Game |
| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
1. S Belavenets vs Lisitsin |
| ½-½ | 21 | 1934 | USSR Championship 1934/35 | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
2. Botvinnik vs Lisitsin |
 | ½-½ | 107 | 1935 | Moscow | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
3. P Frydman vs Marshall |
| ½-½ | 36 | 1935 | Warsaw Olympiad | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
4. Lilienthal vs Lisitsin |
| ½-½ | 35 | 1936 | Trade Unions Championship | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
5. Stahlberg vs E Steiner |
| 1-0 | 63 | 1937 | Kemeri | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
6. S Vukovic vs E Steiner |
| 0-1 | 50 | 1937 | Stockholm Olympiad | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
7. P Frydman vs E Steiner |
| ½-½ | 40 | 1937 | Stockholm Olympiad | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
8. V A Vasiliev vs N Novotelnov |
| 1-0 | 31 | 1940 | 15th Ch Leningrad | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
9. J Foltys vs Barcza |
 | 1-0 | 31 | 1942 | Munich | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
10. Koblents vs Keres |
 | 0-1 | 39 | 1945 | Tallinn-Riga club team match | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
11. E Lundin vs G Stoltz |
| 1-0 | 67 | 1946 | Stockholm /47 | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
12. W H Sandifort vs Szabo |
| 0-1 | 49 | 1946 | Zaandam (Kottnauer Hexathlon) | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
13. T Florian vs Barcza |
| ½-½ | 78 | 1946 | Hungarian Championship | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
14. C van den Berg vs N Cortlever |
| ½-½ | 56 | 1947 | NED-ch sf | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
15. Pirc vs Bondarevsky |
| ½-½ | 41 | 1948 | Saltsjobaden Interzonal | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
16. Kholmov vs Bondarevsky |
| ½-½ | 31 | 1948 | USSR Championship | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
17. Flohr vs Barcza |
| ½-½ | 41 | 1949 | Budapest-Moscow | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
18. K Galia vs A Beni |
| ½-½ | 20 | 1949 | Schlechter Memorial | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
19. T van Scheltinga vs Gligoric |
| 0-1 | 31 | 1949 | Yugoslavia - Netherlands | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
20. O'Kelly vs Pachman |
| ½-½ | 14 | 1949 | Reti Memorial | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
21. J Barendregt vs H Kramer |
| ½-½ | 18 | 1949 | Baarn | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
22. B H Wood vs Euwe |
| ½-½ | 37 | 1949 | Hastings 1949/50 | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
23. A Fuderer vs S Nedeljkovic |
| 1-0 | 34 | 1950 | Serbia-Vojvodina | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
24. E Keller-Herrmann vs F Heemskerk |
| 1-0 | 71 | 1950 | World Championship (Women) 1949/50 | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |
25. Flohr vs Najdorf |
 | ½-½ | 14 | 1950 | Budapest Candidates | E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation |