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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

"The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not." — Emanuel Lasker

"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

"Chess is not for timid souls." ― Wilhelm Steinitz.

"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

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." ― Jim Rohn

"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one." ― Will Rogers

"You have enemies? Good; that means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life." — Winston Churchill

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." — Plato

"You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them." — Sheldon B. Kopp

"It's a short trip from the penthouse to the outhouse." ― Paul Dietzel

"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal." — Criss Jami

"Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder." — Henry David Thoreau

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." — Ellen Goodman

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." — Ancient Chinese Proverb

It's no time to play chess when the house is on fire. ~ Italian Proverb

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~ Chinese Proverb

The one who wins plays best. ~ German Proverb

Acts 20:35 "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

* Ataman's Minis: Game Collection: Instructive Chess Miniatures (Ataman)

* Amazing: Game Collection: Amazing Chess Moves (Emms)

* Alpha Glossary: https://www.chess-poster.com/englis...

* Against the Bird: Game Collection: World Champions face 1. f4

* Are you broke? https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...

* Brutal Attacking Chess collection: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess

* Bit Collection: Game Collection: Special Gambit Collection

* Brevities: Game Collection: 7

* Brilliant (and mostly famous)! Game Collection: Brilliant Miniatures

* Blackburne strikes! games annotated by Blackburne

* Best Birdies: https://thechessworld.com/articles/...

* Black attack!
Game Collection: Modern Defence Reversed

* Bearly Thinking: https://www.etsy.com/listing/972054...

* Best Games of 2018: Game Collection: Best Games of 2018

* Checkmate patterns: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns

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

* Black Defends: Game Collection: Opening repertoire black

* Basic Rules: https://thechessworld.com/basic-che...

* 10 Tips: https://www.uschess.org/index.php/L...

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

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

* B23-B25: Game Collection: Sicilian Closed / Grand Prix Attack

* 25 Opening Traps: https://www.chess.com/blog/ChessLor...

* ChessCafe.com column, The Openings Explained: Abby Marshall

* Chess Links: http://www.chessdryad.com/links/ind...

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

* Common Gambits: https://saintlouischessclub.org/blo...

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

* C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game

* C55's for Black: Game Collection: A A Anti-e4 Italian Game (Black)

* C-K Examples: Game Collection: Caro Kann Lines

* Chess is cold-steel calculation, not emotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-T...

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

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

* Cats: Game Collection: Catalan Opening I

* Clutch Chess: A new knockout format: Clutch Champions Showdown (2020)

* The Chain: https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...

* Double attack: Game Collection: DOUBLE ATTACK

* Del's: Game Collection: Del's hidden gems

* The Donner Party of Misery: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...

* Don't Steal: https://www.openbible.info/topics/s...

* Dust in the Wind: https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...

* Dubov comes in 2nd place to you-know-who: FIDE Online Steinitz Memorial (2020)

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

* Everyday people should play tabletop games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUU...

* Epic: Game Collection: Epic Battles of the CB by R.N. Coles - keypusher

* Escapes: Game Collection: Defensive Combinations (Perpetual Check)

* Fischer's Brilliance: https://www.chesspuzzler.com/Histor...

* Fischer Random: https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...

* FM Schiller disagrees: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

* Failing is a part of life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nja...

* Fischer Wins: Game Collection: Bobby Fischer Wins With The King's Indian Attack

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

* French According to... Game Collection: The French According to ...

* GK Sicilian: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen

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

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

* Gain space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ7...

* GM Avetik Grigoryan: https://chessmood.com/blog/improve-...

* How dumb is it? Game Collection: Diemer-Duhm Gambit

* Jaenisch Gambit: Opening Explorer

* Jambalaya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzj...

* James' Jedi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ta...

* King Registration: https://www.kingregistration.com/to...

* KP Beauties: Game Collection: Beautiful mates

* Surprise Knockouts: Game Collection: quick knockouts of greats

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

* Morphy Miniatures:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

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

* Make a Stand: https://www.history.com/topics/amer...

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

* Naroditsky's Na3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvU...

* Neon Moon, smooth and easy: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Neon+...

* Notable Games: Game Collection: List of Notable Games (wiki)

* Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc...

* Opening Ideas/Novelties: Game Collection: Great opening ideas

* 4 Miniz: zPonziani, zKieseritzky, zPhilidor, zFrankenstein-Dracula: z https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76c...

* Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc...

* Parents Guide: https://lichess.org/@/mizant83/blog...

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

* Puzzles: Tactics Archive

* Play for free: https://www.freechess.org/

* Puzzling: https://www.365chess.com/puzzles.php

* Play whatever you like: Opening Explorer

* GM Perelshteyn teaches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq3...

* Prizes: Game Collection: Brilliancy Prizes (Reinfeld)

* Post-Beginners Book: Game Collection: Chess training for post-beginners

* QGD D06: Queen's Gambit Declined (D06)

* Reasonable book choices: https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell...

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

* Rubinstein: Game Collection: Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces

* RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures

* Roger that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S...

* Rajnish Das Tips: https://enthu.com/blog/chess/chess-...

* Starting Out 1d4: Game Collection: Starting Out: 1 d4!

* Sports Clichés: http://www.sportscliche.com/

* Sacs on f7/f2: Game Collection: Demolition of Pawn Structure: Sac on f7 (f2)

* Six Ways: https://takelessons.com/blog/6-tips...

* 107 battles: Game Collection: 107 Great Chess Battles: 1939-45 Alekhine

* 21st Century: Game Collection: 0

* Can you whip Taimanov's Sicilian? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* Bg2 vs Sicilian: Game Collection: Grand Prix Attack without early Bc4

* Extinguish the Dragon: Game Collection: 1.e4 explorations

* She's a Stonewaller: Eneida Astolfi Perez

* Steinitz Attack: Game Collection: STEINITZ ATTACK

* Tactical Mix: Game Collection: mastering Tactical ideas by minev

* The Best of... Game Collection: World Champions' Best Games

* Tips for Knights & More: http://www.chesssets.co.uk/blog/tip...

* Unleash the Knight: https://cardclashgames.com/blog/che...

* Spruce Variety: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/che...

* VP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncH...

* It takes me back where, when and who: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh2...

* Wall's APCT Miniatures:
http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/c...

* Wonders and Curiosities: Game Collection: Wonders and Curiosities of Chess (Chernev)

* Zero's Fav Games Vol 204: Game Collection: 0ZeR0's collected games volume 204

Place your knights in the center for greater mobility; avoid edges and the corners.

Кто не рискует, тот не пьет шампанского Pronunciation: KTOH ni risKUyet, tot ni pyot shamPANSkava) Translation: He who doesn't take risks doesn't drink champagne Meaning: Fortune favours the brave

"Tal has a terrifying style. Soon even grandmasters will know of this." - Vladimir Saigin (after losing to 17-year-old Tal in a qualifying match for the master title) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5S...

"I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind." — Mikhail Tal

In 1913 Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky, Tito all lived in Vienna for a couple of months.

Alabama: Mobile
Established in: 1702

The city of Mobile is a port city on the Gulf Coast in Alabama that has a lot of French influence (which makes sense, since it was founded by the French). Mardi Gras celebrations originated there, and you can experience the history of the holiday at the Mobile Carnival Museum.

* Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch...

* Current list: https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml

* Three Simple Chess Tips: https://www.premierchesscoaching.co...

* Short history: Game Collection: A history of chess

* Chess Aps: https://www.wired.com/story/best-ch...

* 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!

'A rising tide lifts all boats'

'Don't put the cart before the horse'

Create protected outposts for your knights.

This poem is dedicated to all Caissa's members who understand that chess is but a game.

Chess is but a Game

As he secretly rode his knight out of the castle's gate, still believing that he could escape this inevitable fate, the sky broke open with an array of incredible light. and there smitten to the earth lay nova under his knight. I am who I am and always am, spoke this thundering voice and you, my friend nova, do not at all have another choice but to go forth south and north, west and east
loudly proclaiming the good Word to man and beast. Thus beset by the compelling voice from the broken sky nova set about explaining through the word the how and why. He travelled north and south, west and east never losing aim to let all Caissa's members know: chess is but a game.

"In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent." — Vasily Smyslov

"With most men life is like backgammon, half skill, and half luck, but with him it was like chess. He never pushed a pawn without reckoning the cost, and when his mind was least busy it was sure to be half a dozen moves ahead of the game as it was standing." — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Guardian Angel (1867)

"There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world." ― Pierre Mac Orlan

"You can only get good at chess if you love the game." ― Bobby Fischer

>Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.

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Dear Son, I kNOw that astroNOmy, ecoNOmics, and oceaNOgraphy are eNOugh to keep even an hoNOr student busy. Do NOt forget that the pursuit of kNOwledge is a NOble task, and you can never study eNOugh. Love, Dad

Identify knight forks.

Q: What do you call a cat that likes to eat beans? A: Puss 'n' Toots!

Q: What do you call a clown who's in jail?
A: A silicon!

Q: What do you call a deer with no eyes?
A: No eye deer!!

Q: What do you call a three-footed aardvark?
A: A yardvark!

Q: What do you call a dancing lamb?
A: A baaaaaa-llerina!

Q: What do you call a meditating wolf?
A: Aware wolf!

Q: What do you call a witch who lives at the beach? A: A sand-witch!

Q: What do you call an avocado that's been blessed by the pope? A: Holy Guacamole!

Where can the opponent's knight land in two moves? Would that be a problem?

M.Hassan: <Eggman>: Scarborough Chess Club which is said to be the biggest chess club in Canada, arranges tournaments under the name of "Howard Rideout" tournaments. Is he the same Rideout that you are mentioning?. I only know that this is to commemorate "Rideout" who has been a player and probably in that club because the club is over 40 years old. This tournament is repeated year after year and at the beginning of the season when the club resumes activity after summer recession in September. Zxp

PeterB: Eggman and Mr. Hassan - you are right, Howard Ridout was a long time member of the Scarborough Chess Club! He was very active even when I joined in 1969, and was still organizing tournaments at the time of his death in the 1990s. This game is a good memorial to him! Theodorovitch was a Toronto master rated about 2250 back then, perhaps about 2350 nowadays.

* ‘May your Departures equal your Landfalls!'

Here's a poem a dad wrote:

<ODE TO CHESS

Ten times I charged the grim, foreboding walls

and was pitched into the pit of defeat.

But, heedless of humiliating falls,

I clambered bravely back onto my feet

and charged again, again to be down thrust

onto the scrap heap of people who lose

onto the mound of mortifying dust

whilst my opponent sat without a bruise

upon his pedestal. We changed sides

and fought again, but I was defeated

whilst he with arrogant and haughty strides

took the throne upon which I had been seated.

Ha! Win or lose, it's how you play the game.

But I would like to beat him just the same.>

"Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another." — Marcel Duchamp

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"When in doubt, don't." ― Benjamin Franklin

A Fallen Leaf
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A trusting little leaf of green,
A bold audacious frost;
A rendezvous, a kiss or two,
And youth for ever lost.
Ah, me!
The bitter, bitter cost.

A flaunting patch of vivid red,
That quivers in the sun;
A windy gust, a grave of dust,
The little race is run.
Ah, me!
Were that the only one.

Of the eight planets in the Solar System, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were observed by Babylonian astronomers as early as the 2nd millennium BC. The Greek Aristarchus of Samos (310–230 bc) also correctly observed the position of Earth in relation to the planets – known as the heliocentric model.

'Ask no questions and hear no lies

* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1

* Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century

* Knight Power: https://fmochess.com/the-power-of-t...

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

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.

'Attack is the best form of defence

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/

1972: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw4...

Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER

"Housekeeping" by Natasha Tretheway

We mourn the broken things, chair legs
wrenched from their seats, chipped plates,
the threadbare clothes. We work the magic
of glue, drive the nails, mend the holes.
We save what we can, melt small pieces
of soap, gather fallen pecans, keep neck bones
for soup. Beating rugs against the house,
we watch dust, lit like stars, spreading
across the yard. Late afternoon, we draw
the blinds to cool the rooms, drive the bugs
out. My mother irons, singing, lost in reverie.
I mark the pages of a mail-order catalog,
listen for passing cars. All day we watch
for the mail, some news from a distant place.

George's OB Trap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp1...

Kevin's OB Trap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYK...

Vulcan's OB, MB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6z...

Solomon's OB lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34N...

The OB is Terrible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZa...

Aronian's Blitz OB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dak...

What's up her sleeve? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSo...

Useful System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wW...

H2PT Czech B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptn...

Tillis' Czech B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp9...

Chess School CB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-us...

Stockfish smashes the CB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufJ...

A56 Benoni Defense
A56 Benoni Defense: Hrom?dka System
A56 Vulture Defense
A56 Benoni Defense: Czech Benoni Defense
A57 Benko Gambit
A57 Benko Gambit Accepted
A57 Benko Gambit: Zaitsev System
A57 Benko Gambit: Nescafe Frappe Attack
A58 Benko Gambit Accepted, Fully Accepted Variation

Maximo wrote:

My Forking Knight's Mare
Gracefully over the squares, as a blonde or a brunette, she makes moves that not even a queen can imitate. Always active and taking the initiative,
she likes to fork.
She does it across the board,
taking with ease not only pawns, but also kings, and a bad bishop or two.
Sometimes she feels like making
quiet moves,
at other times, she adopts romantic moods,
and makes great sacrifices.
But, being hers a zero-sum game,
she often forks just out of spite.
An expert at prophylaxis, she can be a swindler, and utter threats,
skewering men to make some gains.
Playing with her risks a conundrum,
and also catching Kotov's syndrome.
Nonetheless, despite having been trampled
by her strutting ways
my trust in her remains,
unwavering,
until the endgame.

"When you're lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war." ― Aristotle

"A bad plan is better than none at all." ― Frank Marshal

"Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not pawns." ― Siegbert Tarrasch

"The older I grow, the more I value pawns." ― Paul Keres

<Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" Bombardment of Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, New York, 1865

The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in the middle of the Civil War, wrote this poem which has more recently been adapted as a modern Christmas classic. Longfellow wrote this on Christmas Day in 1863, after his son had enlisted in the Union's cause and had returned home, seriously wounded. The verses which he included and are still generally included, speak of the despair of hearing the promise of "peace on earth, goodwill to men" when the evidence of the world is clearly that war still exists.

And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men."

The original also included several verses referring specifically to the Civil War. Before that cry of despair and answering cry of hope, and after verses describing the long years of hearing of "peace on earth, goodwill to men" (a phrase from the Jesus birth narratives in the Christian scriptures), Longfellow's poem includes, describing the black cannons of the war:

Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!>

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* Classic Fails: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfW...

* Bearly Thinking: https://www.etsy.com/listing/972054...

The thought crossed my gentle mind that CGs needs some additional avatar variance of figures like Emory and Andrew Tate, Tani Adewumi, James Black Jr., Ambakisye Osayaba, Tom "Murph" Murphy, and Pontus Carlsson, Taahir Levi, Praggy and Pentala Harikrishna, Nihal Sarin, Adhiban Baskaran, Manuel Aaron, and Juan Carlos González Zamora, María Teresa Mora Iturralde, Daniela De la Parra, Alejandra Guerrero Rodríguez, Azarya Jodi Setyaki, Medina Warda Aulia, Errol Tiwari, Elshan Moradiabadi, Joey Razo, Collette McGruder, Diamond Shakoor, Phiona Mutesi, Jessica Hyatt, Jean-Pierre and Koneru Humpy, Tania Sachdev, Rout Padmini and Hou Yifan and Zhao Xue, Medhat Moheb, Yao Ming and Awonder Liang, Jeffery Xiong and Liem Le, Li Chao and the like. Our avatars are rather lily silly; not everybody looks like Smith, Jones, Thomas, or Mikhail.

On the other hand, we definitely need some redheads too (Anna Rudolf, Isla Fisher, Jude Acers, Prince Harry, Ed Sheeran)!! I'd say at least a dozen redheads, some with and without beards. Some Canadians too!

The Dog That Dropped The Substance For The Shadow

This world is full of shadow-chasers,
Most easily deceived.
Should I enumerate these racers,
I should not be believed.
I send them all to Aesop's dog,
Which, crossing water on a log,
Espied the meat he bore, below;
To seize its image, let it go;
Plunged in; to reach the shore was glad,
With neither what he hoped, nor what he'd had.

<When my teenage son worked part time in a hardware store, a man came in to buy hooks for hanging plants. But there were only two hooks left in the gold color that he needed.

My son, trying to be helpful, suggested, "Could you maybe use the silver or the white instead?"

The customer scrutinized him and said, "You're not married, are you?"

<* Riddle-z-xp: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid...>

Dad loves to eat and does so with gusto—to the distress of my mother, who worries about his weight. One evening Dad was devouring a snack of cheese spread and crackers. As he scraped the last bit of spread from its container, he asked Mom if she wanted to save the jar.

"No, it's okay," Mom replied. "Go ahead and eat it.">

"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

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

<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.>

Us Two
So wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
"What would I do?" I said to Pooh,
"If it wasn't for you," and Pooh said: "True, It isn't much fun for One, but Two,
Can stick together, says Pooh, says he. "That's how it is," says Pooh. — A. A. Milne

<"Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech."
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well>

Prayer for Your Children
Lord, I release my children to Your care and protection, and I relinquish my will for them in favor of Your will. I know I can't go everywhere my child goes, but I know you do. Please protect them.Give us wisdom for how to parent well. Give us peace in Your goodness toward our children and your love for us. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

<A Friend's A Bloom
In the garden of life, a friend's a bloom,
Through sunshine and storms, a comforting room.
With laughter and support, they light the way,
In friendship's embrace, we cherish each day.
— Unknown>

"There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire." ― Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie

Be happy while you're living, For you're a long time dead. ~ Scottish Proverb

"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

James 1:5 "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him"

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

"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

Smaller animals tend to perceive time as if it is passing in slow motion. Insects and small birds, for example, can see more information in one second than a larger animal such as an elephant.

<Thank you Lord for another day,

The chance to learn, the chance to play.
Now as I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
Please, guard me Jesus through the night,
And keep me safe till morning's light.
But if I should I die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
And should I live for other days,
I pray that God will guide my ways.
Amen.>

"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world." — Billy Graham

"The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course." — Billy Graham

* Riddle-ridez-free: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch...

"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

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." ― Yogi Berra, one of the greatest Yankees of all time

hzev240y Zulzaga luvs to ride wavey chips ina dip surf while Zeitlin skittles.

"Many people perceive the merit of a manuscript which is read to them, but will not declare themselves in its favor until they see what success it has in the world when printed, or what intelligent men will say about it. They do not like to risk their opinion, and they want to be carried away by the crowd and dragged along by the multitude. Then they say that they were amongst the first who approved of that work, and the general public shares their opinion. Such men lose the best opportunities of convincing us that they are intelligent, clever, and first-rate critics, and can really discover what is good and what is better. A fine work falls into their hands; it is an author's first book before he has got any great name; there is nothing to prepossess anyone in his favor, and by applauding his writings one does not court or flatter the great. Zelotes, you are not required to cry out: "This is a masterpiece; human intelligence never went farther; the human speech cannot soar higher; henceforward we will judge of no one's taste but by what he thinks of this book." Such exaggerated and offensive expressions are only employed by postulants for pensions or benefices and are even injurious to what is really commendable and what one wishes to praise. Why not merely say—"That's a good book?" It is true you say it when the whole of France has approved of it, and foreigners as well as your own countrymen, when it is printed all over Europe and has been translated into several languages, but then it is too late." ― Jean de La Bruyère

Oct-04-10
I play the Fred: said...
You're distraught
because you're not
able to cope
feel like a dope
when Lasker hits
Puttin on (the Fritz)

Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" has her own mailbox at the Louvre because of all the love letters she receives.

"Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got." ― Norman Vincent Peale

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." ― Ralph Marston

"A wise man never knows all; only a fool knows everything." ― African Proverb

Z is for Zipper (to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb")

Zipper starts with letter Z,
Letter Z, letter Z,
Zipper starts with Letter Z,
/z/, /z/, /z/, /z/!

"Chacun voit midi à sa porte." ― (Everyone sees noon at his own door, or Everyone sees things their own way.)

wordsyfun
48xp L Zaid Tacocchio peeked up eza wally's pride b4 HOCF askd CIOD to open athe zodiacaleon bad zappasta gaspd last rekwuested Dzagnidze instead of Dzindzi's line of playday.

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.

HUMPTY DUMPTY
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty
Together again.

Q: What is money called in space?
A: Star bucks.

Q: Where do the stars go to get their milk?
A: The Milky Way.

Q: Why didn't the Dog Star laugh at the joke? A: It was too Sirius.

1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 (The Bishop's Opening, Berlin Defense)

Then 3.d4 (Ponziani's Gambit) and some variation thereafter. Wikipedia shows that the following are closely related:

* 3...exd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 (Center Game, by transposition)

* 3...exd4 4.Nf3 (Urusov Gambit)

o 4...Bc5 5.0-0 Nc6 (Max Lange Attack, by transposition)

o 4...Nc6 (Two Knights Defense, by transposition)

o 4...Nxe4 5.Qxd4 (Urusov Gambit Accepted)

Indian Game: Yusupov-Rubinstein System (A46) 1-0 Qg3+ preps N+
A Yusupov vs A Beliavsky, 1998 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 21 moves, 1-0

Dutch Defense: Rubinstein Var (A84) 1-0 Greco's # w/a pin
A Pomar vs L Gallegos, 1944 
(A84) Dutch, 16 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Kan. Polugaevsky Var(B42) 1-0B sac Q Sac & Dbl Check!!
J Lechtynsky vs Pachman, 1968 
(B42) Sicilian, Kan, 19 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Schmidt Var (C45) 1/2-1/2 Perpetual+
Alekhine vs Lasker, 1914 
(C45) Scotch Game, 16 moves, 1/2-1/2

French Def: Chigorin 2.Qe2 delayed KGA (C00) 1-0 royal family f
F Bohatirchuk vs W Jursevskis, 1946 
(C00) French Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Tarrasch Variation. Open System (C07) · 1-0
J Sammour-Hasbun vs J Bonin, 1991 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Open System Euwe-Keres Line (C07) 1-0 18.Bh6!
Kasparov vs Short, 2001 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 24 moves, 1-0

French Rubinstein Blackburne Def (C10) 1-0 Reinfeld # puzzle
Spielmann vs R L'hermet, 1927 
(C10) French, 24 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Steinitz. Bradford Attack (C11) 1-0 Qxh6+ sac
Fischer vs Benko, 1962 
(C11) French, 31 moves, 1-0

French Alekhine-Chatard Attk. Maroczy Var (C13) 1-0 Dbl R sac!!
Nisipeanu vs A Florean, 1995 
(C13) French, 19 moves, 1-0

Oll's TN of 10.Bxh6 took first place by a wide margin
Oll vs M Ulybin, 1989 
(C18) French, Winawer, 34 moves, 1-0

French Def: Winawer. Classical Var (C18) 1-0 Anderssen's promo!
S Barrientos Chavarriaga vs D Warner, 2012 
(C18) French, Winawer, 32 moves, 1-0

King Pawn Game: General (C20) 1-0 Cornered K
R Hodgson vs C Haviland, 1891 
(C20) King's Pawn Game, 22 moves, 1-0

Vienna Game: Anderssen Def (C25) 1-0 Bxh6, BxB, Bh6#!
V Green vs J Robey, 1862 
(C25) Vienna, 30 moves, 1-0

Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid (C28) 1-0 U12 Bishops bite
Y Silich vs B Erkhes, 2016 
(C28) Vienna Game, 17 moves, 1-0

KG Accepted. Bishop's Gambit (C33) 1-0 Blackburne's Mate
W Rudolf vs NN, 1912 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 12 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit. Advance (C45) 0-1 N raid!
E Tholfsen vs Marshall, 1924 
(C45) Scotch Game, 23 moves, 0-1

Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo (C50) 0-1 Hammerin' the 3rd!!
M Silon vs O Budis, 2000
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 35 moves, 0-1

Italian Game: General (C50) 1-0 Dovetail Mate
Koltanowski vs NN, 1942
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 18 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo (C50) 1-0 Blastin' Bishops
K Amerika vs Nicole Valdivia Cano, 2014 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 29 moves, 1-0

C58 1-0 25 moves. Bxh6 leads to Damiano's Bishop Mate.
L Prins vs A Medina Garcia, 1951 
(C58) Two Knights, 25 moves, 1-0

QGD: Q's Knight Var (D31) 1-0 Bxh6 sac generates Kside assault
Koltanowski vs NN, 1940
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 24 moves, 1-0

Catalan Opening: General (E00) 1-0 I Super-F#
Krasenkow vs Chernin, 1991 
(E00) Queen's Pawn Game, 30 moves, 1-0

first brilliancy prize of Goteborg Interzonal Tournament 1955
Bronstein vs Keres, 1955 
(E41) Nimzo-Indian, 39 moves, 1-0

KIA e5 strong point vs French Ne8 (A07) 1-0 K stripped bare
Harikrishna vs Naiditsch, 2010 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 42 moves, 1-0

Chess Life and Review magazine, September, 1978 issue
A Lein vs K Regan, 1978 
(A13) English, 28 moves, 1-0

King's English. General (A20) 1-0 K charge into trouble
Steinitz vs S Rosenthal, 1873 
(A20) English, 39 moves, 1-0

King's English. Four Knights (A28) 1-0 Bxg7 sac sets the fire
Flohr vs Koltanowski, 1935 
(A28) English, 39 moves, 1-0

English Opening: Symmetrical (A30) 0-1 BF's Q is asking for it
Larsen vs Fischer, 1971 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 54 moves, 0-1

Colle-Zuke vs Small Cntr Yusupov-Rubinstein Systm (A46) 1-0Bxh6
Santasiere vs B Blumin, 1939 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 29 moves, 1-0

London System w/a touch of Colle (D02) 1-0 Kside, Qside, Kside
Bronstein vs A Thorsteinsson, 1990
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 42 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Knights Var. General (A46) 1-0 Q drops in #
M Fleischer vs R Larson, 1949
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 35 moves, 1-0

London System vs KID h6, g5 (A48) 1-0 Nxh6, pin
Harikrishna vs V S Gujrathi, 2016
(A48) King's Indian, 33 moves, 1-0

Indian Game: Budapest Def (A51) 0-1 RxB immune from recapture
M Bensdorp-De Labaca vs P Dubbeld, 2001 
(A51) Budapest Gambit, 20 moves, 0-1

A52 0-1 20 Semi-Smothered mate (the Rook is pinned)
I Ivanisevic vs A Tovizi, 2003 
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 20 moves, 0-1

Benoni Def Classical Var (A70) 1-0 Exchange sac, Nxh6+
Botvinnik vs Y Rokhlin, 1927 
(A70) Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3, 28 moves, 1-0

3...Qa5 Lasker Var Bg4 (B01) 1-0 Bxh3 0-0 vs 0-0-0
Rossolimo vs Livingstone, 1961 
(B01) Scandinavian, 28 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def. 2Knights Attk 5.NxNf6 exNf6 (B10) 0-1 Bxh3 sac
Karjakin vs Jobava, 2014 
(B10) Caro-Kann, 31 moves, 0-1

Caro-Kann Def: Accelerated Panov Attk. Modern (B10) 1-0 23.?
J Koch vs A Hauchard, 1997 
(B10) Caro-Kann, 29 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def. Advance. Tal Var (B12)1-0 Bxa6 overworked b-pawn
R Mainka vs Psakhis, 1994 
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 40 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange (B13) 1-0 Bxh6 sac
L Rudenko vs R M Bruce, 1946 
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 28 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack (B14) 1-0 Bxh6 etc.
J A Fuller vs W A Winser, 1949 
(B14) Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack, 32 moves, 1-0

C-K Def. Rasa-Studier Gambit (B15) 0-1 Bxh6 sac fails
S Barane vs D Jorgensen, 2009 
(B15) Caro-Kann, 32 moves, 0-1

Caro-Kann Def. Karpov. Tiviakov-Fischer Attk (B17) 1-0 Rs entry
Stein vs Vasiukov, 1965 
(B17) Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation, 57 moves, 1-0

Sicilian O'Kelly. Delayed Wing Gambit (B28) 1-0 Ns kick up a s
J Yohan vs P Rout, 2017 
(B28) Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation, 36 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def Lasker-Pelikan. Sveshnikov Var (B33) 0-1 Bxh3
T Needham vs S Polgar, 1981 
(B33) Sicilian, 23 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def. Chekhover Var (B53) 1-0 Greco pattern extended
Kamsky vs Lautier, 1993 
(B53) Sicilian, 26 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Classical. Anti-Fischer-Sozin (B57) 1-0 37.?
de Firmian vs R Byrne, 1994 
(B57) Sicilian, 36 moves, 1-0

Sic Scheveningen. Keres Attack (B81) 0-1 Sassy game
G Timmerman vs Andersson, 1994 
(B81) Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack, 49 moves, 0-1

31. Qxh6+! forces Black's resignation due to the fork threat
Geller vs Polugaevsky, 1961 
(B92) Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation, 31 moves, 1-0

French Def. Horwitz Attack. Papa-Ticulat Gambit (C00) 1-0 Bxh6
E Sperdokli vs E Makka, 2004 
(C00) French Defense, 57 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Delayed Exchange (C01) 1-0 Bxh3 comes up short
R Hovhannisyan vs D B Graham, 2016
(C01) French, Exchange, 33 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Winawer. Delayed Exchange (C01) 1-0 Beautiful
Blackburne vs F Ford, 1877 
(C01) French, Exchange, 27 moves, 1-0

French Def: Classical. Alapin Var (C14) 1-0 Each piece assaults
A M Levin vs Swiderski, 1902 
(C14) French, Classical, 34 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Positional Variation (C19) 1-0 22.?
W Hartston vs Portisch, 1974 
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 25 moves, 1-0

Vienna Game: Anderssen Def (C25) 0-1 Defensive aggression!
Zukertort vs C Goering, 1877 
(C25) Vienna, 42 moves, 0-1

Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid (C28) 1-0 NxNf6+ cracks Black
S Morgan vs R Delgado Palomeque, 2008
(C28) Vienna Game, 13 moves, 1-0

KGA. Breyer Gambit (C33) 1-0 Bxh6 cracks the 0-0
B Wall vs D Easton, 1972 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 22 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Nimzowitsch Attk (C42) 1-0 34.?
Karjakin vs D Frolyanov, 2013 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 35 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Kaufmann Attack (C42) 0-1 squeeze
Nisipeanu vs Giri, 2010 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 31 moves, 0-1

King Pawn Game: Tayler Opening. Inverted Hanham (C44) · 1-0
Jobava vs B Bok, 2014 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 32 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Classical 5.Be3 Qf6 (C45) 0-1 Nxh6+
C Golmayo vs G Neumann, 1867 
(C45) Scotch Game, 22 moves, 0-1

Scotch Game: Classical Var (C45) 1/2-1/2 Stockfish notes
Blackburne vs Gunsberg, 1881 
(C45) Scotch Game, 57 moves, 1/2-1/2

Scotch Game: Schmidt Var (C45) 1-0 Bxh6 opens Kside attack
A Hayrapetian vs K Butler, 2008 
(C45) Scotch Game, 27 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Schmidt Var (C45) 1-0 Bxh6 starts a fire
J Musialkiewicz vs K Chojnacki, 2012 
(C45) Scotch Game, 39 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Schmidt Var (C45) 1-0 Bs sacs for Qs penetration
Tarrasch vs M Weiss, 1885 
(C45) Scotch Game, 33 moves, 1-0

Three Knights, Steinitz - Rosenthal Var (C46) 1-0 Impressive
C Clemens vs K Darga, 1961 
(C46) Three Knights, 28 moves, 0-1

Four Knights Glek Bg2 (C46) 1-0 Take advantage of the situation
Rozentalis vs T Rydstrom, 2016 
(C46) Three Knights, 18 moves, 1-0

Four Knights Game: Scotch. Belgrade Gambit (C47) 1-0 Kside sacs
A Barnsley vs M Reijnen, 1997 
(C47) Four Knights, 34 moves, 1-0

Four Knts Scotch. Belgrade Gambit (C47) 0-1Immediate Kside fire
Rudensky vs Gribin, 1957 
(C47) Four Knights, 20 moves, 0-1

editor's pick as Best Game of Volume 139 of Chess Informant
A Goganov vs A Puranik, 2019 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 51 moves, 1-0

Evans Gambit. Anderssen Var (C51) 1-0 Spearhead aims at f7
Fischer vs J Boatner, 1964 
(C51) Evans Gambit, 10 moves, 1-0

Evans Gambit. Goering Attk (C51) 0-1 Overworked P triggers exch
B Yankovich vs Chigorin, 1901
(C51) Evans Gambit, 39 moves, 0-1

Game 1 in Chernev's "Logical Chess Move by Move."
von Scheve vs Teichmann, 1907 
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 17 moves, 0-1

Italian, Classical. Giuoco Pianissimo (C53) 1-0 Bxh6 clearance
F Vallejo Pons vs W Spoelman, 2009 
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 30 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Classical. Giuoco Pianissimo (C53) 1-0 Greco's #
Lutikov vs B Malisov, 1968 
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 32 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Classical. Giuoco Pianissimo ML (C53) 1-0 3rd-6th
Movsesian vs J Stocek, 2008
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 58 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Classical. Greco Gambit Traditional (C54) 1-0Bxh6
Keres vs G Karring, 1934 
(C54) Giuoco Piano, 17 moves, 1-0

Qxh6+!! and mate by bishop is unstoppable!
Schlechter vs P Meitner, 1899 
(C54) Giuoco Piano, 34 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: 2Knts Def. Modern B's Opening (C55) 0-1 Stockfish
Carlsen vs X Bu, 2017 
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 36 moves, 0-1

Italian, 2 Knts Def. Traxler Counterattk B sac (C57) 0-1 Simul
Fischer vs R Henry / R Thacker, 1964 
(C57) Two Knights, 31 moves, 0-1

Italian, Two Knts Polerio Def Suhle Def (C59) 0-1 U10 K walk
H Mas vs Ganguly, 1991 
(C59) Two Knights, 39 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65) 0-1 Dovetail Mate
Staunton vs von der Lasa, 1853 
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 27 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65) 1-0 21.Bxh6 gxBh6
Vachier-Lagrave vs Radjabov, 2021
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 41 moves, 1-0

Spanish Morphy Def. Cozio Def (C70) 1-0Decoy, Discovery
Blackburne vs Steinitz, 1882 
(C70) Ruy Lopez, 27 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Closed. Martinez Var (C78) 1-0 Bxh6!
V Gunina vs B Khotenashvili, 2019 
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 48 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Morphy Defense (C78) 0-1 38...?
Robatsch vs A Bisguier, 1961 
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 38 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Closed. Morphy Attack (C78) 1-0 KEG annotates!
W E Napier vs H Wolf, 1902 
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 60 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Closed Var (C84) 1-0 N sac for a Q attack!
Anand vs Svidler, 2007 
(C84) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 21 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Closed. Closed Def (C96) 0-1 Big R Shots!
A Sherzer vs P Acs, 1998 
(C96) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 32 moves, 0-1

London System Copycat (D02) 1-0 Black's Kside attack thwarted
D Roos vs M Adams, 1994
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 46 moves, 1-0

London System vs Krause Def (D02) 1-0 Nxh6 brings up Q!
Janowski vs Tarrasch, 1905 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 37 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

Colle System c4 vs delayed Dbl Fio (D04) 0-1 Blitz; Rob the pin
J Stark vs E Inarkiev, 2015
(D04) Queen's Pawn Game, 33 moves, 0-1

Colle 7.e4 System Bxh6 (D05) 1-0 16.Bh7+ gains material
N Riumin vs A Budo, 1931 
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 25 moves, 1-0

Slav Defense: General (D10) 1-0 Bxh6 sac & R or N lift w/Q
S Volkov vs A Galliamova, 1999 
(D10) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 18 moves, 1-0

Slav Def: Soultanbeieff Var (D16) 1-0 Back rank mating combo!
Kotov vs Alatortsev, 1942 
(D16) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 59 moves, 1-0

QGA. Normal (D25) 1-0 Bxh6 Kside assault; K chase across
Taimanov vs V Mikenas, 1965 
(D25) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 38 moves, 1-0

QGD. Q's Knight Var (D31)/E26 1-0 Bxh6 discovers battery on f7
Kasparov vs J Polgar, 1997 
(D31) Queen's Gambit Declined, 32 moves, 1-0

QGD. Exchange. Positional. Both 0-0-0 (D35) 1-0 Qside sac attk!
Z Gyimesi vs A Fox, 2005 
(D35) Queen's Gambit Declined, 27 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

Game 15 inThe Most Amazing Chess Moves of All Time by John Emms
Portisch vs S Johannessen, 1966 
(D47) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 25 moves, 1-0

Semi-Slav Def: Meran. Stahlberg Var (D49) 1-0 Nxh6 Kside smash
Capablanca vs Levenfish, 1935 
(D49) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran, 26 moves, 1-0

QGD: Modern Var (D50) 1-0 aggressive bayonet attack!
F Walker vs E Hanna, 1899 
(D50) Queen's Gambit Declined, 56 moves, 1-0

28 Qg4! threatens 29 Qxg7# and 29 Nxh6+ winning Black queen
Fine vs G Thomas, 1935 
(D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 28 moves, 1-0

40th World Championship Match, Game 4
Anand vs Topalov, 2010 
(E04) Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3, 32 moves, 1-0

E12 1-0 28 Corridor mate, Pseudo-Damiano's Mate
M Ardeshi vs S Kayumov, 2003
(E12) Queen's Indian, 28 moves, 1-0

Beautiful, relentless and commanding attack by Serper
Serper vs D Ippolito, 2003 
(E38) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 4...c5, 24 moves, 1-0

NID: Normal. Bernstein Def Except Gligoric Systm (E53) 1-0 22.?
Onischuk vs G Vescovi, 2002 
(E53) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, 25 moves, 1-0

18.Bxh6 is a thematic sacrifice
Y Lapshun vs G Meier, 2006 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 27 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Modern. Anti-Qxd4 Move Order (B50) 0-1 Turn the t
M Marlow vs I Snape, 2008 
(B50) Sicilian, 23 moves, 0-1

Catalan Opening: General (E00) 1-0 Bxh6 followed by R lift
K Opocensky vs Pachman, 1945 
(E00) Queen's Pawn Game, 20 moves, 1-0

Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense (D38) 1-0 Tactics
M A Tabatabaei vs C Aravindh, 2018 
(D38) Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation, 25 moves, 1-0

QGD: Albin Cntrgambit (D08) 0-1Mieses mauls Marshall in Monte C
Marshall vs J Mieses, 1901 
(D08) Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit, 36 moves, 0-1

Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit (C25) 1-0 Sac after sac!!
S Aakel vs R Bougayou, 2001 
(C25) Vienna, 38 moves, 1-0

Colle System vs Be7, Nbd7 (D05) 1-0 Nxh6, Bxh6
S H van Groningen vs P A Koetsheid, 1932
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 20 moves, 1-0

QGD: Tartakower Def. General (D58) 1-0 White cuts a mean rug!
P H Nielsen vs V Georgiev, 2008 
(D58) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst, 30 moves, 1-0

Colle 8.c3 e5 9.e4 (D05) 1-0 Bxh6 Pseudo Blackburn Mate
Chernev vs E S Jackson, 1940 
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 22 moves, 1-0

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

Italian Game: Classical. Giuoco Pianissimo (C53) 1-0 Slugfest
Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2017 
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 40 moves, 1-0

QGA: Janowski-Larsen Var (D25) 1-0 32.?
Korchnoi vs A Petersons, 1965 
(D25) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 32 moves, 1-0

KID: Normal. K's Knight Var (E60) 0-1 Black looked like Bobby F
Mamedyarov vs Nepomniachtchi, 2019 
(E60) King's Indian Defense, 32 moves, 0-1

King's Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation (E80) 0-1 54...?
Shamkovich vs Bronstein, 1971 
(E80) King's Indian, Samisch Variation, 56 moves, 0-1

KID: Orthodox. Classical System Misc. Lines (E98) 0-1 Kside #
E Asfora vs M Madeira de Ley, 1956
(E98) King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1, 28 moves, 0-1

QGD: Exchange. Positional (D35) 0-1 Dbl N sac for Kside attack!
A Moiseenko vs K Korley, 2019 
(D35) Queen's Gambit Declined, 25 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Symmetrical. Three Knights (A34) 1-0 Stockfish
Radjabov vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2019 
(A34) English, Symmetrical, 45 moves, 1-0

French Def: Winawer. Bogoljubow Var (C17) 1-0 Defining R lifts
A Bernstein vs N Sorokin, 1929 
(C17) French, Winawer, Advance, 24 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Exchange Var (C01) 1-0 Bxh6 & Lateral Q fork
I Nikolayev vs K Mannisto, 1990 
(C01) French, Exchange, 13 moves, 1-0

French Def: Classical. Steinitz (C11) 1-0 Reinfeld puzzle 32.?
H Berliner vs S E Almgren, 1946 
(C11) French, 35 moves, 1-0

Colle System 5.c3 vs c5, Be7, Nbd7, Qc7 (D05) 1-0
Bondarevsky vs A Novopashin, 1963
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 66 moves, 1-0

French Def: Tarrasch. Open System Main Line (C09) 0-1 16...?
Panov vs Bondarevsky, 1937 
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 30 moves, 0-1

Sic Dragon. Yugoslav Attk Early deviations (B75) 1-0 B, Q sac
A Beni vs I Anagnostou, 1954 
(B75) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 21 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Classical. Giuoco Pianissimo (C53) 0-1 Exch Sac,
So vs Aronian, 2019 
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 33 moves, 0-1

Caro-Kann Def: Classical. ML (B18) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish; 25.?
L Milman vs J Fang, 2005 
(B18) Caro-Kann, Classical, 31 moves, 1-0

Quiet System vs Modern Def. Dbl Fio (B06) 0-1Black Q parachutes
M Lamon vs S Weeramantry, 1990 
(B06) Robatsch, 25 moves, 0-1

E Diemer vs Fleck, 1949 
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 21 moves, 1-0

KID: Orthodox. Aronin-Taimanov Defense (E97) 1-0 34.?
K Spraggett vs C Pereira dos Santos, 2000 
(E97) King's Indian, 34 moves, 1-0

French Def Classical. Richter Attk (C13) 0-1Sideways Gueridon #
Lasker vs J Sargent, 1891 
(C13) French, 28 moves, 0-1

P-K4 Tayler Opening. Inverted Hanham (C44) 1-0 Shootout!
Pachman vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1954 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Classical. Tarrasch (C53) 0-1 Unpin, Overworked P
Tarrasch vs Alekhine, 1925 
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 28 moves, 0-1

Caro-Kann Defense: Advance. Bronstein Var (B12) 1-0 33.?
K Treybal vs J Engel, 1932 
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 34 moves, 1-0

Nimzowitsch Defense: General (B00) 1-0 Blindfold Simul
Tkachiev vs J P Lagrillet, 2004 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Closed. Keres Def (C92) 1-0 Damiano's Mate
Tal vs Geller, 1964 
(C92) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 37 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Adv Moscow Var (C17) 1-0 Raking Bs & hoppy Ns
S Chekhov vs M Opanasenko, 2013 
(C17) French, Winawer, Advance, 23 moves, 1-0

Timman vs J Moles, 1966
(E20) Nimzo-Indian, 29 moves, 1-0

R J Sutton vs J Moles, 1972
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 30 moves, 0-1

Alekhine Defense: Normal (B03) 0-1 Bxh3 storms the castle
S Cohen vs M Fox, 1936
(B03) Alekhine's Defense, 27 moves, 0-1

French Def: Exchange 4.h3!? Copcyat (C01) 1-0 Bxh6 etc.
K McDonald vs S Chan, 2004 
(C01) French, Exchange, 21 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Morphy Def. Steinitz Deferred (C79) 1-0 Nxh6 edge
F Treybal vs J Genttner, 1907 
(C79) Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense Deferred, 25 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Berlin Def. Beverwijk Var (C65) 0-1Rooking around
J Ady vs Spassky, 1984 
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 37 moves, 0-1

Russian Game: Classical Attack. Jaenisch Var (C42) 1-0 30.?
Bologan vs Kasimdzhanov, 2002 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 41 moves, 1-0

QGD: Semi-Tarrasch Def. Pillsbury Var (D41) 1-0 16.?
Razuvaev vs I Farago, 1979 
(D41) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 31 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Italian Var (C50) 1-0 U12 allows a passer?
M Boudechiche vs A Debbeche, 2000 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 56 moves, 1-0

Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid. Spielmann Attk (C26) 1-0pin f7
Bronstein vs L Morgulis, 1940 
(C26) Vienna, 34 moves, 1-0

published in Schachzeitung in Nov. 1847 (Vol. 2, p. 365)
Bledow vs P Bilguer, 1838 
(C51) Evans Gambit, 26 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65) 1-0 Strange finish
Jobava vs D Ocakacan, 2002 
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 32 moves, 1-0

KIA vs d5, c5, Nc6, e5 (A08) 1-0 29.?
Vladimirov vs G Agzamov, 1977 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 33 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Defense: Forgacs Var (B15) 1-0 15.?
Ragozin vs Boleslavsky, 1942 
(B15) Caro-Kann, 19 moves, 1-0

Weak Back Rank / Stock trap line in notes
A Matsuo vs C Urbina, 2004 
(C54) Giuoco Piano, 24 moves, 1-0

Vienna Game: Stanley. Monster Declined (C27) 0-1 Stockfish
K Klaman vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1951 
(C27) Vienna Game, 26 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Richter-Rauzer. Classical (B63) 1-0 B-Q Battery
G Garcia vs D Gurevich, 1986 
(B63) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 43 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Schliemann Def. Exchange (C63) 1-0 first outing
Moheschunder vs Cochrane, 1850 
(C63) Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense, 20 moves, 0-1

Benoni Defense: Czech Benoni Def (A56) 0-1 Brilliant
X Zhao vs Aronian, 2005 
(A56) Benoni Defense, 40 moves, 0-1

Old Sicilian. General (B30) 1-0 threat to Remove the Defender
K Alekseenko vs L de La Fuente, 2020
(B30) Sicilian, 30 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Exchange Var (B13) 0-1 Wrangling Black Knights
V Uulberg vs V Mezgailis, 1936 
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 19 moves, 0-1

Spanish, Closed. Averbakh Var (C87) 1-0 Stockfish notes; 43.?
A Neumann vs D Przepiorka, 1904 
(C87) Ruy Lopez, 45 moves, 1-0

Blumenfeld Countergambit: Accepted (E10) 0-1 0-0 blown apart
Z Milev vs L Zinn, 1960 
(E10) Queen's Pawn Game, 29 moves, 0-1

NID: Normal. Bernstein Def (E59) 1-0 24...Nxh3+ will draw
Gligoric vs Pachman, 1958 
(E59) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line, 42 moves, 1-0

KID: Orthodox. Classical System Misc. (E98) 0-1 19.Bxh3? gxBh3?
Reshevsky vs Lombardy, 1958 
(E98) King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1, 40 moves, 0-1

Semi-Slav Def: Quiet Variation (D30) 1-0 Crosspin
Karpov vs N Guliyev, 2007 
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 37 moves, 1-0

QGA: Alekhine Def (D22) 0-1 Q&N delight
V Osnos vs Bagirov, 1963 
(D22) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 0-1

KGA. Kieseritsky Gambit Paulsen Def (C39) 1-0 JHB notes
Blackburne vs Chapman / Boulaye, 1880  
(C39) King's Gambit Accepted, 18 moves, 1-0

London System Ne5 (D02) 1-0 Blazing Kside attack!
Carlsen vs Mamedyarov, 2020 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 34 moves, 1-0

KIA vs French/QGD (A07) 1-0 23.Nxh6? NxNh6 wins for Black
D Gukesh vs M Rafiee, 2019 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 45 moves, 1-0

30...? Middlegame Combinations by Peter Romanovsky
L Asztalos vs A Nimzowitsch, 1931 
(B15) Caro-Kann, 36 moves, 0-1

Four Knights Game: Scotch. Krause Gambit (C47) 1-0 Mateo notes
Harikrishna vs Mamedyarov, 2006 
(C47) Four Knights, 32 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Poisoned Pawn General (C18) 1-0Along the h-file
P Bobras vs E Can, 2007 
(C18) French, Winawer, 19 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange (B13) 0-1 Lay back and get ran over
Caruana vs Ding Liren, 2019 
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 26 moves, 0-1

NID: Normal. Bronstein (Byrne) Variation (E45) 1-0 RK notes
Keene vs S Kerr, 1979  
(E45) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Bronstein (Byrne) Variation, 22 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Closed. Smyslov Def (C93) 1-0 Stockfish
Spassky vs A Arutiunov, 1965 
(C93) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense, 35 moves, 1-0

Mexican Defense: Bxh3 & Bxh6 (A50) 1-0 Destructive pins
G K Fielding vs R Durkin, 1957
(A50) Queen's Pawn Game, 43 moves, 1-0

Shaun Taulbut's How to Play the Ruy Lopez, page 121
A Sokolov vs Spassky, 1985 
(C76) Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, Fianchetto Variation, 37 moves, 0-1

KGD. Falkbeer Countergambit. Modern Transfer (C32) 1-0 U16
Dirk Pulles vs X Gerritse, 1995 
(C32) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 21 moves, 1-0

Game 16 Zenon Franco's 2009 book, "GM Secrets: Counterattack!"
Topalov vs Anand, 2006 
(C84) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 36 moves, 0-1

Pirc Def: Classical. Quiet System (B08) 0-1 Raid the 3rd!
M Kennefick vs K Shirazi, 1976 
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 27 moves, 0-1

C-K Classical Main lines (B18) 1-0 20? Clever finish by Adams
Adams vs Leko, 1999 
(B18) Caro-Kann, Classical, 26 moves, 1-0

Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit. Breyer Var (C29) 0-1 Discovered+!
Reti vs M Kadisch, 1928 
(C29) Vienna Gambit, 20 moves, 0-1

Italian, Classical. Giuoco Pianissimo (C53) 1-0 3 Ns on edge
G Lane vs N Garcia Vicente, 1989 
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 22 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Classical Main lines (B19) 1-o Who's attacking who?
Jobava vs Bareev, 2003 
(B18) Caro-Kann, Classical, 34 moves, 1-0

Game 64 in 'I Play Against Pieces' by Svetozar Gligoric
Gligoric vs Fischer, 1960 
(E46) Nimzo-Indian, 33 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Defense: Karpov Var (B17) 1-0 Simul Exhibition
Lasker vs K Akkerman, 1924
(B17) Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation, 19 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Morphy Def. Archangelsk Var (C78) 1-0 Bxh6 opens
G Timoscenko vs V E Kozlov, 1976 
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 22 moves, 1-0

variants / pterodactyl (000) 0-1 stooping White knights
Maurian vs Morphy, 1854 
(000) Chess variants, 19 moves, 0-1

French Def: Winawer. Advance Var (C17) 0-1 See notes
S Sulskis vs M Bartel, 2007 
(C17) French, Winawer, Advance, 23 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Exchange Var (C01) 0-1 Promotions
P Carreras Mendiolea vs V Bashkite, 2006 
(C01) French, Exchange, 63 moves, 0-1

GM Golubev in CT-3072 gives Shirov's 23rd move the !!
Shirov vs H Wang, 2009 
(B97) Sicilian, Najdorf, 23 moves, 1-0

Center Game: Paulsen Attk (C22) 1-0 Learn to forgive yourself!
H W Apperly vs G H M Addison, 1897 
(C22) Center Game, 22 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo. Canal Var (C50) 0-1 pin Greco#
D Itkelwar vs S Tejaswini, 2008 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 20 moves, 0-1

Scotch Game: Haxo Gambit (C45) 0-1 Notes by J. Lowenthal
Morphy vs J Kipping, 1858  
(C45) Scotch Game, 29 moves, 0-1

King's Indian Attack vs pseudo French Nge7 (A07) 1/2-1/2 Bxh6
Ivkov vs Smejkal, 1979 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 41 moves, 1/2-1/2

Italian Game: Evans Gambit. Main Line (C51) 0-1 Stockfish notes
J Thompson vs Morphy, 1858 
(C51) Evans Gambit, 26 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Berlin Def. Rio Gambit Accepted (C67) 0-1 stuff h
Caruana vs Carlsen, 2020 
(C67) Ruy Lopez, 52 moves, 0-1

Italian Game: Italian Variation (C50) 0-1 radio match
J Hempel vs E Pritchard, 1967 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 17 moves, 0-1

John Watson wrote of 27.Rf3 - "Incredible! This R is a monster!
Karpov vs Hort, 1971 
(B81) Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack, 33 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Scotch Gambit. Anderssen Attack (C56) 1-0 Q sac!
K Dyke vs Kirk, 1976 
(C56) Two Knights, 15 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack (B14) 1-0 Bxh6, Bxg7
Larsen vs A Pomar, 1978 
(B14) Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack, 23 moves, 1-0

1.d4 b5 Colle-like (A40) 1-0 Raking bishops, rook lift
B Colias vs R Cusi, 1988 
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 27 moves, 1-0

Vienna Game: Falkbeer Var (C26) 0-1 13...?
Chigorin vs Janowski, 1895 
(C26) Vienna, 16 moves, 0-1

KIA Qe2 vs French dxe4, Bb7 (C00) 1-0 Mate in Four
Y Zhou vs A Hill, 2016 
(C00) French Defense, 27 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Bird's Attack (C53) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish
Ivanchuk vs Khalifman, 1992 
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 46 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Classical. Giuoco Pianissimo (C53) 1-0busy h-file
Lagno vs M Belen Sarquis, 2000 
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 21 moves, 1-0

Semi-Slav Def: Semi-Meran Var (D47) 1-0 e.p. & Bxh6 open up 0-0
Denker vs R Willman, 1934 
(D47) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 20 moves, 1-0

QGD. Cambridge Springs Var (D52) 1-0 bloody pins
Kashdan vs Denker, 1934 
(D52) Queen's Gambit Declined, 35 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Steinitz Def (C62) 1-0 Think before you drink
H Hokensen vs W Widmeyer, 1912
(C62) Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense, 19 moves, 1-0

34. Bxh6! wins whether Black accepts or declines the sacrifice
V Tsarev vs V Malaniuk, 1989 
(A81) Dutch, 36 moves, 1-0

Four Knts Game: Spanish. Classical Var (C48) 1-0 Raid the 6th!!
K Rosenkrantz vs S Levitsky, 1906 
(C48) Four Knights, 20 moves, 1-0

French Defense: 2.Ne2?! (C00) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish
Tartakower vs Fine, 1937 
(C00) French Defense, 28 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Closed Var (C84) 1-0
Schlechter vs G Marco, 1903
(C84) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 29 moves, 1-0

Computer verified that 30.Qxh6!! is winning B93 0-1 36
L Schneider vs Tal, 1982 
(B93) Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4, 36 moves, 0-1

Semi-Slav Defense: Normal Var (D45) 1-0 Bxh6 & Interference
I Ibragimov vs Ehlvest, 2005 
(D45) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 25 moves, 1-0

Four Knights Game: Gunsberg Var (C46) 0-1 Brilliancy Prize
Gunsberg vs W Gunston, 1890 
(C46) Three Knights, 33 moves, 0-1

Russian Game: Classical Attack. Staunton Var (C42) 1-0Stockfish
W N Potter vs Mason, 1879 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 28 moves, 1-0

KGD. Falkbeer Countergambit. Nimzowitsch-Marshall CG (C31) 1-0
J Gallagher vs A Sorin, 1992 
(C31) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 61 moves, 1-0

French Def: Rubinstein. Blackburne Def (C10) 1-0Stockfish notes
Chessmaster vs Rybka, 2009 
(C10) French, 99 moves, 1-0

Nimzowitsch Def: Scandinavian. Exchange (B00) 1-0 If 19...hxQg6
L Aptekar vs C Laird, 1977 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 23 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Göring Gambit (C44) 1-0 Bxh6 cracks the castle
V Markovski vs Z Bajrami, 2019 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0

Scandinavian Defense: Classical Var (B01) 1-0 Correspondence
M Zavanelli vs D C Taylor, 1984
(B01) Scandinavian, 31 moves, 1-0

Bishop's Opening: Berlin Defense (C24) 1-0 16.?
J Curdo vs J Fried, 1993 
(C24) Bishop's Opening, 19 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Closed. Bogoljubow Var (C91) 1-0 Remove the Guard
Kamsky vs R Sturt, 2015 
(C91) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 28 moves, 1-0

Center Game: Berger Var (C22) 1-0 cut & thrust action!
Kupchik vs N Whitaker, 1913 
(C22) Center Game, 35 moves, 1-0

Center Game: Berger Variation (C22) 1-0 Kside Pawn roller
F Pedro vs F Benko, 2003 
(C22) Center Game, 33 moves, 1-0

Danish Gambit: General (C21) 0-1 23...?
F Englund vs Janowski, 1913 
(C21) Center Game, 24 moves, 0-1

Robatsch, K Pawn Fianchetto (B06) 0-1 Hippo w/2 exposed K's
D Ebeling vs T Vedrickas, 2013 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 38 moves, 0-1

K Pawn Game 2.h3 (C20) 1/2-1/2 P fork tactics; Stockfish notes
V Green vs R Brien, 1856
(C20) King's Pawn Game, 23 moves, 1/2-1/2

Colle System 5.b4 gets passed (D04) 1-0 masterful attack
Firouzja vs So, 2020 
(D04) Queen's Pawn Game, 35 moves, 1-0

King's Gambit: General (C30) 1-0 Rook batteries
R Butze vs H Voelkner, 1970 
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 27 moves, 1-0

Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Var (D20) 0-1 Cornered
W Hodges vs R Brien, 1851 
(D20) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 29 moves, 0-1

KGA. Cunningham Defense (C35) 0-1 Stalemate attempt declined
Blackburne / Aloof vs Bird / Womersley, 1897 
(C35) King's Gambit Accepted, Cunningham, 37 moves, 0-1

C Jaffe vs O Roething, 1909 
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0

Bird Opening: General (A02) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish
Anderssen vs Kolisch, 1861 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 31 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Najdorf (B90) 1-0 Spectacular Attack!
V Gunina vs M Sebag, 2019 
(B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 30 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Two Knts Def. Modern B's Opening (C55) 1-0 Ns inv
Carlsen vs Dubov, 2021 
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 28 moves, 1-0

Pirc Def: Austrian Attack. Weiss Var (B09) 1-0 25.?
G Kuzmin vs E Torre, 1981 
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

Pirc Defense: General Bg2 vs Bg7 (B07) 1-0 Jan won
Timman vs J H Donner, 1973 
(B07) Pirc, 40 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Schmidt Variation (C45) 1/2-1/2 Q+ perpetual
P Romanovsky vs Capablanca, 1925
(C45) Scotch Game, 16 moves, 1/2-1/2

QGD: Orthodox Defense. Main Line (D63) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish
Euwe vs Maroczy, 1936 
(D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 35 moves, 1-0

26.Nxh6! sparks a spectacular attack by Garry... See Video!
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1990 
(C92) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 41 moves, 1-0

Cntr Cntr 3...Qa5 M.L. Mieses Var (B01) 1-0 Bc8 left there
Benko vs W Lyons, 1966 
(B01) Scandinavian, 26 moves, 1-0

QGD: Cambridge Springs Var (D52) 1-0Stockfish notes; video link
Carlsen vs Mamedyarov, 2014 
(D52) Queen's Gambit Declined, 47 moves, 1-0

KGA Cunningham Def 3...Be7 Bertin Gambit (C35) 1-0 Boden's Mate
F Duz-Khotimirsky vs NN, 1910 
(C35) King's Gambit Accepted, Cunningham, 16 moves, 1-0

Ponziani Opening: Ponziani Countergambit (C44) 0-1 Stillwater
Nakamura vs J Becerra Rivero, 2007 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 33 moves, 0-1

Russian Game: General (C42) 1-0 Raking Bishops, two # squares
Cochrane vs Moheschunder, 1856 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 17 moves, 1-0

Dutch Def: Q's Knight Var/Classical vs Bg5 (A85) 0-1 Promotion
Dreev vs P Potapov, 2018 
(A85) Dutch, with c4 & Nc3, 37 moves, 0-1

KGD: Falkbeer Countergambit. Modern Transfer (C32) 1-0Blindfold
Blackburne vs Lewis, 1862 
(C32) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 25 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Von Hennig Gambit (B15) 1-0 Boden's Mate next
G Welling vs F Wrobel, 1982 
(B15) Caro-Kann, 23 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Classical Attack. Staunton Var (C42) 1-0Stockfish
Nepomniachtchi vs C Li, 2017 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 29 moves, 1-0

NID: Three Knights Var (E21) 1-0 Bxh6
J L Hammer vs Movsesian, 2013 
(E21) Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights, 29 moves, 1-0

QID. Classical. Traditional, Main Line (E19) 0-1 Stockfish
V Makogonov vs Botvinnik, 1927 
(E19) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3, 24 moves, 0-1

Budapest Defense: Adler Var (A52) 1/2-1/2 typical Q perpetual
Y Saber vs P Michalowski, 2015
(A52) Budapest Gambit, 21 moves, 1/2-1/2

34.Nxh6+ is a shot and a half!
So vs Le Quang Liem, 2021 
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 43 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Closed. Flohr System (C92) 1-0 Nxh6+ opens g-file
So vs Le Quang Liem, 2021 
(C92) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 31 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Morphy Defense (C78) 1-0 #22 "A Knight on f5"
Navara vs L Unuk, 2021 
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 33 moves, 1-0

QGD. Albin Countergambit (D08) 0-1 Blindfold
Pillsbury vs S Clarence / M J Thompson, 1900 
(D08) Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit, 19 moves, 0-1

Tal was bananas!! B30 1-0 26
Tal vs Dzindzichashvili, 1991 
(B30) Sicilian, 26 moves, 1-0

Blackburne mates with two knights after queen sac
NN vs Blackburne, 1871  
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 21 moves, 0-1

QGD. Semi-Tarrasch Def. Pillsbury Var (D41) 1-0 Rh3 lift, Bxh6
Carlsen vs Duda, 2021 
(D41) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 18 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Evans Gambit. ML (C51) 0-1 Bxh3, Bxg2
C Purdy vs L S Fell, 1947 
(C51) Evans Gambit, 48 moves, 0-1

Vienna Gambit. Breyer Var (C29) 1-0 W is all up in there!
Spielmann vs P Johner, 1922 
(C29) Vienna Gambit, 18 moves, 1-0

QGD. Capablanca - General (D30) 1-0 Using the pin on f7
Gruenfeld vs Kmoch, 1926 
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 25 moves, 1-0

French Def: Advance. Euwe Var (C02) 1-0 Sideswiped by a Rook
Kupreichik vs J Levitt, 1990 
(C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 1-0

Veresov-ish vs Indian/Philidor Defense (A45) 0-1 15.Bxh6?
L Soerensen vs E Hansen, 2007 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 21 moves, 0-1

Old Sicilian. e4, Bc4 vs c5, e5 (B30) 1-0 Q sortie
Navara vs D Gukesh, 2021 
(B30) Sicilian, 41 moves, 1-0

NID: Classical. Noa Var (E34) 1-0 Top-notch Spearhead
I Krush vs A Adames Rojas, 2010 
(E34) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation, 35 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Open Var (C80) 0-1 Crossfire Bxh3, Q-R battery
L Loewy Sr vs Vidmar, 1903 
(C80) Ruy Lopez, Open, 31 moves, 0-1

Italian Game: Italian Variation (C50) 0-1 Correspondence
Leeds CC vs Doncaster Chess Club, 1834 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 18 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: London System (A46) 0-1 Rook rips the 3rd rank
N E Holmgren vs U Bajarani, 2022 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 20 moves, 0-1

Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange. Rubinstein Var (B13) 1-0 Rxh6+
B Khelfallah vs E Da Costa Moreira, 2010 
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 40 moves, 1-0

Nimzo-Indian, Samisch (E24) 1-0 video link f-pawn switcheroo
J van Foreest vs Giri, 2022 
(E24) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 42 moves, 1-0

Slav Defense: Three Knights Var (D15) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Bogoljubov vs Saemisch, 1921 
(D15) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 42 moves, 1-0

Modern Defense: Standard Defense (B06) 0-1 Remove the Guard
J Shaw vs C McNab, 1993 
(B06) Robatsch, 20 moves, 0-1

QGD: Three Knights. General (D37) 0-1
Denker vs H Rossetto, 1948 
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 31 moves, 0-1

Bogo-Indian Defense: Grünfeld Var (E11) 1-0 BLASTING the 6th!!
A Goganov vs G Palchun, 2021 
(E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 28 moves, 1-0

Philidor Defense: Hanham. Krause Var (C41) 1-0 KEG annotates!
H Wolf vs G Marco, 1902 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 35 moves, 1-0

23.Bxh6! is a typical Morozevich sacrifice.
Morozevich vs A Moiseenko, 2006 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 43 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Classical. Giuoco Pianissimo (C53) 0-1 Gueridon #
B Angles d'Auriac vs P Seegolam, 1994 
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 27 moves, 0-1

Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo (C50) 0-1 Bxf7+ vs Bxh6
NN vs P Stamma, 1737  
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 13 moves, 0-1

Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo. Normal (C50) 1-0 ...Bxh3
Firouzja vs So, 2022 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 32 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Italian Variation (C50) 1-0 rob the pin
Z Andriasian vs D Mikrut, 2017
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 23 moves, 1-0

Italian, Two Knts Def. Modern B's Opening (C55) 1-0Pseudo Greco
J Moussard vs P Velten, 2023 
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 33 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Haxo Gambit (C45) 0-1 pins
Anderssen vs J Kipping, 1857 
(C45) Scotch Game, 27 moves, 0-1

QGD: Orthodox Defense. General (D60) 0-1 Consolation mate
H Jones vs E Shapiro, 1947 
(D60) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 22 moves, 0-1

Another famous example of a piece sac in a minor piece ending
Topalov vs Shirov, 1998 
(D85) Grunfeld, 53 moves, 0-1

King's English Variation. General (A20) 0-1 0-0 vs 0-0-0
Carlsen vs J van Foreest, 2022 
(A20) English, 25 moves, 0-1

Bird Opening: 3.e3 Bg4 Anti-Bird Var (A02) 1-0 Mate looms
P Petran vs F Hosticka, 1977 
(A02) Bird's Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

one of the most stunning and unique major piece combinations
V Bergraser vs M Weiner, 1973 
(E19) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3, 40 moves, 1-0

Semi-Slav Def: Bogoljubow Var (D46) 1-0 Raking Bishops deliver
Koltanowski vs H Price, 1929 
(D46) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 27 moves, 1-0

KIA e5 strong point vs French Def (A07) 1-0opposite wings attks
A Bodnaruk vs M Aulia, 2012 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 43 moves, 1-0

Blackmar-Diemer Gambit: Vienna Var (D00) 0-1 Battery
T Burgerhoff vs H Middelhoven, 2001
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 32 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Closed. Smyslov Def (C93) 1-0 Consider 18.Bxh6
Schlechter vs L Prokes, 1908 
(C93) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense, 37 moves, 1-0

St. George Defense: General (B00) 1-0 Queen-drops-in Mate!
Tal vs NN, 1974 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 22 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Panov Attack. Modern Def Carlsbad Line (B13) 0-1
Alekhine vs E Serracino Inglott, 1935 
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 49 moves, 0-1

French Def: Rubinstein. Fort Knox (C10) 0-1 mishandled h-file
Saric vs Ivanchuk, 2022 
(C10) French, 35 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Closed Var (C84) 1-0 Corner Knockout
Bologan vs Tkachiev, 2001 
(C84) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 39 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Berlin Def. Nyholm Attack (C65) 0-1 perfection
C Yoo vs Niemann, 2020 
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 22 moves, 0-1

24 Rxh6+! Black g7-pawn blocks 7th rank cannot defend h6-square
Marshall vs Rubinstein, 1908 
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: French Var (B40) 0-1 KEG annotates
M Marquez Sterling vs Maroczy, 1900 
(B40) Sicilian, 54 moves, 0-1

Joba London System (D02) 1-0 Brilliancy; Notes by Stockfish
Mamedyarov vs Giri, 2022 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 30 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Chekhover Var (B53) 1-0 Bxh6 tears open 0-0
J Sefc vs W Golz, 1956 
(B53) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

Four Knights Game: 4.d4 Scotch. Accepted (C47) 1/2-1/2
Firouzja vs Ding Liren, 2022 
(C47) Four Knights, 42 moves, 1/2-1/2

Sicilian Def: Chekhover Var (B53) 0-1 Mongredien's Mate awaits
Z Jovanovic vs M Warmerdam, 2022
(B53) Sicilian, 30 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Agincourt Def. Keres Def (A14) 1-0 22.Bxh6
Nakamura vs B Zisman, 2004 
(A14) English, 23 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Exchange Var (B13) 1-0 Qxh6 robs the pinned g7
P Idani vs C Rietze, 2022
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 25 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Tartakower Var (B15) 0-1Bxh3 cracks the 0-0 wall
T Ernst vs K Berg, 1988 
(B15) Caro-Kann, 17 moves, 0-1

Clemenz Opening 1.h3 into Colle (A00) 1-0Terrific Kside attack
Fine vs A Simonson, 1932 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 22 moves, 1-0

Uncommon Opening / Veresov (A00) 1-0 Find the mate
A Erigaisi vs R Praggnanandhaa, 2022 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 18 moves, 1-0

Torre Attack: Classical Def (A46) 1-0 Kside assault
A Dozorets vs D Slatin, 1985 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 25 moves, 1-0

Colle System / Stonewall Attk (D05) 1-0 blindfold
Koltanowski vs W Wills, 1937 
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 20 moves, 1-0

French Def: Winawer. Classical (C18) 1-0 Q decoy sac opens file
F Hellers vs C Hansen, 1997 
(C18) French, Winawer, 25 moves, 1-0

13. Nxd7! prepares 14. Nf6+! and 15. Bxh7+!
Jansa vs D Marovic, 1974 
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 21 moves, 1-0

French Def: Tarrasch. Open System (C07) 1-0 pin works only on P
C Vreeken vs R Herstein, 1978
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Winawer Var (C15) 1-0 16.Bh6!?
Negi vs Giri, 2011 
(C15) French, Winawer, 35 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Classical. Main lines (B18) 1-0 Overworked pawn
M Guidi vs B Bente, 2010 
(B18) Caro-Kann, Classical, 27 moves, 1-0

Ruy Lopez / Four Knights, Italian (C60) 1-0 Stockfish
M Warmerdam vs J Pechac, 2023 
(C60) Ruy Lopez, 31 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: General (C44) 1-0 N invades, BxNh6
M Fernandez Alachan vs R Msiska, 2014 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 11 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Scheveningen. Classical Var (B84) 1-0 50.?
O Bernstein vs Kotov, 1946 
(B84) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 50 moves, 1-0

Sarratt Attack/London System (D02) 1-0 Tani out speeds Naka?
T Adewumi vs Nakamura, 2020 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 38 moves, 1-0

Bishop's Opening: Berlin Defense (C24) 1-0 Greco's Mate
R S Parker vs C Rambo, 1962 
(C24) Bishop's Opening, 21 moves, 1-0

Benko Gambit: Accepted. Modern Var (A57) 1-0Remove the Defender
F Urkedal vs A Kassis, 2022 
(A57) Benko Gambit, 23 moves, 1-0

Queen's Indian Defense: Yates Variation (E16) · 1-0
N Grandelius vs P Large, 2023 
(E16) Queen's Indian, 33 moves, 1-0

Simultaneous Exhibition in Memphis, TN
R Jefferson vs Marshall, 1904 
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 23 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Stafford Gambit (C42) 0-1 Titled Tuesday
Kamsky vs P Venkatesh, 2022 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 17 moves, 0-1

Russian Game: Modern Attack 7.Qd5+ forks Bc5 (C43) 1-0
N Theodorou vs Radjabov, 2023 
(C43) Petrov, Modern Attack, 19 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Classical. Main lines (B18) 1-0 Sac attack!
P Haba vs Z Gyimesi, 2008 
(B18) Caro-Kann, Classical, 38 moves, 1-0

Bxh3
E Delmar vs Lipschutz, 1888 
(C45) Scotch Game, 16 moves, 0-1

Semi-Slav Defense: Meran Var (D47) 1-0 Kside assault!
A Ziegler vs T Vidic, 2015
(D47) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 23 moves, 1-0

Bxh6 is lethal
T Gareyev vs Van Wely, 2011 
(D43) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 25 moves, 1-0

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