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'Pon my Soul - Philidor Justified Pawns smothering, crushing or outfoxing pieces. 4 games, 1834-2008 Agincourt Kangaroos & Other Quasi-French Opening 1...e6 is good against any first move by White. The most often seen is 1.d4 e6, offering a transposition to a French or, after 2.c4, a QGD, Dutch, Nimzo, etc. But there are also some interesting and little explored byways, including 2...Bb4+, the Kangaroo. These are some of the byways. 3 games, 1959-2004 Corkers Games played in Cork: site of the EU championship in 2005, an annual Mulcahy Memorial tournament (Jan) and an annual Open Masters, currently in March. I've played in the latter (2006-09) and the former (1975-78, 1981-82, 1989, 2007-10). 1 game, 2005 DID: Dzindzi (and other) Indians The 'original' Dzindzi-Indian Defence (as here) is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 a6, with the idea of ...c5 and generally ...g6/....Bg7. A delayed Benoni, or a Blumenfeld Gambit with the gambit element traded for greater solidity but less rapid development. Roman Dzhindzhikhashvili is also responsible for another defence with the same name, a sort of Leningrad Dutch with Benoni aspects and ...Bxc3+, to weaken and fix White's pawns. Other unusual Indian systems also feature, eg the Dutch Indian and the Queen's Indonesian. 1 game, 1989 Dom's Flukes These are games where I succeeded for totally wrong reasons. It includes both games I 'won' myself, and games from, eg, the holiday puzzle competition where I found the solution by accident. Some say karma or serendipity, I say Flukes. 3 games, 1946-2001 Double Excelsior Both sides send a pawn on an early excursion, capturing their way simultaneously to promotion and a four-Queen game ... several occur in a theoretical Meran line (9.e4 b4 10.e5 bxc3 11.exf6 cxb2 12.fxg7 bxa1Q 13.gxh8Q) but other routes exist, such as mine in an English: e4xf5xe6xd7xc8Q. 8 games, 1951-1989 Draws/ Remispartien Too many players skim over the draws in a database, looking for decisive results. But many great games are drawn. This is just a small personal selection. The collection is partly inspired by Wolfgang Heidenfeld's German book on Remispartien. 9 games, 1945-2009 Dutch Disasters 10 games, 1929-2008 Fianchetto Frolics 20 games, 1911-2011 Five Xmas Competition Wins 2008 Combinations and chemistry are your only men. 5 games, 1590-2006 Kan Twirl A.N. - My Part in his Downfall (with apologies to Spike Milligan) 3 games, 1988-2006 KIA wars 1 game, 2017 Krambitz Kramnik -- sacrifices, gambits and general mayhem 7 games, 1994-2011 Modern Reti As described by Delchev in 'The Modern Reti: an anti-Slav Repertoire'. 2 games, 2010-2015 Rara Avis Rare Birds and Bipolar Bears 2 games, 2003-2005 Runaway Viral Otaku Meme Kiblosions Kibitzing will eat itself. 1 game, 2003 Schadenfreude One player seriously outranks his opponent, and in this collection there are no upsets. A useful reminder of just how good GMs are, and the sort of damage they can do to an 'ordinary' 1800 player. No huge blunders, just a mismatch from the start. Call it Schadenfreude, but I've been on the receiving end of such massacres too. 3 games, 1981-1995 Short Back and Sides Nigel Short plays the French from both sides. 1 game, 2010 Sibling Rivalry When siblings clash. 2 games, 2011 Spirit of Saint Nimzo Sometimes an otherwise normal grandmaster seems to channel the ghost of Nimzowitsch: this is the evidence. 18 games, 1939-2012

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