Black mates because White's pieces on Knight's squares W G Doubleday vs Kudrin, 2004  (D92) Grunfeld, 5.Bf4, 30 moves, 0-1 Creating Bishop forks S Kriventsov vs Stripunsky, 2004  (B42) Sicilian, Kan, 40 moves, 0-1 All for the Royal Fork! J Westman vs E Havansi, 1964  (C20) King's Pawn Game, 16 moves, 1-0 BxR! Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966  (E63) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation, 30 moves, 1-0 Back Rank + Knight Fork Capablanca vs M Fonaroff, 1918  (C66) Ruy Lopez, 22 moves, 1-0 Ignoring forks doesn't work! A Ozsvath vs K Honfi, 1953  (B04) Alekhine's Defense, Modern, 56 moves, 0-1 Poisoned Pawn opens file and tactics Short vs Timman, 1994  (C11) French, 31 moves, 1-0 Weakened Pawn Shield instigates a lovely Knight Fork G Barbero vs U Rueetschi, 1987  (A56) Benoni Defense, 28 moves, 1-0 Delaying the tactic for perfect win Sveshnikov vs S Webb, 1977  (C18) French, Winawer, 38 moves, 0-1 Pieces on Diagonal vs Pieces on Knight Squares R Antonio vs T Dao, 2005  (B52) Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack, 20 moves, 1-0 Ps + N + R + Q + light B S K Bru vs Movsesian, 2001  (A16) English, 36 moves, 0-1 Incorrect or Unfortunate NN vs E Canal, 1935  (C20) King's Pawn Game, 9 moves, 0-1 How wrong can ...Ng6 be? Zukertort vs Anderssen, 1865  (C60) Ruy Lopez, 12 moves, 1-0 Pin, Counter-Pin and Double Attack!! V Makogonov vs Chekhover, 1937  (E32) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 37 moves, 0-1 Double Pin!! K B Richardson vs D Andreev, 1977  (B11) Caro-Kann, Two Knights, 3...Bg4, 39 moves, 0-1 Near and Far Nakamura vs E Inarkiev, 2003  (E97) King's Indian, 45 moves, 0-1 All because if Q protects f7, it falls prey to N fork! O Bernstein vs Metger, 1907  (A22) English, 22 moves, 1-0 Creating Aesthetic Pins and CrossPins (B,R,Q) Szabo vs Benko, 1951  (B88) Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack, 33 moves, 0-1 B move ends the illusion of safe back rank Topalov vs Morozevich, 2002  (C78) Ruy Lopez, 33 moves, 1-0 Back Rank Mate (N helps) + Fork K Kokolias vs K Moutousis, 2005 (C54) Giuoco Piano, 41 moves, 0-1 Amazing! Dzindzichashvili vs Kalandazichvili, 1967  (C45) Scotch Game, 18 moves, 1-0 A Pleasing Refutation by World Champion! (N up) H Stefansson vs Carlsen, 2007  (D43) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 25 moves, 0-1 N on e5 and P on g5 control f7 forever Szabo vs Bisguier, 1955  (D46) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 23 moves, 1-0 Amazing Clearance Sacrifice for Mate Karpov vs Csom, 1977  (A16) English, 50 moves, 1-0 Sacrifice Foreseeing a Pin on Defender Chiburdanidze vs M Sharif, 1995  (E60) King's Indian Defense, 22 moves, 1-0 P move takes all squares away from Q, strengthens fork and mate Reti vs S von Freymann, 1912  (C37) King's Gambit Accepted, 19 moves, 1-0 N and B together blocking 7th rank enable Q sac Blackburne vs Mackenzie, 1882  (C45) Scotch Game, 32 moves, 0-1 B, N, Q on diagonal leading to B+N mate E Delmar vs NN, 1898  (D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 20 moves, 1-0 Creating Q fork K Honfi vs Kholmov, 1962  (C46) Three Knights, 36 moves, 0-1 Exploiting Back Rank and using B forks Karjakin vs Kosteniuk, 2003  (B32) Sicilian, 34 moves, 1-0 Ftacnik vs Seirawan, 1990  (D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 32 moves, 0-1 31 games