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Long games (72+). Short games (28-)
Compiled by athyn
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Since I am limited to eight collections, I combined these two in order to create another collection. About Half the games in the database (144,000) are 37 moves or less. Only 3% of the games are at least 74 moves. About 25% are 28 or less moves.

G A Thomas vs H G Cole, 1919
(C42) Petrov Defense, 72 moves, 1-0

The longest game ever.
I Nikolic vs G Arsovic, 1989 
(E95) King's Indian, Orthodox, 7...Nbd7, 8.Re1, 255 moves, 1/2-1/2

How frustrating for white!
Seirawan vs Xu Jun, 1988 
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 191 moves, 1/2-1/2

On and on and on!
Nakamura vs C Zhu, 2004 
(D45) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 182 moves, 1/2-1/2

Ah, the glory of victory!
H Wolf vs Duras, 1907 
(C77) Ruy Lopez, 168 moves, 1-0

This is an interesting mate.
B Raphael vs H P Montgomery, 1856 
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 12 moves, 1-0

also in old games and odd games collection.
Ruy Lopez vs G da Cutri, 1560 
(C20) King's Pawn Game, 9 moves, 1-0

interesting queen trap
J Krejcik vs Baumgartner, 1914 
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 7 moves, 1-0

this game is also in odd and old game collection.
Greco vs NN, 1623 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 8 moves, 1-0

ouch!
Rodzynski vs Alekhine, 1913 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 15 moves, 0-1

Short and sweet
Levy vs D Gedult, 1975 
(C31) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 18 moves, 0-1

Quick and mighthy.
J Kipping vs Anderssen, 1857 
(C52) Evans Gambit, 21 moves, 1-0

Watch out for those tricky knights! :(
Tarrasch vs Romberg, 1893 
(000) Chess variants, 21 moves, 1-0

Queen's Gambit accepted.
Rubinstein vs S von Freymann, 1909  
(D27) Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical, 16 moves, 1-0

Nice game.
Captain Evans vs McDonnell, 1829 
(C51) Evans Gambit, 20 moves, 1-0

Quick knockout of Morozevich.
Morozevich vs Adams, 2001 
(C52) Evans Gambit, 27 moves, 0-1

Only 17 moves.
T Bush vs A Carter, 1976 
(C38) King's Gambit Accepted, 17 moves, 1-0

Mate on the 21st move.
Steinitz vs A Belaieff, 1873 
(C39) King's Gambit Accepted, 21 moves, 1-0

Behold. Two black Knights.
J Thomason vs Fischer, 1955 
(E90) King's Indian, 23 moves, 0-1

Some interesting moves. Some interesting captures.
M Jago vs A Thomas, 1953 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 27 moves, 1-0

nice mate
Burn vs Owen, 1874 
(B07) Pirc, 14 moves, 1-0

POD 8/9/4 Black to move on 16
NN vs W Curran, 1876 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 18 moves, 0-1

excellent game
Bogoljubov vs NN, 1952 
(C13) French, 12 moves, 1-0

Mate in 9
Reshevsky vs Z Margalit, 1958 
(E42) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein), 9 moves, 0-1

Nice Queen Trap
T Shaked vs Kasparov, 1997 
(D85) Grunfeld, 20 moves, 0-1

Zap
F Schubert vs L Tipary, 1938 
(D06) Queen's Gambit Declined, 12 moves, 0-1

Defeating a Master
Alekhine vs Duras, 1910 
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 85 moves, 0-1

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