Surrounded by ladies
Ed. Lasker vs Alekhine, 1913  (A80) Dutch, 46 moves, 0-1
Four Knights' Opening!
A Lehtinen vs T Simola, 1995  (B24) Sicilian, Closed, 41 moves, 1-0
Take my wife. Please!
E Z Adams vs Torre, 1920  (C41) Philidor Defense, 23 moves, 1-0
Eight pawns on the fourth rank
B Alterman vs Deep Fritz, 2000  (A03) Bird's Opening, 87 moves, 1-0
The Harem
Alekhine vs NN, 1915  (C12) French, McCutcheon, 29 moves, 1-0
Broken Mirror
Traxler vs J Samanek, 1900  (C49) Four Knights, 16 moves, 1-0
A different kind of king hunt
H Weenink vs L Gans, 1923  (C25) Vienna, 27 moves, 1-0
Stalemate without captures
J Hohmeister vs T Frank, 1993  (A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 12 moves, 1/2-1/2
Shortest Stalemate
J Upmark vs R Johansson, 1995  (A10) English, 10 moves, 1/2-1/2
The Tomb Game
B Harper vs R Zuk, 1971  (E97) King's Indian, 39 moves, 0-1
Rook's attempt of suicide 36 times
E Post vs A Nimzowitsch, 1905  (D07) Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense, 98 moves, 1/2-1/2
The four horsemen of the apocalypse
H Clemenz vs F Eisenschmidt, 1862  (C51) Evans Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0
Back rank mate in opponent's back rank
G Janny vs I Gudju, 1920  (C51) Evans Gambit, 22 moves, 1-0
En passant mate
G Gundersen vs A H Faul, 1928  (C02) French, Advance, 15 moves, 1-0
The Eight Pawn Gambit
W R Ballard vs J Fagan, 1884  (000) Chess variants, 30 moves, 1-0
115 moves without pawns captured
Z Zhang vs G Timoscenko, 2002  (C97) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 115 moves, 1/2-1/2
Quadrupled pawns
Alekhine vs V Nenarokov, 1907  (D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 43 moves, 0-1
Knight buried alive, forever!!
Reshevsky vs G N Treysman, 1938  (E00) Queen's Pawn Game, 42 moves, 1-0
Double attack by castling
NN vs G Abrahams, 1929  (D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 11 moves, 0-1
Six Knights mate
Crafty vs Nakamura, 2007  (A00) Uncommon Opening, 155 moves, 0-1
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