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Nov-07-23 Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968    rmdalodado: Quote for the game (#72) in Chernev's Golden Dozen: "The game, strangely enough does not appear in the book Botvinnik 's best games, 1947-1970, though it was voted the best game of the year by a jury of eight grandmasters."      Nov-03-23 Bondarevsky vs Botvinnik, 1941    rmdalodado: This is given as Game # 67 in Chernev's book The Golden Dozen with the following notes: "This elegant little game deserves to be better known. Played in a tournament where Botvinnik was at the top of his form, its merits have been overshadowed by a half dozen other masterpieces ...      Oct-16-23 Botvinnik vs V Chekhover, 1935    rmdalodado: To add to <agb2002> list of sources, this is also given as Game # 65 in Chernev's The Golden Dozen and Game # 26 in The King-Hunt in Chess book by Cozens.      Oct-16-23 I Rabinovich vs Botvinnik, 1927   rmdalodado: Yes <devere>, it's Game # 4 in the classic Botvinnik's book you mentioned. It is also given as Game # 64 in Chernev's The Golden Dozen book.      Oct-16-23 Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966   rmdalodado: This 10th game of the WCM made it in The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games by Burgess, Nunn and Emms (Game # 56). The first publication of the book (1998) contained 100 games but list was expanded and updated in later editions. Suetin annotated the game in the book      Oct-15-23 E Joppen vs Petrosian, 1954   rmdalodado: Yes, <Retireborn> is correct. This is one of the games featured by Chernev in his book Chess Companion. The other games selected by Chernev in the Amazing Genius of Petrosian chapter of the book are: Petrosian vs Aronin, 1961 Petrosian vs I Aramanovich, 1949 Petrosian vs I ...      Oct-15-23 Tal vs Gligoric, 1959    rmdalodado: Given as Game # 50 in Chernev's Golden Dozen with the following description: "A delightful feature of the game is the zigzag journey undertaken by Tal's king bishop, which turns out to be as effective as it is amusing."      Oct-14-23 Geller vs Smyslov, 1956   rmdalodado: Game # 45 in Chernev's Golden Dozen and # 61 in Smyslov's My Best Games of Chess (1935-1957).      Oct-14-23 Smyslov vs P Trifunovic, 1955    rmdalodado: This is given as Game # 44 in Chernev's Golden Dozen with the following general description: "There is an easy grace about this game which is reminiscent of the elegant style of Morphy, Pillsbury, and Capablanca, all of whom made chess look easy."      Oct-14-23 Smyslov vs Reshevsky, 1948    rmdalodado: This is given as Game # 42 in Chernev's The Golden Dozen, Game # 31 in Smyslov's My Best Games of Chess (1935-1957) and Game # 17 in Smyslov's 125 Selected Games.      Oct-14-23 Smyslov vs Denker, 1946    Oct-14-23 Smyslov vs C Kottnauer, 1946    Oct-14-23 Smyslov vs I Rudakovsky, 1945     Oct-14-23 Smyslov vs V Makogonov, 1944     Oct-13-23 Bronstein vs Keres, 1955     Oct-13-23 Bronstein vs Botvinnik, 1944    Oct-13-23 F Zita vs Bronstein, 1946     Oct-12-23 Rubinstein vs Bogoljubov, 1922     Oct-12-23 Rubinstein vs Schlechter, 1912    Oct-12-23 Morphy vs A Meek, 1857     Oct-12-23 Rubinstein vs Lasker, 1909     Oct-12-23 Rubinstein vs Salwe, 1908     Oct-12-23 N Mannheimer vs A Nimzowitsch, 1930     Oct-12-23 H Mattison vs A Nimzowitsch, 1929     Oct-11-23 A Nimzowitsch vs Salwe, 1911     Oct-11-23 Spielmann vs Flamberg, 1914    Oct-11-23 Tarrasch vs Rubinstein, 1912    Oct-10-23 Paulsen vs Steinitz, 1870    Oct-09-23 Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858     Oct-07-23 Schlechter vs Chigorin, 1895     Oct-07-23 J Noa vs Tarrasch, 1892    Oct-07-23 Englisch vs Blackburne, 1883    Sep-28-23 Marshall vs Burn, 1905    Sep-28-23 Panov vs Taimanov, 1952     Sep-26-23 Karlsbad (1911)    Sep-19-23 Tarrasch vs Alekhine, 1922

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