May-08-25 D Tomic vs F Winzbeck, 1993
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Feb-22-25 G Lasya vs D S Shashaank, 2012 
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| FairyPromotion: The pun may also refer to the black starting with the French on move 1, but it transposing to a Sicilian on move 2! <<<Ba-Dum Tsss :D>>> |
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Oct-13-24 M Kobalia vs S Lu, 2015
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| FairyPromotion: Word on the streets is that kibitzers who manage to satisfy The Pun Police are being recruited to negociate with terrorists. <<Skip to my Lou>> is a game of <partner swapping>, and in the game white gives up his queen and by the end of the game he is about ... |
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May-13-24 D Howell vs J Levitt, 2005
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| FairyPromotion: <FSR> It is a pun for "Leave It to Beaver," an old American sitcom title. Clearly not the most inspired pun, but the game was worth bringing it to the attention of those who have not seen it before. |
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Apr-15-24 Mamedyarov vs Shankland, 2021
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| FairyPromotion: Oh! Gee! What The Hell CG?! |
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Jan-28-24 Wei Yi vs V S Gujrathi, 2024
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May-22-23 Wojtaszek vs Carlsen, 2023
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| FairyPromotion: <Brenin: Great game, great pun, and some very interesting and entertaining kibitzing.> I'd argue it's a great game and OK pun. :P
Happy birthday man! |
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Aug-05-22 V Akopian vs Bologan, 1998
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| FairyPromotion: <zanzibar> GM Daniel King recently shared the position after 30...c3 as a puzzle, and the solution is indeed beautiful. https://youtu.be/5azubd8fFcg |
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Jan-10-20 bgitw chessforum
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In 2019 I wasn't able to follow chess as much (after the first 3 months), so thanks to all the lists posted so far. I did some quick digging, and here is my list. Note: I'm really torn this year for my #1 pick, as Karthikeyan's Q sac on move 9 seems to be |
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May-07-19 Ding Liren vs Jakovenko, 2019
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Apr-22-19 Saric vs A Sharafiev, 2015
Apr-15-19 I Krush vs Barsov, 1999
Apr-12-19 R Leitao vs Caruana, 2010
Mar-19-19 Topalov vs J Polgar, 2010
Mar-14-19 Bronstein vs Bagirov, 1983
Feb-26-19 O Zambrana vs I Krush, 2003
Feb-26-19 Morozevich vs Tkachiev, 2009
Feb-21-19 Wei Yi vs A Fier, 2019
Feb-19-19 Torre vs E Z Adams, 1920
Feb-14-19 R Sheldon vs G Kacheishvili, 1996
Jan-30-19 Kramnik vs Sadvakasov, 2001
Jan-23-19 Duda vs Rapport, 2019
Oct-05-18 Batumi Olympiad (2018)
Jul-08-18 Jakovenko vs I Cheparinov, 2008
Apr-14-18 Aronian vs Kramnik, 2018
Apr-04-18 AlphaZero vs Stockfish, 2017
Mar-10-18 Mamedyarov vs Svidler, 2018
Jan-18-18 E Najer vs A Alavkin, 2004
Sep-05-17 Shirov vs Short, 1997
Jul-23-17 J F Villarreal Felix vs N Ristic, 1975
Jun-21-17 Phony Benoni chessforum
Jun-18-17 Duda vs B Adhiban, 2017
Jun-16-17 chessgames.com chessforum
Jun-11-17 Y Shen vs J Zhou, 2005
Jun-10-17 H Ni vs Nakamura, 2001
May-30-17 Y Fang vs Ding Liren, 2017
May-25-17 Kupreichik vs A Planinc, 1970
Apr-25-17 Karjakin vs Topalov, 2017
Apr-25-17 G Milos vs P Carlsson, 2012
Apr-21-17 Kupreichik vs J Sunye Neto, 1989
Apr-06-17 J Vetemaa vs Shabalov, 1986
Mar-13-17 Anish Gandhi
Feb-09-17 B Ider vs Y Hou, 2017
Feb-01-17 Gibraltar Masters (2017)
Jan-28-17 G Jones vs V Dobrov, 2017
Jan-28-17 Wei Yi vs Karjakin, 2017
Jan-24-17 Carlsen vs Van Wely, 2017
Jan-21-17 Wei Yi vs Van Wely, 2017
Jan-21-17 Carlsen vs Giri, 2017
Jan-17-17 B Adhiban vs Eljanov, 2017
Jan-17-17 The Caissars chessforum
Jan-17-17 So vs Rapport, 2017
Jan-16-17 Wei Yi vs Nepomniachtchi, 2017
Jan-09-17 M Paragua vs Debashis Das, 2012
Jan-09-17 Znosko-Borovsky vs Salwe, 1909
Dec-27-16 Mamedyarov vs S Lu, 2016
Dec-16-16 Vachier-Lagrave vs Aronian, 2016
Dec-07-16 Kasparov vs Timman, 2000
Dec-04-16 P K Wells vs Y Habu, 2005
Nov-30-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016
Nov-30-16 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016
Nov-30-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016
Oct-30-16 Lilienthal vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1954
Oct-30-16 Ivanchuk vs V Georgiev, 2001
Oct-07-16 Aronian vs Giri, 2016
Sep-23-16 J Torres Santiago vs T Kahn, 2016
Sep-20-16 posoo chessforum
Sep-19-16 Andrei Volokitin
Sep-12-16 Baku Olympiad (Women) (2016)
Sep-12-16 Baku Olympiad (2016)
Sep-09-16 Rapport vs Pelletier, 2016
Aug-10-16 Ivanchuk vs A Yusupov, 1991
Aug-07-16 Kramnik vs Shirov, 1994
Jul-12-16 Serper vs I Nikolaidis, 1993
Jul-07-16 Fizbo vs Komodo, 2016
Jul-02-16 Wei Yi vs Ding Liren, 2015
Jun-14-16 Shirov vs J Polgar, 1996
Jun-05-16 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Jun-02-16 Karpov vs Adorjan, 1989
Jun-02-16 B Adhiban vs Le Quang Liem, 2016
Apr-20-16 Norway Chess (2016)
Apr-20-16 Caruana vs Onischuk, 2016
Mar-14-16 Nakamura vs Caruana, 2016
Feb-18-16 Fischer vs Geller, 1967
Feb-16-16 Avrukh vs Eljanov, 2012
Feb-15-16 Zurich Chess Challenge (2016)
Feb-14-16 V Gunina vs W Ju, 2013
Feb-13-16 Wei Yi vs L Bruzon Batista, 2015
Feb-09-16 M Matlakov vs B Bok, 2015
Feb-02-16 R Cifuentes vs Zvjaginsev, 1995
Jan-26-16 Memorable Quotes chessforum
Jan-25-16 Barcza vs B Soos, 1962
Jan-08-16 tpstar chessforum
Dec-13-15 London Chess Classic (2015)
Dec-05-15 P Vucinic vs D Djurovic, 1986
Nov-23-15 Carlsen vs Wojtaszek, 2015
Nov-17-15 Yannick Pelletier
Nov-14-15 J Pinter vs C Thomson, 1989
Nov-10-15 Garry Kasparov
Nov-09-15 Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985
Oct-29-15 Lautier vs Vaganian, 2004
Oct-25-15 Keres vs Bogoljubov, 1936
Oct-23-15 Duda vs Y Yu, 2014
Oct-23-15 European Club Cup (2015)
Oct-19-15 Naiditsch vs Kramnik, 2009
Oct-16-15 So vs Aronian, 2015
Oct-14-15 Z Javakhadze vs Robson, 2015
Oct-14-15 World Blitz Championship (2015)
Oct-10-15 V Laznicka vs Khismatullin, 2015
Oct-01-15 Svidler vs Karjakin, 2015
Sep-19-15 Capablanca vs Lasker, 1924
Sep-19-15 Biographer Bistro
Sep-18-15 Wei Yi
Sep-15-15 Ding Liren vs E Inarkiev, 2015
Sep-10-15 Karjakin vs Kosteniuk, 2003
Sep-09-15 Morozevich vs I Rogers, 1999
Sep-09-15 World Cup (2015)
Sep-08-15 Wei Yi vs J Santos Latasa, 2015
Sep-03-15 Anand vs Aronian, 2008
Aug-31-15 So vs Nakamura, 2015
Aug-29-15 Sinquefield Cup (2015)
Aug-24-15 Granda Zuniga vs J Polgar, 1992
Aug-24-15 Caruana vs Carlsen, 2015
Aug-21-15 Bronstein vs Boleslavsky, 1950
Aug-15-15 Richard Rapport
Aug-13-15 V Gunina vs O Girya, 2015
Aug-13-15 Svidler vs Khismatullin, 2015
Aug-05-15 Anand vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2015
Jul-27-15 P Dubinin vs Aronin, 1947
Jul-23-15 Navara vs Wojtaszek, 2015
Jul-20-15 TheAlchemist chessforum
Jul-20-15 Giri vs Shirov, 2014
Jul-15-15 Shirov vs L Cyborowski, 2008
Jul-14-15 Taimanov vs A Shashin, 1978
Jul-13-15 Carlsen vs Gelfand, 2011
Jul-12-15 Aronian vs G Papp, 2001
Jul-12-15 Gufeld vs B Ivanovic, 1979
Jul-09-15 Jonny vs Komodo, 2015
Jul-08-15 B Bok vs S Ernst, 2015
Jul-07-15 Viswanathan Anand
Jul-07-15 Euwe vs Keres, 1940
Jul-06-15 Nisipeanu vs Caruana, 2015
Jul-06-15 Y Wang vs Ding Liren, 2015
Jul-04-15 Sasikiran vs Krasenkow, 2004
Jul-03-15 B Molinari vs L Roux Cabral, 1943
Jun-25-15 Norway Chess (2015)
Jun-23-15 Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999
Jun-19-15 Anand vs Carlsen, 2015
Jun-18-15 A Volokitin vs Mamedyarov, 2012
Jun-15-15 L Carranza vs Capablanca, 1911
Jun-13-15 Rapport vs T Rogers, 2014
May-31-15 Svidler vs Grischuk, 2010
May-26-15 FIDE Grand Prix Khanty-Mansiysk (2015)
May-26-15 Hikaru Nakamura
May-22-15 A Samhouri vs J Polgar, 2010
May-21-15 Z Kozul vs Rublevsky, 2004
May-16-15 Sergey Karjakin
May-15-15 M Wadsworth vs Z Rahman, 2014
May-14-15 Josef Plachutta
May-14-15 Fabiano Caruana
May-14-15 A Rico Gonzalez vs F Ballbe Anglada, 1955
May-10-15 Khismatullin vs Eljanov, 2015
May-09-15 Karjakin vs Anand, 2006
May-06-15 J Augustin vs J Vesely, 1965
May-05-15 Rubinstein vs Hromadka, 1923
May-01-15 Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1971
Apr-28-15 G Mahia vs Quinteros, 1980
Apr-27-15 World Team Championship (2015)
Apr-24-15 Vyzmanavin vs M Sorokin, 1985
Apr-21-15 Gashimov Memorial (2015)
Apr-20-15 Reshevsky vs Savon, 1973
Apr-18-15 Carlsen vs Mamedyarov, 2015
Apr-08-15 Wilhelm Steinitz
Mar-31-15 Morphy vs Le Carpentier, 1849
Mar-19-15 Anand vs Kramnik, 2008
Mar-12-15 Y Gusev vs E Auerbach, 1946
Mar-08-15 European Championship (2015)
Mar-05-15 A Volokitin vs Vocaturo, 2015
Feb-23-15 FIDE Grand Prix Tbilisi (2015)
Feb-20-15 Anand vs H Wang, 2011
Feb-20-15 J Zhao vs D Xiu, 2011
Feb-19-15 Tarrasch vs Reti, 1922
Feb-19-15 O Papayan vs N Kabanov, 2012
Feb-18-15 Zurich Chess Challenge (2015)
Feb-15-15 Anand vs Svidler, 1999
Feb-10-15 Kramnik vs Grischuk, 2014
Feb-04-15 Ivanchuk vs Jobava, 2015
Jan-31-15 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Jan-24-15 YouRang chessforum
Jan-24-15 Tata Steel Masters (2015)
Jan-24-15 Tata Steel Challengers (2015)
Jan-23-15 Aronian vs Anand, 2013
Jan-23-15 A David vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2014
Jan-18-15 Wei Yi vs D Klein, 2015
Jan-17-15 Saric vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2015
Jan-17-15 Vachier-Lagrave vs Ding Liren, 2015
Jan-11-15 Wei Yi vs Potkin, 2015
Jan-08-15 V Kovalev vs Shirov, 2014
Jan-08-15 Carlsen vs S Osinovsky, 2014
Jan-04-15 Morozevich vs Anand, 1995
Dec-30-14 Caruana vs Nakamura, 2010
Dec-10-14 J Polgar vs Kasparov, 1994
Dec-07-14 Caruana vs Nakamura, 2014
Dec-07-14 Valentina Gunina
Dec-07-14 Russian Championship Superfinal (Women) (2014)
Dec-06-14 Bronstein vs K Darga, 1964
Dec-05-14 G Gasparov
Nov-26-14 Qatar Masters (2014)
Nov-19-14 A Zubarev vs A Moiseenko, 2014
Nov-17-14 Carlsen vs Anand, 2014
Nov-15-14 Carlsen vs Anand, 2014
Nov-11-14 V Taksrud vs H Oieroset, 2014
Nov-08-14 Anand vs Carlsen, 2014
Nov-07-14 Carlsen - Anand World Championship Match (2014)
Nov-05-14 Fischerandom Chess
Nov-05-14 Kasparov vs E Sebastian, 2014
Nov-04-14 Kasparov vs Karpov, 1986
Nov-02-14 Stockfish vs Jonny, 2014
Oct-21-14 Caruana vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2014
Oct-21-14 S Lu vs V Fedoseev, 2014
Oct-14-14 FIDE Grand Prix Baku (2014)
Oct-13-14 Nakamura vs Mamedyarov, 2014
Oct-12-14 Caruana vs Grischuk, 2014
Oct-03-14 Grischuk vs Karjakin, 2014
Sep-20-14 Veselin Topalov
Sep-17-14 Grischuk vs M Rodshtein, 2014
Sep-17-14 European Club Cup (2014)
Sep-07-14 Magnus Carlsen
Aug-14-14 Tromso Olympiad (2014)
Aug-07-14 Topalov vs Shirov, 1998
Aug-07-14 Y Yu vs Van Wely, 2014
Aug-02-14 S Kojima vs Movsesian, 2014
Mar-26-14 Kamsky vs Anand, 1994
Mar-25-14 World Championship Candidates (2014)
Mar-23-14 Mamedyarov vs Aronian, 2014
Mar-06-14 Shimanov vs Jobava, 2014
Feb-15-14 Houdini (Computer)
Feb-14-14 Tkachiev vs Ivanchuk, 2009
Feb-01-14 Moscow Championship Superfinal Rapid (2014)
Jan-30-14 Carlsen vs Anand, 2014
Jan-26-14 Tata Steel Masters (2014)
Jan-19-14 Kibitzer's Café
Jan-19-14 Nakamura vs Van Wely, 2014
Jan-18-14 Wolfgang Ludwig
Jan-18-14 Rapport vs Dominguez Perez, 2014
Jan-12-14 Gelfand vs Rapport, 2014
Jan-11-14 Vugar Gashimov
Jan-10-14 lostemperor chessforum
Sep-04-13 A Sokolov vs Salov, 1983
Aug-25-13 World Cup (2013)
Aug-25-13 R Nezhmetdinov vs Lusikal, 1951
Aug-18-13 Vadim Zvjaginsev
Aug-12-13 H Wang vs Q Liu, 2013
Aug-08-13 Igor Kurnosov
Aug-02-13 Biel (2013)
Jul-29-13 Dortmund Sparkassen (2013)
Jul-28-13 Borislav Ivanov
Jul-22-13 F Vallejo Pons vs Topalov, 2012
Jul-19-13 M Mueller-Seps vs E Moser, 2007
Jul-17-13 Topalov vs Morozevich, 2013
Jul-17-13 FIDE Grand Prix Beijing (2013)
Jul-14-13 Mamedyarov vs Giri, 2013
Jun-24-13 Tal Memorial (2013)
Jun-24-13 T Voronova vs Vo Hong Phuong, 2000
Jun-22-13 Morozevich vs Caruana, 2013
Jun-19-13 Chessgames - Sports
Jun-17-13 Peter Svidler
Jun-11-13 World Blitz Championship (2013)
Jun-07-13 Karjakin vs Topalov, 2013
Jun-02-13 Gata Kamsky
May-18-13 Hao Wang
May-12-13 Aronian vs Karjakin, 2013
Apr-30-13 Topalov vs Karjakin, 2013
Apr-29-13 Caruana vs Topalov, 2013
Apr-26-13 Ponomariov vs Nakamura, 2013
Apr-26-13 Jobava vs Karjakin, 2013
Apr-25-13 Topalov vs Ponomariov, 2013
Apr-05-13 Botvinnik vs S Belavenets, 1934
Apr-02-13 Carlsen vs Gelfand, 2013
Apr-01-13 Erwin L'Ami
Feb-17-13 Naiditsch vs Anand, 2013
Nov-23-12 FIDE Grand Prix Tashkent (2012)
Oct-17-12 European Club Cup (2012)
Oct-11-12 Karpov vs Kramnik, 1996
Oct-08-12 Parent vs Baszanger, 1987
Oct-03-12 Giri vs Topalov, 2012
Sep-24-12 Caruana vs Carlsen, 2012
Sep-19-12 S Celis vs Hoang Nam Nguyen, 2009
Aug-30-12 Istanbul Olympiad (2012)
Aug-15-12 Z Tan vs V Cmilyte, 2011
Jul-29-12 H Asauskas vs V Malisauskas, 2004
Jul-25-12 Giri vs Bacrot, 2012
Jun-24-12 Ian Rogers
Jun-17-12 Carlsen vs Tomashevsky, 2012
Jun-16-12 McShane vs Kramnik, 2012
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