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helium's favorite games
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Nice sacrifice to end game

G Welling vs Kappler, 1983 
(B23) Sicilian, Closed, 28 moves, 1-0

Hard to follow
J Mascini vs G Welling, 1988
(A04) Reti Opening, 22 moves, 0-1

quick defeat
Korchnoi vs Spassky, 1948 
(B71) Sicilian, Dragon, Levenfish Variation, 12 moves, 1-0

wild queen play
P K Wells vs Shirov, 2006 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 13 moves, 1-0

peculiarly open game
Anderssen vs Eichborn, 1854 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 13 moves, 0-1

nifty quick
Morphy vs J Schulten, 1857 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 12 moves, 1-0

quick-lots of neat sacrifices
I A Horowitz vs NN, 1940 
(C23) Bishop's Opening, 14 moves, 1-0

funky fianchetto
L Palau vs Najdorf, 1939 
(B24) Sicilian, Closed, 12 moves, 0-1

funky quick checkmate
D Benjafield vs Wippell, 1938 
(C60) Ruy Lopez, 12 moves, 1-0

a quickie - blunder
Fine vs M Yudovich Sr., 1937 
(D40) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 43 moves, 0-1

great trap of queen
R Nezhmetdinov vs A I Konstantinov, 1936 
(C02) French, Advance, 14 moves, 1-0

strange win
Kolisch vs Rhodes / Walker, 1861 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 13 moves, 1-0

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Dubois vs Steinitz, 1862 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 37 moves, 0-1

quick knight mate
Mackenzie vs F Perrin, 1866 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 12 moves, 1-0

hard to believe
NN vs Blackburne, 1884  
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 14 moves, 0-1

capa quick win
Capablanca vs NN, 1918 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 14 moves, 1-0

good capa game
Capablanca vs A Chase, 1922 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 1-0

poison pawn accepted
M Lee vs V Aveskulov, 2007 
(B97) Sicilian, Najdorf, 26 moves, 0-1

wacky strange
H Porth vs P Kotsur, 2001 
(B20) Sicilian, 29 moves, 0-1

karpov beats kasparov 2002
Karpov vs Kasparov, 2002 
(D92) Grunfeld, 5.Bf4, 46 moves, 1-0

ok
Dlugy vs S Polgar, 1987 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 17 moves, 1-0

nice mate in 16
F Young vs Pillsbury, 1893 
(C62) Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense, 16 moves, 1-0

tough win
M Shereshevsky vs Kupreichik, 1976 
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 19 moves, 0-1

very quick Kasparov win. odd
Kasparov vs G West, 1977 
(B40) Sicilian, 12 moves, 1-0

Queen trap
E Magerramov vs Kasparov, 1979 
(E10) Queen's Pawn Game, 14 moves, 0-1

kasparov quickie
Kasparov vs Taimanov, 1978 
(A06) Reti Opening, 14 moves, 1-0

another quick puzzle
Onischuk vs A Kovacevic, 1991 
(A27) English, Three Knights System, 12 moves, 1-0

puzzling end-Kasparov
E Magerramov vs Kasparov, 1982 
(E75) King's Indian, Averbakh, Main line, 16 moves, 0-1

very clever
P Zhang vs Chen Xueshen, 2005 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 14 moves, 1-0

rare
NN vs Bronstein, 1954 
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 12 moves, 0-1

strange fisher game
Fischer vs R Nickel, 1964 
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 15 moves, 1-0

strange fever
A Chudinovskikh vs A Nogovitsyn, 1964 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 17 moves, 1-0

hmm
Boleslavsky vs Lilienthal, 1941 
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 17 moves, 1-0

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