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1980s Babes, Booms & Busts Broke FTB SteinBack
Compiled by fredthebear
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Life is not a game but it's full of players (and pawns)

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages." — William Shakespeare

"Life is a game. To be a world changer choose to be the player and not the ball." — Mofoluwaso Ilevbare

"Life is the most amazing game. Play hard with a deep love so that you may enjoy it." — Debasish Mridha

"My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game." — Federico Garcia Lorca

Life is like a game of chess, changing with each move. ~ Chinese Proverb

"Life is a kind of chess, with struggle, competition, good and bad events." — Benjamin Franklin

"Life is a puzzle, a riddle, a test, a mystery, a game - whatever challenge you wish to compare it to. Just remember, you're not the only participant; no one person holds all the answers, the pieces, or the cards. The trick to success in this life is to accumulate teammates and not opponents." — Richelle E. Goodrich

"Winning is about commitment, discipline, hard work, dedication, determination, courage and sometimes even luck!" ― Susan Polgar

"Every defeat is an opportunity to learn from our mistakes! Every victory is a confirmation of our hard work!" ― Susan Polgar

"A chess player uses his/her knowledge to prepare for next game while a passionate coach prepares for next generation!" ― Susan Polgar

"Life is a game, play it ... Life is too precious, do not destroy it." — Mother Teresa

"The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it." — Herman Melville

"It's a lot of things that I consider (what opening to play). Obviously, my opponent's rating—I don't want to play an equal game where I don't have many winning chances. But also, my mood is important, and my opponent's styles themselves." ― 13-year-old FM Brewington Hardaway from New York

"Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory." — Jim Butcher

"The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole." — Joyce Carol Oates

"...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it." — Flannery O'Connor

"There is an old Yiddish phrase I find apropos - but not by choice: "Man plans, God laughs." I am a prime example. My life was pretty much laid out for me. I was a basketball star my entire childhood, destined to be an NBA player for the Boston Celtics. But in my very first preseason game, Big Burt Wesson slammed into me and ruined my knee. I tried gamely to come back, but there is a big difference between gamely and effectively. My career was over before I hit the parquet floor. I..." — Harlan Coben

"The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not." — David Foster Wallace

"And from the time I was a kid, I've had this internal monologue roaring through my head, which doesn't stop - unless I'm asleep. I'm sure every person has this; it's just that my monologue is particularly loud. And particularly troublesome. I'm constantly asking myself questions. And the problem with that is that your brain is like a computer: If you ask a question, it's programmed to respond, whether there's an answer or not. I'm constantly weighing everything in my mind and trying to predict how my actions will influence events. Or maybe manipulate events are the more appropriate words. It's like playing a game of chess with your own life. And I hate f*king chess!" — Jordan Belfort

"Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves." — Bobby Fischer

"Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious." — Napoleon Hill

"I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No one asks why the knight is allowed his eccentric hop, why the castle may only go straight and the bishop obliquely. These things are to be accepted, and with these rules the game must be played: it is foolish to complain of them." — W. Somerset Maugham

"Making a big fat deal out of anything is absurd. It makes much more sense to go after life with a sense of, "Why not?" instead of a furrowed brow. One of the best things I ever did was make my motto "I just wanna see what I can get away with." It takes all the pressure off, puts the punk rock attitude in, and reminds me that life is but a game." — Jen Sincero

"If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first." — Jon Osborne

"Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too." — Peter Rogers

"In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the end game." — Jose R. Capablanca

"All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game hockey for our players and for those people watching." — Bobby Hull

"I love sports. The spirit and the fight you put to win a game. It is just like life except that life is not a game. There is no "retry" option in real life and you don't get to get a bonus life." — Abdullah Abu Snaineh

"Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is." — Joe Torre

"There is something special about baseball that goes far deeper than being a game. It is the father-son relationship that is built, the life lessons that are taught in the process of playing a game and the ability to overcome not succeeding all of the time and still considering yourself a success." — John A Passaro

"Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all." — Harold S. Kushner

"Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life." — Joe Willie Namath

"Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams - either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it's dependent upon those who stand beside you." — Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

"Do not let fear keep you on the sidelines. Your number has been called, get in the game! It is your time to shine." — E'yen A. Gardner

"Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose." — Chi Chi Rodriguez

"It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum." — Peter Alliss

"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier." — Hermann Hesse

"Chess is not just a game. It is a way of life." — Avijeet Das

"Every man needs a women, when his life in a trouble. just like a game of chess, queen protect the king." — Anuj Kr. Thakur

"The passed pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient." — Aron Nimzowitsch

"For me, chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime." — Eduard Gufeld

"There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat." ― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

"Athletes train 15 years for 15 seconds of performance. Ask them if they got lucky. Ask an athlete how he feels after a good workout. He will tell you that he feels spent. If he doesn't feel that way, it means he hasn't worked out to his maximum ability. Losers think life is unfair. They think only of their bad breaks. They don't consider that the person who is prepared and playing well still got the same bad breaks but overcame them. That is the difference. His threshold for tolerating pain becomes higher because in the end he is not training so much for the game but for his character. Alexander Graham Bell was desperately trying to invent a hearing aid for his partially deaf wife. He failed at inventing a hearing aid but in the process discovered the principles of the telephone. You wouldn't call someone like that lucky, would you? Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Without effort and preparation, lucky coincidences don't happen." — Shiv Khera

"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose." ― Bette Davis

"Learning to remain nonreactive is the name of the game. Does this mean living without passion? Absolutely not. Live, love, laugh, and learn - just don't be a sucker for drama. Live your life with enthusiasm and purpose, and don't be a pawn in someone else's vision for you. You drive. Better yet, let your Higher Self drive, and you relax." — Pedram Shojai

"The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game.' I've not seen that in my life. Pretty special young man. I don't think we could have gathered ourselves - I know I couldn't have - if Kevin didn't say over and over again, 'Just go win the game,' I don't think we could have gone in the locker room with a loss after seeing that. We had to gather ourselves. We couldn't lose this game for him. We just couldn't." — Coach Rick Pitino

"You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances." — Bobby Fischer

"Everyone who loves pro basketball assumes it's a little fixed. We all think the annual draft lottery is probably rigged, we all accept that the league aggressively wants big market teams to advance deep into the playoffs, and we all concede that certain marquee players are going to get preferential treatment for no valid reason. The outcomes of games aren't predetermined or scripted but there are definitely dark forces who play with our reality. There are faceless puppet masters who pull strings and manipulate the purity of justice. It's not necessarily a full-on conspiracy, but it's certainly not fair. And that's why the NBA remains the only game that matters: Pro basketball is exactly like life." — Chuck Klosterman

"I'm not forcing you to do anything. You need to make your own damn decisions. And I'm not playing this game where we ignore reality and pretend to have a normal conversation for a few hours. You need to face reality and stop turning life into a movie. I'm not a puppet in your show. This is real life and you're always trying to ignore it for some cheap fantasy version where no problems exist. That's not noble of you, okay? You're not strong. You're a weak person like the rest of us. You've just learned to excel at avoiding issues. But there are issues. Life has so many freaking issues and if you can't force your own self to face life and make decisions without someone telling you what the hell to do, you're just going to end up another chess piece moved around by others." — Marilyn Grey

"When you pursue your goals with passion, you will attract people who love you; but you'll also attract haters. I'm okay with that; I welcome it. I don't want to live life as a spectator. I've learned that if no one is cheering you on and/or booing you; it means you're not in the game." — Steve Maraboli

"Always when I play back my father's voice," Maria says, "it is with a professional rasp, it goes as it lays, don't do it the hard way. My father advised me that life itself was a crap game: it was one of two lessons I learned as a child. The other was that overturning a rock was apt to reveal a rattlesnake. As lessons go those two seem to hold up, but not to apply." — Joan Didion

"Always take time to celebrate achievements whether great or small." ― Charmaine J. Forde

"You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal ... Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end it's a loser's game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else." — Tim Tebow

"He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire." Yeah, that was the life. — Josh Lanyon

"It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he cannot leave each of them a fortune does not really matter so much." — Archibald Rutledge

"The boy (referring to a 12-year-old boy named Anatoly Karpov) doesn't have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession." — Mikhail Botvinnik

"I like 1.e4 very much but my results with 1.d4 are better." — Anatoly Karpov

"Style? I have no style." — Anatoly Karpov

"Let us say that a game may be continued in two ways: one of them is a beautiful tactical blow that gives rise to variations that don't yield to precise calculations; the other is clear positional pressure that leads to an endgame with microscopic chances of victory. I would choose the latter without thinking twice. If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic." — Anatoly Karpov

"Chess is everything: art, science and sport." — Anatoly Karpov

"I simply developed that universal style which dominated with the arrival of Spassky and then Fischer. But all the same we were different chess players, of course. Both Spassky and Fischer were brilliant at developing and sensing the initiative. In that regard I was, perhaps, a little inferior, but on the other hand I stood out by having excellent technique for converting an advantage, positional sense and an ability to maneuver positionally – in that area I was clearly superior to Spassky, and Fischer, and perhaps everyone, except Petrosian." — Anatoly Karpov

"At first, I found some of his moves not altogether understandable, and only after careful analysis did I discover their hidden strength." — Ljubomir Ljubojevic (on Karpov)

"When observing Karpov's play or playing against him, one cannot help thinking that all his pieces are linked by invisible threads. This net moves forward unhurriedly, gradually covering the enemy squares, but, amazingly, not relinquishing its own." — Alexander Roshal

"When having an edge, Karpov often marked time and still gained the advantage! I don't know anyone else who could do that, it's incredible. I was always impressed and delighted by this skill. When it looked like it was high time to start a decisive attack, Karpov played a3, h3, and his opponent's position collapsed." — Vladimir Kramnik

"There are very few madmen who risk employing Pirc or King's Indian against Karpov." — Alexsander Shashin

"Many of Karpov's intentions become understandable to his opponents only when salvation is no longer possible." — Mikhail Tal

"Known as a negative player, Karpov sets up deep traps and creates moves that seem to allow his opponent possibilities - but that really don't. He takes no chances, and he gives his opponents nothing. He's a trench-warfare fighter who keeps the game moving just an inch at a time." — Bruce Pandolfini

"Karpov defeated me in Linares-94 where he scored 11 out of 13. I got into an inferior endgame. However, it did not seem awful. Then I made some appropriate moves and could not understand how I had managed to get into a losing position. Although I was already in the world top ten, I failed to understand it even after the game. This was one of the few games after which I felt like a complete idiot with a total lack of chess understanding! Such things happen very rarely to top level players. Usually you realise why you have lost. This moment defies description - there is something almost imperceptible about it and so characteristic of Karpov." — Vladimir Kramnik

"Life is like a chess game. Every decision, just like every move, has consequences. Therefore, decide wisely!" ― Susan Polgar

"When people insult and disrespect you, the best revenge is to continue to win, and win, and win…." ― Susan Polgar

"The mind has no restrictions. The only restriction is what you believe you cannot do. So go ahead and challenge yourself to do one thing every day that scares you." ― Susan Polgar

"I don't think about it (representing African-Americans) during the games, but I certainly do think about how few African-Americans there are at the top level. So, I try to do my best to motivate more people like us to give it a try and hopefully succeed." ― 13-year-old FM Brewington Hardaway from New York

St. Theresa

* Wikipedia on Computer Chess: Wikipedia article: Computer chess

* Chess in old newspapers: https://www.schach-chess.com/chess-...

* Jupiter, Pluto, or Mars? https://www.urduchess.com/chess-gra...

* Move-by-Move book: Game Collection: Move by Move - Carlsen (Lakdawala)

* This MC collection is way better than mine: Game Collection: The Carlsen Chronicles Part I - Wonderboy

* Eat like a champion: https://tartajubow.blogspot.com/201...

* 2013 WCC: Game Collection: Anand-Carlsen WC November 2013

* Today's Titans: search "Sergey Karjakin vs Magnus Carlsen"

* FIDE Laws of Chess (2018): https://www.schachschiri.de/fide_18...

* Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R

* Robert Fischer's Best Games by KingG (127 games, a ton of quotes): Game Collection: Robert Fischer's Best Games

* Bobby Fischer Rediscovered/Andrew Soltis (97 games): Game Collection: Bobby Fischer Rediscovered (Andy Soltis)

* 1992: Game Collection: Spassky-Fischer Match 1992

* Black Defends: Game Collection: Opening repertoire black

* Aggressive Gambits: https://thechessworld.com/articles/...

* 10 Crazy Gambits: https://www.chess.com/blog/yola6655...

* Lekhika Dhariyal Chess Ops: https://www.zupee.com/blog/category...

* Masterful: Game Collection: FRENCH DEFENSE MASTERPIECES

* Malagueña: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz2...

* Modern Masterpieces: Game Collection: Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces ~ Stohl

* Matovinsky Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF7...

* MC Move-by-Move: Game Collection: Move by Move - Carlsen (Lakdawala)

* Miniatures: Game Collection: 200 Miniature Games of Chess - Du Mont (III)

* Lasker's Manual: Game Collection: Manual of Chess (Lasker)

* Miniatures: Game Collection: 200 Miniature Games of Chess - Du Mont (III)

* Monday Puzzles: Game Collection: Monday Puzzles, 2011-2017

* Nunn's Chess Course: Game Collection: Lasker JNCC

* Pinch of... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU_...

* POTD 2023: Game Collection: Puzzle of the Day 2023

* Not so simple: Game Collection: Simple Chess by Michael Stean

* N vs RPs: Game Collection: KNIGHTS *HATE* ROOK PAWNS!

* Nakhmanson Gambit: https://chesstier.com/nakhmanson-ga...

* Gambits & stuff: https://gambitchessplayer.com/page/3/

* More Gs: https://saintlouischessclub.org/blo...

* King's English: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...

* Reti/English 0-1: Game Collection: Reti/English systems: Black's viewpoint

* Bg2 vs Bg7 English: Game Collection: Inglesa 3

* Common Mistakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI1...

* Snipe Hunting: https://temposchlucker.blogspot.com...

* A Brief History of Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeB...

* A Brief History of the Game of Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2a...

* Chess for Beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU6...

* Learn Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adY...

* Learn Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGu...

* Learn ALL the Rules of the Royal Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej_...

* Ladder Checkmate with Two Rooks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQ...

* Checkmate with King and Rook vs lone King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yf...

* Checkmate with Two Bishops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN7...

* Colle System: Game Collection: The Colle System: Koltanowski, Phoenix, Zukertor

* Colle book Introduction: Game Collection: Games from "The Ultimate Colle" by Gary Lane

* Copy the Colle 5.c3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3N...

* Club 1.d4 Nf6 2...e6 3...as you please. Symmetrical English ...c5, Qc7, a6, form a hut/small center. Much the same w/the QGA dxc4 and cxd4: D Kryakvin vs Evgeni Kuligin, 2008

* Chess Equipment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLA...

* Common Checkmate Patterns:
http://gambiter.com/chess/Checkmate...

* Control the center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpM...

* Famous Chess Photos: https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/585256...

* Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar...

* Malaguena: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxD...

* Nimzowitsch Defense: https://www.chessable.com/blog/nimz...

* The Opposition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52y...

* King and Pawn vs King (both kings want to be in front of the pawn to affect its progress): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvB...

* Overworked! Game Collection: Overworked Piece

* Opening Tree: https://www.shredderchess.com/onlin...

* 10 Best to Watch: https://www.chessjournal.com/best-c...

* 23 Opening Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5...

* 30 Concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amr...

* 50 Games to Know: https://en.chessbase.com/post/50-ga...

* Champion miniatures: Game Collection: Champions miniature champions

* Chess Step-by-Step: https://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-...

* Common Checkmate Patterns:
http://gambiter.com/chess/Checkmate...

* Caviar: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

* CFN: https://www.youtube.com/@CFNChannel

* Diagrammed Checkmate Patterns:
Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns

* Bill Wall should have been on beer commercials crushing empty beer cans with his bare hands: Bill Wall

"Why don't you play checkers with Bill anymore?" "Would you play with a person who cheats and moves his men around when you are not looking?" "No."
"Well, neither would Bill."

* Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games:
Game Collection: Chessmaster '86

* Candidates 2014: World Championship Candidates (2014)

* Carlsen's Minis: Game Collection: Carlsen's winning miniatures

* Defend Your Pieces, Kids! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc-...

* A great decade of chess: Game Collection: Mil y Una Partidas 1950-1959

* Expanded Edition:
Game Collection: 125 Greatest Chess Games

* Feeling Punny? Don't tell Fredthebear. Use the Submission Page: Pun Submission Page

* Find Forcing Moves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHO...

* Fried Fox is awful: https://allchessopenings.blogspot.c...

* Gambits by ECO code: https://www.jimmyvermeer.com/openin...

* Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar...

* Good Historical Links:
https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/in...

* Happy Days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slv...

* h-file attacks: Game Collection: h-file Attacks, some Greek Gifts by Fredthebear

* How to Play Chess! http://www.serverchess.com/play.htm...

* Imagination: Game Collection: Imagination in Chess

* Immortal Games: Game Collection: Immortal games

* Jackpot History: https://www.megamillions.com/About/...

* Surprise Knockouts: Game Collection: quick knockouts of greats

* Collection assembled by Fredthebear, vandalized by CGs.

* Jupiter, Pluto, or Mars? https://www.urduchess.com/chess-gra...

* Move-by-Move book: Game Collection: Move by Move - Carlsen (Lakdawala)

* This MC collection is way better than mine: Game Collection: The Carlsen Chronicles Part I - Wonderboy

* Eat like a champion: https://tartajubow.blogspot.com/201...

* 2013 WCC: Game Collection: Anand-Carlsen WC November 2013

* Today's Titans: search "Sergey Karjakin vs Magnus Carlsen"

* FIDE Laws of Chess (2018): https://www.schachschiri.de/fide_18...

* Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz): Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz)

https://archive.org/details/the-gol...

* GM Endgames: Game Collection: Grandmaster Preparation - Endgame Play

* Hotel: https://www.chesshotel.com/

* How to catch a Spanish Rabbit: https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esp...

* ICC: https://www.chessclub.com/

* Use your King: Game Collection: ABC Games for Lessons

* Lasker's Manual: Game Collection: Manual of Chess (Lasker)

* MC Move-by-Move: Game Collection: Move by Move - Carlsen (Lakdawala)

* Miniatures: Game Collection: 200 Miniature Games of Chess - Du Mont (III)

* Monday Puzzles: Game Collection: Monday Puzzles, 2011-2017

* Nunn's Course: Game Collection: Lasker JNCC

* Occupy the Open File: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_w...

* Overloaded! Game Collection: OVERLOADED!

* Opening Explorer: Opening Explorer

* Become a Predator at the Chessboard: https://www.chesstactics.org/

* Famous Chess Photos: https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/585256...

* Common Phrases and Terms: https://www.ragchess.com/chess-basi...

* Play: https://poki.com/en/chess?msockid=2...

* POTD 2023: Game Collection: Puzzle of the Day 2023

* Pawn Instruction: http://www.logicalchess.com/learn/l...

* Petrosian's Best: Game Collection: P.H.Clarke: Petrosian's Best games

* Read The Planet Greenpawn - https://www.redhotpawn.com/

* Results: https://chess-results.com/TurnierSu...

* Queen vs Rook Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJn...

* Simple EG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejj...

* Gufeld Chess Strategy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3np...

* Solitaire: Game Collection: Solitaire Chess by I. A. Horowitz

* Stunners: Game Collection: Stunners

* Top Chessgames by ECO Code: http://schachsinn.de/gamelist.htm

* Top Games by Year: Wikipedia article: List of chess games

* Terminology: https://www.angelfire.com/games5/ch...

* Tiebreaks: https://www.swips.eu/en/blog/tie-br...

* Triangulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH3...

* Trap the Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmU...

* Teddy didn't like it: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...

* When to Trade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGa...

* Winning 1.d4: Game Collection: Winning with 1 d4!

* 1.d4 Response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ-...

* UK: https://chesscircuit.substack.com/

* Use your king in the endgame! Game Collection: King Power In The Endgame

* Zwischenzug! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-q...

* Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/

WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today.

There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry

There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.

There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!

"Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands." ― Renaud & Kahn

"Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem." ― Saudin Robovic

"Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory." ― Max Euwe

"Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game." ― Being Caballero

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." — Ernest Hemingway

"If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure." — Garry Kasparov

"You win some, you lose some, you wreck some." — Dale Earnhardt

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." ― Albert Einstein

"In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate." ― Isaac Asimov

"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens." ― Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President

Kentucky: Harrodsburg
Established in: 1774

Harrodsburg was established by James Harrod in 1774. Harrodsburg is the oldest permanent settlement west of the Alleghenies and was originally called Harrodstown. There is still a replica of the original fort where Daniel Boone once lived, as well as the Lincoln Marriage Temple, where Abraham Lincoln's parents got married.

* Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-...

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The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations.

Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.

The Heron

One day, – no matter when or where, –
A long-legged heron chanced to fare
By a certain river's brink,
With his long, sharp beak
Helved on his slender neck;
It was a fish-spear, you might think.
The water was clear and still,
The carp and the pike there at will
Pursued their silent fun,
Turning up, ever and anon,
A golden side to the sun.
With ease might the heron have made
Great profits in his fishing trade.
So near came the scaly fry,
They might be caught by the passer-by.
But he thought he better might
Wait for a better appetite –
For he lived by rule, and could not eat,
Except at his hours, the best of meat.
Anon his appetite returned once more;
So, approaching again the shore,
He saw some tench taking their leaps,
Now and then, from their lowest deeps.
With as dainty a taste as Horace's rat,
He turned away from such food as that.
"What, tench for a heron! poh!
I scorn the thought, and let them go."
The tench refused, there came a gudgeon;
"For all that," said the bird, "I budge on.
I'll never open my beak, if the gods please,
For such mean little fishes as these."
He did it for less;
For it came to pass,
That not another fish could he see;
And, at last, so hungry was he,
That he thought it of some avail
To find on the bank a single snail.
Such is the sure result
Of being too difficult.
Would you be strong and great,
Learn to accommodate.
Get what you can, and trust for the rest;
The whole is often lost by seeking the best.
Above all things beware of disdain;
Where, at most, you have little to gain.
The people are many that make
Every day this sad mistake.
It's not for the herons I put this case,
You featherless people, of human race.
– List to another tale as true,
And you'll hear the lesson brought home to you.

The Man In The Glass
Peter Dale Wimbrow Sr.

When you get what you want in your struggle for self And the world makes you king for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.

For it isn't your father, or mother, or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life Is the one staring back from the glass.

He's the fellow to please – never mind all the rest For he's with you, clear to the end
And you've passed your most difficult, dangerous test If the man in the glass is your friend.

You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years And get pats on the back as you pass
But your final reward will be heartache and tears If you've cheated the man in the glass.

This poem was first published in 1934 and is still very popular today.

<Steinitz's Theory
1. At the beginning of the game, Black and White are equal.

2. The game will stay equal with correct play on both sides.

3. You can only win by your opponent's mistake.

4. Any attack launched in an equal position will not succeed, and the attacker will suffer.

5. You should not attack until an advantage is obtained.

6. When equal, do not seek to attack, but instead, try to secure an advantage.

7. Once you have an advantage, attack or you will lose it.>

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"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous & varied ways." ― Vladimir Kramnik

Drive sober or get pulled over.

"For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable." — Assiac

Feb-23-23 FSR: Thanks, Susan. I never saw Albert after my freshman year of high school (he and his family moved to the Chicago suburbs, where he went to a different school and played for a different chess team). Super nice guy. I was very surprised many years later to learn that he and your son had started this site.

The Linares International Chess Tournament (Spanish: Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de Linares) In Linares, Spain, a famous chess tournament was held every year to attract the best chess players. The tournament was founded in 1978, but it fast became one of the most prestigious chess tournaments in the world. It was every year only until 2010, since when the tournament is cancelled for various reasons. The legendary Garry Kasparov was eight times winner of this tournament.

The Women and the Secret

There's nothing like a secret weighs;
Too heavy It's for women tender;
And, for this matter, in my days,
I have seen some men of female gender.

To prove his wife, a husband cried,
(The night he knew the truth would hide,)
"O Heavens! What's this? O dear – I beg –
I'm torn – O! O! I have laid an egg!"
"An egg?" "Why, yes, it's gospel-true.
Look here – see – feel it, fresh and new;
But, wife, don't mention it, lest men
Should laugh at me, and call me hen:
Indeed, don't say a word about it."
On this, as other matters, green and young,
The wife, all wonder, did not doubt it,
And pledged herself by Heaven to hold her tongue. Her oath, however, fled the light
As quick as did the shades of night.
Before Dan Phoebus waked to labour
The dame was off to see a neighbour.
"My friend," she said, half-whispering.
"There's come to pass the strangest thing –
If you should tell, "twould turn me out of door: My husband's laid an egg as big as four!
As you would taste of heaven's bliss,
Don't tell a living soul of this."
"I tell! why if you knew a thing about me,
You wouldn't for an instant doubt me;
Your confidence I'll never abuse."
The layer's wife went home relieved;
The other broiled to tell the news;
You need not ask if she believed.
A dame more busy could not be;
In twenty places, before her tea,
Instead of one egg, she said three!
Nor was the story finished here:
A gossip, still more keen than she,
Said four, and spoke it in the ear –
A caution truly little worth,
Applied to all the ears on earth.
Of eggs, the number, thanks to Fame,
As on from mouth to mouth she sped,
Had grown a hundred, soothly said,
Before Sol had quenched his golden flame!

"Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom." — Charles F. Stanley

"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." ― William Faulkner

"Sometimes in life, and in chess, you must take one step back to take two steps forward." — IM Levy Rozman, GothamChess

So much, much, much better to be an incurable optimist than deceitful and untrustworthy.

Old Russian Proverb: "Scythe over a stone." (Нашла коса на камень.) The force came over a stronger force.

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." ― Leonardo da Vinci

"I've never met a checkers player I didn't like; they're all even-tempered. Chess players are egotistical. They think they're intellectuals and that everyone else is beneath them." ― Don Lafferty, draughts grandmaster

Chess
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Exactly four different men have tried
to teach me how to play. I could never
tell the difference between a rook
or bishop, but I knew the horse meant

knight. And that made sense to me,
because a horse is night: soot-hoof
and nostril, dark as a sabled evening
with no stars, bats, or moon blooms.

It's a night in Ohio where a man sleeps
alone one week and the next, the woman
he will eventually marry leans her body
into his for the first time, leans a kind

of faith, too—filled with white crickets
and bouquets of wild carrot. And
the months and the honeyed years
after that will make all the light

and dark squares feel like tiles
for a kitchen they can one day build
together. Every turn, every sacrificial
move—all the decoys, the castling,

the deflections—these will be both
riotous and unruly, the exact opposite
of what she thought she ever wanted
in the endgame of her days.

"Zeitnot" is German for "time pressure."

"....his countrymen, Kolisch and Steinitz, are greatly indebted for their later success to their having enjoyed early opportunities of practicing with the departed amateur whose death is also greatly deplored amongst all who knew him personally." — Wilhelm Steinitz, regarding Karl Hamppe

The first appearance of the (John) Cochrane gambit against Petrov's defense C42 was in the year 1848 against an Indian master Mohishunder Bannerjee.

"Sorry don't get it done, Dude!" — John Wayne, Rio Bravo

"Gossip is the devil's telephone. Best to just hang up." — Moira Rose

The Words Of Socrates

A house was built by Socrates
That failed the public taste to please.
Some blamed the inside; some, the out; and all
Agreed that the apartments were too small.
Such rooms for him, the greatest sage of Greece!

"I ask," said he, "no greater bliss
Than real friends to fill even this."
And reason had good Socrates
To think his house too large for these.
A crowd to be your friends will claim,
Till some unhandsome test you bring.
There's nothing plentier than the name;
There's nothing rarer than the thing.

'Ask no questions and hear no lies

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'Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer

Proverbs of Solomon 1
The Enticement of Sin

8Listen, my son, to your father's instruction,

and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

9For they are a garland of grace on your head

and a pendant around your neck.

10My son, if sinners entice you,

do not yield to them.

11If they say, "Come along, let us lie in wait for blood,

let us ambush the innocent without cause,

12let us swallow them alive like Sheol,

and whole like those descending into the Pit.

13We will find all manner of precious goods;

we will fill our houses with plunder.

14Throw in your lot with us;

let us all share one purse"—

15my son, do not walk the road with them

or set foot upon their path.

16For their feet run to evil,

and they are swift to shed blood.

17How futile it is to spread the net

where any bird can see it!

18But they lie in wait for their own blood;

they ambush their own lives.

19Such is the fate of all who are greedy,

whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.

Lichess has all the same basic offerings as Chess.com: a large community, many game types, tutorials, puzzles, and livestreams. The site has a simple appearance, and it seems built to get you where you want to go in as few clicks as possible. You can create an account, but if you're not concerned with tracking your games and finding other players at your level, there's no need to log in. Just fire up a new game, try some puzzles, or watch a chess streamer play three-minute games while listening to techno and chatting with the comments section.

Like new-laid eggs Chess Problems are,
Though very good, they may be beaten;
And yet, though like, they're different far,
They may be cooked, but never eaten.

Source: page 58 of Poems and Chess Problems by J.A. Miles (Fakenham, 1882).

"When you have the better of it, play simply. When the game is going against you, look for complications." — Frank J. Marshall

Galatians 6:7 in the Bible "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap."

Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER

Oct-04-23 HeMateMe: I play 3/2 blitz occasionally on Lichess. I find it an excellent site, none of the delays/cancellations that ruined chess.com (for me). Oct-04-23 Cassandro: Yes, lichess is by far the best site for online chess. And you never know, apparently you may even get to play against a living legend like the highly esteemed Leonard Barden there!

FTB plays all about but has always been happy with FICS: https://www.freechess.org/

"I don't think about it (representing African-Americans) during the games, but I certainly do think about how few African-Americans there are at the top level. So, I try to do my best to motivate more people like us to give it a try and hopefully succeed." ― 13-year-old FM Brewington Hardaway from New York

Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves. ~ Scottish Proverb

Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER

"The key to ultimate success is the determination to progress day by day." — Edmar Mednis

Oscar Chajes (pronounced "HA-yes") (December 14, 1873 – February 28, 1928) was an American chess player. Chajes was Jewish and was born in Brody, Galicia, Austria-Hungary, in what is now Ukraine. Chajes was the last person to defeat José Raúl Capablanca, at New York 1916, prior to Capablanca's eight-year undefeated stretch from 1916 to 1924.

Mar-07-13 Abdel Irada: In case anyone wonders who <Kermit Norris> is/was, he's an expert in Santa Cruz against whom I used to play a great deal of blitz. His specialty, when a particularly complex position arose (especially in his pet Owen's Defense), was to lean forward, fix his opponent with a scowl and a withering stare, and say, in a deep and solemn tone, "Chicken parts!"

"Here's to being in a boat with a drink on the rocks rather than being in the drink with a boat on the rocks"

The Lion and the Rat

To show to all your kindness, it behoves:
There's none so small but you his aid may need.
I quote two fables for this weighty creed,
Which either of them fully proves.
From underneath the sward
A rat, quite off his guard,
Popped out between a lion's paws.
The beast of royal bearing
Showed what a lion was
The creature's life by sparing –
A kindness well repaid;
For, little as you would have thought
His majesty would ever need his aid,
It proved full soon
A precious boon.
Forth issuing from his forest glen,
T" explore the haunts of men,
In lion net his majesty was caught,
From which his strength and rage
Served not to disengage.
The rat ran up, with grateful glee,
Gnawed off a rope, and set him free.

By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.

The Greatest Tournaments in the History of Chess -- 1851-1986:

London 1851, New York 1857, Vienna 1873, Leipzig 1877, London 1883, Hastings 1895, St Petersburg 1895, Nuremberg 1896, Vienna 1898, London 1899, Paris 1900, Cambridge Springs 1904, St Petersburg 1909, Karlsbad 1911, San Sebastian 1911, San Sebastian 1912, St Petersburg 1914, Mährisch Ostrau 1923, New York 1924, Baden-Baden 1925, Moscow 1925, Bad Kissingen 1928, Karlsbad 1929, San Remo 1930, Bled 1931, Moscow 1935+36, Nottingham 1936, Kemeri 1937, AVRO 1938, Salzburg 1942, Sverdlovsk 1943, Groningen 1946, Moscow 1956, Dallas 1957, Bled 1961, Capablanca-Memorial 1963, Los Angeles 1963, Santa Monica 1966, Moscow 1967, Moscow 1971, San Antonio 1972, Milan 1975, Moscow 1975, Leningrad 1977, Bugojno 1978, Tilburg 1978, Montreal 1979, Moscow 1981, Bugojno 1986, Tilburg 1986.

Riddle Question: The one who has it does not keep it. It is large and small. It is any shape. What is it?

Bears like 'em too.

Riddle Answer: A gift.

Latest first capture
An unprecedented thing happened in the 1969 junior world championship. In this game, the first figure (pawn) was taken in the 94th turn. Incredible! In 1994 there was even a game where no one captured a piece and the black had to give up after 31 turns because he was threatened with an unavoidable checkmate. It was in the game between Nuber - Keckeisen.

This poem is dedicated to all female chessplayers on Caissa's Web.

Sweet Caissa

Oh, Sweet Caissa, Goddess of chess
in the name of this holistic game
I pray Thee: bless my noble aim
to render all my opponents lame
in my holy quest for worldly fame,
to be Supreme no more no less.
In awe I heard this Sweet Caissa say
"Daughter go forth and smite them all,
stoutly charge your knight sitting tall
while flying over the castle's wall
to slay all men in your deadly call."
Now in fear I hide and will no longer play.

"Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy." ― Norman Vincent Peale

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." ― Stephen Covey

"My concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect and my family and my Lord. And I'm perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir." — John Durham

The Blossom
by William Blake

Merry, merry sparrow!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Sees you, swift as arrow,
Seek your cradle narrow,
Near my bosom.
Pretty, pretty robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, pretty robin,
Near my bosom.

Richard Paul Anderson - Canada prisoner arrested January 19, 1968 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Canadian Police

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." ― Voltaire

"Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess." ― Siegbert Tarrasch

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ― Howard Thurman

Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 34:8
Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

1 Corinthians 16:13-14
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.

Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet."

vw

Kadas Opening: General (A00) 1-0 Bone in the throat & windmill
G Kadas vs Nagy, 1982 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 24 moves, 1-0

Stalemate with all the pieces still on board in just 12 moves
J Hohmeister vs T Frank, 1993 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 12 moves, 1/2-1/2

Indian Game: Capablanca Var (A47) 1-0 Correspondence
B Knorr vs J Roscher, 1989 
(A47) Queen's Indian, 10 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Kan. Maroczy Bind Bronstein Var (B41) 1-0 Underpromo
J Fedorowicz vs E Meyer, 1978 
(B41) Sicilian, Kan, 59 moves, 1-0

QGA. Albin Countergambit. Fianchetto Be6 Line (D09) 0-1 Corresp
Lindberg vs E Schiller, 1983 
(D09) Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit, 5.g3, 30 moves, 0-1

QGA Classical Def. Russian Gambit (D27) 0-1 GK loses w/White
Kasparov vs Gulko, 1982 
(D27) Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical, 24 moves, 0-1

Game 63 in 'The Greatest Ever Chess Strategies' by Sam Collins
Miles vs A Beliavsky, 1986 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 29 moves, 1-0

Polish Opening vs 2...Qd6 (A00) 0-1 Silman link
N Lalic vs Uhlmann, 1980 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 29 moves, 0-1

KIA vs NY System d5, Bf5 (A07) 1-0 Ruthless Kside ruckus
Vaganian vs Sveshnikov, 1980 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 35 moves, 1-0

Bird Opening: From Gambit. Lasker Var (A02) 0-1 w/8...Qxd4#
R MacBrayne vs Crichton, 1980 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 8 moves, 0-1

Game 319 in Boris Spassky's 400 Selected Games
Spassky vs Gligoric, 1980 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 33 moves, 1-0

Hungarian Opening (A00) 1/2-1/2 Underpromotion to N draws vs R
L Day vs Timman, 1980 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 93 moves, 1/2-1/2

Van Geet (Dunst) Opening: Reversed Nimzowitsch (A00) 0-1 Q trap
R Schlenker vs W Stamer, 1980 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 8 moves, 0-1

Hippopotamus 0-0-0 vs 0-0 (A00) 1-0 P storm, Pseudo-Hook Mate
F Braga vs H Rossetto, 1980 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 27 moves, 1-0

Black plays on White's side of the board w/a wedge
Seirawan vs L Christiansen, 1980 
(A17) English, 32 moves, 0-1

19.Qh1! Strange retreat unlocks the position.
R Filguth vs A de la Garza, 1980 
(A18) English, Mikenas-Carls, 19 moves, 1-0

English/Reti Agincourt Defense (A13) 1-0 Game 5 Dynamic Reti
Miles vs Geller, 1980 
(A13) English, 38 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Anglo-Indian Def. KID Formation(A15) 1-0 Bxf7+
Andersson vs B Kouatly, 1980 
(A15) English, 26 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Great Snake Var (A10) 1-0 outside passer
Tal vs E Mochalov, 1980 
(A10) English, 23 moves, 1-0

Game 6 in Chess Duels by Yasser Seirawan
Seirawan vs Tal, 1980 
(A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 57 moves, 1-0

King's English. Reversed Closed Sicilian (A25) 1-0 Stockfish
Karpov vs Super System III, 1980 
(A25) English, 33 moves, 1-0

K's English. 4 Knts Quiet Line 0-0-0 vs 0-0 (A28)1-0 h-file pop
Azmaiparashvili vs Chernin, 1980 
(A28) English, 29 moves, 1-0

English Symmetrical. Normal (A34) 0-1 4 different units in mid
Quinteros vs Dzindzichashvili, 1980 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 35 moves, 0-1

English, Symmetrical. Hedgehog Def (A30) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Korchnoi vs Browne, 1980 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 44 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Symmetrical (A30) 1-0 Backdoored
Larsen vs Tal, 1980 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 40 moves, 1-0

Trompowsky Attack (A45) 1-0 A first-rate "rook slap" miniature
S Palatnik vs Geller, 1980 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 15 moves, 1-0

Modern Def. Averbakh System. Kotov Var (A42) 1-0Dandy Rook Sac!
J Fedorowicz vs J Rizzitano, 1980 
(A42) Modern Defense, Averbakh System, 27 moves, 1-0

Game 56 in Petrosian: Move by Move by Thomas Engqvist
Petrosian vs Jansa, 1980 
(A48) King's Indian, 37 moves, 1-0

Benoni Taimanov Var (A67) 1-0 Hangman's noose via cross pin
Kasparov vs F A Cuijpers, 1980 
(A67) Benoni, Taimanov Variation, 28 moves, 1-0

Benoni Defense: Uhlmann Variation (A61) 0-1 Climb the vine
K Grigorian vs Kasparov, 1980 
(A61) Benoni, 30 moves, 0-1

Benoni Def: Knight's Tour Var (A61) 0-1 Fine mating net
K Kojder vs Suba, 1980 
(A61) Benoni, 28 moves, 0-1

Benoni Defense: Classical. Argentine Counterattack (A75) 1-0
L Eperjesi vs B Perenyi, 1980 
(A75) Benoni, Classical with ...a6 and 10...Bg4, 39 moves, 1-0

Great "wrong opening" game with very helpful commentary.
Karpov vs Miles, 1980  
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 46 moves, 0-1

St. George Defense 3.c4 bxc4 (B00) 1-0 Q forks f7 & LPDO Bishop
Mackowiak vs Kusiak, 1980 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 5 moves, 1-0

London System vs Be7, Nbd7 (D02) 1-0 11.?
V Kovacevic vs H Ree, 1980 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 23 moves, 1-0

QGA Janowski-Larsen Var (D25) 1-0 Pin & fork decides battle
Browne vs Miles, 1980 
(D25) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 47 moves, 1-0

World Jr Ch 1980=Tarrasch Def Classical. Adv (D34) 1-0 Crosspin
Kasparov vs G Hjorth, 1980 
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 27 moves, 1-0

QGD: Exchange. Saemisch Var (D35) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish
Korchnoi vs Petrosian, 1980 
(D35) Queen's Gambit Declined, 44 moves, 1-0

Game 41 in Garry KASPAROV on Garry KASPAROV I 1973-1985
Kasparov vs I A Zaitsev, 1980 
(D58) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst, 30 moves, 1-0

Game 37 in Learn From the Legends by Mihail Marin
Polugaevsky vs Tal, 1980 
(D58) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst, 42 moves, 1-0

QGD: Tartakower Def. General (D58) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Portisch vs Tal, 1980 
(D58) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst, 33 moves, 1-0

Neo-Grünfeld Def: Classical. Modern Def (D78) 1-0 42.?
Miles vs L Schmid, 1980 
(D78) Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6, 45 moves, 1-0

Game 4 Veliki majstori saha 34 KASPAROV by Drazen Marovic
Kasparov vs J Pribyl, 1980 
(D85) Grunfeld, 31 moves, 1-0

QID. Classical. Traditional ML (E19) 1-0The B pair beats solo B
Y Stepak vs Y Mashian, 1980 
(E19) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3, 193 moves, 1-0

QID Polugayevsky Gambit (E17) 1-0 Trojan Horse
Kasparov vs Marjanovic, 1980 
(E17) Queen's Indian, 23 moves, 1-0

Bogo-Indian Def Nimzowitsch Var (E11) 1-0 Zwischenzug+ saves Rs
Dzindzichashvili vs Larsen, 1980 
(E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 45 moves, 1-0

QID: Classical. Polugayevsky Gambit (E17) 1-0 What a game!
Polugaevsky vs Korchnoi, 1980 
(E17) Queen's Indian, 73 moves, 1-0

QID: Classical. Traditional Main Line (E19) 0-1 Stockfish notes
Larsen vs Karpov, 1980 
(E19) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3, 23 moves, 0-1

QID. Kasparov-Petrosian. Classical Var (E12) 1-0
Dzindzichashvili vs Seirawan, 1980 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 113 moves, 1-0

QID. Traditional Main Line (E19) 0-1 Notes by Stockfish
Polugaevsky vs Korchnoi, 1980 
(E19) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3, 64 moves, 0-1

Nimzo-Indian Def. Huebner. Rubinstein Var (E42) 1-0 Kside attk
Kasparov vs Csom, 1980 
(E42) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein), 29 moves, 1-0

King's Indian Defense: Exchange Var (E92) 0-1 Black bind
S Danailov vs Kasparov, 1980 
(E92) King's Indian, 30 moves, 0-1

Grob vs e5, Bc5, Nc6 (A00) 1-0 Fine attack w/open g-file
G Welling vs D Webbink, 1981 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 29 moves, 1-0

Modern Defense: Averbakh Var (A42) 1/2-1/2 Mad Rook Device
Chandler vs B Feustel, 1981 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 66 moves, 1/2-1/2

Kadas Opening 1.h4?! (A00) 1-0 White wins a piece in 8 moves!?
G Welling vs E ten Haaf, 1981 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 8 moves, 1-0

Zukertort Opening: Queen Pawn Def (A06) 1-0 Creative passer
Quinteros vs Larsen, 1981 
(A06) Reti Opening, 44 moves, 1-0

Zukertort Opening: Nimzo-Larsen/Dbl Fio (A04) 0-1 More pawns
Gulko vs G Agzamov, 1981
(A04) Reti Opening, 32 moves, 0-1

Game 303 in Chess Informant Best Games 301-400
Taimanov vs Psakhis, 1981 
(A04) Reti Opening, 35 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Agincourt Def. Keres Def (A14)1-0 Larry's Best
L Christiansen vs Portisch, 1981 
(A14) English, 31 moves, 1-0

English Opening: English Defense (A40) 1-0 Remove the Guard
C Van Tilbury vs M Guevara Cano, 1981 
(A10) English, 18 moves, 1-0

K's English. Closed System Full Symmetry (A26) 0-1 43...?
Larsen vs Spassky, 1981 
(A26) English, 44 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Symmetrical. Hedgehog Def (A30) 0-1 B outpost
Smyslov vs Kasparov, 1981 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 27 moves, 0-1

English, Symmetrical. Anti-Benoni Var (A31) 0-1 Disc Attk
Seirawan vs Miles, 1981 
(A31) English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation, 39 moves, 0-1

Tromp->Veresov Attk 3...Bf5 4.e3 e6 (A45) 0-1Beautiful Black Q!
R Moonen vs Euwe, 1981 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 37 moves, 0-1

Wade Defense (A41) 1-0 Q sac helps create passer w/initiative
V Kovacevic vs S Martinovic, 1981 
(A41) Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6), 28 moves, 1-0

Benoni-Indian Def (A43) 0-1 K&N cannot stop 3 connected passers
L Piasetski vs L Day, 1981 
(A43) Old Benoni, 59 moves, 0-1

London System vs KID Yugoslav (A48) 0-1 Qless middlegame
S Farias vs G Carlsson, 1981 
(A48) King's Indian, 40 moves, 0-1

Benoni Defense: King's Indian System (A56) 1-0 Fine R manuevers
Chandler vs J Mestel, 1981 
(A56) Benoni Defense, 57 moves, 1-0

Benoni Defense: King Pawn lines (A65) 1-0 40.?
Knaak vs Dolmatov, 1981 
(A65) Benoni, 6.e4, 47 moves, 1-0

Dutch Def: Leningrad Var (A86) 1-0 Q sac for careful defense
G Kraehenbuehl vs R Akesson, 1981
(A86) Dutch, 38 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen. Modern Var (B83) 0-1 Book it
Geller vs Kasparov, 1981 
(B83) Sicilian, 27 moves, 0-1

Zukertort vs. Bf5, e6, Nc6 (D02) 1/2-missed Qxh7 deflect sac
Polugaevsky vs Vaganian, 1981 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 43 moves, 1/2-1/2

QGD Chigorin Defense. Janowski (D07) 1-0Discovered+, Q sac next
H Murphy vs A Kinsman, 1981 
(D07) Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense, 16 moves, 1-0

Slav Defense: Winawer Countergambit (D10) 0-1 Boom!
Zolotukhin vs I Nikolayev, 1981 
(D10) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 29 moves, 0-1

This game was talked about by Hort in 'The Great Chess Movie'
Polugaevsky vs Hort, 1981 
(D18) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch, 22 moves, 1/2-1/2

QGD Harrwitz Attack. Fianchetto Def (D37) 1-0 Notes by Keene
Keene vs O Jakobsen, 1981  
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 37 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Def Symmetrical (D32) 0-1 Arabian Mate Variant Awaits
J Sunye Neto vs Kasparov, 1981 
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 47 moves, 0-1

Game 319 in Chess Informant Best Games 301-400
Kasparov vs Gavrikov, 1981 
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 33 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Def: Swedish, Central Break (D33) 1-0 Stockfish 18.?
Adorjan vs J Tisdall, 1981 
(D33) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 23 moves, 1-0

Semi-Slav Botvinnik System (D44)1-0 Sac for advanced pawn chain
Polugaevsky vs E Torre, 1981 
(D44) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 40 moves, 1-0

"Chess is My Life" by Victor Korchnoi
Korchnoi vs Karpov, 1981 
(D58) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst, 43 moves, 0-1

Tricky Tactic #50 in Chess Tactics 4 Kids by GM Murray Chandler
J Lechtynsky vs N Iordanov, 1981 
(D91) Grunfeld, 5.Bg5, 44 moves, 1-0

Gruenfeld Def: Russian. Hungarian Var (D97) 0-1 N drops in
V Moskalenko vs Yermolinsky, 1981 
(D97) Grunfeld, Russian, 15 moves, 0-1

Bogo-Indian Def: Wade-Smyslov Var (E11) 0-1 N on 3rd, R on 2nd
A Lein vs L Christiansen, 1981 
(E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 56 moves, 0-1

QID. Kasparov-Petrosian. Andersson Var (E12)1-0 g-file battery
Kasparov vs Andersson, 1981 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 30 moves, 1-0

Queen's Indian Def: Petrosian Var (E12) 1-0 Qs on the 2nd/7th
K Burger vs Short, 1981 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 25 moves, 1-0

QID: Kasparov Var (E12) 1-0 Knightly conversations
Korchnoi vs Huebner, 1981 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 23 moves, 1-0

QID. Classical. Polugayevsky Gambit (E17) 1-0 Oh Daddy!
Chandler vs R Hess, 1981 
(E17) Queen's Indian, 39 moves, 1-0

Game 75 in The Nimzo-Indian Defence by S. Gligoric
L Christiansen vs Browne, 1981 
(E21) Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights, 42 moves, 0-1

Nimzo-Indian Defense: Saemisch. Accelerated (E24) 1-0 Jackpot!
A Haik vs S Skembris, 1981 
(E24) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 21 moves, 1-0

NID: Normal. Bishop Attack Classical Def (E48) 1-0 29.?
Kasparov vs Yurtaev, 1981 
(E48) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5, 30 moves, 1-0

NID: Normal. Schlechter Def (E52) 1-0 U20
Ehlvest vs Salov, 1981 
(E52) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line with ...b6, 41 moves, 1-0

KID Classical Fianchetto (E67) 1-0 N sac for connected passers
Smejkal vs Petrosian, 1981 
(E67) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 42 moves, 1-0

KID. Fianchetto. Classical Main Line (E69) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Karpov vs Balashov, 1981 
(E69) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line, 41 moves, 1-0

KID: Orthodox. Positional Def Closed Line (E95) 1-0 Pins, fork!
Tal vs J Bielczyk, 1981 
(E95) King's Indian, Orthodox, 7...Nbd7, 8.Re1, 37 moves, 1-0

English vs. Anglo-Indian Def. Nimzo-English Opening (A23) 1-0
Suba vs A Zadrima, 1982 
(A17) English, 23 moves, 1-0

Game 49: Chess Secrets-The Giants of Strategy by Neil McDonald
Petrosian vs Ivkov, 1982 
(A42) Modern Defense, Averbakh System, 49 moves, 1-0

QID Kasparov-Petrosian, Petrosian Attack (E12) 1-0 Gorgeous
Goldin vs I Efimov, 1982 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 32 moves, 1-0

KID Normal vs 5.h3 (E90) Bold kNights and piling on the pin
Kavalek vs Kasparov, 1982 
(E90) King's Indian, 27 moves, 0-1

Modern, Averbakh. Kotov Var (A42) 0-1 Looks like a dumb move!
W Thormann vs K Bischoff, 1982 
(A42) Modern Defense, Averbakh System, 11 moves, 0-1

Engl/Reti Agincourt Def./Var (A13) 1-0 Incredible offers here
Yermolinsky vs Taimanov, 1982 
(A13) English, 29 moves, 1-0

Gruenfeld Defense: Modern Exchange Var (D85) 1-0 Blammo!
Chiburdanidze vs V Malaniuk, 1982 
(D85) Grunfeld, 26 moves, 1-0

English, Anglo-Indian Def. QID (A15) 1-0 Triple on h-file
I Ivanov vs Miles, 1982 
(A15) English, 40 moves, 1-0

NID Huebner Var. Main Line (E41) 0-1 Restricted B vs N ending
J Pinter vs Timman, 1982 
(E41) Nimzo-Indian, 41 moves, 0-1

King's Indian Def. Saemisch Var (E86) 1-0 Smothered Mate in 1
J Murey vs E Mortensen, 1982 
(E86) King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox, 7.Nge2 c6, 20 moves, 1-0

Bogo-Indian Defense: Nimzowitsch Var (E11) 1-0 Notes by G.K.
Kasparov vs Petrosian, 1982  
(E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

QGD vs Bd6 Stonewall Def (D30) 0-1 Sudden Kside 0-0 assault
K Hansen vs N Meldgaard, 1982 
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 13 moves, 0-1

Benoni Defense: Taimanov Var (A67) 1-0 Notes
Kasparov vs Nunn, 1982  
(A67) Benoni, Taimanov Variation, 21 moves, 1-0

Veresov Attk. 2Kts System Gruenfeld Def (D01) 1-0 Like Reti's B
Miles vs O Popovych, 1982 
(D01) Richter-Veresov Attack, 34 moves, 1-0

English, Symmetrical. Hedgehog Defense (A30) 0-1A glorious game
Polugaevsky vs Ftacnik, 1982 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 29 moves, 0-1

K's English. 4Knts Fianchetto (A29) 1-0 Adorjan notes; Q trap
Adorjan vs G Glatt, 1982  
(A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 24 moves, 1-0

Kasparov uses tripled d-pawn to beat the Four Pawns Attack
L Christiansen vs Kasparov, 1982 
(E76) King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack, 40 moves, 0-1

Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Indian Var (A01) 1-0 Block f6, open h-file
H Klip vs C Janssen, 1982 
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 28 moves, 1-0

'Chess Secrets: Great Attkers: Learn from GK, MT & LS by Crouch
Kasparov vs Gheorghiu, 1982 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 27 moves, 1-0

QGD. Harrwitz Attack (D37) 1-0Philidor's Legacy Nf7# is coming!
Ribli vs Chandler, 1982 
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 26 moves, 1-0

Seirawn wrote of this game in Winning Chess Brilliancies
Seirawan vs Karpov, 1982 
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 30 moves, 0-1

23.Bxf7+! is a nice shot, securing an EG advantage
Kasparov vs Sax, 1982 
(D86) Grunfeld, Exchange, 38 moves, 1-0

Macho Grob Spike (A40/B00) 0-1 Black rooks win race
C Laird vs M Basman, 1982 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 41 moves, 0-1

Benoni Def. Four Ps Attk. ML (A69) 0-1Powerful Pile on the Pin!
J N Metge vs B R Watson, 1982 
(A69) Benoni, Four Pawns Attack, Main line, 29 moves, 0-1

QID. Kasparov-Petrosian. Petrosian Attk (E12)1-0 Schiller NOTES
Kasparov vs Najdorf, 1982  
(E12) Queen's Indian, 25 moves, 1-0

QID: Kasparov-Petrosian. Kasparov Attk (E12) 1-0 23.Ng5!
Kasparov vs J Murey, 1982 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 26 moves, 1-0

QGD Cambridge Springs (D52) 0-1 Discovery Dbl Attack
B Wall vs D Erb, 1982 
(D52) Queen's Gambit Declined, 11 moves, 0-1

Game 29 in Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking by Neil McDonald
Tal vs Van der Wiel, 1982 
(A17) English, 22 moves, 1-0

Anglo-Indian Def. Flohr-Mikenas-Carls Var Nei Gambit (A19) 1-0
Bagirov vs Yudasin, 1982 
(A19) English, Mikenas-Carls, Sicilian Variation, 51 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Anglo-Indian Def Q's Knight Var (D32) 0-1 IQP
H Wirthensohn vs Tal, 1982 
(A16) English, 29 moves, 0-1

King's English. Four Knights Quiet Line (A28) 0-1 B-Q Spearhead
Suba vs Smyslov, 1982 
(A28) English, 56 moves, 0-1

King's English. Taimanov Var (A25) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish; 41.?
Csom vs A Yusupov, 1982 
(A25) English, 52 moves, 1-0

KID: Orthodox. Positional Def Closed Line (E95) 1/2-1/2 debated
Andersson vs Kasparov, 1982 
(E95) King's Indian, Orthodox, 7...Nbd7, 8.Re1, 28 moves, 1/2-1/2

Benoni Defense: Fianchetto Var (A62) 0-1 30...?
K Wallach vs A Kornfeld, 1982 
(A62) Benoni, Fianchetto Variation, 30 moves, 0-1

Veresov Attack 4.BxNf6 exBf6 (A45) 1-0 Interference wins!
Miles vs J Tisdall, 1982 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Yusupov-Rubinstein System (A46) 1-0 Ne5, Exch Sac!
B Saacke vs F Behrhorst, 1982 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 29 moves, 1-0

King's English. Four Knights, Fianchetto Lines (A29) 1-0 28.?
Tal vs K Grigorian, 1982 
(A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 29 moves, 1-0

NID: Classical. Vitolinsh-Adorjan Gambit (E32) 0-1 25...?
Gavrikov vs A Vitolinsh, 1982 
(E32) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 26 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Knights Variation. General (A46) 1-0 Nxf7 sac!
Timman vs Miles, 1982
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 39 moves, 1-0

Game 333 in Chess Informant Best Games 301-400
Korchnoi vs Kasparov, 1982 
(A64) Benoni, Fianchetto, 11...Re8, 36 moves, 0-1

Game 180 in Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy by John Watson
Larsen vs Suba, 1982 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 27 moves, 0-1

"Grandmaster Secrets: Winning Quickly at Chess" by John Nunn
Psakhis vs Geller, 1982 
(D58) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst, 24 moves, 0-1

NID: Normal. Schlechter Def (E52) 1-0 Nibblin'
C Garcia Palermo vs Karpov, 1982 
(E52) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line with ...b6, 57 moves, 1-0

Benko Gambit: Declined. ML (A57) 0-1 Q sac in a Queens ending!
Reshevsky vs D Gurevich, 1982 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 59 moves, 0-1

Slav Defense: General (D10) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish
Portisch vs J Rubinetti, 1982 
(D10) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 43 moves, 1-0

Nimzo-Larsen Attk /KIA Dbl Fio vs Bg4 (A01) 0-1Minors penetrate
D van Geet vs Keene, 1982 
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 24 moves, 0-1

King's Indian Defense: Larsen Var (E90) 0-1 K march
I Naumkin vs Khalifman, 1982 
(E90) King's Indian, 46 moves, 0-1

Zukertort Opening: 0-0 vs 0-0-0 (A04) 1-0 Overworked Queen
L Gutman vs C Azzopardi, 1982 
(A04) Reti Opening, 14 moves, 1-0

Bogo-Indian Defense: Wade-Smyslov Var (E11) 1-0 37.?
J Pinter vs Larsen, 1982 
(E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 38 moves, 1-0

Semi-Slav Def: Noteboom Var (D31) 0-1 Qside Pawn Storm
S Saeed vs L Pliester, 1982 
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 42 moves, 0-1

Nimzo-Indian Defense: Normal. Bishop Attack (E47) 0-1 N trap
R Henley vs R Gunawan, 1982 
(E47) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3, 24 moves, 1-0

English, Symmetrical. Anti-Benoni Spielmann Def (A32) 1-0 Qd5
Adorjan vs L Zsinka, 1982 
(A32) English, Symmetrical Variation, 12 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Wade-Tartakower Defense (A46) 0-1 Sacs, Spearheads
Azmaiparashvili vs Yurtaev, 1983 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 42 moves, 0-1

Game #20 in Davies' Dynamic Reti; (A09) 1-0
D Gurevich vs A Bisguier, 1983 
(A09) Reti Opening, 35 moves, 1-0

One pin makes for a decoy sacrifice, the other sets royal fork
Sanahuja vs Fernandez, 1983 
(A27) English, Three Knights System, 8 moves, 1-0

Blackmar-Diemer G. Ziegler Def (D00) 1-0 Exchange sac on move 9
E Diemer vs J Brass, 1983 
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 20 moves, 1-0

Nimzo-Indian Def: Huebner. Rubinstein(E42) 1-0Pin, 2Deflections
Hort vs G Ligterink, 1983 
(E42) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein), 25 moves, 1-0

KIA vs NY System d5, Bf5 (A07) 1-0 Steady Qside rise in temp
Vaganian vs A Beliavsky, 1983 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 41 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Defense (D34) Pawn storm committment to the very end.
I Ivanov vs V Zaltsman, 1983 
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 44 moves, 1-0

Nimzo-Indian Def. Saemisch (E26) 1-0 Dbl R lift Kside crusher
Kasparov vs B Ivanovic, 1983 
(E26) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 26 moves, 1-0

QGD Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst, 38 moves, 1-0
Kasparov vs A Beliavsky, 1983 
(D35) Queen's Gambit Declined, 38 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Symmetrical. Three Knights (A34) 1-0 Tempting
Seirawan vs A Kuligowski, 1983 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 39 moves, 1-0

Old Indian Defense (A53) 1-0 Promotion checkmate is coming!
W Schmidt vs Z Djukic, 1983 
(A53) Old Indian, 34 moves, 1-0

QID Kasparov-Petro. Petrosian Attk (E12) 1-0 Dbl B sac, K walk
Kasparov vs Portisch, 1983 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 35 moves, 1-0

Modern Defense (B06)1-0 White wins w/out developing either N?!!
E Diemer vs P Cerff, 1983 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 30 moves, 1-0

KID 4Ps Attack. Florentine Gambit (E77)  1-0 Masterly sac attk!
T Catalan vs N Alradhi, 1983 
(E77) King's Indian, 30 moves, 1-0

Dutch Classical Stonewall Be7 (A95)1-0 W owns the long diagonal
Keene vs M Fuller, 1983  
(A95) Dutch, Stonewall, 27 moves, 1-0

John Nunn's 101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures -- see notes
Ljubojevic vs Kasparov, 1983 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 25 moves, 0-1

Polish Defense (A40) 1-0 Greek gift
J Tarjan vs Hodgson, 1983 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 18 moves, 1-0

Torre Attack (D03) 1-0 Black Q gets sqeezed into trap
Timman vs Geller, 1983 
(D03) Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation), 34 moves, 1-0

Reti Opening (A09) 0-1 Q sac for two pieces; Qside P majority
Plaskett vs I Ivanov, 1983 
(A09) Reti Opening, 40 moves, 0-1

Game 178 in The Guinness Book of Chess GMs by William Hartston
Kasparov vs Spassky, 1983 
(E84) King's Indian, Samisch, Panno Main line, 33 moves, 0-1

Winning Chess Brilliancies by Yasser Seirawan - Game 7
Smyslov vs Ribli, 1983 
(D42) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 7.Bd3, 41 moves, 1-0

English, Symmetrical. Three Knights (A34) 1-0 Ns walk the Ks
J Pinter vs S Arkhipov, 1983 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 24 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Symmetrical. Three Knights (A34) 1-0 Ns abound
V Loginov vs F Sideifzade, 1983 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 18 moves, 1-0

23...Bxh2+! begins a clever King hunt (mate-in-9)
M Kapelan vs J Tarjan, 1983 
(A04) Reti Opening, 29 moves, 0-1

King's English. Troger Def (A21) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Botvinnik vs Sargon, 1983 
(A21) English, 37 moves, 1-0

QGD: Baltic Defense (D02) 1-0 Pin, Spearheads
V Zaltsman vs W Shipman, 1983 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 1-0

"Lobron Jams" (game of the day Jan-29-2019)
Seirawan vs Lobron, 1983 
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 24 moves, 0-1

QID: Kasparov-Petrosian. Hedgehog Var (E17) 1-0 Counterattack?
Ftacnik vs Plaskett, 1983 
(E17) Queen's Indian, 21 moves, 1-0

Zukertort Opening: Sicilian Invitation (A04) 0-1 27...?
Ribli vs Adorjan, 1983 
(A04) Reti Opening, 27 moves, 0-1

English, Symmetric. Botvinnik System Reversed (A37) 1-0Exch Sac
Andersson vs Seirawan, 1983 
(A37) English, Symmetrical, 41 moves, 1-0

QGA Alekhine System ML (D29) 1-0 2 Qs beat disconnected Rs
K Georgiev vs Dlugy, 1983 
(D29) Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical, 40 moves, 1-0

King's English. Reversed Sicilian (A21) 1-0 Sittin' on the 6th
Chernin vs A Kveinys, 1983 
(A21) English, 11 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Wade-Tartakower Def (A46) 1-0 Pinned to # square
M Glienke vs Quinteros, 1983
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 26 moves, 1-0

London System vs Double Fianchetto (D02) 1-0Battery on 7th rank
B Eberly vs B Wall, 1983
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 25 moves, 1-0

Game 27 in Korchnoi: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala
Korchnoi vs Seirawan, 1983 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 32 moves, 1-0

K's English. Four Knts Flexible Line (A28) 0-1 Notes Triangle #
R Delaune vs K Spraggett, 1983 
(A28) English, 25 moves, 0-1

P-Q4 Game: Chandler Gambit (D02) 1-0 Not my favorite gambit
Csom vs Chandler, 1983 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 30 moves, 1-0

Benko Gambit: Accepted. Modern Var (A57) 1-0 Capture, again
Alburt vs M Hebden, 1983 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 17 moves, 1-0

Zukertort Opening vs Modern (A04) 0-1 Exchange sac, get it back
Polugaevsky vs Petrosian, 1983 
(A04) Reti Opening, 24 moves, 0-1

Karpov just one win away from keeping title-legitimately!
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1984 
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 59 moves, 1-0

Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Modern Variation (A01) 0-1Arabian Mate w/Q
L Josteinsson vs Petursson, 1984 
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 28 moves, 0-1

Gruenfeld Def. Modern Exchange Var (D85) 1-0 Q grabs pawn
I Polovodin vs L Maslov, 1984 
(D85) Grunfeld, 12 moves, 1-0

Both Kings take a stroll in a tactical battle w/out Queens
Portisch vs J Pinter, 1984 
(D41) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 33 moves, 0-1

The shortest decisive master game (not a forfeit or protest)
Z Djordjevic vs M Kovacevic, 1984 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 3 moves, 0-1

Polish Defense / St. George Defense (A40) 1-0 Space advantage
Miles vs S Chaivichit, 1984 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Anglo-Slav(A11) 0-1Monument to IM Boris Kogan
K Spraggett vs B M Kogan, 1984 
(A11) English, Caro-Kann Defensive System, 29 moves, 0-1

Karpov's 47.Ng2!! was one of the best moves ever played in a WC
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1984 
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 70 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Def. Classical. Carlsbad (D34) 0-1 N blockade holds
Smyslov vs Kasparov, 1984 
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 40 moves, 0-1

Yeah, don't develop, move pawns! Hilarious mate!
NN vs E Diemer, 1984 
(A04) Reti Opening, 16 moves, 0-1

Stonewall Attack (D00) 1-0 Q sac for a K walk
G Welling vs R Witt, 1984 
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 33 moves, 1-0

QID Spassky System/b3, Bb2 Stonewall Attk (E14) 1-0 Fine sacs!
S Polgar vs K Krastev, 1984 
(E14) Queen's Indian, 35 moves, 1-0

QGD. Orthodox Def. ML (D63) 1-0 Tal catches pawn grabbing Q
Tal vs J Lechtynsky, 1984 
(D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 30 moves, 1-0

Modern Def Averbakh System. Kotov Var (A42) 1-0 She's worth 3
Miles vs M Rohde, 1984 
(A42) Modern Defense, Averbakh System, 30 moves, 1-0

QID. Kasparov-Petrosian Variation. Kasparov Attk (E12) 1-0Risky
Plaskett vs Short, 1984 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 42 moves, 1-0

English/Reti vs Bg7, f6, e5 (A04)1-0 12...QxN still loses piece
K Spraggett vs L Day, 1984 
(A04) Reti Opening, 12 moves, 1-0

King's English. General (A20) 1-0 Remove the Guard
Tal vs Plaskett, 1984 
(A20) English, 24 moves, 1-0

Game 19 in Dynamic Chess Strategy by Mihai Suba
Suba vs Sax, 1984 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 16 moves, 1-0

English vs. Lion/Anglo-Indian Def. Q's Knight Var (A16) 0-1SHOT
Benko vs W Hartmann, 1984 
(A16) English, 21 moves, 0-1

QGD: Harrwitz Attack. Old Main Line (D37) 0-1 Pile on the pin
Miles vs A Beliavsky, 1984 
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 26 moves, 0-1

Zukertort Opening: Herrstrom Gambit 2.Nxg5 and 4.Nxf7 (A04) 1-0
Streng vs E Diemer, 1984 
(A04) Reti Opening, 30 moves, 1-0

Trompowsky Attack: General (A45) 0-1 En prise Zwischenzug
A Bisguier vs I Ivanov, 1984 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 29 moves, 0-1

Game 364 in Chess Informant Best Games 301-400
Karpov vs Chandler, 1984 
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 37 moves, 1-0

Czech Benoni Defense (A56) 1-0 Pile on the Pin
M O Khan vs S J Solomon, 1984
(A56) Benoni Defense, 22 moves, 1-0

QID: Fianchetto. Nimzowitsch Quiet Line (E15) 1-0 BRAWL!
Psakhis vs Plaskett, 1984 
(E15) Queen's Indian, 23 moves, 1-0

King's English. Four Knights Fianchetto Lines (A29) 1-0 30.?
Miles vs Timman, 1984 
(A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 31 moves, 1-0

Trompowsky Attack: General (A45) 1-0 25.?
Vyzmanavin vs Ehlvest, 1984 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 35 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Gedult Attack (A45) 0-1 Q takes Poisoned P & R
A Kuebler vs H Larsen, 1984 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 15 moves, 0-1

Larry Christiansen called this "THE game of the Olympiad"
Dzindzichashvili vs A Beliavsky, 1984 
(A13) English, 93 moves, 1-0

Game 127 in "I Play Against Pieces" by Gligoric
Timman vs Gligoric, 1984 
(A33) English, Symmetrical, 57 moves, 0-1

Slav Def: Czech. Classical System M.L. (D19) 1-0 19.? Stockfish
Polugaevsky vs E Torre, 1984 
(D19) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch, 33 moves, 1-0

Queen's Gambit Declined: Anti-Tartakower Var (D55) 1-0Stockfish
Kasparov vs Timman, 1984 
(D55) Queen's Gambit Declined, 34 moves, 1-0

A pin, a sacrifice, or a hammer blow!
A Beliavsky vs Nunn, 1985 
(E81) King's Indian, Samisch, 27 moves, 0-1

English, Agincourt Defense (A13) 0-1 Dbl Rook Sac, K walk
A Afifi vs A Beliavsky, 1985 
(A13) English, 23 moves, 0-1

...as if they were chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.
Huebner vs Kasparov, 1985 
(A21) English, 28 moves, 0-1

Furious Kingside Attack with Anastasia's Mate
G Andruet vs Van der Wiel, 1985 
(E99) King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 33 moves, 0-1

Benoni Def: Taimanov Var (A67) 0-1 Wild sacs into rapid K chase
P Littlewood vs D Norwood, 1985 
(A67) Benoni, Taimanov Variation, 43 moves, 0-1

QGD Modern. Knight Defense (D51) 1-0 Rook is trapped
Tal vs S Saeed, 1985 
(D51) Queen's Gambit Declined, 58 moves, 1-0

Bogo-Indian Defense: Vitolinsh Var (E11) 0-1 Greek gift fails
Quinteros vs Seirawan, 1985 
(E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 34 moves, 0-1

The Sokolsky Gambit 4... Ne7 5. Qh5+ (A00) 1-0 QxN robs the pin
W Brinkmann vs K Woschkat, 1985 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 10 moves, 1-0

Dutch Stonewall. Modern Bd6 (A81) 0-1 Minor piece EG lesson
Gheorghiu vs A Yusupov, 1985 
(A90) Dutch, 60 moves, 0-1

Veresov Attack. Two Knights 4.Nf3 (D01) 0-1Shift Kside to Qside
C Hoi vs Smyslov, 1985 
(D01) Richter-Veresov Attack, 51 moves, 0-1

Benoni Def. Modern (A60) 1-0 Splendid series of deflection sacs
S Polgar vs P Hardicsay, 1985 
(A60) Benoni Defense, 22 moves, 1-0

QGD Exchange/Semi-Slav Def. General (D43) 1-0 N# threat
A Yusupov vs J Nogueiras, 1985 
(D43) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 20 moves, 1-0

Borg Defense 4.h4 (B00) 1-0 White's timely h-file action rules
P Wolff vs T Wall, 1985 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 21 moves, 1-0

Budapest Defense: Fajarowicz Var (A51) 1-0 Skewer, Discovery
Kasparov vs D Steinwender, 1985 
(A51) Budapest Gambit, 20 moves, 1-0

English Anglo-Indian Def K Knight Var (A15) 1-0Combo for passer
Ribli vs Unzicker, 1985 
(A15) English, 35 moves, 1-0

Kaspy wins first game-reversing trend that challengers lose 1st
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1985 
(E21) Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights, 42 moves, 1-0

Zuke/Rubinstein c4, Bb2 Stonewall (D05) 1-0 h-file battery
A Yusupov vs Sosonko, 1985 
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0

The Guernsey Gibbet of '85!! (Morphy's Mate)
M Hebden vs Hodgson, 1985 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 21 moves, 0-1

Not the famous SFBF movie draw
J Waitzkin vs J Sarwer, 1985 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 43 moves, 0-1

English Opening vs Bb7 (A10) 1-0 Which battery is better?
K Spraggett vs Spassky, 1985 
(A10) English, 40 moves, 1-0

Gruenfeld Def Three Knights. Petrosian System (D91)1-0 RK NOTES
Keene vs E Martinovsky, 1985  
(D91) Grunfeld, 5.Bg5, 29 moves, 1-0

Zukertort Opening: Kingside Fianchetto (A04) 1-0 Raking Bs
Korchnoi vs Dzindzichashvili, 1985 
(A04) Reti Opening, 20 moves, 1-0

English, Maroczy Bind vs Hedgehog (A04) 0-1 Sac attack!
D J Strauss vs D Gurevich, 1985 
(A04) Reti Opening, 35 moves, 0-1

QID: Miles Var (E12) 0-1 39...? Notes by Stockfish.
M Rivas Pastor vs Huebner, 1985 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 42 moves, 0-1

Budapest Def: General (A52) 0-1 Sacs on f3, e4 weaken light sq
Kobe vs G Gorges, 1985 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 24 moves, 0-1

Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Modern Var (A01) 0-1 Connected passers
Noon vs P Lamford, 1985 
(A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 40 moves, 0-1

Blumenfeld Countergambit: Dus-Chotimursky Var (E10) 1-0 N+ fork
Chernin vs Miles, 1985 
(E10) Queen's Pawn Game, 32 moves, 1-0

QID: Fianchetto. Nimzowitsch Var Timman's Line (E15) 1-0 Notes
Vaganian vs J Nogueiras, 1985 
(E15) Queen's Indian, 37 moves, 1-0

King's English. Four Knights Fianchetto Lines (A29) 0-1 25...?
Adorjan vs Miles, 1985 
(A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 27 moves, 0-1

Hungarian vs Reversed Botvinnik System (A00) 0-1 Kside P storm
R Tischbierek vs V Chekhov, 1985 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 44 moves, 0-1

English Anglo-Indian Def. QID Formation (A15) 1/2- KxQStalemate
Ribli vs Spassky, 1985 
(A15) English, 85 moves, 1/2-1/2

Indian/Veresov 3...c6 4.f3 Qb6 (A45) 0-1 Sting in the tail
G Philippe vs E Dizdarevic, 1985 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 8 moves, 0-1

KID: Orthodox. Positional Defense (E94) 0-1 Promotion
J Pinter vs Tal, 1985 
(E94) King's Indian, Orthodox, 71 moves, 0-1

Czech Benoni Def (A56) 1-0 Arabian Mate arrangement
Ftacnik vs K Mokry, 1985 
(A56) Benoni Defense, 31 moves, 1-0

King's English. General (A20) 1-0 21.? Notes by Stockfish
Kasparov vs Turbostar, 1985 
(A20) English, 34 moves, 1-0

Benko Gambit: Declined. Main Line (A57) 0-1 Pins steal the win!
S Agdestein vs Vaganian, 1985 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 37 moves, 0-1

Slav Defense: Chameleon Var (D15) 1-0 Neither Black R moved
Ehlvest vs Dreev, 1985 
(D15) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 24 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Agincourt Defense. King's Knight (A13) · 1-0
A Sokolov vs Sveshnikov, 1985 
(A13) English, 40 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Symmetrical. Three Knights BxNc6?! (A34) 1-0
Dzindzichashvili vs Timman, 1985 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 96 moves, 1-0

Modern Def: Averbakh. Bronstein-Hug Var (A42) 1/2- Look closer
A Yap vs Tal, 1985 
(A42) Modern Defense, Averbakh System, 50 moves, 1/2-1/2

King's Indian. Fianchetto Bg2 vs Bg7 (A49) 0-1 Black keeps adv
H Karner vs Ehlvest, 1985
(A49) King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4, 27 moves, 0-1

King's English (A20) 1-0 Entertaining final sequence
Plaskett vs Miles, 1986 
(A20) English, 32 moves, 1-0

GK described as a "monster with a thousand eyes who sees all"
Miles vs Kasparov, 1986 
(D11) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 69 moves, 0-1

KID Saemisch Variation (E80) 1-0 N sac, Queen trap
Spassky vs H Pfleger, 1986 
(E80) King's Indian, Samisch Variation, 29 moves, 1-0

Benko Gambit: Accepted. Modern (A57) 1/2-1/2 Draw claim denied
Karpov vs Miles, 1986 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 26 moves, 1/2-1/2

Benoni Def. Classical. Czerniak Def. Tal Line (A77) 1-0 23.?
M Podgaets vs G Zaichik, 1986 
(A77) Benoni, Classical, 9...Re8, 10.Nd2, 25 moves, 1-0

English Defense (A10) 0-1, Q trap in 13 moves
J van der Veen vs A Mol, 1986 
(A10) English, 13 moves, 0-1

English Dbl Fio vs Classical Dutch (A10) 1-0 Crossfire pins
K Spraggett vs G Basanta, 1986 
(A10) English, 22 moves, 1-0

Nimzo-Indian Def. Reshevsky Var (E46) 1-0 Pawn piles on pin
Bareev vs G Timoscenko, 1986 
(E46) Nimzo-Indian, 33 moves, 1-0

Benoni /KID Four Pawns. Dynamic Attack (A56)1-0 Gain time on Q
Korchnoi vs Gheorghiu, 1986 
(E76) King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack, 23 moves, 1-0

KID Orthodox. Positional Def (E94) 1/2- The champ gets swindled
Kasparov vs N McDonald, 1986 
(E94) King's Indian, Orthodox, 55 moves, 1/2-1/2

Trompowsky Attack: Raptor Var (A45) 1-0 Gain of time, Pins
Hodgson vs M Hebden, 1986 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 36 moves, 1-0

Spanish Schliemann Def. Exchange Var (C63) 0-1Anastasia's Mate
Karpov vs Ribli, 1986 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 56 moves, 1-0

English Opening (A10) 1-0 Joust of the heavy pieces
Ljubojevic vs Miles, 1986 
(A10) English, 33 moves, 1-0

Hungarian / Dbl Fio vs Baltic/NY System (A00) 1-0 P Dovetail #!
Hodgson vs S Agdestein, 1986 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 24 moves, 1-0

King, Bishop, Rook vs King, Rook
D Gurevich vs C Hansen, 1986 
(D61) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, 160 moves, 1-0

Gruenfeld Def. 3Knights. Hungarian Attk (D58) 1/2 - GK's 1st GD
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1986 
(D92) Grunfeld, 5.Bf4, 21 moves, 1/2-1/2

Anglo-Indian Def. Mikenas-Carls Var (A15) 1-0 Q's off early
Romanishin vs Suba, 1986 
(A15) English, 42 moves, 1-0

Semi-Slav Def: Stoltz Var (D46) 1-0 Bxh6 triggers Kside attack
Smagin vs N Monin, 1986 
(D45) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 28 moves, 1-0

KID Saemisch. Steiner Attack (E80) 0-1 Award winning brilliancy
J Mestel vs Gufeld, 1987 
(E80) King's Indian, Samisch Variation, 27 moves, 0-1

Zukertort Opening: Dutch Leningrad(A04) 0-1Heavy pieces hunt Ks
P Backwinkel vs S Buecker, 1986
(A04) Reti Opening, 47 moves, 0-1

KID. Four Pawns Attack (E76) 1/2-1/2 Movie scene fabrications
J Sarwer vs J Waitzkin, 1986 
(E76) King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack, 63 moves, 1/2-1/2

KIA vs Tartakower Bb7, Be7 (A07) 0-1 Ns shake things up!
J D Sullivan vs Ivanchuk, 1986 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 50 moves, 0-1

Benko Gambit: Declined. Main Line (A57) 1-0 Octopus strikes!
Gulko vs O Renet, 1986 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 19 moves, 1-0

Game 2 in Fire on Board: Shirov's Best Games by Alexey Shirov
Shirov vs V Zhuravliov, 1986 
(A80) Dutch, 32 moves, 1-0

English, Anglo-Indian Def. KID Formation (A15)1-0 Kside assault
Tal vs D Donchev, 1986 
(A15) English, 19 moves, 1-0

QGD: Lasker Defense (D56) 1-0 Missed 23.?
Plaskett vs J Emms, 1986 
(D56) Queen's Gambit Declined, 41 moves, 1-0

KID Saemisch (E80) 1-0 Bonin burns Byrne in the Byrne!
J Bonin vs R Byrne, 1986 
(E80) King's Indian, Samisch Variation, 23 moves, 1-0

from GM David Norwood's book Grandmaster Meets Chess Amateur
Lputian vs D Norwood, 1986 
(A66) Benoni, 27 moves, 1-0

London System vs QID BxBa6 (D02) 1-0 Discovered+ collects Q
Kamsky vs K Aseev, 1986 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0

English, Anglo-Indian Def. K's Knight Var (A15) 1-0 Arab/Epaul#
V Osnos vs D Komarov, 1986 
(A15) English, 27 moves, 1-0

English, Anglo-Indian Def. Romanishin Var (A11) 1-0 26.?
Korchnoi vs J Bellon Lopez, 1986 
(A11) English, Caro-Kann Defensive System, 36 moves, 1-0

Gruenfeld Defense: Three Knights (D90) 1-0 Q sac line
S Palatnik vs I Stohl, 1986 
(D90) Grunfeld, 19 moves, 1-0

London System BxNe5 (D02) 1-0 Bxh6 initiates Kside assault
Shirov vs Sakaev, 1986 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 35 moves, 1-0

King's Indian Defense: Six Pawns Attack (E77) 1-0 26.?
Bareev vs M Khassanov, 1986 
(E77) King's Indian, 39 moves, 1-0

Old Indian Defense: Normal Var (A55) 1-0 Uncommon pawn strippin
T Witke vs J Nikolac, 1986 
(A55) Old Indian, Main line, 35 moves, 1-0

Zukertort Dbl Fianchetto vs NY System (D02) 1-0 Wild game!
Adianto vs G Pieterse, 1986 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 43 moves, 1-0

QGD: Charousek (Petrosian) Var (D31) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1986 
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 31 moves, 1-0

Old Indian Def: Czech Variation w/Nc3 (A53) 1-0Pesky Ns, passer
Krasenkow vs E Solozhenkin, 1986 
(A53) Old Indian, 33 moves, 1-0

KID: Saemisch. Bronstein Def (E87) 0-1 early Q exit
B Spycher vs J Piket, 1986 
(E87) King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox, 36 moves, 0-1

QGD: Orthodox Def. Classical Var (D68) 1-0 22.?
Lputian vs Balashov, 1986 
(D68) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Classical, 23 moves, 1-0

QID: Kasparov-Petrosian Var. Kasparov Attk (E12) 0-1 Boden's #
P Hardicsay vs Adorjan, 1986 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 17 moves, 0-1

Grob Opening: Double Fianchetto (A00) 0-1Black passers too much
B Wall vs D McDaniel, 1986 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 54 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Kingside Fianchetto (A48) 0-1 f2 is undefended
B Gurgenidze vs Azmaiparashvili, 1986 
(A48) King's Indian, 12 moves, 0-1

Benoni Defense: General (A60) 0-1 Outside passer
Taimanov vs Psakhis, 1986 
(A60) Benoni Defense, 66 moves, 0-1

Gruenfeld Defense: Makogonov Var (D94) 0-1 K walkabout
Miles vs Korchnoi, 1986 
(D94) Grunfeld, 40 moves, 0-1

Gruenfeld Def: Exchange. Classical Var (D86) 1-0 Stockfish
A Yusupov vs Timman, 1986 
(D86) Grunfeld, Exchange, 24 moves, 1-0

Game 022 Garry KASPAROV on Garry KASPAROV II 1985-1993
Huebner vs Kasparov, 1986 
(D90) Grunfeld, 38 moves, 0-1

Game 22 from Nigel Davies' THE VERESOV; W is hogtied
R Reynolds vs Nunn, 1987 
(D01) Richter-Veresov Attack, 32 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Symmetrical. Three Knights (A34) 0-1 Q trap
G Lime vs J J Dahl, 1987 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 14 moves, 0-1

Dutch Stonewall. Modern Be6 (A90) 1/2-R shuffle EG w/K blockade
G Flear vs Short, 1987 
(A90) Dutch, 57 moves, 1/2-1/2

QID Kasparov-Petrosian Var. Kasparov Attk (E12) 1/2-If U Please
J Piket vs L Riemersma, 1987 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 71 moves, 1/2-1/2

White comes in the backdoor, the Black king exits side window
Kasparov vs Short, 1987 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 50 moves, 0-1

Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical (E32) 0-1 From Kside to Qside
K Hulak vs Short, 1987 
(E32) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 33 moves, 0-1

This is how a 4th grader (10 yrs old) can play, when motivated.
B Leverett vs J Polgar, 1987 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 30 moves, 0-1

Catalan Opening (E00) 1/2-1/2 Masterpiece of Swindling
A Beliavsky vs L Christiansen, 1987 
(E00) Queen's Pawn Game, 38 moves, 1/2-1/2

Game 34 in Steve Giddins' 50 Essential Chess Lessons
Hodgson vs Short, 1987 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 62 moves, 0-1

Budapest Defense: Adler (A52) 0-1Black seizes initiative!
Vyzmanavin vs Kotronias, 1987 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 35 moves, 0-1

Zukertort Opening: Lisitsyn Gambit (A04) 0-1 W on the run
G Orlov vs Glek, 1987 
(A04) Reti Opening, 28 moves, 0-1

G131 in The Soviet Championships by M. Taimanov and B. Cafferty
A Beliavsky vs Bareev, 1987 
(A90) Dutch, 30 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Wade-Tartakower Def (A46) 1-0 Heavies get in
R Costigan vs L Day, 1987 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 49 moves, 1-0

Not every combination has to lead to a forced win.
Hort vs A Rodriguez, 1987 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 55 moves, 1-0

Press a button on a computer...
D Norwood vs Gelfand, 1987 
(A36) English, 41 moves, 0-1

NID. Normal. Bishop Attack Classical Def (E48) 1-0 21.Nxg7
Kasparov vs Tal, 1987 
(E48) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5, 31 moves, 1-0

Pseudo-Torre 7.f4 vs Modern Bg7 Fianchetto (A40) 1-0 Phenomenal
Kasparov vs Ljubojevic, 1987 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 37 moves, 1-0

K's English. 4Knts Fianchetto (A29) 0-1 Two mating squares
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1987 
(A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 32 moves, 0-1

Budapest Def: Alekhine. Abonyi Var (A52) 0-1 Correspond Pawn up
H Anders vs W Pohl, 1987 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 12 moves, 0-1

Benko Gambit: Accepted. Dlugy Var (A57) 1-0 Q sac for promo!
Dlugy vs S Polgar, 1987 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 17 moves, 1-0

Benoni Defense: Modern Variation (A56) 1-0 U20
Shirov vs Smirin, 1987 
(A56) Benoni Defense, 72 moves, 1-0

Slav Defense: Czech. Lasker Variation (D18) 0-1 Improvements?
Shirov vs Shabalov, 1987 
(D18) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch, 33 moves, 0-1

QID Kasparov-Petrosian Var. Kasparov Attk (E12)1-0 5 min. Blitz
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1987 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 59 moves, 1-0

KID Orthodox. Classical System Benko Attk (E99) 0-1N fork lurks
P Cramling vs J Reyes, 1987 
(E99) King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 20 moves, 0-1

Fred Wilson's "Simple Attacking Plans", Mongoose Press, 2012
Larsen vs Korchnoi, 1987 
(A11) English, Caro-Kann Defensive System, 17 moves, 0-1

Nimzo-Indian Defense: St. Petersburg Var (E43) 0-1 31...?
L Cooper vs I Ivanov, 1987 
(E43) Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation, 31 moves, 0-1

Bogo-Indian Defense: Grünfeld Var (E11) 1-0 35.?
D Shapiro vs J Silman, 1987 
(E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 36 moves, 1-0

Benoni Defense: Classical. General (A70) 0-1 29...?
C Van Buskirk vs D Gurevich, 1987 
(A70) Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3, 38 moves, 0-1

Gruenfeld Defense: Three Knights Var (D90) 1-0 33.?
J Trapl vs Jansa, 1987 
(D90) Grunfeld, 34 moves, 1-0

Dutch Defense: Semi-Leningrad Var (A81) 1-0 35.?
Ivanchuk vs N A Legky, 1987 
(A81) Dutch, 35 moves, 1-0

QGD. Barmen Var (D37) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish; 26.?
A Huzman vs Dreev, 1987 
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 37 moves, 1-0

Gruenfeld Def. Russian. Smyslov Var (D99) 1-0 Deflection sac
Benjamin vs Mephisto, 1987 
(D99) Grunfeld Defense, Smyslov, 37 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Defense: Classical. Bogoljubow Var (D34) 1-0 19.?
G Barbero vs L Espig, 1987 
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 29 moves, 1-0

KID: Fianchetto. Larsen Def (E62) 1-0 45.?
Larsen vs Benjamin, 1988 
(E62) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 46 moves, 1-0

Dutch Defense: General (A80) 1-0 Stockfish notes; 19.?
Ftacnik vs Gotti, 1987 
(A80) Dutch, 21 moves, 1-0

Dutch Def: 5.BxNf6 BxBf6 6.e4 (A80) 0-1 Stockfish; 37...?
L H Deelman vs A Bleijkmans, 1887 
(A80) Dutch, 36 moves, 0-1

Benoni Defense: King Pawn lines (A65) 0-1 absolute pin
Krasenkow vs Shabalov, 1987 
(A65) Benoni, 6.e4, 34 moves, 0-1

English Opening: King's English. General (A20) 0-1 40...?
Korchnoi vs J Arnason, 1987 
(A20) English, 55 moves, 0-1

"Crime and Punishment" (game of the day Feb-16-2020)
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1987 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 57 moves, 1-0

QGD. Baltic Defense. Queen Attack (D02) 0-1 Vukovic's Mate
A Muir vs S R Mannion, 1987 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 39 moves, 0-1

Old Indian Def: Normal Var (A55) 1-0 Simul; notes by Stockfish
Kasparov vs B Stein, 1987 
(A55) Old Indian, Main line, 25 moves, 1-0

London System vs Dutch (D02)0-1 N giveaway during Kside assault
V Vepkhvishvili vs V Malaniuk, 1987 
(A80) Dutch, 24 moves, 0-1

Slav Defense: Czech. Classical System (D18) 1-0 21.?
A Yusupov vs E Torre, 1987 
(D18) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch, 25 moves, 1-0

Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical (E32) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish
B Finegold vs J Waxman, 1987 
(E32) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 19 moves, 1-0

KID: Fianchetto. Panno Var (E63) 1-0Kill Box Mate w/obstruction
Karpov vs Ljubojevic, 1987 
(E63) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation, 51 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Defense: Classical Var (D34) 0-1 Stockfish notes
Larsen vs Kasparov, 1987 
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 43 moves, 0-1

Dutch Defense: Leningrad Variation (A87) 0-1 26...?
Van der Sterren vs V Malaniuk, 1987 
(A87) Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation, 27 moves, 0-1

Game 179 from Anatoly Karpov - My Best 300 Games
Karpov vs A Sokolov, 1987 
(E15) Queen's Indian, 90 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Anglo-Indian Def. Mikenas-Carls Var (A15) 0-1
R Mendoza vs E Trice, 1987 
(A15) English, 13 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Anti-Nimzo-Indian (E10) 0-1 blitz; wrong score?
Quinteros vs Tal, 1987 
(E10) Queen's Pawn Game, 21 moves, 0-1

Garry Kasparov, excerpt from "How Life Imitates Chess", 2007
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1987  
(A13) English, 64 moves, 1-0

Q's Gambit Declined: Marshall Def (D06) 1-0 Clearance Sacrifice
Keene vs Briant, 1988 
(D06) Queen's Gambit Declined, 25 moves, 1-0

K's English. Four Knights Fianchetto (A29) 1-0 Hog on 7th
Kasparov vs Ivanchuk, 1988 
(A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 24 moves, 1-0

Kasparov forced a draw when he was a queen and a bishop up!
Kasparov vs K Georgiev, 1988 
(A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 78 moves, 1/2-1/2

QG Declined Exchange. Positional Var (D35) 1-0 Minority attack
Karpov vs A V Kharitonov, 1988 
(D35) Queen's Gambit Declined, 42 moves, 1-0

Queen Pawn Barry Attack. Gruenfeld Variation (D02) 0-1 Mean Qs
D Norwood vs J Mestel, 1988 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 27 moves, 0-1

Nimzo-Indian Def. Classical. Keres Def (E32) 0-1Fine Kside attk
J Nogueiras vs Timman, 1988 
(E32) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 52 moves, 0-1

Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical. Keres Def (E32) 1-0 2-for-1
Kasparov vs Hjartarson, 1988 
(E32) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 32 moves, 1-0

One of those winning moves that comes out nowhere.
G Andruet vs Spassky, 1988 
(E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 28 moves, 0-1

QGD Albin Countergambit. Normal Line(D08) 0-1 "Smothered Check"
J Roscher vs W Seemann, 1988 
(D08) Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit, 12 moves, 0-1

Notes by Carsten Hoi; White gives Epaullette Mate w/Q sac, Rook
C Hoi vs Gulko, 1988 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Kan. Modern (B42) 1-0 Zugzwang finale
Smyslov vs V Eingorn, 1988 
(B42) Sicilian, Kan, 46 moves, 1-0

Olympiad crush; the game is in Informator ref.46/28
Ehlvest vs Kasparov, 1988 
(A28) English, 25 moves, 0-1

23...Bxh3!! is winning outright, but Black misses the followup
Kasparov vs S Rachels, 1988 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 42 moves, 1-0

You won't believe your eyes.
V Malinin vs V Savinov, 1988 
(A58) Benko Gambit, 36 moves, 1-0

Gruenfeld Defense: Russian. Prins Var (D97) 0-1 Interpose w/B
A Beliavsky vs Kasparov, 1988 
(D97) Grunfeld, Russian, 29 moves, 0-1

King's English. Reversed Closed Sicilian (A25) 1-0Gone shopping
L Oepen vs S Maus, 1988 
(A25) English, 16 moves, 1-0

Benko G. Accepted. King Walk Var (A59) 0-1 R sac, Q penetration
J Bonin vs S Polgar, 1988 
(A59) Benko Gambit, 25 moves, 0-1

Bogo-Indian Defense: Exchange Var (E11) 1-0 Q double attack!
Koltanowski vs NN, 1988 
(E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 15 moves, 1-0

English Defense (A10) 0-1, 12 moves, attack on f2, deflection
D Pergericht vs J Boudre, 1988 
(A10) English, 12 moves, 0-1

Old Indian Defense (A53) 1-0 Very impressive attack
Gelfand vs A Dunnington, 1988 
(A53) Old Indian, 47 moves, 1-0

Catalan Opening: Open Def (E04) 1-0 No good moves for Black
Razuvaev vs Geller, 1988 
(E04) Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3, 15 moves, 1-0

2,811 games Tal Won 903 (32%), Lost 581 (21%), Draw 1,326 (47%)
Tal vs A Sokolov, 1988 
(E04) Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3, 41 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Defense: Symmetrical (D32) 1-0 Rob the pin
Tal vs Sveshnikov, 1988 
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 21 moves, 1-0

Benko Gambit: Accepted. Central Storming Var (A58) 0-1 N fork
E Bayer vs J Fedorowicz, 1988 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 37 moves, 0-1

KID. Immediate Fianchetto (E60) 1-0 The Bishop Pair
L Christiansen vs L Gutman, 1988 
(E60) King's Indian Defense, 46 moves, 1-0

Old Indian Def: Two Knights (A54) 1-0 Pin, Pin, Pin Again!
L Christiansen vs Blatny, 1988 
(A54) Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3, 28 moves, 1-0

KID Saemisch. Panno (E84) 1-0 A Knight on the 6th, Q in close
L Christiansen vs Nunn, 1988 
(E84) King's Indian, Samisch, Panno Main line, 34 moves, 1-0

Kasparov loses with white in just 25 moves!
Kasparov vs P Wolff, 1988 
(A20) English, 25 moves, 0-1

Game 46 in Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games by Igor Stohl
Kasparov vs A Sokolov, 1988 
(A19) English, Mikenas-Carls, Sicilian Variation, 42 moves, 1-0

Game 52 in Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games by Igor Stohl
Speelman vs Kasparov, 1988 
(E92) King's Indian, 39 moves, 0-1

London System (A46) 1-0 Deflect from, Decoy to, etc.
F Braga vs G Gruen, 1988 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 23 moves, 1-0

English, Anglo-Indian Def. KID formation (A15) 1-0 En prise Bs
Polugaevsky vs R Simic, 1988
(A15) English, 16 moves, 1-0

Nimzo-Indian Def: Panov Attk. ML (E54) 1-0 Arabian # set-up
J Polgar vs Spiridonow, 1988 
(E54) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System, 31 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Drill Variation (A20) 0-1 turkey not at workey
I Manolov vs O Rause, 1988 
(A20) English, 12 moves, 0-1

P-Q4 Barry Attack. Gruenfeld Var (D02) 0-1 Stockfish notes
Hort vs Kasparov, 1988 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 35 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Great Snake Var (A10) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Karpov vs K Georgiev, 1988 
(A10) English, 41 moves, 1-0

QGA: Central Var. Alekhine System (D20) 1-0 Pawns on 6th
Romanishin vs Hort, 1988
(D20) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 46 moves, 1-0

English, Symmetrical. Hedgehog Def (A30) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Karpov vs Ftacnik, 1988 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 93 moves, 1-0

Benko Gambit: Accepted. Dlugy Var (A57) 1-0 Qside Benko killer
Dlugy vs D Gurevich, 1988 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 18 moves, 1-0

Benoni-Indian Defense (A43) 0-1 Arabian Mate
M Drasko vs S Velickovic, 1988 
(A43) Old Benoni, 61 moves, 0-1

Wade Defense: General (A41) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish; 47.?
Kasparov vs A Haik, 1988 
(A41) Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6), 49 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Yusupov-Rubinstein System /Colle Bb2(A46) 0-1Stock
A Yusupov vs Tal, 1988 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 35 moves, 0-1

Bogo-Indian Defense: Grünfeld Var (E11) 1-0 27.?
M Gurevich vs G Andruet, 1988 
(E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 29 moves, 1-0

p. 259, Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual 2nd ed. Russell Enterprises,
J Hickl vs S J Solomon, 1988 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 65 moves, 0-1

NID: Three Knights Var (E21) 1-0 battle to open g- and h-files
Plaskett vs J Arnason, 1988 
(E21) Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights, 44 moves, 1-0

Dutch Defense: Queen's Knight Var (A85) 0-1Was Piket possessed?
J Piket vs V Malaniuk, 1988 
(A85) Dutch, with c4 & Nc3, 40 moves, 0-1

QGD: Exchange. Reshevsky Var (D36) 1-0 Queenside pawn majority
Kasparov vs Andersson, 1988 
(D36) Queen's Gambit Declined, Exchange, Positional line, 6.Qc2, 44 moves, 1-0

Slav Defense: Czech Var (D17) 0-1 Lit in Liechtenstein
B Fartmann vs E Weinzettl, 1988 
(D17) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 12 moves, 0-1

QGD. Charousek (Petrosian) Var (D31) 1-0 Exploit dark squares
Karpov vs A Yusupov, 1988 
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 43 moves, 1-0

Smirin writes in King's Indian Warfare (a must own for all KID
Gavrikov vs Smirin, 1988 
(E97) King's Indian, 46 moves, 0-1

Catalan Opening: Closed Variation (E06) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish
A Beliavsky vs Karpov, 1988 
(E06) Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3, 60 moves, 1-0

Semi-Slav Defense: General (D43) 0-1 Notes by Stockfish
Korchnoi vs Ribli, 1988 
(D43) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 49 moves, 0-1

Torre turned Stonewall Attack (A45) 1-0 Gift gets worse w/pin
J Klinger vs Blatny, 1988 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 38 moves, 1-0

King's English. General (A20) 1-0 Dual sac attacks!
A A Webster vs Lautier, 1988 
(A20) English, 35 moves, 1-0

NID. Normal. Bernstein Def (E59) 1-0 Bad Bishop Punishment
Balashov vs Rozentalis, 1988
(E59) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line, 32 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Symmetrical. 4 Knights (A35) 1-0 Illusory Pin
Tal vs B Ivanovic, 1988 
(A35) English, Symmetrical, 32 moves, 1-0

KIA Sicilian, French Var (B40) 1-0 Keen B sac, pawn breakthru
Leko vs W Heckel, 1989 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

Now this is "in your face" PILING ON THE PIN!
J Piket vs Kasparov, 1989 
(E99) King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 28 moves, 0-1

Zukertort Opening vs NY System (A06) 1-0 N sac is game changer
L Gutman vs Bagirov, 1989 
(A06) Reti Opening, 36 moves, 1-0

This is the longest game (over 20 hours) of chess history
I Nikolic vs G Arsovic, 1989 
(E95) King's Indian, Orthodox, 7...Nbd7, 8.Re1, 255 moves, 1/2-1/2

Game 43: Chess Duels by Yasser Seirawan
Karpov vs Seirawan, 1989 
(D20) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 38 moves, 1-0

QG Declined: Exchange. Positional Var(D35) 1-0 Minority attack
Karpov vs Ljubojevic, 1989 
(D35) Queen's Gambit Declined, 45 moves, 1-0

Game 42: Chess Duels by Yasser Seirawan
Seirawan vs Karpov, 1989 
(E32) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 42 moves, 0-1

Gruenfeld Def. Brinckmann Attk (D82) 1-0 N sac, pile on pin, 2
J Kulbacki vs T Manion, 1989 
(D82) Grunfeld, 4.Bf4, 27 moves, 1-0

QID Opocensky Var (E17) 1-0 Pinter's Brilliancy
J Pinter vs C Thomson, 1989 
(E17) Queen's Indian, 33 moves, 1-0

Modern Def. Q Pawn Fianchetto (A40) 1-0 Unreal Q sac & killer N
D Rajkovic vs Z Jeraj, 1989 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 56 moves, 1-0

QGA Central Var. Modern Def (D20) 1-0 A good old fashioned whip
Kasparov vs Deep Thought, 1989 
(D20) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 37 moves, 1-0

WOW!!! Sacrifice after Sacrifice and mate with three minors!!!
V Malinin vs A Andreev, 1989 
(A58) Benko Gambit, 32 moves, 1-0

K's English. Three Knights System (A27) 1-0 Black took the bait
J Loy vs R Erickson, 1989 
(A27) English, Three Knights System, 10 moves, 1-0

KID Petrosian Var. Stein Def (E92) 1-0 He was so upset...
A Yusupov vs Kasparov, 1989 
(E92) King's Indian, 41 moves, 1-0

Grob Opening 1...e5 2...Ne7 (A00) 1-0 Q trap, pins, activity
G Welling vs E Bongers, 1989 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 60 moves, 1-0

Game 30 in The Samisch King's Indian Uncovered
Gheorghiu vs Gelfand, 1989
(E81) King's Indian, Samisch, 36 moves, 0-1

Dutch Def: Leningrad (A87) 0-1 Now THIS is a pawn center!
J F van der Hoeven vs F Lucas, 1989 
(A87) Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation, 24 moves, 0-1

Sochi 1989 "On Goldin's Pawn" (GOTD)
Goldin vs Geller, 1989 
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 32 moves, 1-0

English Opening: King's English Var (A20) 1-0 Timeless game
Karpov vs Hjartarson, 1989 
(A20) English, 45 moves, 1-0

Gruenfeld Def. Exchange. Classical (D86) 1-0 Polugaevsky's TN
Polugaevsky vs Kudrin, 1989 
(D86) Grunfeld, Exchange, 24 moves, 1-0

KID. Normal. King's Knight Var (E60) 0-1 Two ways to mate!!
D Pacheco vs J Ye, 1989
(E60) King's Indian Defense, 22 moves, 0-1

QGD. Three Knights (D37) 1-0 Sit and solve this on your throne!
N Katishonok vs H Gulbis, 1989 
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 27 moves, 1-0

QID. Fianchetto. Check Var (E15) 0-1 Busy through the center
V Palciauskas vs M Umansky, 1989 
(E15) Queen's Indian, 26 moves, 0-1

Dutch Defense: Classical. Stonewall Var (A94) 1-0 Q vs R ending
Salov vs Short, 1989 
(A94) Dutch, Stonewall with Ba3, 98 moves, 1-0

NID: Classical. Milner-Barry Var (E33) 1-0 N&Ps ending; P sac
Miles vs Benjamin, 1989 
(E33) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 48 moves, 1-0

English, Anglo-Indian Def. QID Formation (A15) 1-0 Intermezzos
Kasparov vs Salov, 1989 
(A15) English, 29 moves, 1-0

Wade Defense: General (A41) 0-1 a defensive sacrifice
T Karolyi vs Hodgson, 1989 
(A41) Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6), 25 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: Nf6, Bg7 vs classic center P duo (A48) 0-1EG video
M Ondrejat vs V Vepkhvishvili, 1989 
(A48) King's Indian, 83 moves, 0-1

Van Geet (Dunst) Opening: General (A00) 1-0 Interference
J Hector vs L B Hoyos Millan, 1989 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 7 moves, 1-0

Meran X: 4 Queens by move 13, gone by move 23
L Pliester vs Dreev, 1989 
(D47) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 31 moves, 0-1

QGD: Vienna Var (D39) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish
Kasparov vs Hjartarson, 1989 
(D39) Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin, Vienna Variation, 26 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Knights Variation. General (A46) 0-1 R from HELL!!
Chiburdanidze vs Goldin, 1989 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 36 moves, 0-1

Zukertort Opening: Dutch Leningrad (A04) 1-0 22.?
E Magerramov vs Vyzmanavin, 1989 
(A04) Reti Opening, 38 moves, 1-0

QID Spassky System/b3, Bb2 Zuke (E14) 1-0 Exchange sac, Bxh7+
Portisch vs de Firmian, 1990 
(E14) Queen's Indian, 30 moves, 1-0

A rook VS two knights and a bishop...who will win?
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1991 
(E97) King's Indian, 114 moves, 1/2-1/2

90. b8=N gives White good drawing chances
Adams vs Miles, 1993 
(B72) Sicilian, Dragon, 122 moves, 1/2-1/2

Underpromotion to N saves the day as Q,B,R would lose
S Shipov vs V Gagarin, 1994 
(E15) Queen's Indian, 60 moves, 1/2-1/2

Sicilian Wing Gambit. Marshall (B20) 1/2 Bloodthirsty Perpetual
Bronstein vs Deep Blue, 1996 
(B20) Sicilian, 34 moves, 1/2-1/2

It takes nuts of steel to allow an en passant check like this!
Timman vs Leko, 1999
(B45) Sicilian, Taimanov, 45 moves, 1/2-1/2

KID Orthodox. Glek Def (E94) 1/2-1/2 Mad Rook forces draw
A Beliavsky vs H Hamdouchi, 1999 
(E94) King's Indian, Orthodox, 65 moves, 1/2-1/2

Double Doubled Pawns and Pins. Only a GM sees this!
Shirov vs Kasparov, 1999 
(B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 39 moves, 1/2-1/2

QGD Charousek (Petrosian) Var (D55) 1-0 Black Isolani beating
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 63 moves, 1-0

QID Fianchetto. General (E15) 0-1 Larry rolls in Colorado
D Gurevich vs L Christiansen, 1987 
(E15) Queen's Indian, 39 moves, 0-1

This game was chosen the best game of 1989.
Karpov vs Adorjan, 1989 
(E15) Queen's Indian, 38 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Symmetrical. Hedgehog Def (A30) 0-1 Stockfish
Tukmakov vs Ribli, 1982 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 35 moves, 0-1

Reti Opening: Advance Var (A09) 0-1 Tal's King on the Run!
L Espig vs Tal, 1982 
(A09) Reti Opening, 36 moves, 0-1

K's English. Reversed Sicilian (A21) 0-1 Chess is an easy game!
Smejkal vs K Rogoff, 1980 
(A21) English, 39 moves, 0-1

Game 14 Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games (Stohl)
Kasparov vs J Fedorowicz, 1981 
(E12) Queen's Indian, 34 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Defense: Symmetrical Var (D32) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Tal vs Timman, 1988 
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 20 moves, 1-0

English vs Anglo-Indian Def. K's Knight Var (A15) 1-0 battery
I Ivanov vs Kudrin, 1989 
(A15) English, 30 moves, 1-0

Queen's Indian Defense: Riumin Variation (E16) 1-0 18.?
V Chekhov vs H Gruenberg, 1983 
(E16) Queen's Indian, 28 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Gibbins-Weidenhagen Gambit. Oshima Def 2..e5 (A45)
E Daikeler vs A Fischer, 1982 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 23 moves, 0-1

QGA. Classical Def. Alekhine System Smyslov Var (D29) 1-0
Chaos vs Nuchess, 1980 
(D29) Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical, 44 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Symmetrical. Anti-Benoni, Spielmann Def (A32)
D Bondoc vs J Szmetan, 1980 
(A32) English, Symmetrical Variation, 25 moves, 0-1

QGD: Baltic Defense. Pseudo-Slav (D02) 0-1 Q trap on the Qside
V Loginov vs Bronstein, 1982 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 40 moves, 0-1

5.Qd2 is the Tarzan or Vorotnikov-Kogan-Hebden Attack
M M Pereyra Puebla vs O Sande, 1983 
(A48) King's Indian, 20 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Spielmann-Indian Bb2 vs Bb7 (A46) 0-1 Stockfish
V Kovacevic vs Lobron, 1983 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 37 moves, 0-1

QGD: Marshall Defense 0-0 vs 0-0-0 (D06) 1-0
Browne vs N Zelkind, 1987 
(D06) Queen's Gambit Declined, 21 moves, 1-0

QGD: Chigorin Defense. Main Line (D07) 0-1 0-0 vs 0-0-0
A Profumo vs P Beggi, 1980 
(D07) Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense, 23 moves, 0-1

Elongated London System vs Indian Game: General (A45) 1/2-1/2
M Basman vs W Hartston, 1980 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 39 moves, 1/2-1/2

Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack: General (A06) 0-1 battery, weak sqrs
A Toure vs R Ye, 1988 
(A06) Reti Opening, 37 moves, 0-1

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