice and mate with three minors!!!
V Malinin vs A Andreev, 1989 
(A58) Benko Gambit, 32 moves, 1-0

You won't believe your eyes.
V Malinin vs V Savinov, 1988 
(A58) Benko Gambit, 36 moves, 1-0

Benoni Def. Knight's Tour Var (A61) 1-0 Q sac saves active N
E Magerramov vs Kasparov, 1979 
(A61) Benoni, 53 moves, 1-0

from GM David Norwood's book Grandmaster Meets Chess Amateur
Lputian vs D Norwood, 1986 
(A66) Benoni, 27 moves, 1-0

Benoni Defense: Classical. General (A70) 0-1 29...?
C Van Buskirk vs D Gurevich, 1987 
(A70) Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3, 38 moves, 0-1

Dutch Defense d6 vs Colle (A80) 0-1 BLOCKADE; notes by A.N.
H Hage vs A Nimzowitsch, 1926  
(A80) Dutch, 42 moves, 0-1

Dutch, Raphael Var (A80) 1-0 Open f-file attack
Y Kruppa vs M Mahmoody, 2004 
(A80) Dutch, 30 moves, 1-0

Dutch Defense: Q's Knight Var (A85) 1-0 h-pawn lever, N on 6th
G Kovacs vs G Miralles, 2013
(A85) Dutch, with c4 & Nc3, 35 moves, 1-0

WC 1935 Nimzo-Dutch. Alekhine Var (A90)"The Pearl of Zandvoort"
Euwe vs Alekhine, 1935 
(A90) Dutch, 47 moves, 1-0

King's English. Two Knights' General (A22) 0-1 Correspondence
Shaw vs Whitney, 1949 
(A22) English, 12 moves, 0-1

English vs. Lion/Anglo-Indian Def. Q's Knight Var (A16) 0-1SHOT
Benko vs W Hartmann, 1984 
(A16) English, 21 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Yusupov-Rubinstein System (A46)1-0 Nxg7 allows Bf6
Karjakin vs Caruana, 2019 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0

English, Anglo-Indian Def. Romanishin Var (A11) 1-0 26.?
Korchnoi vs J Bellon Lopez, 1986 
(A11) English, Caro-Kann Defensive System, 36 moves, 1-0

Benoni Def: General (A60) 0-1 Another Q sac, another pin drops
O Udris vs Tal, 1953 
(A60) Benoni Defense, 34 moves, 0-1

56...d1=N+ (9 pieces, no pawns)
S Sergienko vs G Vescovi, 2010 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 64 moves, 1/2-1/2

Bird Opening: Anti-Bird (A02) 0-1 Bg1 clears the mating square
R Wyss vs Barcza, 1968 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 14 moves, 0-1

Van Geet (Dunst) (A00)1-0 Right-handed version of Legall's Mate
D Moody vs S Bender, 1977 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 9 moves, 1-0

Polish Opening: Czech Defense (A00) 1-0 Intermezzo+, Spearhead#
J L Hardy vs C A Langabeer, 1947 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 13 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Agincourt Def. Catalan Def (A14) 0-1 Q sac
Polugaevsky vs Petrosian, 1970 
(A14) English, 36 moves, 0-1

Dutch Def: Rubinstein Var (A84) 0-1 Capture-Recapture, N fork
W Blijstra vs C Eichab, 2012
(A84) Dutch, 32 moves, 0-1

Anderssen Opening: General (A00) 1-0 Underpromotion
M E de Freitas vs L Maragliano, 1958 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 31 moves, 1-0

Hippopotamus (A00) 0-1 Gain time on the White Queen
C Domingos vs J Ferreira, 2014
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 20 moves, 0-1

Bird Opening: General (A02) 1-0 Maniac chess by Basman
M Basman vs A Whiteley, 1973 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 48 moves, 1-0

Bird Opening: From Gambit. Mestel Var (A02) 0-1 Rolling Knights
C Krause vs I Schuett, 1968 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 13 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Knights Variation. General (A46) 0-1 Sac attack
V Laznicka vs Khismatullin, 2015 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 37 moves, 0-1

Benko Gambit: Declined. ML (A57) 1-0 h-file P lever & battery
S Conquest vs J Degraeve, 2001 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 22 moves, 1-0

Chess Informant Golden Games, Volume 124
Kramnik vs Svidler, 2015 
(A04) Reti Opening, 30 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Closed Nc3, Bg2, Nh3 vs St. George/Polish (B25) 0-1
M Narciso Dublan vs Morozevich, 2015 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 55 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Reversed Chigorin Def (A45) 1-0 Discovery
R Djurhuus vs F Liardet, 1990 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 8 moves, 1-0

English, Symmetrical. Hedgehog Def (A30) 1-0 Interference
Kramnik vs Ribli, 1993 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 29 moves, 1-0

Old Indian Defense: General (A53) 0-1 Devestating N+ next
G E Hartleb vs R Byrne, 1946 
(A53) Old Indian, 20 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Budapest Defense (A51) 1-0 Connected passers
Alekhine vs Russian Chess Circle, 1931 
(A51) Budapest Gambit, 38 moves, 1-0

Budapest Defense: Adler Var (A52) 1-0 Mutual capture sequence
H Steiner vs H Fajans, 1946
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 16 moves, 1-0

Englund Gambit (A40) 0-1Look twice before you make a good move!
M Ristic vs M Umapathysivam, 2000 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 9 moves, 0-1

Budapest Defense: Adler Var (A52) 0-1 Q sac, bold attack!!
M Leskiewicz vs E Kahn, 1999 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 24 moves, 0-1

Benoni Defense: Fianchetto (A62) 1-0 White N is immune (skewer)
Smejkal vs S Tatai, 1973 
(A62) Benoni, Fianchetto Variation, 14 moves, 1-0

Reti Opening: Anglo-Slav. New York System (A12) 1-0Overworked Q
Bogoljubov vs A Staehelin, 1932 
(A12) English with b3, 25 moves, 1-0

Veresov Attack 4.BxNf6 exBf6 (A45) 1-0 Interference wins!
Miles vs J Tisdall, 1982 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0

Trompowsky Attack: General (A45) 1-0 24.?
L Winants vs Carlsen, 2003 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 35 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Saemisch-Indian (A50) 0-1 Stockfish notes; 13...?
H Mattison vs Tartakower, 1925 
(A50) Queen's Pawn Game, 25 moves, 0-1

KIA vs Pachman System (A07) 0-1 Madness in the middle
R Mamedov vs Gelfand, 2015 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 24 moves, 0-1

Game 61 in Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy by John Watson
Petrosian vs J Peters, 1976 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 50 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Polish Variation (A46) 0-1 16...?
M Brunoehler vs K Richter, 1941 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 19 moves, 0-1

Two knights versus pawn is an ending that has vexed GMs
L N Enequist vs M Fish, 1934 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 101 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Anglo-Scandinavian Def (A10) 0-1 Simul tour
Lasker vs NN, 1908 
(A10) English, 14 moves, 0-1

Bird Opening: Dutch Variation (A03) 0-1 N on the 3rd rank
C H Brockelbank vs W Tullidge, 1888 
(A03) Bird's Opening, 24 moves, 0-1

Bird Opening: Dutch Var (A03) 1-0 Stockfish notes; discovered+
Rapport vs Fressinet, 2015 
(A03) Bird's Opening, 39 moves, 1-0

Benoni Def: Old Benoni. Schmid Var (A43) 1-0 Two Ns on 6th!
Smyslov vs L Schmid, 1952 
(A43) Old Benoni, 23 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Symmetrical - Not for long(A36) 1-0Pile on pin
C Garcia Palermo vs M Andres Mendez, 2001 
(A36) English, 16 moves, 1-0

Zukertort Opening: Herrstrom Gambit 2.Nxg5 and 4.Nxf7 (A04) 1-0
Streng vs E Diemer, 1984 
(A04) Reti Opening, 30 moves, 1-0

Reti vs Bg4 (A06) Knights ruckus leaves no castling
A Konstantinopolsky vs V Goglidze, 1936 
(A06) Reti Opening, 30 moves, 1-0

English vs. Anglo-Indian Def. Anglo-Grünfeld (A16) 1-0 Bouncin'
B Thorfinnsson vs D Moskovic, 2012 
(A16) English, 29 moves, 1-0

KIA vs Gruenfeld (A07) 1-0 N+ Discovery
C R Mariano-Wagman vs R Joya, 2001
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

English vs. Agincourt Def. Neo Catalan Declined (A14) 1-0 STACK
Romanishin vs R Levit, 1975 
(A14) English, 27 moves, 1-0

Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit. Oshima Def (A45) 0-1 Smothered Q
W Weschke vs A Fischer, 1982 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 9 moves, 0-1

Zukertort Opening: Sicilian Invitation (A04) 1-0 U12 excellence
Ding Liren vs So, 2004 
(A04) Reti Opening, 23 moves, 1-0

Czech Benoni Defense (A56) 0-1 Watch the center open!
Gelfand vs Aronian, 2006 
(A56) Benoni Defense, 45 moves, 0-1

Torre Attack: Classical Def (A46) 1-0 Simul exhibition
Alekhine vs R Castiarena, 1926 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 22 moves, 1-0

English, Symmetrical. Botvinnik System Reversed (A37) 1-0Passer
V Mikenas vs Gipslis, 1959 
(A37) English, Symmetrical, 37 moves, 1-0

Old Indian Def: Czech Variation w/Nc3 (A53) 1-0Pesky Ns, passer
Krasenkow vs E Solozhenkin, 1986 
(A53) Old Indian, 33 moves, 1-0

Van Geet (Dunst) Opening 2...dxe4 (A00) 0-1 Black Ns assault!
G Underhill vs J W Kells, 1935 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 15 moves, 0-1

Modern Def: Averbakh System. Kotov 8.Na4 Qb4+ (A42) 1-0 Q trap
G Moehring vs J Diaz, 1976 
(A42) Modern Defense, Averbakh System, 15 moves, 1-0

Indian/Veresov 3...c6 4.f3 Qb6 (A45) 0-1 Sting in the tail
G Philippe vs E Dizdarevic, 1985 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 8 moves, 0-1

Benoni Defense: Classical. General (A70) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Kasparov vs Suba, 1982 
(A70) Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3, 48 moves, 1-0

Grob Opening: Grob Gambit vs d5, c5 (A00) 1-0 e.p., N+ fork
D Wedding vs H Erwin, 1994 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

London System vs Classical Be7, Bb7 (A46) 0-1 hip-hop knight
A Bisguier vs J Peters, 1980 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 62 moves, 0-1

Modern Defense: Bg7 (A40) 0-1 0-0-0+ won't get the job done
I Shvyrjov vs A Kalinichev, 2005 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 21 moves, 0-1

KIA Dbl Fio vs Lasker's NY System (A07) 1-0 Zugzwang ending!
Reshevsky vs J Sunye Neto, 1977 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 65 moves, 1-0

G6 Torre Attack: Fianchetto Def (A48) 0-1 22...?
L Perunovic vs A Gogic, 2008 
(A48) King's Indian, 23 moves, 0-1

King's English. Reversed Sicilian (A21) 1-0 Sittin' on the 6th
Chernin vs A Kveinys, 1983 
(A21) English, 11 moves, 1-0

English, Anglo-Scandinavian Def. cxd5 Qxd5 (A10) 0-1 Q gets in
NN vs Carlsen, 2019 
(A10) English, 13 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Lazard Gambit (A45) 0-1It took longer, more pieces
M Czerniak vs J Enevoldsen, 1939 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 39 moves, 0-1

Benko Gambit: Accepted. Modern Var (A57) 1-0 What's a R to do?
Shirov vs Adams, 1993 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 34 moves, 1-0

Horwitz Defense: General (A40) 0-1 Nh3 problem
E Zagoryansky vs Bronstein, 1947 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 40 moves, 0-1

"Single-Double Attack."
C Mangione vs B Grachev, 2015 
(A13) English, 24 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Spielmann-Indian (A46) 0-1 20...?
P Viner vs Leko, 1992 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 27 moves, 0-1

KIA vs French/QGD (A07) 1-0 23.Nxh6? NxNh6 wins for Black
D Gukesh vs M Rafiee, 2019 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 45 moves, 1-0

Zukertort Opening: Pirc Invitation (A04) 0-1 Indulging
J Vang Glud vs Timman, 2013 
(A04) Reti Opening, 34 moves, 0-1

Bird Opening: General (A02) 1-0 En passant triggers beautiful #
Tarrasch vs K Satzinger, 1914 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 24 moves, 1-0

English, Symmetrical. Anti-Benoni Var (A31) 1-0 Pin & climb in
Capablanca vs J Torres Caravaca, 1929 
(A31) English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation, 18 moves, 1-0

Mexican Def: General (A50) 0-1 Stockfish 11 says 25...Nxg2??
Shulman vs S Berezjuk, 1998 
(A50) Queen's Pawn Game, 36 moves, 0-1

Budapest Defense: Adler Var (A52) 0-1 Sudden collapse!?
B Winkelman vs G N Treysman, 1936 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 22 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Kingside Fianchetto (A48) 0-1 f2 is undefended
B Gurgenidze vs Azmaiparashvili, 1986 
(A48) King's Indian, 12 moves, 0-1

English/Reti vs Lasker's NY System (A06) 1-0Pins, centralized N
S Khademalsharieh vs A Stefanova, 2020 
(A06) Reti Opening, 40 moves, 1-0

Modern Def: Bg7 (A40) 1-0 N Discovered+ nabs Q
M Richter vs G Antoniassi, 2000 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 23 moves, 1-0

Budapest Defense: Alekhine Var (A52) 1-0 photo link
Bogoljubov vs Reti, 1921 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 26 moves, 1-0

Modern Defense: Bg7 & Bg4 (A40) 1-0? White loses center grip
N Minev vs A Wojtkiewicz, 1999 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 1-0

KGA: Kieseritsky Gambit Rice Gambit (C39) 0-1 Beans & Rice
W MacBean vs E Fawcett, 1904 
(C39) King's Gambit Accepted, 34 moves, 0-1

Mexican Defense: General (A50) 0-1 Discovered Attack w/Check
Miroslav Vlk vs R Cvek, 2001 
(A50) Queen's Pawn Game, 18 moves, 0-1

Benoni Def: Hromadka System (A57) 0-1 Qside tactics!
M Gurevich vs Velimirovic, 1985
(A57) Benko Gambit, 38 moves, 0-1

Zukertort Opening: Reversed Mexican Def (A06) 1-0 K walk
R Lean vs F Apsenieks, 1925 
(A06) Reti Opening, 36 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Yusupov-Rubinstein System (A46) 1-0 Fantastic!
Sliwa vs A Miesowicz, 1953 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 1-0

Hungarian Opening (A00) 0-1 Discovery launches Sac Attack!
FIBChess vs Deep Sjeng, 2004 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 24 moves, 0-1

Benoni Defense: Uhlmann Var (A61) 1-0 N blunder, N capitalizes
H Berliner vs C Henin, 1957 
(A61) Benoni, 23 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: General (A45) 0-1 Exch sac burdens the 3rd rank
C Zeng vs J Zhou, 2017 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 0-1

Benoni Defense: Classical. General (A70) 0-1 20...?
V Arbakov vs Milov, 1994 
(A70) Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3, 27 moves, 0-1

Bird Opening: From Gambit. Mestel Var (A02) 0-1 Greco's # next
C Gottschalck vs T B Nielsen, 2015 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 18 moves, 0-1

Horwitz Defense: General (A40) 1-0 N fork
Gheorghiu vs Short, 1980 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 27 moves, 1-0

Richter-Veresov Attack 5.f3 h6 (A45) 0-1 Remove the Defender
J Lakdawala vs L Christiansen, 1989 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 30 moves, 0-1

Bird Opening: General (A02) 1-0 Smothered Queen next
M Aigner vs NN, 1999 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 6 moves, 1-0

English vs Agincourt Def. Neo Catalan Declined (A14) 1-0Octopus
Botvinnik vs J H Donner, 1963 
(A14) English, 31 moves, 1-0

Bird Opening: Mujannah Opening (A03) 0-1 Pawn Grabbing
Quabeck vs P Heuaecker, 1936 
(A03) Bird's Opening, 9 moves, 0-1

King's English. General (A20) 1-0 Different sort B-Q Spearhead
Y Meshkov vs W Espirito Santo, 2014 
(A20) English, 29 moves, 1-0

K's English. Four Knights Fianchetto (A29) 0-1Statue of Liberty
Serper vs Korchnoi, 1996 
(A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 29 moves, 0-1

Polish Opening: Delayed Bird (A00) 1-0 Streaking Knight?!
L Wiesel vs M Blum, 1936 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 23 moves, 1-0

Game 73 'The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps' by Gary Lane
J Barle vs R Tozer, 1993 
(A04) Reti Opening, 15 moves, 1-0

Hypermodern Chess: Aron Nimzovich by Fred Reinfeld
Gilg vs A Nimzowitsch, 1926 
(A81) Dutch, 24 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Wade-Tartakower Def (A46) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Kasparov vs Lutikov, 1978 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 56 moves, 1-0

King's Indian Attack 18.0-0-0 0-0-0 (A07) 0-1
Stein vs Hort, 1967 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 75 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Fischer-Sozin Attack. Flank Var (B87) 1-0 N sac
Lagno vs M Mueller-Seps, 2004 
(B87) Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5, 13 moves, 1-0

Van Geet (Dunst) Opening: General (A00) 1-0 hippity hoppity
Lenderman vs I Zenyuk, 2006 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 13 moves, 1-0

Formation: Hippopotamus (A00) 0-1 TIME
D Kovachev vs Carlsen, 2003 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 26 moves, 0-1

Trompowsky Attack: General (A45) 0-1 Blindfold simul
M Dunn vs T Gareyev, 2016 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 20 moves, 0-1

Zukertort Opening: 0-0 vs 0-0-0 (A04) 1-0 Overworked Queen
L Gutman vs C Azzopardi, 1982 
(A04) Reti Opening, 14 moves, 1-0

"A real 4th of July fireworks show from beginning to end." -FJM
Marshall vs Chigorin, 1905 
(A83) Dutch, Staunton Gambit, 30 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Great Snake Var (A10) 1-0 Lively
N Zhukova vs D Shengelia, 2001 
(A10) English, 34 moves, 1-0

Dutch Def Classical. Ilyin-Zhenevsky Var Modern ML (A99) 0-1 Ns
E Zinner vs Flohr, 1936 
(A99) Dutch, Ilyin-Genevsky Variation with b3, 29 moves, 0-1

Benko Gambit: Accepted. Modern Var (A57) 1-0 Capture, again
Alburt vs M Hebden, 1983 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 17 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Agincourt Def. Neo Catalan Declined (A14) 0-1
N Spiridonov vs Geller, 1978 
(A14) English, 26 moves, 0-1

English vs AID. Mikenas-Carls Var (A15) 1-0 Underpromotion+
Vachier-Lagrave vs D Anton Guijarro, 2021 
(A15) English, 44 moves, 1-0

Jobava London System vs Indian Game (A45) 0-1 N invasions
Jobava vs Nepomniachtchi, 2016 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 27 moves, 0-1

English (A04) 0-1 More space, more responsibility
S Sale vs Z Zhang, 2005 
(A04) Reti Opening, 26 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Symmetrical. Three Knights (A34) 0-1 Q trap
G Lime vs J J Dahl, 1987 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 14 moves, 0-1

King's English. Three Knights System General (A27) 0-1 Passer
H MacGrillen vs Tukmakov, 1969 
(A27) English, Three Knights System, 32 moves, 0-1

Trompowsky Attack: General (A45) 1-0 knight time
P Korobkov vs N Aggelis, 2010 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0

Alekhine Torpedoes - Black Knights on e2 and f2.
Reti vs Alekhine, 1925 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 40 moves, 0-1

Nxf2 begins a wild sacrificial kingside assault
B Gurgenidze vs Tal, 1957 
(A78) Benoni, Classical with ...Re8 and ...Na6, 27 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Symmetrical. Hedgehog Def (A30) 1-0 23.?
Csom vs S Kindermann, 1986 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 36 moves, 1-0

Polish Opening: Exchange, Delayed Bird (A00) 0-1 Correspondence
A Stoer vs A Seidl, 1897
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 19 moves, 0-1

Van't Kruijs Opening / French Def, Exchange (A00) 1-0 Raking Bs
A Raetsky vs G Salem, 2001
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 20 moves, 1-0

Polish Opening: Czech Def (A00) 0-1 Q trap w/uncastled King
Junge vs E Matthai, 1970 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 20 moves, 0-1

Anderssen Opening / Bird vs Lasker's NY System (A00) 0-1 Promot
Chigorin vs Mason, 1882 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 54 moves, 0-1

Dutch Defense: Alekhine Var (A92) 1-0 Hook Mate!
Y Gutop vs A Kuindzhy, 1977 
(A92) Dutch, 34 moves, 1-0

Benoni Defense: General (A60) 0-1 Black N eyes White Q
Anders Nilsson Aure vs M Curado, 2015 
(A60) Benoni Defense, 19 moves, 0-1

Torre Attack: Classical Def (A46) 0-1 Protect, then Counterattk
L Lukovski vs Tal, 1991 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 26 moves, 0-1

Grob Opening: Keene Defense (A00) 0-1 loose bishops
S Sloan vs J Schroer, 1985 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 23 moves, 0-1

Reminds one of the Q Trap Line of the Budapest Def, Fajarowitz
B Knorr vs J Roscher, 1989 
(A47) Queen's Indian, 10 moves, 1-0

Sarratt Attack vs Benoni Indian 2...c5 (A45) 0-1 Bold Q sac
B Eiti vs R Jumabayev, 2021 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 0-1

Polish Opening: 3.f4 d6 gets heated (A00) 0-1 promotion looms
H Bennett vs E M Green, 1985 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 22 moves, 0-1

Hungarian Opening: Indian Defense (A00) 1-0 Blindfold
L Christiansen vs J Polgar, 1993
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 26 moves, 1-0

30 ...? Yet another brilliancy by Carlsen.
L E Johannessen vs Carlsen, 2006 
(A58) Benko Gambit, 36 moves, 0-1

KIA e5 strong point vs French Def (A07) 1-0 Rippin' up g-file!
Karjakin vs Shankland, 2021 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 36 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Anglo-Slav. General (A11) 0-1 R cannot defend
K Charinda vs Sbai Rania, 2018 
(A11) English, Caro-Kann Defensive System, 15 moves, 0-1

Rat Defense: Dutch Def (A41) 1-0 Knights entry
J Henrichsen vs Y Saber, 2015
(A41) Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6), 17 moves, 1-0

Indian Game 3...Nh5: London System (A46) 0-1
A Kaliksteyn vs T Gareyev, 2016
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 37 moves, 0-1

Torre Attack: Classical Def (A46) 1-0 c-file opens early
Bronstein vs L Alster, 1957 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 37 moves, 1-0

KIA vs Old Sicilian (A07) 0-1 Did VK know what he was doing?
J Bednarski vs Korchnoi, 1966 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 33 moves, 0-1

Hungarian Opening: KIA Dbl Fio (A00) 1-0 Queen Trap
K Zangerle vs J B Payne, 1962 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 20 moves, 1-0

Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Classical Var (A01) 1-0 N nips
Naroditsky vs Q L Le, 2021 
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 72 moves, 1-0

Bird Opening: From Gambit (A02) 0-1 Stockfish notes
Bird vs Mason, 1875 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 22 moves, 0-1

Kasparov's 12. Nd5!?
Kasparov vs Salov, 1989 
(A15) English, 29 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Anglo-Slav. General (A11)1-0 Rxg7 shell buster
J Majdan vs M Coimbra, 2008 
(A11) English, Caro-Kann Defensive System, 25 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Symmetrical. Normal Var (A34) 1-0 GameKnot.com
J Wagenaar vs P A Fontaine, 2009 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 20 moves, 1-0

Benoni Def: Classical. New York Var (A70) 1-0 N+ royal family
M Horvath vs Y Y Araujo Freitez, 2006 
(A70) Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3, 41 moves, 1-0

KIA: Symmetrical Def (A05) 0-1 Intriguing counters
A Shabanaj vs H Thorsteinsdottir, 2010 
(A05) Reti Opening, 32 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: General (A45) 0-1 Kids; Q+ & fork LPDO N
L Kiss vs Carlsen, 2002 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 15 moves, 0-1

Bird Opening: Dutch Var (A03) 0-1 Q&N penetration
G MacDonnell vs Gunsberg, 1885 
(A03) Bird's Opening, 28 moves, 0-1

Benoni Defense: Weenink Var (A56) 1/2-1/2 wrong capture
Yakovich vs Tseshkovsky, 1986 
(A56) Benoni Defense, 42 moves, 1/2-1/2

English vs Anglo-Indian Def. Flohr-Mikenas-Carls Var (A19) 0-1
J Wanjiru Wambugu vs G Sukhu, 2006 
(A19) English, Mikenas-Carls, Sicilian Variation, 21 moves, 0-1

Hungarian Opening: General (A00) 0-1 Mighty Knights
H Schumacher vs W Hartston, 1969
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 22 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Agincourt Defense (A13) 0-1 knight roller
Portisch vs Taimanov, 1959 
(A13) English, 25 moves, 0-1

Benko Gambit: Declined. ML (A57) 1-0 Knights delight!
A Shariyazdanov vs B Zueger, 1998 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 33 moves, 1-0

The old exchange-and-fork trick.
D Freeman vs K McDonald, 2011 
(A80) Dutch, 47 moves, 1-0

Englund Gambit Complex: Englund Gambit (A40) 1-0 Harass the Q
H Alber vs M Mueller, 1982
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 10 moves, 1-0

Benoni Defense: Czech Benoni Defense (A56) · 1-0
J Hvenekilde vs O I Fystro, 2012 
(A56) Benoni Defense, 18 moves, 1-0

King's English. Four Knts, Bradley Beach Var (A28) 0-1 P jam
Werner Steffen vs K Richter, 1932 
(A28) English, 21 moves, 0-1

Hungarian Opening: Bermuda Attack refuted in short! (A00) 0-1
A Moffat vs T Manouck, 1998 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 10 moves, 0-1

Benoni Defense: King Pawn lines (A65) 1-0 Pin won't suffice
Keene vs A C Chow, 1985 
(A65) Benoni, 6.e4, 19 moves, 1-0

Zukertort Opening: Q Pawn Def (A06) 0-1 N penetration sets disc
Firouzja vs Wojtaszek, 2016
(A06) Reti Opening, 30 moves, 0-1

Reti Opening: Advance Var. Michel Gambit (A09) 0-1 Stockfish
Duda vs Caruana, 2020 
(A09) Reti Opening, 30 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Saemisch-Indian (A50) 1-0 Gueridon Mate w/pawn!
Lilienthal vs M Romi, 1930 
(A50) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: KID. (A49) 1-0 B's variation of the Dovetail Mate
Kholmov vs Y Shaposhnikov, 1958 
(A49) King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4, 45 moves, 1-0

King's Indian Attack Double Fianchetto vs Dbl KP (A07) 1-0
Naroditsky vs L Galoyan, 2011 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 27 moves, 1-0

K's English. Reversed Sicilian (A21) 0-1 Chess is an easy game!
Smejkal vs K Rogoff, 1980 
(A21) English, 39 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Anglo-Slav. General (A11) 1-0 Stockfish notes
M Dziuba vs J Bartholomew, 2013 
(A11) English, Caro-Kann Defensive System, 33 moves, 1-0

King's English. General (A20) 1-0 The queen is a poor defender
J Emma vs O Benitez, 1975 
(A20) English, 15 moves, 1-0

Bird Opening: General (A02) 0-1 Corner pocket, like a rocket!
F Deacon vs Anderssen, 1851 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 38 moves, 0-1

Rat Defense: (A41) 1-0 9.QxQd8 KxQd8 10.Nf7+ & fork Rh8
A Kogan vs P Dias, 1997 
(A41) Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6), 12 moves, 1-0

Bird Opening: From Gambit. Lasker Var (A02) 1-0 RR#/Kill Box#
M Galchenko vs O F Ozer, 2021 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 30 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Golombek Defense (A16) 0-1 Double Attack!!
N Rudnev vs N Kopilov, 1938 
(A16) English, 12 moves, 0-1

Reti Opening: Reversed Blumenfeld Gambit (A09) 0-1 Discovery
M Lagarde vs Adams, 2021 
(A09) Reti Opening, 49 moves, 0-1

Reti vs Sicilian/French (A04) 1-0 From pickle to absolute pin
Fischer vs R Rodriguez, 1967 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 28 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: General (A45) 1/2-1/2 perpetual+
Firouzja vs Nepomniachtchi, 2021 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 38 moves, 1/2-1/2

English Opening: Great Snake Var (A10) 0-1 N offer to open file
P Ponkratov vs Niemann, 2021 
(A10) English, 22 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Budapest Defense (A51) 0-1 Disc Dbl Attk by Knight
K Kurrik vs Keres, 1935 
(A51) Budapest Gambit, 11 moves, 0-1

Dojo
J Kraai vs Yermolinsky, 2005 
(A15) English, 26 moves, 1-0

Budapest Defense: Rubinstein Var (A52) 0-1 it's in the book
Van Wely vs Mamedyarov, 2004 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 48 moves, 0-1

English vs Agincourt Def. K's Knight (A13) 1-0 Gain material
K Petschar vs W Scholzen, 2014 
(A13) English, 12 moves, 1-0

King's English. General (A20) 1-0 Capture, Underpromotion N+
R Messina vs A Shlakich, 2008 
(A20) English, 26 moves, 1-0

Modern, Averbakh. Kotov Var (A42) 0-1 If 12.NxNe4 Nc2#Smothered
W Thormann vs K Bischoff, 1982 
(A42) Modern Defense, Averbakh System, 11 moves, 0-1

Budapest Defense: Adler Variation (A52) 0-1 Creative checkmate!
S Wu vs A Nadanian, 2006 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 31 moves, 0-1

Budapest Defense: General (A52) 0-1 Royal assault
L H Wight vs R Scrivener, 1926 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 9 moves, 0-1

Trompowsky Attack: General (A45) 0-1The Best Def is Counterattk
S Hayes vs G Chandler, 2004 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 27 moves, 0-1

Zukertort Opening: Symmetrical / Reversed Philidor (A04) 0-1
E Tucker vs I Nikolayev, 2005 
(A04) Reti Opening, 22 moves, 0-1

English, Symmetrical. Anti-Benoni Var (A31) 0-1 Bb4 pin looms
E Landuyt vs F Manca, 1989
(A31) English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation, 11 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Pseudo-Queen's Indian. Marienbad System (A47) 0-1
G Bakalarz vs X Zhao, 2016
(A47) Queen's Indian, 24 moves, 0-1

Modern Defense: Rossolimo Var (A41) 0-1 N+ fork robs the pin
K Pretterhofer vs V Prosviriakov, 2014 
(A41) Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6), 28 moves, 0-1

5.Qd2 is the Tarzan or Vorotnikov-Kogan-Hebden Attack
N Noritsyn vs A Samsonkin, 2008 
(A48) King's Indian, 30 moves, 1-0

King's English. Two Knights' Fianchetto Line (A22) 1-0 SF notes
E Lundin vs P Johner, 1936 
(A22) English, 23 moves, 1-0

Van't Kruijs / Nimzo-Larsen Attk 5.c4 Ngf6 (A00) 1-0 12...Nd3+
E Moser vs C Andersson, 2001 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 24 moves, 1-0

Double Duck Formation (A02) 1-0 Double diagonal checks
E Williams vs W Henderson, 1845 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 15 moves, 1-0

Dbl Fianchetto vs Dutch Defense: General (A80) 0-1 N on the rim
N Petriashvili vs M A Tabatabaei, 2020 
(A80) Dutch, 20 moves, 0-1

Van Geet (Dunst) Opening: White two knts vs 1...Na6?! (A00) 1-0
J Bellon Lopez vs I Nemet, 1979 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 24 moves, 1-0

King's Indian Attack c3, d3-d4 (A07) 0-1 Stockfish notes
Z Zhang vs Rublevsky, 2004 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 84 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Symmetrical. General (A30) 1-0 N&R Epaulets #
J van Foreest vs L Dominguez Perez, 2022 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 38 moves, 1-0

English 5.c4 d6 (A05) 0-1 Rook invasion arranges Q Arabian #
Barcza vs A Matanovic, 1956 
(A05) Reti Opening, 32 moves, 0-1

F Libiszewski vs J Schiestl, 2022
(A05) Reti Opening, 24 moves, 1-0

A J Goldsby vs K Olson, 2009 
(A96) Dutch, Classical Variation, 27 moves, 1-0

Trompowsky Attack: General (A45) 1-0 Youth N&Q Discovery
Carlsen vs S Agaian, 2002
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 19 moves, 1-0

Budapest Defense: Fajarowicz Var (A51) 0-1 Entertaining!
T G Schneider vs D Arond, 2012 
(A51) Budapest Gambit, 35 moves, 0-1

Nimzo-Larsen Classical vsRev Botvnk Syst (A04) 0-1IM Levy video
A Eswaran vs G Tokhirjonova, 2022 
(A04) Reti Opening, 67 moves, 0-1

Torre Attack: Wagner Gambit (A46) 0-1 two tales
F Apsenieks vs Kashdan, 1930 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 22 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Spielmann-Indian (A46) 1-0 threaten c7
M Basman vs R Martens, 1967 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 21 moves, 1-0

Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Indian Var (A01) 1-0 Q fork EAD & LPDO
Chiburdanidze vs J Xie, 1992 
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

Dutch Defense: Leningrad Var (A87) 0-1 Removal of the Guards
M Genkin vs M Kopylov, 2000 
(A87) Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation, 18 moves, 0-1

King's English. Two Knights' Keres Var (A23) 1-0 Nxg7
Z Sarosy vs F Bohatirchuk, 1976 
(A23) English, Bremen System, Keres Variation, 15 moves, 1-0

Clemenz Opening 1.h3 into Colle (A00) 1-0Terrific Kside attack
Fine vs A Simonson, 1932 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 22 moves, 1-0

Benoni Defense: Hromadka System (A57) 0-1 Target f2
Semen Avazov vs E Khubukshanov, 2019 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 19 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Symmetrical. Rubinstein Var (A34) 1-0Undermine
M Illescas vs J de la Villa Garcia, 1990 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 18 moves, 1-0

Old Indian Def: Janowski Var. Main Line (A53) 0-1 d-file discvr
L Perdomo vs F Vega, 1999
(A53) Old Indian, 16 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Anglo-Slav. General (A11) 1-0 video link
Duda vs A Erigaisi, 2022 
(A11) English, Caro-Kann Defensive System, 26 moves, 1-0

Uncommon Opening / Veresov (A00) 1-0 Find the mate
A Erigaisi vs R Praggnanandhaa, 2022 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 18 moves, 1-0

Van Geet (Dunst) Opening: Dunst-Perrenet Gambit (A00) 1-0 visit
P Lalic vs M Grigoryan, 2022 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 27 moves, 1-0

Budapest Defense: Adler Var (A52) 0-1 The Rocking Horse
Reshevsky vs S Katz, 1922 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 18 moves, 0-1

Bad Queen vs Good Queen w/Knight Bookends
I Mazel vs Botvinnik, 1938 
(A19) English, Mikenas-Carls, Sicilian Variation, 11 moves, 0-1

King's Indian. Fianchetto Var (A49) 0-1 25...? Stockfish notes
E Poltoranov vs Stein, 1955 
(A49) King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4, 25 moves, 0-1

19.Qxg7 Bruce Pandolfini's "Bobby Fischer's Outrageous Moves"
Fischer vs Mecking, 1970 
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 42 moves, 1-0

Englund Gambit Complex: Zilbermints Gambit II (A40) 0-1 N&Q
T Popa vs L Abramavicius, 1936 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 0-1

Hungarian Opening: Slav Formation (A00) 1-0 Clearance Sac wins!
S Bogdanovich vs P Andyka, 2019 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 30 moves, 1-0

QGD: Chigorin Def. Main Line (D07) 1-0 probably analysis
Alekhine vs V Nenarokov, 1907 
(D07) Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense, 10 moves, 1-0

Hungarian Opening: General (A00) 1-0 Black Q leads, K walks
M Arwanitakis vs T Kett, 2006 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 41 moves, 1-0

Reti Opening: Reti Gambit (A09) 1-0 31.? Notes by Stockfish
M Janata vs H Lehmann, 1969 
(A09) Reti Opening, 44 moves, 1-0

Dutch Def: Staunton Gambit. Declined (A83) 0-1 White retreats
C Guimard vs L Piazzini, 1938 
(A83) Dutch, Staunton Gambit, 34 moves, 0-1

Benko Gambit: Accepted. Modern Var (A57) 1-0Remove the Defender
F Urkedal vs A Kassis, 2022 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 23 moves, 1-0

Dutch Defense: Blackmar's Second Gambit (A82) 1-0 Entertaining
V Sjoberg vs Tarrasch, 1911 
(A82) Dutch, Staunton Gambit, 39 moves, 1-0

Dutch Def: Leningrad. Warsaw Var (A88) 0-1 Octopus!!
M de Verdier vs A Lauber, 2010 
(A88) Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with c6, 30 moves, 0-1

A87
Kholmov vs J Klavins, 1955 
(A87) Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation, 21 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Agincourt Def (A13) 0-1 Blitz family fork
B Assaubayeva vs Lagno, 2023
(A13) English, 26 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Symmetrical. No castling (A36) 1-0 blitz
Kramnik vs Y Hou, 2023 
(A36) English, 32 moves, 1-0

Benko Gambit: Fully Accepted Var (A58) 1-0 blitz tactics!!
Carlsen vs P A Hansen, 2009 
(A58) Benko Gambit, 29 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Saemisch-Indian (A50) 1-0 Superb Dbl N Sacrifice!!
Saemisch vs Reti, 1922 
(A50) Queen's Pawn Game, 29 moves, 1-0

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