Long term manouvering followed by a nice finish
Ljubojevic vs Gulko, 1989  (A10) English, 72 moves, 1-0
Nice pressure and nice finish
Ljubojevic vs Miles, 1986  (A10) English, 33 moves, 1-0
Nice pressure and lovely tactical finish
Botvinnik vs Reshevsky, 1938  (A25) English, 37 moves, 1-0
Wonderful game
Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968  (A22) English, 26 moves, 1-0
Lovely tactical finish
Smyslov vs V Liberzon, 1969  (A10) English, 32 moves, 1-0
Nice exchane sac
Smyslov vs Bronstein, 1969  (A23) English, Bremen System, Keres Variation, 27 moves, 1-0
Stein vs Smyslov, 1972  (A17) English, 35 moves, 1-0
Worth close study - very thematic
Andersson vs Seirawan, 1983  (A37) English, Symmetrical, 41 moves, 1-0
A "classic" English win
Carlsen vs Kramnik, 2009  (A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 43 moves, 1-0
An amazing sacrificial attack
Smyslov vs V Liberzon, 1968  (A25) English, 41 moves, 1-0
Very dynamic kingside attack
Taimanov vs Vaganian, 1975  (A16) English, 42 moves, 1-0
Classic dynamic white play
Botvinnik vs Keres, 1966  (A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 27 moves, 1-0
Dynamic opening play strangles black
Kramnik vs Romanishin, 1993  (A17) English, 41 moves, 1-0
Central control -> powerful kingside attack
Kramnik vs Karpov, 1997  (A14) English, 39 moves, 1-0
Queenside crush
McShane vs Carlsen, 2010  (A37) English, Symmetrical, 39 moves, 1-0
How to grab and keep the initiative!
Short vs G Jones, 2011  (A37) English, Symmetrical, 56 moves, 1-0
Very instructive Ne4 and Kside pawn advance
Korchnoi vs Polugaevsky, 1963  (A25) English, 42 moves, 1-0
An unusual treatment - well worth studying
Ivanchuk vs F Vallejo Pons, 2011  (A20) English, 37 moves, 1-0
Refuting an early catalan-style pawn grab
Timman vs S Ernst, 2012  (A11) English, Caro-Kann Defensive System, 33 moves, 1-0
Interesting handling of the opening by Aronian 15 e4
Aronian vs Nakamura, 2012  (A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 53 moves, 1-0
Kingside bolt from the blue
V Malakhov vs Nisipeanu, 2012  (A30) English, Symmetrical, 22 moves, 1-0
Annotated by Miles in Informant 38; nice game and finish
Miles vs Timman, 1984  (A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 31 moves, 1-0
A fighting game!
Miles vs Smyslov, 1984  (A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 71 moves, 1-0
Another nice English from Miles
Miles vs Sosonko, 1984  (A20) English, 37 moves, 1-0
Great flexibility of thought in how to play the English
Miles vs Geller, 1980  (A13) English, 38 moves, 1-0
Wild king side attack
Morozevich vs Leko, 2012  (A33) English, Symmetrical, 42 moves, 1-0
very instructive positional and tactical play from white
Kamsky vs Svidler, 2013  (A22) English, 43 moves, 1-0
Kingside pawn advance overpowers black
Taimanov vs Hort, 1975  (A25) English, 33 moves, 1-0
Botvinnik system with exf5; nice attack from white
Pachman vs J H Donner, 1955  (A10) English, 32 moves, 1-0
Anti-catalan variation
Nepomniachtchi vs Bacrot, 2018  (A06) Reti Opening, 24 moves, 1-0
Classic English squeeze
Petrosian vs Gheorghiu, 1967  (A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 41 moves, 1-0
Interesting handling of 4 knights variation
Nakamura vs A Esipenko, 2022  (A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 46 moves, 1-0
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