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21y French Cut 21+ Bec
Compiled by fredthebear
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Oh what a day to remember. I was just about to munch on a tuna sandwich when I met her on the subway...

* H2P Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pq... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU6... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6b...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKx...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXz... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQR...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZr... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lym...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUE... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs6...

* H2 Do Better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARx... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoF...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ces... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj8...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waA... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpe...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xb...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSE...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkX... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdU... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpL... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jxxl...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I2RH...

* Annotated Games: Game Collection: Annotated Games

* Alekhine, Exchange variation:
Game Collection: tpstar AD

* Assorted good games: Game Collection: assorted Good games - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VS...

* Back rank mating tactics: Game Collection: 610_Back rank mating tactics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaq...

* Basman's / Borg's Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThK...

* Mike explains Borg's Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Res...

* Bangers and mash with Guinness gravy

* Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder, et al. Publisher: Bantam, 1982
ISBN: 0553263153
ISBN13: 9780553130539

* 5 Biggest Mistakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjW... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaT...

* Brutal Attacking Chess: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess

* Best (Old) Games of All Time: Game Collection: Best Games of All Time

* Best of the British: Game Collection: Best of the British

* The Best Chess Games (part 2): Game Collection: The Best Chess Games (part 2)

* Black Storms: Game Collection: Tal - The Modern Benoni - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXm...

* Brilliant games: Game Collection: Brilliant games - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC5...

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

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

* Control the Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIZ... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmG...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gps...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S4...

* Center Game miniatures: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* C-K, 2 Knts games:
Game Collection: Caro-Kann Two Knights

* Checker's Twist: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Uik0...

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

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

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

* Back rank mating tactics: Game Collection: 610_Back rank mating tactics

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

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

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

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

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

* List of gambits: https://detailedpedia.com/wiki-List...

* Artful Mates: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate

* Annotated Games: Game Collection: Annotated Games

* Assorted good games: Game Collection: assorted Good games

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

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

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

* Champion miniatures: Game Collection: Champions miniature champions - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sN7Q...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RcsP...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2LtW...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aaVc...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6_0Z...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XoeA...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BGPf...

* Candidates 2014: World Championship Candidates (2014)

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

* Diagrammed Checkmate Patterns: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxJ... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbA...

* Disastrous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY8... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lK2H...

* Accelerated Dragons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csd...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jf...

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

* A41: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Y...

* The 1.d4 e5 Englund Gambit:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWe...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWe...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb1...

* Expanded Edition:
Game Collection: 125 Greatest Chess Games - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KFq8...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91L...

* Extraordinary: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cNdC... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iQw5...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MKXr...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sBCP...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j7e0...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MJNC...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0B75...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W0zw...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fzOH...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SgEg...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OM0V...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9VZN...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TiRe...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sTGl...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fAlR...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eiwP...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qZ6S...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-aeG...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DQAj...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KboE...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5bux...

* Starting Out: French Defense: Game Collection: Starting out : The French

* Gambits against the French Defense:
Game Collection: alapin gambit -alapin diemer gambit + reti gam

* French Onion Dip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edx...

* Ideas: Game Collection: Ideas In The French Defense

* Additional French Defense games: Game Collection: French Defense

* Well-rounded coverage: Game Collection: French Defense

* Hans On French: Game Collection: French Defense

* TFD: https://chessentials.com/category/l...

* Therio what? Game Collection: Theriomorphic French Games

* Emre: https://chessdoctrine.com/chess-ope...

Event "Rated Bullet game"
Site "https://lichess.org/nlrrOnSO"
Date "2021.12.14"
White "taskampomou"
Black "Isaykin_Artem"
Result "1-0"
WhiteElo "2206"
BlackElo "2361"
UTCDate "2022.10.29"
UTCTime "17:07:34"
Variant "Standard"
ECO "C01"
Opening "French Defense: Exchange Variation, Monte Carlo Variation" Annotator "https://lichess.org/@/Remote_Chess_..." Source "https://lichess.org/study/XbHbOKiN/..." Orientation "white"

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Bd3 dxc4 8. Bxc4 Re8+ 9. Be3 Ng4 10. O-O Nxe3 11. fxe3 Rxe3 12. Bxf7+ Kxf7 13. Ne5+ Kg8 14. Qb3+ Kh8 15. Nf7+ Kg8 16. Nxd8+ Kh8 17. Nf7+ Kg8 18. Nh6+ Kh8 19. Qg8# 1-0 White wins. 1-0

* The Fireside Book of Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld: Game Collection: Fireside Book of Chess

* Fork OVerload (Remove the Defender): Game Collection: FORK-OVERLOAD OR HOOK-AND-LADDER TRICK

* Feeling Punny? Don't tell Fredthebear. Use the Submission Page: Pun Submission Page - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iPgh...

* Forgive Them: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ph2V... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GPBA...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7APr...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wb2B...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZsLm...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vSdO...

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

* Good Friday: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K6gS...

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

* List of gambits: https://detailedpedia.com/wiki-List...

* Games of famous masters: Game Collection: bengalcat47's favorite games

* G7: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/48Kj... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bttx...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3uj5...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3jJO...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRc...

* 8 Middlegame plans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJC... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO...

* GoY's 40 Favs: Game Collection: GoY's favorite games

* Greco's Mate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk0...

* Good Historical Links:
https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/in...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2gn7...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y6Dj...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GtIL...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/98Sd...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BB9-...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AZtF...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/19w2...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6aD0...

* 'Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters' by Fred Reinfeld: Game Collection: 0

* Great Combinations: Game Collection: Combinations

* Hastings 1895: Hastings (1895)

* Impact of Genius: 500 years of Grandmaster Chess: Game Collection: Impact of Genius : 500 years of Grandmaster Ches

* The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain By David Shenk
Publisher: Vintage, 2007
ISBN: 1400034086
ISBN13: 9781400034086

* I see why: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M3lg... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZw...

* JonathanJ's favorites: Game Collection: JonathanJ's favorite games 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ1...

* jorundte's favorites: Game Collection: jorundte's favorite games

* Weapons of Chess: An Omnibus of Chess Strategies (Fireside Chess Library) By Bruce Pandolfini (every move is explained in words) Publisher: Touchstone Books, 1989
ISBN: 0671659723
ISBN13: 9780671659721

* Learn Chess: A Complete Course by C.H. O'D Alexander and TJ Beach Publisher: Everyman Chess, 1994
ISBN: 185744115X
ISBN13: 9781857441154

* RUSSIAN CHESS (Fireside Chess Library) By Bruce Pandolfini Publisher: Touchstone Books, 1987
ISBN: 0671619845
ISBN13: 9780671619848

* Chess for the Gifted & Busy: A Short But Comprehensive Course from Beginner to Expert by Lev Alburt and Al Lawrence Publisher: Chess Information and Research Center, 2011 ISBN: 1889323241
ISBN13: 9781889323244
Release Date: October 2011

The Winning Way: The How What and Why of Opening Strategems (Fireside Chess Library) By Bruce Pandolfini Publisher: Fireside Books, 1998
ISBN: 0684839490
ISBN13: 9780684839493

* Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition By Irving Chernev
Publisher: Batsford, 2003
ISBN: 0713484640
ISBN13: 9780713484649

* The Six Power Moves Of Chess, 3rd Edition The Missing Key To Finding Good Chess Moves From Any Position! by William G. Karneges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2v...
- https://archive.org/details/the-six...

* More Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps 2 (Fireside Chess Library) By Bruce Pandolfini
Publisher: Touchstone Books, 1993
ISBN: 067179499X
ISBN13: 9780671794996

* Capablanca: My Chess Career, Chess Fundamentals & A Primer of Chess (3 books in 1 volume) By José Raúl Capablanca Publisher: Everyman Chess, 2017
ISBN: 1781943966
ISBN13: 9781781943960

Pandolfini's Chess Complete: The Most Comprehensive Guide to the Game from History to Strategy (Fireside Chess Library) By Bruce Pandolfini and E.J. Koh 540 Questions and Answers
Publisher: Touchstone Books, 1992
ISBN: 067170186X
ISBN13: 9780671701864

* Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games by László Polgár Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2013 ISBN: B00509COPK
ISBN13: 9781579125547

* Chess Thinking: The Visual Dictionary of Over 1000 Moves, Rules, Strategies, and Concepts (Fireside Chess Library) By Bruce Pandolfini Publisher: Touchstone, 1995
ISBN: 0671795023
ISBN13: 9780671795023

* Ideas Behind the Chess Openings: Algebraic Edition by Reuben Fine Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games, 1990
ISBN: 0812917561
ISBN13: 9780812917567

* The Woodpecker Method by Hans Tikkanen and Axel Smith Publisher: Quality Chess, 2019
ISBN: 1784830542
ISBN13: 9781784830540

* The Art of Positional Play by Samuel Reshevsky Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games, 1980
ISBN: 0679141014
ISBN13: 9780679141013

* Mil y Una Partidas 1914-1931: Game Collection: Mil y Una Partidas 1914-1931

* Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positions and Ideas By Lev Alburt
Publisher: Chess Information and Research Center, 2010 ISBN: 1889323225
ISBN13: 9781889323220

* My System - 21st Century Edition by Aron Nimzowitsch, edited by Lou Hayes Publisher: Hays Publishing, 1992
ISBN: 1880673851
ISBN13: 9781880673850

* Chess Praxis: The Praxis of My System - 21st Edition by Aron Nimzowitsch, edited by Lou Hayes Publisher: Hays Publishing

* '500 Master Games of Chess' by Savielly Tartakower and Julius Du Mont: Game Collection: 500 Master Games of Chess

* Essential Chess Endings by GM James Howell

* Capablanca's Best Chess Endings: 60 Complete Games By José Raúl Capablanca and Irving Chernev
Publisher: Dover Publications, 1982
ISBN: 0486242498
ISBN13: 9780486242491
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91L...

* The World Champions Teach Chess by Yakov Estrin and Isaac Romanov Publisher: A & C Black, 1988
ISBN: 0713655968
ISBN13: 9780713655964

* Moscow 1951 World Championship Match: Botvinnik v. Bronstein By Mikhail Botvinnik (Progress in Chess series)
Publisher: Edition Olms, 2004
ISBN: 3283004595
ISBN13: 9783283004590

* Tal-Botvinnik, 1960 by Mikhail Tal
Publisher: Russell Enterprises, 2016
ISBN: 1941270425
ISBN13: 9781941270424

* My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer
Publisher: Batsford, 2009
ISBN: 190638830X
ISBN13: 9781906388300

* Second Piatigorsky Cup
Introduction by Gregor Piatigorsky. Edited by Isaac Kashdan with a new foreword by Sam Sloan.

* 'The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games' by Graham Burgess, John Nunn and John Emms. New expanded edition-now with 125 games. Game Collection: Mammoth Book-Greatest Games (Nunn/Burgess/Emms)

* maxruen's favorites: Game Collection: maxruen's favorite games III

* Middlegame Combinations by Peter Romanovsky: Game Collection: Middlegame Combinations by Peter Romanovsky

* 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

* Nicodemus was confused: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Buxu...

* Ol' Man River: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df4... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DSiJ...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wvlW...

* OCB incredibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7T...

* Oskar plays 1e4: Oskar Oglaza

* Outsmart 'em: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0v... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5diI...

* 'Chess Praxis' by Aron Nimzowitsch: Game Collection: Chess Praxis (Nimzowitsch)

* Pawn Instruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPr... - http://www.logicalchess.com/learn/l... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VS...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9o...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skh...

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

* Q vs P ending: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jzxs...

* Queen taker: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ljB1... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/auHf...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syr...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfQ...

* QGD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCz... - Game Collection: QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEQ...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF4... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwP...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYy... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poD...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MPu6...

* 500 Assorted: Game Collection: assorted Good games

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

* Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II: Game Collection: Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II

* Ray Keene's favorite games: Game Collection: ray keene's favorite games

* Reti Opening: Game Collection: Reti Opening

* Veliki majstori saha 16 RETI (Slavko Petrovic): Game Collection: Veliki majstori saha 16 RETI (Petrovic)

* Richard Réti's Best Games by Golombek: Game Collection: Richard Réti's Best Games by Golombek

* Smothered steak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZp...

* Small talk: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yXCx... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3OeO...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z289...

* sapientdust's favorites: Game Collection: sapientdust's favorite games

* shakman's favorites: Game Collection: shakman's favorite games - 2

* Stunners: Game Collection: Stunners - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CI49...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FnDB...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W3JH...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CJYL...

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

* Stop doubting: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1gfu... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qO-M...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6lxm...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rp8c...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OfPm...

* Stone dumb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXl...

* The Soviet School of Chess by A. Kotov; M. Yudovich https://archive.org/details/kotov-s...

* tacticmania - Game Collection: tacticmania

* Tate lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyh...

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

* Two enemies: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LCQu...

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

* Secrets of Combination: Game Collection: Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zCYn...

* Top 8 chess mistakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzG...

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

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

* The Unthinkable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9z... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qE9j...

* Understanding the Chess Openings: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Bo...

* Universal studios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7C... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3jJO...

* Variety pack: Game Collection: KID games

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

* Waltzing Matilda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p67... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JAps...

* Wall's APCT Miniatures:
http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/c... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M67w...

* Will Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S...

* Williams Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw3...

* Wolf's Bane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Op... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ryha...

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

* Word gets around.

* Exchange sacs: Game Collection: Exchange sacs - 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYG...

* You should be: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zMcK...

* 960Chess: https://lichess.org/variant/chess960

* 1967: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PiFW...

* Z Vol 105: Game Collection: 0ZeR0's collected games volume 105

* Zwischenzug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U9...

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

"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." — Aristotle

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." — Lao Tzu

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." — Albert Einstein

"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

"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

The Two Mules

Two mules were bearing on their backs,
One, oats; the other, silver of the tax.
The latter glorying in his load,
Marched proudly forward on the road;
And, from the jingle of his bell,
It was plain he liked his burden well.
But in a wild-wood glen
A band of robber men
Rushed forth on the twain.
Well with the silver pleased,
They by the bridle seized
The treasure-mule so vain.
Poor mule! in struggling to repel
His ruthless foes, he fell
Stabbed through; and with a bitter sighing,
He cried, "Is this the lot they promised me?
My humble friend from danger free,
While, weltering in my gore, I'm dying?"
"My friend," his fellow-mule replied,
"It is not well to have one's work too high.
If you had been a miller's drudge, as I,
You would not thus have died."

Riddle Question: What two words, added together, contain the most letters?

The Krebs cycle is the second of three stages necessary for cellular respiration; the other two stages are glycolysis (the first stage) and electron transport/oxidative phosphorylation (the third stage). In animals, the Krebs cycle occurs in the mitochondria, inside the cells; in plants, it occurs in the chloroplasts. Traveling via the bloodstream, glucose (good sugar, not man-made sugar) is what stokes the mitochondrial furnaces responsible for your brainpower. And glucose in the only fuel our brain knows how to use!

Riddle Answer: Post office.

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.

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." — Mahatma Gandhi

"Never be bullied into silence, never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself." — Robert Frost

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind." — Mahatma Gandhi

"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.

'As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it

<<Vukovic's Guidelines for Attack:>

01) If you attack the king, make sure that either your opponent cannot counterattack, or at least that your attack is more quick or more dangerous.

02) So, you must look at the whole board, and the chances for both sides, when deciding whether to attack or not.

03) Security in the centre lends support to a wing attack. A central pawn blockade prevents or limits counter-attacks, and makes a pawn attack easier.

04) This is particularly true of attacks with pawns, which must creep forward more slowly than other pieces. If you can make an attack with pieces alone, leave your pawns at home.

05) If you already have a pawn advanced, e.g. to f5, which may block your bishop on the diagonal b1-h7, then you might be better off going for a pawn storm by advancing the g-pawn.

06) As a rule, it is difficult to break through with pawns against the unweakened castled king's position. This is because the pawn wave can be blockaded.

07) So, it is usually important to weaken the castled position first (e.g. by ganging up on h7 you might force ...g6 or ...h6).

08) Pawns don't half get in the way of rooks. If you cannot open a file, you can often get your rooks into action in front of your pawns, for example, by playing them to the third rank.

09) Pawn advances loosen your position, and may be a disadvantage in the ending.

10) Although you must be careful before starting an attack, once you have started you must go in as hard and fast as you can. This is even more important if you realize you shouldn't have started the attack quite yet - if you try to back out you will only make things worse.>

According to Chessmetrics, Emanuel Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924.

"The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off." — Daniel Naroditsky

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1737 – Philipp Stamma (Syria) publishes Essai sur le jeu des échecs. The book features an early form of algebraic notation (for example, '1. e4 e5' in modern notation would be written as 'p e 4 | p e 5' in Stamma's). The first half primarily concerns opening theory, with particular emphasis on various opening gambits, and the second half gives the first detailed exploration of endgame theory.

1744 – François-André Danican Philidor (France) plays two opponents blindfolded in Paris.

1745 – Philipp Stamma's work is translated from French to English, and published as 'The Noble Game of Chess'.

1747 – Philidor decisively defeats Stamma in 8/9 games while visiting London, instantly gaining international fame.

1763 – Sir William Jones invents Caïssa, the chess muse.

1769 – Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen builds the Mechanical Turk, a fake chess-playing humanoid "machine" in fact operated secretly by a human.

1783 – Philidor plays as many as three games simultaneously without seeing the board.

<Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die.
Grudge who list, but none deny!
So God be pleased, thus live will I.>

― Henry VIII of England

1.Nf3 is the third most popular of the twenty legal opening moves White has, behind only 1.e4 and 1.d4.

"In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end." ― Tom Seaver

"Rooks need each other in the middlegame. This is why one should keep their rooks connected until the opposing queen is off the board. She'll snare 'em (usually from a centralized square on an open diagonal or perhaps a poisoned pawn approach of the unprotected b2/b7 and g2/g7 square next to the occupied corner) if the two rooks are not protecting each other." ― Fredthebear

"If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. If you want happiness for a day—go fishing. If you want happiness for a year—inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime—help someone else." ~ Chinese Proverb

<Writing from his experience of the devastation of World War I, Edwardian poet <Alfred Noyes>' well-known "On the Western Front" speaks from the perspective of soldiers buried in graves marked by simple crosses, asking that their deaths not be in vain. Praise of the dead was not what the dead needed, but peace made by the living. An excerpt:

We, who lie here, have nothing more to pray.
To all your praises we are deaf and blind.
We may not ever know if you betray
Our hope, to make earth better for mankind.>

You can't make bricks without straw

You can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

You can't take it with you when you die

You can't teach an old dog new tricks

You can't judge a book by its cover

You can't win them all

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

You pays your money and you takes your choice

You reap what you sow

You win some, you lose some

Youth is wasted on the young

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name! ― Fort Minor

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How many chess openings are there?

Well, White has 20 possible 1st moves. Black can respond with 20 of its own. That's 400, and we're ready for move 2. I don't know them, but I would not be at all surprised if there was a name for each of them. People are like that. You really, really don't need to know them all.

If you follow the rules of thumb for good opening play, I promise you that you'll be playing a named opening. Just put the 1st 3 moves in google, and you'll get the opening's name. With that information you can find other games that started the way your game started, likely by some very good players. Also, with the name you can read about it on Wikipedia, and find out what people think of it, who plays it, and its particular traps and idiosyncrasies.

Once again, The Rules of Thumb for Good Opening Play:

- Develop your pieces quickly with an eye towards controlling the center. Not necessarily occupying the center but controlling it certainly. - Castle your king just as soon as it's practical to do so. - Really try not to move a piece more than once during the opening, it's a waste of valuable time. - Connect your rooks. This marks the end of the opening. Connected rooks means that only your rooks and your castled king are on the back rank. - Respond to threats appropriately, even if you have to break the rules. They're rules of thumb, not scripture, or physical laws.

If you and your opponent follow these rules of thumb, you'll reach the middle game ready to fight. If only you follow these rules of thumb, you're already winning! Good Hunting. -- Eric H.

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

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

<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).>

France is not just a popular destination that tourists tend to flock to. It's the most visited country in the world! Approximately 89 million people stop by each year.

Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction"

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." ~ Portuguese Proverb

St. Thomas

ECO Codes - French Defence
* C00 - 1.e4 e6 without 2.d4 (early deviations)
* C01 - 2.d4 d5 (includes the Exchange Variation, 3.exd5) * C02 - 3.e5 (Advance Variation)
* C03 - 3.Nd2 (includes 3...Be7; C03-C09 cover the Tarrasch Variation) * C04 - 3.Nd2 Nc6 (Guimard Variation)
* C05 - 3.Nd2 Nf6
* C06 - 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3
* C07 - 3.Nd2 c5 (includes 4.exd5 Qxd5)
* C08 - 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 exd5
* C09 - 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 exd5 5.Ngf3 Nc6
* C10 - 3.Nc3 (includes the Rubinstein Variation, 3...dxe4) * C11 - 3.Nc3 Nf6 (includes the Steinitz Variation, 4.e5; C11-C14 cover the Classical Variation) * C12 - 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 (includes the MacCutcheon Variation, 4...Bb4) * C13 - 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxe4 (Burn Variation)
* C14 - 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7
* C15 - 3.Nc3 Bb4 (C15-C19 cover the Winawer Variation) * C16 - 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5
* C17 - 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5
* C18 - 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 (includes the Armenian Variation, 5...Ba5) * C19 - 3.Nc3 Bb4 4 e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Nf3 and 7.a4

Franco-Indian Defense
1. d4 e6 2. c4 Bb3+

French Defense
1. e4 e6

French Defense (Advance Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5

French Defense (Alekhine-Chatard Attack)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4

French Defense (Burn Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4

French Defense (Chigorin Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. Qe2

French Defense (Classical Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7

French Defense (Exchange Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5

French Defense (Extended Bishop Swap)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Qb6 5. Nf3 Bd7 6. Be2 Bb5

French Defense (Franco-Benoni)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 c5 3. d5

French Defense (Guimard Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nc6

French Defense (MacCutcheon Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4

French Defense (Marshall Defense)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 c5

French Defense (Milner-Barry Gambit)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Bd3 cxd4 7. cxd4 Bd7 8. O-O Nxd4 9. Nxd4 Qxd4

French Defense (Reti)
1. e4 e6 2. b3

French Defense (Reversed Philidor)
1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. Be2

French Defense (Rubinstein Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4

French Defense (Steinitz Attack)
1. e4 e6 2. e5

French Defense (Steinitz Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5

French Defense (Tarrasch Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2

French Defense (Two Knights Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nc3

French Defense (Winawer Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4

French Defense (Winawer Variation-Poisoned Pawn) 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 Qc7 8. Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 cxd4

French Defense (Wing Gambit)
1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 c5 4. b4

French Defence Gambits:
Milner-Barry Gambit – C02 – 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.Bd3 cxd4 7.cxd4 Bd7 8.Nc3 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Qxd4 Nimzowitsch Gambit – C02 – 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.Qg4 Alapin Gambit – C00 – 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Be3
Winawer, Alekhine (Maroczy) gambit - C15 - 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Ne2 Winawer, Alekhine gambit - C15 - 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Ne2 dxe4 5.a3 Bxc3+ Winawer, Alekhine gambit, Kan variation - C15 - 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Ne2 dxe4 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Nxc3 Nc6 Winawer, Alekhine gambit, Alatortsev variation - C15 - 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Ne2 dxe4 5.a3 Be7 6.Nxe4 Nf6 7.N2g3 O-O 8.Be2 Nc6 Diemer-Duhm Gambit - C00 - 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.c4
French: Wing gambit - C00 - 1.e4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.e5 c5 4.b4

Jan-23-18 zanzibar: I should also mention that I like Black's knight maneuver, Nc6-d7-f5-d6-e4 (moves 46-50), transferring the knight from c6 to the very strong e4-square. Jan-24-18 Member: <zanzibar>--Your diagram of the position after move 42 is incorrect--the white knight should be on e3, not c3. According to The Computer, white's best here was 43 Ng4, with an evaluation of only -0.66, but I suspect that Capablanca would have found a way to win anyway. Lasker played 43 Nd1 in an effort to lure Capablanca into the trap described in the note after move 43 ("Not Nb4..."). Jan-26-18 zanzibar: GSM yes, my mistake, apologies. I got the move wrong I think.

God is great and God is good,

Let us thank Him for our food;

By His blessings, we are fed,

Give us Lord, our daily bread.
Amen.

Feb-22-23 stone free or die: Thanks Fred for that note. At some point this topic should get brought up on the Bistro, and a proper survey of de facto usage of the various other db's made.

Feb-23-23 petemcd85: FSR: btw, has the site stopped uploading games submitted by users? The link below explains how to upload or request, to upload games: PGN Upload Utility

Usually, if its a lot of games or a tournament, You can let me know on the support forum and i will get to it as soon as possible: support forum:
chessgames.com chessforum

Please include the link to where I can find the games in PGN format. It will help get the games up quicker

Some of the sites I recommend to find reliable PGNs would be: TheWeek In Chess:
https://theweekinchess.com/a-year-o...

chess24.com:
https://chess24.com/en/dashboard'

****

P.S. The FIDE rating of the player must be over 2200 for us to upload games .

Feb-23-23 FSR: <petemcd85> I know how to upload games to the site. Hundreds of games on this site were submitted by me. However, for the past week or so, some of the games that I have submitted have not been added to the database for some reason. Is this because the games were played by me or another player whose FIDE rating is below 2200? If so, that is a departure from prior practice of many years standing. Who authorized this?

Come, Lord Jesus, our guest to be

And bless these gifts

Bestowed by Thee.

And bless our loved ones everywhere,

And keep them in Your loving care.
Amen.

Question: , What's the brightest star in the sky? Answer: Sirius – also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, Sirius is the brightest star in Earth's night sky. The star is outshone only by several planets and the International Space Station.

Question: The world's first speeding ticket was issued in 1896. Where did it happen? Answer: London, England

Walter Arnold was driving four times the limit, at an astonishing speed of 8 miles per hour. Back in those days, the speed limit was 2 miles per hour – you could easily walk faster. The driver was eventually arrested after being chased by a police officer on a bicycle.

Confessed faults are half mended. ~ Scottish Proverb

A piece of cake: https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/che...

Doinysius7: I had basil on the pub's potage du jour yesterday. Soup herb!

Fredthebear copied this collection compiled by diegoami. Thank you diegoami!

Games from the book - Starting Out: The French by Byron Jacobs

* Black Defends: Game Collection: Opening repertoire black

Franco-Indian Defense
1. d4 e6 2. c4 Bb3+

French Defense
1. e4 e6

French Defense (Advance Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5

French Defense (Alekhine-Chatard Attack)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4

French Defense (Burn Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4

French Defense (Chigorin Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. Qe2

French Defense (Classical Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7

French Defense (Exchange Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5

French Defense (Extended Bishop Swap)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Qb6 5. Nf3 Bd7 6. Be2 Bb5

French Defense (Franco-Benoni)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 c5 3. d5

French Defense (Guimard Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nc6

French Defense (MacCutcheon Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4

French Defense (Marshall Defense)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 c5

French Defense (Milner-Barry Gambit)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Bd3 cxd4 7. cxd4 Bd7 8. O-O Nxd4 9. Nxd4 Qxd4

French Defense (Reti)
1. e4 e6 2. b3

French Defense (Reversed Philidor)
1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. Be2

French Defense (Rubinstein Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4

French Defense (Steinitz Attack)
1. e4 e6 2. e5

French Defense (Steinitz Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5

French Defense (Tarrasch Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2

French Defense (Two Knights Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nc3

French Defense (Winawer Variation)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4

French Defense (Winawer Variation-Poisoned Pawn) 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 Qc7 8. Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 cxd4

French Defense (Wing Gambit)
1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 c5 4. b4

French Defence Gambits:
Milner-Barry Gambit – C02 – 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.Bd3 cxd4 7.cxd4 Bd7 8.Nc3 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Qxd4 Nimzowitsch Gambit – C02 – 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.Qg4 Alapin Gambit – C00 – 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Be3
Winawer, Alekhine (Maroczy) gambit - C15 - 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Ne2 Winawer, Alekhine gambit - C15 - 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Ne2 dxe4 5.a3 Bxc3+ Winawer, Alekhine gambit, Kan variation - C15 - 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Ne2 dxe4 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Nxc3 Nc6 Winawer, Alekhine gambit, Alatortsev variation - C15 - 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Ne2 dxe4 5.a3 Be7 6.Nxe4 Nf6 7.N2g3 O-O 8.Be2 Nc6 Diemer-Duhm Gambit - C00 - 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.c4
French: Wing gambit - C00 - 1.e4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.e5 c5 4.b4

* Gambits against the French Defense:
Game Collection: alapin gambit -alapin diemer gambit + reti gam

See FRENCH DEFENCE (Advance, Exchange, Schlechter,.. compiled by gambitfan

Thank you Honza Cervenka.

"I've played a number of interesting novelties lately. Mostly that's because I haven't got a clue what I am doing in the opening." ― Nigel Short

"Against Alekhine you never knew what to expect. Against Capablanca, you knew what to expect, but you couldn't prevent it!" ― George Thomas

"Whereas Anderssen and Chigorin looked for accidental positions, Capablanca is guided by the logicality of strong positions. He values only that which is well-founded: solidity of position, pressure on a weak point, he does not trust the accidental, even if it be a problem-like mate, at the required moment he discovers and carries out subtle and far-sighted combinations..." ― Emanuel Lasker

"Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with its logic." ― Garry Kasparov

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

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." ― Francis Bacon

"Discipline is wisdom and vice versa." ― M. Scott Peck

"The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder." ― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

"In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent." — Vasily Smyslov (1921-2010), 7th World Chess Champion

"For a period of ten years--between 1946 and 1956--Reshevsky was probably the best chessplayer in the world. I feel sure that had he played a match with Botvinnik during that time he would have won and been World Champion." ― Bobby Fischer

Question: What did clocks never have before 1577? Answer: Minute hands – it was eventually invented by Jost Burgi for, it is believed, Tycho Brahe, an astronomer who needed an accurate clock for stargazing.

Question: What is the most frequently sold item at Walmart? Answer: Bananas – although Walmart never disclosed how many bananas they sell each year, the number has to be immense considering that over 200 million people shop in its stores worldwide every single week.

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." ― Nora Ephr

Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER

* Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-...

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

Old Russian Proverb: "Measure seven times, cut once. (Семь раз отмерь — один отрежь.)" Be careful before you do something that cannot be changed.

"I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything." — Hulk Hogan

"Old habits die hard, especially for soldiers." ― Jocelyn Murray, The Roman General: A Novel

'Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted'

'Don't throw good money after bad'

'Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater'

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.

"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

InkHarted wrote:

Checkmate.
I started off as an equal
I have everything that they do
my life was one and the same as my foe
childish battles of lesser
I won baring cost of a little
but as time outgrew my conscience
I found that the pieces were moving against me
with time my company reduced
they left one by one
all in time forgetting me
my castles collapsed
my religion dissuaded
my protectors in hiding
I could not run anymore
I have been cornered to a wall
as the queen left silently
without saying goodbye
I could not live any longer
she was most precious to me
I could not win without her by my side
so the king knelt down and died.

"Everyone should know how to play chess." — José Raúl Capablanca

"We do not remember days, we remember moments." ― Cesare Pavese

"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

'Ashes to ashes dust to dust

Specific Game Example: Paul Keres vs Vladimir Petrov USSR Championship (1940), Moscow URS, rd 19, Oct-02 Keres vs Petrov, 1940

FIDE Master Valeri Lilov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ts...

Self-Talk:

"Was that move legal?" If so, write it down.

"Where/what is my opponent aiming at now?
How many times?"

"Am I in check now? How can I be put in check on the next turn? How would I respond to check?"

Checklist - Response to the King in Check - CBA: C) CAPTURE the checker,
B) interpose BETWEEN (self-pin),
* If a knight gives check, interposing between is not possible. A) fly AWAY to a safe square?
* Double check requires the King to move out of both checks.

"What can my opponent capture?" etc. etc.

GM Lilov mentions counting the material as part of the evaluation process. Do be sure to count the number of attackers against the number of defenders where checks, captures, and pawn advances/promotions are threatened. Can more attackers be added? Can defenders be removed, obstructed, pinned, etc.? This forcing assessment is vital before every move.

The value of the pieces involved, and the move order in which the pieces capture and re-capture also matters. In <tpstar's diagram above>, White has three attackers aiming at the g6-pawn, that is protected by only two defenders. However, the attackers are more valuable pieces, and the defenders are lowly pawns, so capturing on g6 with a White piece will lose material value even though White has Black outnumbered there.

GM Lilov does mention the unprotected a2-pawn as a weakness. Thus, it had one attacker (the Black queen) and no defender. Then he shows that White has an adequate response to the ... Qxa2 capture by counterattacking. One must not be baited into capturing for free or material gain without knowing what will happen AFTER the capture is made.

"Simply plans are best. Tactics will prevail." ― C.J.S. Purdy Wikipedia article: Cecil Purdy

IM Zaur Tekeyev: https://thechessworld.com/articles/...

More Tactics: https://www.chessjournal.com/chess-...

To improve your chess, improve your tactics: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

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

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Endgames focus on creating and promoting a passed pawn, then checkmating with the new piece, usually a queen. Endgames have reoccurring patterns too, so study your endings! Your endgame knowledge will assist your ability to assess trades in the opening and middlegame, what appears to be an even exchange. One color or the other often benefits slightly more when an even exchange is made.

If your opponent knows that one doesn't know endings, s/he'll swap off the pieces (avoiding tactical play) and head for positions with greatly reduced material.

For example, many young players panic without their beloved queen on board, so the experienced player will trade off the queens and some other like pieces and drag the young player into an undesired endgame. The point is, knowledge of middlegame tactics can be dissolved into an uncomfortable endgame through exchanges, so the study of endgames is also vital.

Endgame knowledge will be rewarded time and time again over the course of one's chess career, particularly in hard fought games where it's been difficult to find an advantage.

* Here's an easy, chatty start: Easy Endgame Strategies by Bill Robertie (Cardoza publishing, 2003). This combines his earlier books into one. https://www.abebooks.com/book-searc...

* How to Beat Your Kids at Chess by David MacEnulty explains the endgame thoroughly: https://books.google.com/books/abou... Note that MacEnulty's other topical books are excellent instruction; most have been re-printed with different titles and covers -- same book, different look.

* Turnabout is fair play: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/chess... Chess is chess -- it's the same game regardless of your age. If it's good for kids to know, then it's good for grown-ups to know.

* Sign up for free and you can read Polgar's guide for FREE: https://archive.org/details/worldch... Section I is all about tactics, Section II is the endgame. Gotta recognize all these patterns! Her other books are good too.

* Winning Chess Endings by Yasser Seirawan is easily available from used book sources: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/winni... That was my attempt at saying that I wouldn't pay $25 for the latest edition.

* Openings? You worried about openings? This opening puzzle book is more than enough to get one going for a few years: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-w... If you miss these tactical opportunities, there's no point studying anything more advanced. Way too many chess players study long lines of grandmaster variations and miss the basics. It's far better for the average Joe Sixpack to never-miss-an-opportunity-to-punish-simple-mista- kes by rehearsing common patterns and blunders quickly and repeatedly.

<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/

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"Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people." ― Elizabeth Green

"It ain't over 'til it's over, no matter how over it looks." ― Yogi Berra

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." ― Frederick Douglass

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.

"Only those who want everything done for them are bored." — Billy Graham

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

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

Psalm 31:24
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

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.

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

"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.

"Forget the past – the future will give you plenty to worry about." — George Allen

"Luckily, there is a way to be happy. It involves changing the emphasis of our thinking from what we want to what we have." ― Richard Carlson

<Hawaiin Proverbs of Love

Kahuna Nui Hale Kealohalani Makua – "Love all you see, including yourself." — Hale Makua

E Hoomau Maua Kealoha – (May our love last forever.)

Aloha Aku No, Aloha Mai No – (I give my love to you, you give your love to me.)

`A`ohe loa i ka hana a ke aloha – (Distance is ignored by love.)

Ua ola loko i ke aloha – (Love gives life within.)

He kehau ho`oma`ema`e ke aloha – (Love is like a cleansing dew.)

He ‘Olina Leo Ka Ke Aloha – (Joy is in the voice of love.)

Ho'i Hou Ke Aloha – (Let us fall in love all over again.)

No Keia La, No Keia Po, A Mau Loa – (From this day, from this night, forever more.)

Hele mai ho'ohiwahiwa – (To honor.)

Noho me ka hau'oli – (Be happy.)

Kuhi no ka lima, hele no ka maka. – (Where the hands move, there let the eyes follow.)>

French Proverb: "Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard." ― (Nothing should be left to chance.)

"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

"As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight." — The Revenant

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WISE OLD OWL
A wise old owl lived in an oak.
The more he saw the less he spoke.
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?

Give a HOOT ― Don't Pollute!

Chess variants - No N (000) 1-0 Inflict doubled Ps, seize files
Morphy vs A B Arnold, 1859 
(000) Chess variants, 21 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Exchange Variation (C01) 0-1 Notes by JHB
Englisch vs Blackburne, 1883  
(C01) French, Exchange, 19 moves, 0-1

Alekhine’s superiority drove the proud Nimzovich to despair.
Alekhine vs A Nimzowitsch, 1931 
(C15) French, Winawer, 19 moves, 1-0

Alekhine wins ... but his opponent misses the best defense.
Alekhine vs Sik, 1943 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 19 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Delayed Exchange (C15)1-0 3 Pieces do the trick
Blackburne vs J D Grimwood, 1873 
(C01) French, Exchange, 19 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed (C05) 1/2-1/2 N+ perpetual
Gelfand vs Ivanchuk, 1985 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 19 moves, 1/2-1/2

French Advance. 6.Be2 f6 Euwe Var (C02) 1-0 Zwischenzugs sting
Romanishin vs Ivanchuk, 1986 
(C02) French, Advance, 19 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Delayed Exchange Var (C01) 1-0 Hangers
Koltanowski vs J Blankfort, 1960
(C01) French, Exchange, 19 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Exchange (C01) 1-0 First cut-off the king
A Nimzowitsch vs G Fluss, 1907 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 19 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Exchange. Svenonius Variation (C01) 1/2-1/2
Schlechter vs Teichmann, 1911 
(C01) French, Exchange, 19 moves, 1/2-1/2

FR Tarrasch Open System Euwe-Keres Line (C07) 1-0 Raiding Qs
Tal vs Uhlmann, 1971 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 19 moves, 1-0

French Def. Tarrasch. Guimard Def ML (C04) 1-0Black hangs his Q
D Donchev vs Topalov, 1989 
(C04) French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line, 19 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch Chistyakov Def (C07) 1-0 Boden's Mate is coming
P Ofstad vs Uhlmann, 1963 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 19 moves, 1-0

French Advance Paulsen Attack (C02) 1/2-1/2 Queenside exchanges
I Golyak vs A Levina, 2001
(C02) French, Advance, 19 moves, 1/2-1/2

FR Rubinstein Blackburne Def. C10 1-0 Castled opposite g-file
Morozevich vs Van Wely, 2002 
(C10) French, 19 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Winawer(C15) 1-0 Ignore the threat, check for +
J Minckwitz vs S Mieses, 1872 
(C15) French, Winawer, 19 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Winawer (C15) 1-0 Spearheads
Zukertort vs J Schulten, 1868 
(C15) French, Winawer, 19 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Poisoned Pawn ML (C18) 1-0 kNight robs the pin
Nijboer vs Timman, 2006 
(C18) French, Winawer, 19 moves, 1-0

French Classical. Burn Var (C11) 1-0 h-file destruction
A Dake vs A De Burca, 1935 
(C11) French, 19 moves, 1-0

FR Winawer. Poisoned Pawn (C18) 1-0 The 3rd place prize?!
Bologan vs Vaganian, 2006 
(C18) French, Winawer, 19 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Diemer-Duhm Gambit (C01) 0-1 Too much space
P Orlov vs V G Kostic, 2005 
(C00) French Defense, 19 moves, 0-1

French Alekhine-Chatard Attack. Maroczy Var (C13) 1-0Sac attack
Nisipeanu vs A Florean, 1995 
(C13) French, 19 moves, 1-0

Sicilian / French. Westerinen Attack (B40) 1-0Bishop pair rules
T Fogarasi vs N Medvegy, 2003 
(B40) Sicilian, 19 moves, 1-0

French A-C Attk, Albin-Chatard Gambit (C13) 1-0 She offered
S Khader vs A El Arousy, 2010 
(C13) French, 19 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. 8...g5 Morozevich Var (C03) 0-1Exposed White K
S Gaffagan vs C Holt, 2011 
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 19 moves, 0-1

French Exchange. Svenonius Var (C01) 1-0 Efficient White play
Short vs G Seletsky, 2012 
(C01) French, Exchange, 19 moves, 1-0

French Def. Steinitz. Boleslavsky Var (C11) 0-1 She got in but
H Thomas vs J Kulbacki, 1992
(C11) French, 19 moves, 0-1

French Def. Exchange (C01) 0-1 Black threatens mate, rescues B
M Elyashiv vs Alekhine, 1909 
(C01) French, Exchange, 20 moves, 0-1

18.Qh6!, trapping the king instead of check
Tarrasch vs J Mieses, 1916 
(C10) French, 20 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Bogoljubow (C17) 1-0 1Rook was enough
Saemisch vs NN, 1934 
(C17) French, Winawer, Advance, 20 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch Variation (C03) 1-0 USSR blitz tournament
Tal vs Petrosian, 1975 
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 20 moves, 1-0

Coordinate your pieces on a loose square near the enemy king!
Khalifman vs Bareev, 2002 
(C10) French, 20 moves, 1-0

Game 13: "Logical Chess: Move by Move" by Irving Chernev
J Dobias vs J Podgorny, 1952 
(C10) French, 20 moves, 1-0

French Def: Two Knights Var (C00) 1-0 Dbl B sacs, R lift
E Book vs V Ingerslev, 1929 
(C00) French Defense, 20 moves, 1-0

FR, Albin-Chatard Gambit (C13) 1-0Chomping Minors, then Majors
A Kaspersky vs I Mazel, 1925 
(C13) French, 20 moves, 1-0

French Winawer (C15) 1-0 Remove the defender, N fork
A Ilyin-Zhenevsky vs A S Sergeev, 1924 
(C15) French, Winawer, 20 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Pawn Center Variation (C05) 0-1White K exposed
E Kengis vs R Djurhuus, 1991 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 20 moves, 0-1

French Def. Tarrasch. Closed (C05)1-0 B sac, R lift, Lawnmower#
G Spain vs J Stark, 2008 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 20 moves, 1-0

French Advance, Milner-Barry Gambit (C02)1-0 Stunning sacs
F A Foulds vs Lang, 1956 
(C02) French, Advance, 20 moves, 1-0

French Adv Nimzowitsch G 4.Qg4 cxd4 5.Nf3 Nc6(C02) 0-1Landslide
B Mudongo vs A Hamza, 2008
(C02) French, Advance, 20 moves, 0-1

French Winawer. PP (C18) 1-0 Miniature Q+ & fork LPDO Rook
Kotov vs V Chekhover, 1935 
(C18) French, Winawer, 20 moves, 1-0

Deutsche Schachzeitung 1880, p. 346; Gueridon Mate in 2
J de Soyres vs A B Skipworth, 1880 
(C13) French, 20 moves, 1-0

Perhaps way "over-rated", but plenty of action for debate
Fischer vs Tal, 1960 
(C18) French, Winawer, 21 moves, 1/2-1/2

French Def. Classical. Swiss Var (C11) 1-0 Another fine mess
Bogoljubov vs J H Donner, 1951 
(C11) French, 21 moves, 1-0

French Defense: McCutcheon. Lasker Var (C12) 1-0 Sliced
Euwe vs J W te Kolste, 1921 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 21 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Two Knights (C00) 0-1 Nifty central sequence
J Rigo vs Gulko, 1988 
(C00) French Defense, 21 moves, 0-1

French Advance 6.Be2. Euwe Var (C02) 1-0 Steady Kside march
Kasparov vs K Klimczok, 1993 
(C02) French, Advance, 21 moves, 1-0

French Rubinstein (C10) 1-0 Miniature: = PM's Opera House Game
Najdorf vs Gliksberg, 1929 
(C10) French, 21 moves, 1-0

French Alekhine-Chatard Attack. Albin-Chatard Gambit (C13) 1-0!
K Spraggett vs R Bedard, 1972 
(C13) French, 21 moves, 1-0

French Advance. Milner-Barry Gambit (C02) 1-0The Wizard of Riga
Tal vs I Nei, 1958 
(C02) French, Advance, 21 moves, 1-0

French Exchange. Monte Carlo (C01) 0-1 Royal fork off the menu
Velimirovic vs Uhlmann, 1976 
(C01) French, Exchange, 21 moves, 0-1

French Exchange. Svenonius Var (C01) 1-0 White does not 0-0?
J Garcia vs Shirov, 2001 
(C01) French, Exchange, 21 moves, 0-1

French, Classical. Steinitz (C11) 1-0Greek gift, P wedge, Q+
Steinitz vs C Golmayo, 1888 
(C11) French, 19 moves, 1-0

Alexander Fritz (1857-1932)
A Fritz vs Mason, 1883 
(C13) French, 26 moves, 1-0

French Advance. Wade Variation (C02) 1-0 Self-inflicted hole
J Nun vs M Brodsky, 1994 
(C02) French, Advance, 21 moves, 1-0

French, Classical. Burn Var (C11) 1-0 Dbl R sitting sacs
Torre vs E Z Adams, 1920 
(C11) French, 21 moves, 1-0

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger"
E Mortensen vs L Karlsson, 1988 
(C18) French, Winawer, 21 moves, 0-1

French Rubinstein, Capablanca Line (C10) 1-0 Kside attack
I Nyzhnyk vs D Baider, 2006 
(C10) French, 21 moves, 1-0

French Winawer Winckelmann-Riemer Gambit (C15) 0-1 h-file bomb
K O'Brien vs D Salter, 2008 
(C15) French, Winawer, 21 moves, 0-1

French X$ Russian Game: Classical Attk. Staunton Var (C42) Draw
M Muzychuk vs A Muzychuk, 2009 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 21 moves, 1/2-1/2

King's Indian Attack (A07) 1-0 e7 under fire; remove the guard
J Stopa vs S Greanias, 2009 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 21 moves, 1-0

French Def. Advance 6.a3 Main Line (C02) 0-1 Loose pieces
Y Santiago vs A J Walton, 2015 
(C02) French, Advance, 21 moves, 0-1

French Winawer. Advance Var (C18) 0-1
N Umudova vs E Paehtz, 2015 
(C18) French, Winawer, 21 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Exchange (C01) 1-0 Pile on the pin
Blackburne vs J A Huckvale, 1875 
(C01) French, Exchange, 21 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch Open System Euwe-Keres Line (C07) 1-0 Caution
I Pleci vs L Endzelins, 1939 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 21 moves, 1-0

Sicilian, French. Alapin, Haag Attk (B40) 1-0 Count the pieces
E Formanek vs Gheorghiu, 1978 
(B40) Sicilian, 21 moves, 1-0

French Def. Rubinstein. Fort Knox (C10) 1-0 Needs another look
R Govedarica vs Velimirovic, 1993 
(C10) French, 21 moves, 0-1

French Classical. Richter Attack (C13) 1-0 Just take it!
Blackburne vs Tarrasch, 1885  
(C13) French, 22 moves, 1-0

French Def. Tarrasch. Closed Var (C05) 1-0 Rook forks Royalty
Tal vs Granda Zuniga, 1987 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 22 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: French Variation. Normal (B40) 1-0 Spearhead
Kolisch vs Anderssen, 1861 
(B40) Sicilian, 22 moves, 1-0

French Classical. Delayed Exchange (C11) 1-0 Full force Kside!
Mackenzie vs Mason, 1878 
(C11) French, 22 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Poisoned Pawn Var (C18) 1-0 Bxh6 starts # race
L Vogt vs Uhlmann, 1989 
(C18) French, Winawer, 22 moves, 1-0

French Rubinstein. Kasparov Attack(C10) 1-0Knighted (or Pinned)
G Vescovi vs Karpov, 2004 
(C10) French, 22 moves, 1-0

French, Diemer-Duhm Gambit (C00) 1-0 N fork follows mess
J Heikkinen vs R Davies, 1996
(C00) French Defense, 22 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Normal 3...h6 (C10) 1-0 Blunder finish
Ponomariov vs N A Legky, 2005 
(C10) French, 22 moves, 1-0

French Burn Var (C11) 0-1 Black exchange sac cracks white
H Klip vs Barsov, 1995 
(C11) French, 21 moves, 0-1

French Rubinstein. Blackburne Def (C10) 1-0 LPDO, overworked
J Szekely vs Breyer, 1911
(C10) French, 22 moves, 1-0

French Exchange (C01) 0-1 Surprising Nxg2 wins
J Novkovic vs N Zhukova, 2013 
(C01) French, Exchange, 22 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed (C05) 0-1 Up a piece
S Zojer vs S Arslanov, 2013 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 22 moves, 0-1

French Def. Tarrasch. Open System (C07) 0-1 Clever mating net
M Romi vs Keres, 1936 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 22 moves, 0-1

Franco-Nimzowitsch 4...b6 (B00) 1-0Black K 0-0-0 stripped of Ps
T Abrahamyan vs W Duckworth, 2012 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 22 moves, 1-0

French Def. McCutcheon. Lasker Var (C12) 0-1 Lateral pins
S Belavenets vs A Chistiakov, 1938 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 22 moves, 0-1

French Def. Steinitz. Gledhill Attack (C11) 1-0 Q sac offer
J Houghteling vs L S Cornell, 1902 
(C11) French, 22 moves, 1-0

Game 75 in Think Like a Grandmaster by Alexander Kotov
Kotov vs Kalmanok, 1936 
(C11) French, 22 moves, 1-0

French Albin-Chatard Gambit (C13) 1-0 Notes by Reti
Alekhine vs H Fahrni, 1914  
(C13) French, 23 moves, 1-0

French Defense / Owen Def (C00) 1-0 Notes by JHB
Blackburne vs Tinsley, 1899  
(C00) French Defense, 23 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch Modern System(C03) 0-1 Discovery attack on f2
Smirin vs Dreev, 1988
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 23 moves, 0-1

French Advance Milner-Barry Gambit 9...f6 (C02) 1-0 open f-file
J Pokojowczyk vs Ivkov, 1971 
(C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 0-1

French Winawer. Positional Var (C19) 1-0 Pawn truly poisoned
Karpov vs Vaganian, 1972 
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 23 moves, 1-0

French Advance 5...f6 (C02) 0-1 Pins are a problem.
A Romero Holmes vs Korchnoi, 1991 
(C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 0-1

Frank James Marshall (1877-1944) The Gold Coin Game
S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 
(B23) Sicilian, Closed, 23 moves, 0-1

French Def 3...b6 vs. Advance (C02) 0-1Bold B sac, tumbling Ns
J A Hedman Senarega vs Romanishin, 1977 
(C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 0-1

French Classical. Burn ML (C11)1-0 Ns fixin' 2bust up the joint
Ponomariov vs Ivanchuk, 2002 
(C11) French, 23 moves, 1-0

Albin CG / French Exchange. Monte Carlo Var(C01) 0-1Back Ranked
B Gross vs M Kastor, 2000 
(C01) French, Exchange, 23 moves, 0-1

French Winawer (C15) 1-0 Rob the pin that can no longer defend
A Wojciechowski vs H Weiss, 1936 
(C15) French, Winawer, 23 moves, 1-0

French Advance (C02) 0-1 It wasn't easy gettin' there
Wemmers vs J Metger, 1877 
(C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Alapin / French Advance (C02) 0-1 K walk
C Richey vs B Wall, 1991
(C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 0-1

French Advance. Euwe Var (C02) 0-1 Tactical play on queenside
R Schreiner vs G Hertneck, 1990
(C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 0-1

Black had resources he didn't use in time
Naiditsch vs T T Hoang, 1998 
(C14) French, Classical, 23 moves, 1-0

French Def 3...b6 vs. Advance (C02) 0-1 Sac open the g-file
M Larrea vs B Roselli Mailhe, 2007 
(C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 0-1

French Winawer. Poisoned Pawn (C18) 0-1 Raid half-open files
F Libiszewski vs Rozentalis, 2010 
(C18) French, Winawer, 23 moves, 0-1

FR Classical, Richter Attack (C13) 1-0 Greek gift, rob the pin
Blackburne vs H Charlick, 1885 
(C13) French, 23 moves, 1-0

French Steinitz. Boleslavsky (C11) 1-0 N-Q-R sacs to Boden's #
H Tirard vs A Silvert, 2000 
(C11) French, 23 moves, 1-0

French Def 3...b6 vs. Advance (C02) 0-1 Know when to exchange
D Egorov vs A Ulanov, 2013 
(C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 0-1

French Advance Milner-Barry Gambit (C02) 0-1Black rips up Qside
N A Savic vs D Antic, 2013
(C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 0-1

French Def. Tarrasch. Open System (C07) 0-1 N triple fork
Y Polyak vs Boleslavsky, 1938 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 23 moves, 0-1

The phrase 'hollow men' comes from 'Julius Caesar' by Shakespea
R W Smith vs R Hart, 2009 
(C13) French, 23 moves, 1-0

French Classical. Richter Attk (C13) 1-0 Blindfold Kside crush
Alekhine vs E Linares Jr, 1939 
(C13) French, 23 moves, 1-0

French Def Chigorin 2.Qe2 (C00) 0-1 Black N turns the tables
V Kirillov vs I Mazel, 1931
(C00) French Defense, 23 moves, 0-1

French Exchange 5.c4 (C01) 0-1 Hey, where are you going?
H Toufighi vs H Wang, 2006 
(C01) French, Exchange, 24 moves, 0-1

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

French Exchange (C01) 0-1 Castle opposite, pawn storm
C Hovind vs Alekhine, 1930 
(C01) French, Exchange, 24 moves, 0-1

Bogo's most famous and convincing win over Alekhine
Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1937 
(C17) French, Winawer, Advance, 24 moves, 1-0

French Advance. Euwe Var (C02) 0-1 Snare the wayward White Q
M Labra Carreno vs A Rodriguez Vila, 1992 
(C02) French, Advance, 24 moves, 0-1

French Winawer. Advance (C16) 0-1 Pawn lever, pile on the pin
Smyslov vs Tolush, 1939 
(C16) French, Winawer, 24 moves, 0-1

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

French Winawer. Classical (C18) 1-0 Possible Opera House combo
Suetin vs J H Donner, 1968 
(C18) French, Winawer, 24 moves, 1-0

Chess Informant's Best Game of 2003
J Polgar vs F Berkes, 2003 
(C11) French, 24 moves, 1-0

The Immortal Overprotection Game
A Nimzowitsch vs Systemsson, 1927  
(C00) French Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Fingerslip Var (C15) 1-0 Q trap
E Schiller vs B Smythe, 1985 
(C15) French, Winawer, 24 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Adv (C19) 1-0 Occupy the 6th w/half-open files
J Dueball vs G Jacoby, 1976 
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 24 moves, 1-0

French Rubinstein Blackburne Def (C10) 1-0 Odd R lift -> Pin
A Muzychuk vs M Delgado Crespo, 2006
(C10) French, 24 moves, 1-0

Lasker-like Don Quixote-understands his windmills (#)
Lasker vs E Delmonte, 1906 
(C10) French, 24 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Poisoned Pawn 7.Qg4 Main Line (C18) 1/2-1/2
K Dolzhykova vs E Sedina, 2009 
(C18) French, Winawer, 24 moves, 1/2-1/2

French Defense: Rubinstein. Blackburne Def (C10) Smothered Mate
B Koester vs R Gralla, 1971 
(C10) French, 24 moves, 0-1

FR Advance. Wade Var (C02) 1-0 Undeveloped Kside into Boden's #
Y Yu vs A Zatonskih, 2013 
(C02) French, Advance, 24 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Retreat, Armenian Line (C18) 1-0 W diagonals
M Szelag vs A Berelowitsch, 2015
(C18) French, Winawer, 24 moves, 1-0

French Rubinstein. Kasparov Attack(C10) 1-0Sac attack, Q on 7th
So vs V Akobian, 2016 
(C10) French, 24 moves, 1-0

Short resigns after retracting his illegal 0-0-0!
W N Watson vs Short, 1983 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 24 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Open System Advance (C08) 0-1 Exchange Sac!
E Bebchuk vs Bronstein, 1974 
(C08) French, Tarrasch, Open, 4.ed ed, 24 moves, 0-1

French Def. Tarrasch. Open System ML (C09) 0-1 Pins & Battery
Ragozin vs Botvinnik, 1941 
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 24 moves, 0-1

FR Alekhine-Chatard Attk. Albin-Chatard G. (C13) 1-0 Dbl R sacs
Pachman vs Eckert, 1940 
(C13) French, 24 moves, 1-0

G271 in 500 Master Games of Chess by S. Tartakower & J. Du Mont
Keres vs G Alexandrescu, 1936 
(C02) French, Advance, 24 moves, 1-0

The pin is mightier than the sword. - Reinfeld
J Mieses vs M Kann, 1885 
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 24 moves, 0-1

FR Winawer PP (C18) 0-1 Dbl R Sacs; 3 pieces beat 2 in a K hunt
C Canoba vs Eliskases, 1957 
(C18) French, Winawer, 25 moves, 0-1

French Winawer. Poisoned P (C18) 1-0 Qs parade heats it up!
Geller vs A Sokolsky, 1950 
(C18) French, Winawer, 25 moves, 1-0

This game made Nunn's 101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
Ljubojevic vs Kasparov, 1983 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 25 moves, 0-1

French Exchange (C01) 0-1 sKorching counterattack on f2
L M Kovacs vs Korchnoi, 1969 
(C01) French, Exchange, 25 moves, 0-1

FR Rubinstein. Blackburne (C10) 1-0 Precise play by JT
Timman vs Korchnoi, 1991 
(C10) French, 25 moves, 1-0

French Rubinstein, Wrong Variation (C10) 1-0 W has 2 more Ps
Kotronias vs D Canda, 1986
(C10) French, 25 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

French Defense: Tarrasch. Pawn Center (C05) 0-1 c5 & f6 breaks
Ljubojevic vs M Gurevich, 1991 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Classical. Burn Var (C11) 1-0 Precision
Spassky vs Y Porat, 1968 
(C11) French, 25 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Classical. Burn Var (C11) 1-0The mating square
Tal vs Barcza, 1962 
(C11) French, 25 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch Guimard Def ML (C04) Discovered+, pin, remove G
Dubois vs J M Lanz Calavia, 1973 
(C04) French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line, 25 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Chistyakov Def(C07) 1-0R sac, B+ & fork LPDO R
Adams vs Bareev, 2004 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 1-0

French Rubinstein Kasparov Attack (C10) 1-0 Centralization
Adams vs V Akopian, 2004 
(C10) French, 25 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Schlechter 3.Bd3?! (C00) 1-0 Remove the Guard
Carlsen vs I A Abusdal, 2003 
(C00) French Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Petrosian Var (C16) 1-0 Discovered Double Check
L Mista vs J Fichtl, 1974 
(C16) French, Winawer, 25 moves, 1-0

French Exchange (C01) 1/2-1/2 4.Bf4 Bd6
R Hess vs L B Hansen, 2007
(C01) French, Exchange, 25 moves, 1/2-1/2

21...Rxf2+ is the start of a mating combination with Q,B
D Kagramanov vs S Ernst, 2007 
(C02) French, Advance, 25 moves, 0-1

FR Winawer Positional (C19) 1-0 Notes by Bill Melvin. > combo!
B Melvin vs R Cunningham, 1994  
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 25 moves, 1-0

Traditional 9.e5 KIA (A07) 1-0 Q Sac leads to Arabian Mate
A Stukopin vs B Hasenohr, 2008 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

French Classical Var Richter Attack (C13) 0-1 0-0-0 King walk
E M Sobernheim vs S Langleben, 1895 
(C13) French, 25 moves, 0-1

French Exchange 5.c4 (C01) 0-1 Bishop sac destroys pawn shield
Jakovenko vs Grischuk, 2012 
(C01) French, Exchange, 25 moves, 0-1

French Alekhine-Chatard Attack (C13) 0-1 White retreats Bishop?
E Hansen vs J Stocek, 2017 
(C13) French, 25 moves, 0-1

French Rubinstein. Fort Knox Bd7-Bc6 (C10) 1-0 Fine Arabian #!
Karpov vs M Stojanovic, 2007 
(C10) French, 25 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Tarrasch (C03) 1-0 Bxh6 sac for g-pawn promo
P Jowett vs J McBride, 2007 
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 1-0

French Def. Tarrasch. Open System (C09) 0-1 Promotion giveaway
A Ingerslev vs Bronstein, 1956 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 0-1

French Tarrasch. Open System Euwe-Keres Line (C07) 1-0 Pile on
Vachier-Lagrave vs J Degraeve, 2007 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 1-0

French Def Rubinstein. Blackburne Def (C10) 1-0 Sac Attack!
A Pinkus vs R Durkin, 1941 
(C10) French, 25 moves, 1-0

Ciocaltea puts on a clinic in demolishing the French with KIA
V Ciocaltea vs J Kozma, 1963 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Delayed Exchange Nc6 Bb5 (C01) 0-1 Kside P roll
M Ozanne vs H Abdullah, 2008
(C01) French, Exchange, 26 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Two Knights (C00) 1/2-1/2 Home cookin
V Chekhover vs A Chistiakov, 1939
(C00) French Defense, 26 moves, 1/2-1/2

French Classical. Richter Attack (C13) 1-0 Knight on the 6th
Alekhine vs A Asgeirsson, 1931 
(C13) French, 25 moves, 1-0

French Burn Var Morozevich Line (C11) 0-1 Pile on pin
J Kaplan vs Bronstein, 1975 
(C11) French, 26 moves, 0-1

French Winawer. Kondratiyev Var (C15); Pin her to win her
Geller vs Petrosian, 1953 
(C15) French, Winawer, 26 moves, 0-1

FR Winawer. Poisoned Pawn (C18) 1-0 Surprise B sac opens chain
Stein vs Petrosian, 1961 
(C18) French, Winawer, 26 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed Var (C05) 0-1 Exchange Sac
D Rovner vs Tal, 1955 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 26 moves, 0-1

Rat Defense: Small Center Def (C00) 1-0 Nibbled on in
J Kristiansen vs P Saariluoma, 1973
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 26 moves, 1-0

French, Alekhine-Chatard Attack. Albin-Chatard G. (C13) 1-0 KOd
Kasparov vs Korchnoi, 2001 
(C13) French, 26 moves, 1-0

Owen / French Not Normal Var (C00) 0-1 Furious finish
Burn vs J Owen, 1876 
(C00) French Defense, 26 moves, 0-1

Reshevsky's brilliant sac attack w/superior development
Reshevsky vs A Vasconcellos, 1944 
(C02) French, Advance, 26 moves, 1-0

French Adv Main Line 6.a3 cxd4 (C02) 1-0 Back-to-back N sacs!
Antoshin vs G Kasparian, 1954 
(C02) French, Advance, 26 moves, 1-0

French Rubinstein Var. Blackburne Def (C10) 1-0 Dbl B Sacs
Gelfand vs Kramnik, 1994 
(C10) French, 26 moves, 1-0

FR Winawer. Poisoned Pawn ML (C18) 0-1 26...Xe2 either way!
S J Hooker vs Short, 1975 
(C18) French, Winawer, 25 moves, 0-1

French Rubinstein. Blackburne Def (C10) 1-0 6.Qe2 trap
Carlsen vs A Hobber, 2006 
(C10) French, 26 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Chigorin Var (C00) 0-1 Transposes to Dbl KP
Zvjaginsev vs Morozevich, 2005 
(C00) French Defense, 26 moves, 0-1

Sic Alapin B22 This "missing" game was found by Vlastimil Fiala
A Nimzowitsch vs Schlechter, 1905 
(B22) Sicilian, Alapin, 26 moves, 0-1

French Rubinstein. Blackburne Def (C10) 0-1 White K exposed
J Barton vs Breyer, 1911
(C10) French, 26 moves, 0-1

Tremendous tactical blows by Anand, 25 ?d4-h8! and 26 b
Anand vs Ivanchuk, 2009 
(C16) French, Winawer, 26 moves, 1-0

French Adv 6.a3 Nh6 7.b4 Lputian (C02) 0-1 Snazzy Dbl R sac
Smeets vs D Brandenburg, 2011 
(C02) French, Advance, 26 moves, 0-1

Owen Defense (B00) 1-0 The Ng5-Nxh7 Sac Attack
Alekhine vs V Rozanov, 1908 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 26 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Tarrasch. Open System (C07) 0-1 Loose Bb5
Hromadka vs Flohr, 1927 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 26 moves, 0-1

Game 1 in 'The Russians Play Chess' by Irving Chernev
P Romanovsky vs I Rabinovich, 1925 
(C16) French, Winawer, 26 moves, 1-0

French Def: Steinitz Attack 2.e5 f6 (C00) 0-1 What an escape!
Steinitz vs Winawer, 1882 
(C00) French Defense, 27 moves, 0-1

French Exchange (C01) 0-1 5 consecutive checks w/2 sacs finish
V Goldfarb vs Alekhine, 1909 
(C01) French, Exchange, 27 moves, 0-1

French Exchange (C01) 0-1Don't make a move that causes your res
N Pavlov-Pianov vs Alekhine, 1920 
(C01) French, Exchange, 27 moves, 0-1

French Classical. Burn Morozevich Line (C11) 1-0 Rob the pin
Chigorin vs Rubinstein, 1906 
(C11) French, 27 moves, 1-0

French Advance. Nimzowitsch System (C02) 1-0 Q grabs P, K walks
Keres vs L Laurine, 1935 
(C02) French, Advance, 27 moves, 1-0

French Advance. Wade Var (C02) 1-0 Wild women roam
Kupreichik vs G Timoscenko, 1968 
(C02) French, Advance, 27 moves, 1-0

French Advance b6 (C02) 1-0 Viktor is the victor over Viktor.
Kupreichik vs Korchnoi, 1970 
(C02) French, Advance, 27 moves, 1-0

St. George Def (B00) 0-1 Bizarre. Both sides sac Qs to promote.
L Forgacs vs Maroczy, 1902 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 27 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Winawer. Delayed Exchange (C15) 1-0 Spearheads
Pillsbury vs W E Napier, 1902 
(C01) French, Exchange, 27 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Guimard Def Main Line (C04) 0-1 Harassing N
I Tompuri vs Timman, 1967
(C04) French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line, 27 moves, 0-1

French Tarrasch. Closed (C05) 1-0 2 Hogs on 7th & Q crosspin
M R Sangeetha vs S Dhar, 2001 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 27 moves, 1-0

French Def vs King's Indian Attack (C00) 1-0 Sac Smack
B Amin vs T Batchuluun, 2001 
(C00) French Defense, 27 moves, 1-0

French Classical. Burn Variation (C11) 1-0 Black gets burned
Topalov vs Bareev, 2002 
(C11) French, 27 moves, 1-0

French Def: Classical. Steinitz (C11) 1-0 Bishop game changers
Tarrasch vs W Cohn, 1880 
(C11) French, 27 moves, 1-0

French Def. Advance. Paulsen Attack (C02) 0-1 P sac, infiltrate
G Stoltz vs Bronstein, 1952 
(C02) French, Advance, 27 moves, 0-1

French Rubinstein Blackburne Def (C10) 1-0 Rxg7 smashes thru
K Richter vs G Alexandrescu, 1936 
(C10) French, 27 moves, 1-0

French Exchange. Monte Carlo (C01) 0-1 Semi-Smothered Mate
J Mullon vs H Daurelle, 2011 
(C01) French, Exchange, 27 moves, 0-1

French Def Albin-Chatard Gambit 0-0-0s (C13) 0-1 Qside smash
Velimirovic vs D Antic, 1999
(C13) French, 27 moves, 0-1

French Classical. Burn Var (C11) 1-0 g-file demolition
J Polgar vs Bareev, 1993 
(C11) French, 28 moves, 1-0

French, Tarrasch. P Center Var (C05) 0-1 New in Chess Notes p.2
Reshevsky vs Vaganian, 1976 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 28 moves, 0-1

French Def. Advance. Paulsen Attack (C02) 0-1 Check yourself?!
A Nimzowitsch vs Bogoljubov, 1920 
(C02) French, Advance, 28 moves, 0-1

French, Alekhine-Chatard Attack (C13) 1-0 Uncastled win!
Bogoljubov vs Spielmann, 1922 
(C13) French, 28 moves, 1-0

French McCutcheon. Lasker Var (C12) 1-0 Never a dull moment
Euwe vs Maroczy, 1921 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 28 moves, 1-0

French Classical. Burn ML (C11) 1-0 2 Hogs on 7th get forked
Fischer vs T Ellison, 1964 
(C11) French, 28 moves, 1-0

FR Winawer. Advance (C18) 1-0 Overworked pawn crumbles chain
Fischer vs W Hook, 1970 
(C18) French, Winawer, 28 moves, 1-0

Sitting Q sacrifice to allow back rank pin and discovery #
Jansa vs Huebner, 1969 
(C00) French Defense, 28 moves, 0-1

French Winawer. Classical Var (C19) 0-1 Notes by Raymond Keene
A van den Berg vs Keene, 1973  
(C18) French, Winawer, 28 moves, 0-1

French Advance, Nimzowitsch Gambit (C02) 1-0 Famous suffocation
A Nimzowitsch vs A Hakansson, 1922  
(C02) French, Advance, 27 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Adv (C18) 1-0 Attacks w/out full development
Shirov vs Plaskett, 1992 
(C18) French, Winawer, 28 moves, 1-0

French Albin-Chatard Gambit (C13) 0-1 Heavy weights
Reti vs Spielmann, 1919 
(C13) French, 28 moves, 0-1

French Tarrasch. Open System Main L(C09) 1-0 Bizarre, Beautiful
Tal vs S Holm, 1970 
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 28 moves, 1-0

14-year-old who looks like he's getting mated turns the tables
Yanofsky vs A Ismodes Dulanto, 1939 
(C11) French, 28 moves, 1-0

Excellent use of space, batteries, pins, and double check
L Forgacs vs Tartakower, 1909 
(C13) French, 28 moves, 1-0

French Exchange (C01) 1-0N sac, RxR+ deflects Black Q, then Qh2
Howard Staunton / NN vs J Lowenthal / J Cunningham, 1856 
(C01) French, Exchange, 28 moves, 1-0

French Advance. Milner-Barry Gambit (C02) 0-1 Presssure h2
J B Hakizimana vs K Jorrit, 2004 
(C02) French, Advance, 28 moves, 0-1

French Classical. Tartakower delayed b6 (C13) 1-0Gambiteer I bk
Milner-Barry vs J van den Bosch, 1947
(C13) French, 28 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Fingerslip Main Line (C15) 1/2-1/2 Notes by ES
E Schiller vs N Thomas, 1985 
(C15) French, Winawer, 28 moves, 1/2-1/2

French Advance. Milner-Barry Gambit (C02) 0-1 Centralized Q
P Berta vs Radjabov, 1996 
(C02) French, Advance, 28 moves, 0-1

French Winawer. Advance (C16) 0-1 W gives away the center
M Manik vs A Yusupov, 2005 
(C16) French, Winawer, 28 moves, 0-1

French Def: Steinitz. Boleslavsky Var (C11) 0-1 Q aggression
Svidler vs Morozevich, 2007 
(C11) French, 28 moves, 0-1

French Alekhine-Chatard Attack. Maroczy Var (C13) 1-0 Q sac
Unzicker vs M Czerniak, 1954 
(C13) French, 28 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Guimard Def (C03) 1-0 Vigorous counterattack
G Feher vs E Bricard, 1995 
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 28 moves, 1-0

French Rubinstein Blackburne Def (C10) 1-0 B pair, brash Rs
Caruana vs E Berg, 2008 
(C10) French, 28 moves, 1-0

French Rubinstein. Blackburne Def (C10) 1/2-1/2 Qs perpetual
Kasparov vs Anand, 2000 
(C10) French, 28 moves, 1/2-1/2

French, Horwitz Attack. Papa-Ticulat Gambit (C00) 1-0 Declined
G Krauss vs R Larson, 1949
(C00) French Defense, 28 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Two Knights (C00) 1-0Like a Rocky Marciano KO!!
I Nikolayev vs B Makovetsky, 1979 
(C00) French Defense, 28 moves, 1-0

French Def. Steinitz. Boleslavsky Var (C11) 0-1 Crush on c-file
A Volokitin vs Baklan, 2014 
(C11) French, 28 moves, 0-1

French Advance. Nimzowitsch System (C02) 1-0 Roman Holiday
Dzindzichashvili vs Fritz, 1991 
(C02) French, Advance, 28 moves, 1-0

The Improved Nimzowitsch Gambit (or not)
A Nimzowitsch vs J Szekely, 1927 
(C02) French, Advance, 29 moves, 1-0

French Exchange. Svenonius Var (C01) 1-0 Bustin' up the Kside
Alekhine vs W Kunze, 1908 
(C01) French, Exchange, 29 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Poisoned Pawn (C18) Dbl R Sac Draw
Balashov vs Bareev, 1987 
(C18) French, Winawer, 29 moves, 1/2-1/2

FR Winawer. Fingerslip Var Kunin Double Gambit (C15) 0-1 Sly
Boleslavsky vs Bronstein, 1950 
(C15) French, Winawer, 29 moves, 0-1

FR Winawer Winckelmann-Riemer G (C15) 1-0 Notes by BFischer
Fischer vs Uhlmann, 1970  
(C15) French, Winawer, 29 moves, 1-0

French Advance. Lputian 6.a3 Nh6 (C02) 0-1 Viktor strikes w/pin
Fressinet vs Korchnoi, 1996 
(C02) French, Advance, 29 moves, 0-1

French Def. Steinitz. Boleslavsky (C11)1-0 Q sac, Anastasia's #
Nunn vs J A Sutton, 1984 
(C11) French, 29 moves, 1-0

French Def. 2 Knights (C00) 1-0 W jets off w/lasting initiative
N Kosintseva vs B Zawadzka, 2001 
(C00) French Defense, 29 moves, 1-0

French Advance. Euwe Var (C02) 0-1 Kside whoopin'
S Collins vs J Redpath, 2000
(C02) French, Advance, 29 moves, 0-1

French Classical. Steinitz Var (C14) 1-0 Dlbd Rs on h-file
Fischer vs J Plaster, 1964 
(C14) French, Classical, 29 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Alapin Gambit (C00) 1-0 2 unsound sacrifices
E Diemer vs Hunn, 1983 
(C00) French Defense, 29 moves, 1-0

French McCutcheon. Grigoriev Var (C12) Fictional 5 Queens Game
Alekhine vs NN, 1915 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 29 moves, 1-0

French Rubinstein (C10) 1-0 Castle opposite; get there first
Mackenzie vs G Reichhelm, 1867 
(C10) French, 29 moves, 1-0

French Def vs KIA/Reversed Philidor(C00) 0-1Black crossfires f2
A Orlov vs Y Kruppa, 2000
(C00) French Defense, 29 moves, 0-1

French Tarrasch. P Center Var (C05) 1-0 GK had kNight blindness
Kasparov vs C Tambasco, 2004 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 29 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch Open System Main Line (C09) 0-1 Battery
K Chojnacki vs W Schmidt, 2003 
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 29 moves, 0-1

French, Rubinstein. Blackburne Def. (C10) 1-0 He does his thing
Vasiukov vs V Masich, 2005 
(C10) French, 29 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Closed (C05) 1-0 Qside attack uses open b-file
Hydra vs Ponomariov, 2005 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 29 moves, 1-0

French Advance 6.Be2 Euwe Var (C02) 1-0 W rips center apart
S Zhigalko vs B Czap, 2007
(C02) French, Advance, 29 moves, 1-0

French Def. 4...b3 vs. KIA (C00) 0-1Structure crumbles; K walk
A Skripchenko vs A Maric, 2000
(C00) French Defense, 29 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Advance. Wade Var (C02) 0-1 Criss-crossed Bs
M Knoth vs V Novikov, 2008
(C02) French, Advance, 29 moves, 0-1

King's Indian Attack vs Sicilian/French (A08)1-0 P wedge on 6th
Ponomariov vs D Sadzikowski, 2010 
(A08) King's Indian Attack, 29 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Normal 3...h6?! (C10) 0-1 Control the center
F Decoster vs A Sumets, 2013 
(C10) French, 29 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Tarrasch. Open System (C07) 0-1 B pair edge
J C Sterk vs S Landau, 1939 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 29 moves, 0-1

French Winawer. Bogoljubow Var (C17) 1-0 Alekhine's GUN
Alekhine vs A Nimzowitsch, 1930 
(C17) French, Winawer, Advance, 30 moves, 1-0

FR, Classical Richter Attack (C13) 1-0Dbl N sacs followed by +s
Anderssen vs K Pitschel, 1872 
(C13) French, 30 moves, 1-0

French / Delayed Owens vs f3 (C00) 1-0 Both Qs on a raid
Zukertort vs Bird, 1878 
(C00) French Defense, 30 moves, 1-0

#24 in Lombardy's 1972
Fischer vs V Kovacevic, 1970 
(C15) French, Winawer, 30 moves, 0-1

French Advance. Euwe 6.a3 a5 7.Bd3 Bd7 (C02) 0-1 Qside Q fork
H Vatter vs Korchnoi, 1986
(C02) French, Advance, 30 moves, 0-1

French Winawer. Positional Var (C19) 0-1 Minors rule
Lilienthal vs Ragozin, 1944 
(C19) French, Winawer, Advance, 30 moves, 0-1

Nimzowitsch, Franco-Nimzowitsch Def (B00) 0-1 Annoying Knight
Speelman vs T K Hemingway, 1972 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 30 moves, 0-1

French Defense: McCutcheon. Exchange (C12) 1-0 Qs scramble
O Bernstein vs Znosko-Borovsky, 1909 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 30 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Winawer (C15) 0-1 A lovely shot!
J Barle vs I Jelen, 1979 
(C15) French, Winawer, 30 moves, 0-1

French Advance. Euwe Var (C02) 0-1 Undermining gains a piece
M Westerweele vs R Sanders, 2001
(C02) French, Advance, 30 moves, 0-1

French Classical. Alapin (C14) 0-1 Which Q inflicts the most?
Browne vs A Taha, 1972 
(C14) French, Classical, 30 moves, 0-1

First called "partie du pion roi d'un pas" by Philidor
Westminster CC vs Paris CC, 1834 
(C01) French, Exchange, 27 moves, 0-1

French Def. Steinitz. Boleslavsky Var (C11) 1-0 Shrewd sacs
L Hazai vs W Schmidt, 1975 
(C11) French, 30 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Open ML (C09) 0-1 Three B sacs in this game
Panov vs Bondarevsky, 1937 
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 30 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Classical. Steinitz Var (C14) 1-0 So creative
So vs M Prusikin, 2006 
(C14) French, Classical, 30 moves, 1-0

$French Advance 4.dxc5 (C02) 0-1Heated exchange; W attk fizzles
J Larsen vs I Schneider, 2007
(C02) French, Advance, 30 moves, 0-1

French vs King's Indian Attack (A08) 0-1 Qside assault
T Spanton vs W B Wright, 2007 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 30 moves, 0-1

French McCutcheon. Dr. Olland (Dutch) Var (C12) 1-0Remove the G
J Gallagher vs A Compton, 2014 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 30 moves, 1-0

French Advance 6.Na3 Paulsen Attack (C02) 0-1 Spearhead
A Volokitin vs I Salgado Lopez, 2014 
(C02) French, Advance, 30 moves, 0-1

Indian Game: London System (A46) 0-1Just like a French Defense
Rubinstein vs Bogoljubov, 1919 
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 30 moves, 0-1

French vs KIA/Qe2 (C00) 0-1 Impressive use of entire army!
M Plaza Reino vs X Leibert, 2016 
(C00) French Defense, 31 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Classical. Steinitz Var (C14) 1-0 Q sac!
V Akopian vs Zvjaginsev, 2010 
(C14) French, Classical, 31 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Closed (C05)1-0 Resembles Milner-Barry Gambit
Korchnoi vs M Udovcic, 1967 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 31 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch Chistyakov Def. Modern Line (C07) 0-1 Ferocious
A Lastin vs Bareev, 2004 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 31 moves, 0-1

French Rubinstein (C10) 1-0 Tactical counter attack artistry
Burn vs E Delmar, 1889 
(C10) French, 31 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Steinitz Var (C11) 1-0 Rf6 Alekhine's Block
Anand vs Bareev, 1993 
(C11) French, 31 moves, 1-0

French Classical. Swiss Variation (C11) 1-0 Morphy-like K hunt
Blackburne vs G A Thomson, 1882  
(C11) French, 31 moves, 1-0

Nuts in a Knot Survival at it's BEST!
Fischer vs Benko, 1962 
(C11) French, 31 moves, 1-0

French vs Alekhine-Chatard Attack (C13) 1-0Neato N sac & N trap
R Nezhmetdinov vs S Pimenov, 1936 
(C13) French, 31 moves, 1-0

FR, Albin-Chatard Gambit (C13) 1-0 Efficient, beautiful attack
Tartakower vs Lasker, 1924 
(C13) French, 31 moves, 1-0

FR Winawer Winckelmann-Riemer Gambit (C15) 1-0 Remove the guard
Fischer vs Uhlmann, 1970 
(C15) French, Winawer, 31 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Advance Var (C16) 1-0 Overloading g7 pawn
M Hebden vs E Prie, 1984 
(C16) French, Winawer, 31 moves, 1-0

FR Winawer. Classical Var (C18) 1-0 2 connected passers
Fischer vs E Mednis, 1971 
(C18) French, Winawer, 31 moves, 1-0

Game 73: 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century- A. Soltis
Ivkov vs Portisch, 1961 
(C18) French, Winawer, 31 moves, 1-0

FR W A (C18) 1-0 How not to deviate from (Hort vs.) Petrosian
Kasparov vs Short, 1997 
(C18) French, Winawer, 31 moves, 1-0

KIA w/e5 wedge (A07) White tears open fianchetto w/Q sac
Fischer vs Myagmarsuren, 1967 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 31 moves, 1-0

Power Chess - Kasparov
Kasparov vs Short, 1994 
(C11) French, 32 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Classical Var (C18) 1-0 Neither castles in WC!
Tal vs Botvinnik, 1960 
(C18) French, Winawer, 32 moves, 1-0

French Defense: McCutcheon. Lasker Var (C12) 1-0 M60MG
Fischer vs Rossolimo, 1965 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 32 moves, 1-0

Fischer ignores the threatened 29 ... Rf8xNf3, plays 29 h5xg6!!
Fischer vs U Geller, 1968 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 32 moves, 1-0

French Exchange. Monte Carlo birth?(C01) 1-0 N caught on rim
Marshall vs Swiderski, 1904 
(C01) French, Exchange, 32 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch 3.Nd2. Open System Main Line (C09) 1-0
Tal vs Short, 1987 
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 32 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Normal Variation (C10) 1-0 Making use of pins
Fischer vs R Blaine, 1964 
(C10) French, 32 moves, 1-0

French Defense: La Bourdonnais (C00) 0-1 Black chops up White
S Rosenthal vs C De Vere, 1867 
(C00) French Defense, 32 moves, 0-1

French Exchange (C01) 1-0 Q+ removes defender
J Mieses vs M Harmonist, 1889 
(C01) French, Exchange, 32 moves, 1-0

French Advance. Lputian Var 6.a3 7.b4 (C02) 1-0 Rook on 7th
I Efimov vs Barsov, 1990
(C02) French, Advance, 32 moves, 1-0

French Classical. Burn Var (C11) 1-0 Different kind greek gift
M Brody vs A Macht, 1935 
(C11) French, 32 moves, 1-0

French Def. Classical. Steinitz (C14) 1-0 Exchanges blow up
L Steiner vs C Purdy, 1946
(C14) French, Classical, 32 moves, 1-0

Pseudo-English vs French Def (C00) 1-0 Rook EG has a passer
K Shirazi vs T Louis, 2012
(C00) French Defense, 32 moves, 1-0

French Exchange. Monte Carlo (C01) 0-1Itching to get rid of IQP
P Walta vs M Arribas, 2012 
(C01) French, Exchange, 32 moves, 0-1

French Classical. Alapin 7.Nb5 (C14) 1-0Outposts and Rook lifts
Pillsbury vs E Nebermann, 1902
(C14) French, Classical, 32 moves, 1-0

Analyzed by Bobby Fischer in his "My 60 Memorable Games"
Fischer vs J Sherwin, 1957 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 33 moves, 1-0

French Advance 6.a3 c4 (C02) 0-1 Sequence favors Black 0-0-0
I A Zaitsev vs Petrosian, 1969 
(C02) French, Advance, 33 moves, 0-1

Game 5: Chess Master vs Chess Master by Max Euwe
J Kostro vs Uhlmann, 1974
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 33 moves, 0-1

French Exchange. Monte Carlo Var (C01) 1-0 Exchange Sac, Pins
J Waitzkin vs A Friedman, 1993 
(C01) French, Exchange, 33 moves, 1-0

French Defense 4...Nc6 vs KIA (C00) 0-1 Q+ & fork EAD
E Depoorter vs R Jedynak, 2003
(C00) French Defense, 33 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Normal Var(C10) 1-0Qs hunt Ks on opposite sides
A David vs M Meinhardt, 2007 
(C10) French, 33 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Retreat Var Armenian Line (C18) 1-0 Forks
N Nip vs M C Askin, 2008 
(C18) French, Winawer, 33 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Not Normal (C00) 0-1 Good vs All
Dreev vs D Andreikin, 2013 
(C00) French Defense, 33 moves, 0-1

French Def: Winawer. Advance (C16) 1-0 At each other's throats
J Polgar vs L B Hansen, 1989 
(C16) French, Winawer, 33 moves, 1-0

French Exchange. Monte Carlo Var (C01) 1-0 Crossfire on g7
Staunton vs E Williams, 1851 
(C01) French, Exchange, 34 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Delayed Exchange (C01) 0-1 Royal pin
A Romero Holmes vs S Mariotti, 1987 
(C01) French, Exchange, 34 moves, 0-1

French Advance Paulsen Attack (C02) 1-0 See-saw battle
Movsesian vs V Priehoda, 2002
(C02) French, Advance, 34 moves, 1-0

FR Winawer, PP Var (C18) 1-0 Perpetual "all or nothing" attack
Oll vs M Ulybin, 1989 
(C18) French, Winawer, 34 moves, 1-0

French Def: McCutcheon. Exchange Var (C12) 1-0 Simplify, K&P EG
Capablanca vs W P Shipley, 1924 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 34 moves, 1-0

French Exchange (C01) 0-1 Game 5 of Nimzowitch's 'My System'
O H von Haken vs A Gize, 1913  
(C01) French, Exchange, 34 moves, 0-1

French Def 2.c4 d5 3.cxd5 (C00)1-0 Great Brilliancy Prize Game
E Steiner vs Tartakower, 1929 
(C00) French Defense, 34 moves, 1-0

French Rubinstein, Blackburne Def (C10) 1-0 Pile on the pin
Morozevich vs Pelletier, 2006 
(C10) French, 34 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Closed Var (C05) 0-1 Pin, # threat, Remove Def
F Maldonado vs B Macias Murillo, 2009 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 34 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Steinitz. Boleslavsky Variation (C11) · 1-0
Kamsky vs V Akobian, 2011 
(C11) French, 34 moves, 1-0

French Exchange Bg4 pin, Nc6 (C01) 0-1 Both castle long
G Pogosian vs O Nikolenko, 2010 
(C01) French, Exchange, 34 moves, 0-1

French Winawer. Poisoned P (C18) 0-1 Heavy handed punches hurt!
Tal vs Korchnoi, 1958 
(C18) French, Winawer, 35 moves, 0-1

Game 70, Starting Out: The French by Byron Jacobs
Movsesian vs M Gurevich, 2000 
(C02) French, Advance, 35 moves, 0-1

French Classical Burn (C11)1-0 Overworked P allows Q "windmill"
Kasparov vs Shirov, 2000 
(C11) French, 35 moves, 1-0

French Classical. Alapin Var (C14) 1-0 Smashing Arabian #
Lasker / Maroczy vs NN, 1900 
(C14) French, Classical, 35 moves, 1-0

French Guimard Def Main Line (C04) 0-1 Black has all the fun
J Cobb vs A Spice, 2007 
(C04) French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line, 35 moves, 0-1

Russian Game: Classical Attk. Jaenisch / FrenchX (C42) 1-0 Pins
Deep Sjeng vs Almond, 2010 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 35 moves, 1-0

French Classical. Steinitz (C14) 1-0 kNight bite
Topalov vs F Vallejo Pons, 2012 
(C14) French, Classical, 33 moves, 1-0

French Kside Fianchetto / Sicilian (C00) 1-0 Notes by Lowenthal
Morphy vs Anderssen, 1858  
(C00) French Defense, 36 moves, 1-0

French Advance, Nimzowitsch System(C02) 1-0Black gets locked in
G A Kosanovic vs D Boskovic, 2001
(C02) French, Advance, 36 moves, 1-0

FR Winawer (C15) 0-1 Exchange sac, pawn avalanche
J Esser vs Marshall, 1911 
(C15) French, Winawer, 37 moves, 0-1

French Exchange Var (C01) 0-1 Seize control of open files!
V Meijers vs D Kosic, 2006 
(C01) French, Exchange, 37 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Wing Gambit (C00) 1-0 Gambiteer I book
O Salmensuu vs B Lalic, 1999 
(C00) French Defense, 37 moves, 1-0

French Advance. Wade (C02) 1-0 W connects passers on Qside
S Zhigalko vs Nepomniachtchi, 2007 
(C02) French, Advance, 35 moves, 1-0

French Advance 4.dxc5 (C02) 1-0 B pair cuts a swath
Bronstein vs Korchnoi, 1970 
(C02) French, Advance, 38 moves, 1-0

French Schlechter Variation (C00) 0-1 Rook on 2nd/7th
J Hector vs Short, 1983 
(C00) French Defense, 38 moves, 0-1

French Steinitz (C11) 0-1 Black wins in 38 after illegal 0-0!
Kasparov vs Dreev, 1994 
(C11) French, 30 moves, 0-1

FR Trsch (C08)1-0A great burger is not necessarily a "Big Mac"
Carlsen vs P Nikolic, 2005 
(C08) French, Tarrasch, Open, 4.ed ed, 22 moves, 1-0

French Def. Steinitz. Boleslavsky (C11) 1-0 35.Double R Blunder
Z Gofshtein vs M Gurevich, 2001 
(C11) French, 39 moves, 1-0

French Advance. Euwe 6.Be2 Nge7 (C02) 0-1 Plenty disagreeable
Movsesian vs P Nikolic, 2000
(C02) French, Advance, 39 moves, 0-1

French Exchange 5.Bb5 (C01) 1-0 Bxf7+ starts Kside attack
Bologan vs A Aleksandrov, 2008 
(C01) French, Exchange, 39 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch Guimard Def ML (C04) 1-0Excellent N&Q manuevers
Chiburdanidze vs T Zatulovskaya, 1976 
(C04) French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line, 40 moves, 1-0

French Advance 6.a3 a5 7.Bd3 Bd7 (C02) 0-1 Pesky Q shuffle
Spassky vs Korchnoi, 1999 
(C02) French, Advance, 40 moves, 0-1

French Steinitz. Boleslavsky Var (C11) 1-0
Topalov vs Nakamura, 2011 
(C11) French, 42 moves, 1-0

French Exchange (C01) 1-0 Pins, Pawn Storm, N Robs the Pin
Karpov vs Shefler, 1961 
(C01) French, Exchange, 43 moves, 1-0

Fool's Mate out of the gate
L Darling vs R Wood, 1983 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 2 moves, 0-1

Grob Opening 1.g4 e6 (A00) 1-0 Notes by Bill Wall
C Bloodgood vs T Sanderson, 1973 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 39 moves, 1-0

French Bg7 vs Reversed Philidor Formation (C00) 0-1 Space advan
Onkemetse Francis vs P de Leon, 2014
(C00) French Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

Reversed Philidor vs French Def (C00) 0-1 Greco's Mate
A Nimzowitsch vs Capablanca, 1911 
(C00) French Defense, 33 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Reversed Philidor Formation (C00) 0-1 Dbl B Sac
J Horvath vs S Polgar, 1981 
(C00) French Defense, 22 moves, 0-1

French Def vs Reversed Philidor Formation (C00) 0-1 Closed Cntr
D Pass vs A Scheffner, 1999
(B40) Sicilian, 39 moves, 0-1

FrenchNc6 Exchange (C01) 0-1 Annotated by Steinitz
Chigorin vs Gunsberg, 1889  
(C01) French, Exchange, 28 moves, 0-1

FrenchNc6 Exchange (C01) 0-1 Interference is the difference
M Kuerschner vs Tarrasch, 1890 
(C01) French, Exchange, 29 moves, 0-1

FrenchNc6 Exchange C01 Game 93 in Chess Praxis by Nimzowitsch
D Enoch vs A Nimzowitsch, 1927 
(C01) French, Exchange, 27 moves, 0-1

FrenchNc6 Exchange (C01) 0-1 Castle opposite, Dbld Rs win
R Grau vs A Nimzowitsch, 1930 
(C01) French, Exchange, 26 moves, 0-1

French, Diemer-Duhm Gambit (D30) 1-0 Back rank weakness
C Nakamura vs A Caoili, 1998 
(C00) French Defense, 36 moves, 1-0

Most brilliant moves of all time, Nimzowitsch's 50th here
Kmoch vs A Nimzowitsch, 1927 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 63 moves, 0-1

sigi1 French Advance. Euwe Var (C02) · 0-1
Adams vs Epishin, 1992 
(C02) French, Advance, 26 moves, 0-1

French Advance, Euwe Variation -- meeting 6.a3 with f6
Grischuk vs Short, 2000 
(C02) French, Advance, 32 moves, 0-1

French Advance. Euwe 6.a3 f6 (C02) 0-1 Early N sac, P mass
S Buchal vs T Luther, 1998
(C02) French, Advance, 28 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Advance. Euwe 6.Be2 f6 (C02) 0-1 N sac, Bxf2+
Y Afek vs S Williams, 2008
(C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 0-1

sigi3 French Steinitz Boleslavsky Var (C11) 0-1 Castle opposite
J Polgar vs Shirov, 1999 
(C11) French, 35 moves, 0-1

sigi4 French Steinitz Boleslavsky Var (C11) 0-1 Castle opposite
Topalov vs Morozevich, 1999 
(C11) French, 31 moves, 0-1

sigi5 French Steinitz Boleslavsky Var (C11) 0-1 Q&Ps EG
J Polgar vs T Luther, 2001 
(C11) French, 75 moves, 0-1

sigi6 French Winawer. Delayed Exchange (C01) 0-1 Bone in throat
A Druckenthaner vs S Kindermann, 2002 
(C01) French, Exchange, 21 moves, 0-1

French Steinitz Boleslavsky Var (C11) 0-1 Brilliancy prize
Kasparov vs Radjabov, 2003 
(C11) French, 39 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Steinitz. Boleslavsky Var (C11) 0-1 Q raid
Macieja vs Nakamura, 2006 
(C11) French, 40 moves, 0-1

French Exchange Var (C01) 0-1 Terrific rook play by Black
F Ynojosa Aponte vs N Pert, 2008 
(C01) French, Exchange, 66 moves, 0-1

Shams1 French Exchange. Svenonius Var (C01) · 0-1
A Gorbatov vs S Volkov, 2012 
(C01) French, Exchange, 48 moves, 0-1

Shams2 French Advance Milner-Barry Gambit (C02) · 0-1
K Lie vs S Shipov, 2006 
(C02) French, Advance, 29 moves, 0-1

Shams3 French 2.Qe2 c6 Chigorin Variation (C00) · 0-1
R Gonzalez vs V Akobian, 2006 
(C00) French Defense, 35 moves, 0-1

Shams4 French King's Indian Attack (C00) 0-1 video
B Vujic vs S Polgar, 1981 
(C00) French Defense, 36 moves, 0-1

Shams5 French Classical. Burn Variation (C11) · 0-1
Topalov vs Bareev, 1994 
(C11) French, 23 moves, 0-1

Shams6 French Advance Main Line 6.a3 c4 (C02) · 0-1
J Klinger vs Portisch, 1986 
(C02) French, Advance, 40 moves, 0-1

Shams7 French Advance Main Line 6.a3 c4 (C02) 1/2-1/2
Tal vs Petrosian, 1956 
(C02) French, Advance, 26 moves, 1/2-1/2

Shams8 French Classical. Steinitz Var (C11) 0-1 Harry scary
D Baramidze vs M Bartel, 2012 
(C11) French, 31 moves, 0-1

French, Classical. Delayed Exchange (C11) 0-1 14.Nd1? Blunder
J Noa vs Mason, 1883 
(C11) French, 15 moves, 0-1

French Steinitz Gledhill Attack (C11) 0-1 Double on the 2nd
Bogoljubov vs A Nimzowitsch, 1914 
(C11) French, 29 moves, 0-1

French Rubinstein. Blackburne Def (C10) 1/2-1/2 15 moves
Ivanchuk vs Karpov, 1996 
(C10) French, 15 moves, 1/2-1/2

French Rubinstein. Blackburne Def (C10) 1-0 Exposed files
Svidler vs Bareev, 2004 
(C10) French, 17 moves, 1-0

French Albin-Chatard G (C13) 1-0 There's a twinkle in his eye
B Hedlund vs I Lindqvist, 1981 
(C13) French, 15 moves, 1-0

French Alekhine-Chatard Attack. Albin-Chatard Gambit (C13)1-0
B Martin vs M Hopewell, 1985
(C13) French, 18 moves, 1-0

TC1) French Exchange Copycat 11 moves (C01) 0-1 Notes by Lasker
L Forgacs vs Rubinstein, 1909  
(C01) French, Exchange, 52 moves, 0-1

French c6 Exchange (C01) 0-1 Well-coordinated Kside attack
J Minckwitz vs Tarrasch, 1888 
(C01) French, Exchange, 35 moves, 0-1

Spanish/French Exchange Game 17: Common Sense in Chess - Lasker
J Noa vs Tarrasch, 1892 
(C67) Ruy Lopez, 41 moves, 0-1

TC2) French Advance Paulsen Attack (C02) 0-1 Central roller
H Camilleri vs Uhlmann, 1969 
(C02) French, Advance, 33 moves, 0-1

TC5) French Tarrasch. Closed Var (C05) 0-1 Black's Greek Gift
W Bialas vs Uhlmann, 1951 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 23 moves, 0-1

TC8) French Tarrasch Variation. Open System (C08) 0-1K&P ending
W Kuppe vs H Heinicke, 1947 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 48 moves, 0-1

TC9) French Tarrasch. Open System Main Line (C09) 0-1 R EG
H Tohirjonova vs V Rozic, 2010
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 70 moves, 0-1

TC10) French Rubinstein 4..Be7 Blackburne Defense (C10) 1/2-1/2
J Fedorowicz vs A Lein, 1986
(C10) French, 45 moves, 1/2-1/2

TC10) French Defense: Rubinstein (C10) 0-1 Seize open lines
J Klavins vs Tal, 1949 
(C10) French, 18 moves, 0-1

T11) French Def: Steinitz. Boleslavsky Var (C11)0-1 Lawn mower#
E Ambrosi vs N Aginian, 2008
(C11) French, 41 moves, 0-1

French Tarrasch Modern System (C03) 0-1Black will double on 2nd
D H Campora vs Dreev, 1989 
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 27 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Tarrasch. Botvinnik Var (C05) 0-1 Reverberation
J Bednarski vs Petrosian, 1968 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 30 moves, 0-1

Sodium Attack (A00) Direct hits on f7 and h7; odd mate pattern
R Durkin vs Spielman, 1957 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 18 moves, 1-0

QP Game: Sarratt Attack (D00) 0-1 Tight squeeze, knight forks
Grischuk vs Topalov, 2015 
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 37 moves, 0-1

QP Game: Sarratt Attack (D00) 0-1 N EG; watch youtube
S Williams vs J Hawkins, 2015 
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 48 moves, 0-1

QP Game: London System (D02) 0-1 N snatch leads to pin
G Palchun vs E Inarkiev, 2015 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 28 moves, 0-1

QP Game: London System (D02) 0-1 Pile on pin, windmilled...
R Bancod vs A Russell, 2007 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 41 moves, 0-1

Colle 5.c3 (D04) 1/2-1/2 If you're up for it...
Deep Fritz vs Deep Junior, 2001 
(D04) Queen's Pawn Game, 170 moves, 1/2-1/2

Colle 5.c3 (D05) 0-1 14...h3? gives the initiative to Black
N Riumin vs A Polyak, 1929 
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 17 moves, 0-1

Colle 4.c3 c5 and 6...b6 (D05) 0-1 Black in complete control
U Mehlhorn vs A S Rasmussen, 2015
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 28 moves, 0-1

Game 30 in Elements of Combination Play in Chess - Reinfeld
Bogoljubov vs Capablanca, 1924 
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 32 moves, 0-1

Zukertort/Rubinstein Opening (D05) 0-1 Stunning interference
M Shereshevsky vs Kupreichik, 1976 
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 19 moves, 0-1

Rubinstein Opening: Bogoljubow Defense 'The Z~Phoenix Attack
H Tikkanen vs E Berg, 2012 
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 58 moves, 0-1

World Rapid Champship 2015 Colle Zukertort 8.b3 9.Bb2(D05) 1/2-
Kramnik vs Ganguly, 2015
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 45 moves, 1/2-1/2

QGD Harrwitz Attack (D37) 0-1 Q pawn grabber trap
J Schenkein vs Schlechter, 1913 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 10 moves, 0-1

P-Q4 Copycat / Reversed Semi-Tarrasch (D04) 0-1 Smothered Mate
Ed Lasker vs I A Horowitz, 1946 
(D04) Queen's Pawn Game, 14 moves, 0-1

QGD Copycat (D02) 1-0 Quad Pawns in 18, Hogs on 8th
E E Colman vs H Jacobs, 1911 
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 28 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Def transposes to QGA (D32) 0-1 Interesting ending
Tarrasch vs Marshall, 1914 
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 72 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 Symmetrical (D32) 0-1 Arabian Mate Variant Awaits
J Sunye Neto vs Kasparov, 1981 
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 47 moves, 0-1

Tarrasch3 Def. Symmetrical (A56) 0-1 The W pieces left their K
P Perez Rosales vs Granda Zuniga, 2007
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 37 moves, 0-1

Alexander Alekhine vs Dr. Max Euwe 26 - 20 (plus 38 draws)
Alekhine vs Euwe, 1921 
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 20 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Defense: Symmetrical (D32) 0-1 En Prise Intermezzo+
Voloschin vs Forarasi, 1988
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 12 moves, 0-1

Tarrasch Defense: Symmetrical (D32) 0-1 K walk face-to-face
M Kuerschner vs Tarrasch, 1888 
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 43 moves, 0-1

Tarrasch Defense: Two Knights (D32) 0-1 Forced K March
Dlugy vs S H Trindade, 1983 
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 35 moves, 0-1

Tarrasch Def. Prague Var (D34) 1-0 Threats of outside passers
Milov vs L Christiansen, 2005
(D33) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 54 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Defense: Prague Var (D33) 1-0 OCB middlegame
Rubinstein vs Spielmann, 1923 
(D33) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 44 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Def. Prague Var (D33) 0-1 That loose horse will kick
P Wallis vs R G Wade, 1959 
(D33) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 16 moves, 0-1

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

Tarrasch Def. Classical. Advance (D34) 1/2- Perpetual N threat
J Saladino vs C Cranbourne, 1986 
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 19 moves, 1/2-1/2

Tarrasch Def Classical (D34) 1-0 3 Piece attack insufficient
J Le Roux vs O Boricsev, 2012
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 67 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Defense (D32) 0-1 Standard 3 piece Kside attack
C Magerkurth vs A Subochek, 1950 
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 20 moves, 0-1

Tarrasch Def Swedish, Central Break (D33) 1-0 Passed d-pawn
D Reinderman vs V Akobian, 2010 
(D33) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 39 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Def. Swedish, Central Break (D33) 0-1 She robs the pin
S Khalilbeili vs Furman, 1956 
(D33) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 10 moves, 0-1

Tarrasch Def. Rubinstein System (D33) 1-0 "Chess Fundamentals"
Rubinstein vs Capablanca, 1911  
(D33) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 42 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Def Rubinstein System (D33) 1-0 Doubled a-pawns pass
N Noritsyn vs J Xiong, 2007
(D33) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 44 moves, 1-0

IM Bill Hartston features this game in his "Kings of Chess."
Marshall vs Capablanca, 1909 
(D33) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 49 moves, 0-1

Tarrasch Def Schara Gambit (D32) 1-0 Discovery+ wins Black Q
N Ivanovic vs M Jovicic, 2008
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 18 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Def Schara Gambit (D32) 1-0 OCB w/connected passers
I Ivanisevic vs S Sulskis, 2011
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 61 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Def Schara Gambit (D32) 1-0Castled opposite, g-spike F
S Bekker-Jensen vs P Bongartz, 2014
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 48 moves, 1-0

Zukertort Opening: QG Invitation (A04) 0-1 Next Black Death
A B Skipworth vs Blackburne, 1883 
(A04) Reti Opening, 25 moves, 0-1

Trompowsky Attack (A45) 1-0 Fast 3 piece attack
M Sabol vs J Votava, 1995 
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 10 moves, 1-0

QID Spassky System (E14) 0-1 Dbl B sacs accepted & decl, R lift
E Dizdarevic vs Miles, 1985 
(E14) Queen's Indian, 18 moves, 0-1

Blitz Anti-Colle 3...Bf5 4.Bd3 (D04) 0-1 Bishop Sac line
J Sanjuan vs Lenderman, 2004 
(D04) Queen's Pawn Game, 17 moves, 0-1

Tarrasch Def Symmetrical 0-1 Notes by H.N. Pillsbury; Cross pin
Burn vs Lasker, 1895  
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 20 moves, 0-1

Game 255 of 'Three Hundred Chess Games' by Siegbert Tarrasch.
Tarrasch vs Schroeder, 1894 
(000) Chess variants, 25 moves, 1-0

Key QGD Tarrasch, 2 Knights Var (D32) 0-1 Seize open lines
P Timmerman vs G Welling, 1986 
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 39 moves, 0-1

The greatest draw ever made??? (Soltis thinks so.)
Tal vs Aronin, 1957 
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 36 moves, 1/2-1/2

French Def Knight Var Poor Bg5 KIA (C00) 0-1 Q forks
B Oskarsson vs Hjartarson, 2003
(C00) French Defense, 26 moves, 0-1

W sacs it to Owen's Defense for not getting fully developed
A Flaata vs T Bothner, 1998 
(C00) French Defense, 22 moves, 1-0

Game 163 Wonders and Curiosities of Chess by Irving Chernev
M Ortueta Esteban vs J Sanz Aguado, 1933 
(C00) French Defense, 35 moves, 0-1

French Def. Alapin Gambit (C00) 0-1 Fort Knox approach
Alapin vs Showalter, 1898 
(C00) French Defense, 29 moves, 0-1

French Def. Chigorin Qe2 Dbl Fio (C00) 1-0 Bustin' Up the Joint
Simagin vs Bibikov, 1944 
(C00) French Defense, 23 moves, 1-0

French Def./Pseudo Black Hippo (C00) 1-0 Open center violence
Pillsbury vs Tinsley, 1899 
(C00) French Defense, 26 moves, 1-0

French Def. 3.Bd3 Schlechter Var (C00) 1-0 two passers too much
Kolisch vs H Czarnowski, 1867 
(C00) French Defense, 33 moves, 1-0

KIA vs French Nc6 (C00) 1-0 Heated Kingsides
Ljubojevic vs Vaganian, 1974 
(C00) French Defense, 24 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Exchange Var (C01) 0-1 Q forks EAD & LPDO
R Sander vs Carlsen, 2002 
(C01) French, Exchange, 29 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Exchange. Monte Carlo (C01) 1-0 Tactics
Fritz vs G Hertneck, 1998 
(C01) French, Exchange, 25 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Advance. Euwe Var (C02) 1-0 23.?
A Burtasova vs N Straub, 2005 
(C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 1-0

French Advance. Lputian Var (C02) 1-0 Happiness is a warm gun~
Caruana vs F Vallejo Pons, 2012 
(C02) French, Advance, 24 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Advance. Nimzowitsch System (C02) 0-1
J S Mucklow vs E Williams, 1851 
(C02) French, Advance, 29 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Advance 4.c4?! dxc4 (C02) 0-1 Black pounces
K K Amewounou vs J Andreasen, 2012
(C02) French, Advance, 24 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Advance. Wade Var (C02) 1-0 Battery on f-file
A Karklins vs R Ervin, 1972
(C02) French, Advance, 29 moves, 1-0

French Advance. Wade Var (C02) 1-0 P fork, Sham R sac, Pin
A Karklins vs D Berry, 1972
(C02) French, Advance, 26 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Advance Variation. Nimzowitsch Gambit (C02) 1-0
S J Szpisjak vs D Cavitt, 1998 
(C02) French, Advance, 23 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Guimard Def Main Line (C04) 1-0 Bs behind Qs
M Bely vs Portisch, 1957 
(C04) French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line, 21 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed (C05) 1-0 No Nc6 & both 0-0-0
G Hertneck vs R Damaso, 1992
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 23 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Tarrasch. P Center Var (C05) 0-1Black blasts in
S Hamann vs Uhlmann, 1963 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 26 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed (C05) 1-0 Deadly Decoy K hunt
Korneev vs Y Piskov, 1996 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 24 moves, 1-0

Game 144 in The World's Great Chess Games by Reuben Fine
Spielmann vs G Stoltz, 1930 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 28 moves, 0-1

French Def. Tarrasch. Closed Var (C05) 1-0 Lovely game!
Onischuk vs G Hertneck, 1997 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 23 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Closed (C05) 1-0 Resembles Milner-Barry Gambit
O Reeh vs C Mann, 2008 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 22 moves, 1-0

French Def: Tarrasch. Closed Var (C05) 0-1 Castled K wins
L Barden vs R G Wade, 1959
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 23 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed Var (C05) 0-1 Spearhead pin
K B McEwan vs S Williams, 2003 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed Var (C05) 0-1 Decoy R sac!
B Barlow vs S Williams, 1999 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 24 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed Var (C05) 0-1 Odd finish
Damljanovic vs Short, 1980 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 55 moves, 0-1

French Tarrasch. Open System (C07) 0-1 Notes by Stockfish
Bronstein vs Gulko, 1968 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 40 moves, 0-1

French Tarrasch. Open System Euwe-Keres Line (C07) 0-1 Simul
Alekhine vs Diesel, 1944 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 21 moves, 0-1

French Def: Tarrasch. Open System Euwe-Keres Line (C07) 1-0 Pin
Stein vs Uhlmann, 1967 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 23 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Open System Euwe-Keres Line (C07) 0-1 Greed
M Hennigan vs Short, 2001 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Tarrasch. Open System Main Line (C09) 1-0
K Nemcova vs S Odinaeva, 2016
(C09) French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line, 23 moves, 1-0

French Def 3.Nc3 Nc6 Advance (C10) 0-1 0-0 vs 0-0-0 Sac attack!
A Reijnerwold vs T Krabbe, 1997 
(C10) French, 29 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Steinitz Var (C11) 1-0 Ng5 & B-Q Spearhead
Kasparov vs A Vilaisarn, 2008 
(C11) French, 24 moves, 1-0

French Classical. Burn, Morozevich Line (C11) 1-0 Fireworks
F Vallejo Pons vs P Ponkratov, 2012 
(C11) French, 27 moves, 1-0

French Def. Steinitz. Boleslavsky (C11) 0-1 Which Q is trapped?
Nunn vs T T Hoang, 1992 
(C11) French, 21 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Steinitz. Boleslavsky Variation (C11) · 1-0
K McDonald vs J Lusk, 2012 
(C11) French, 23 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Steinitz. Boleslavsky Variation (C11) · 1-0
Short vs S Agdestein, 1985 
(C11) French, 26 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Steinitz. Boleslavsky Variation (C11) · 1-0
Khalifman vs Speelman, 1992
(C11) French, 24 moves, 1-0

French Def. Steinitz. Gledhill Attk 5.Qg4 (C11) 1-0 Pile on pin
D Andreikin vs A Khantuev, 2010
(C11) French, 29 moves, 1-0

French Def: Steinitz Var (C11) 1-0Pawns matter between big guns
Short vs Andersson, 2008 
(C11) French, 26 moves, 1-0

French, Classical. Burn. ML 0-0-0 vs 0-0(C11) 1-0h-file battery
J Fedorowicz vs Vaganian, 1990 
(C11) French, 24 moves, 1-0

French Def. McCutcheon Var (C12) 0-1 Marshall missed his chance
Marshall vs Alekhine, 1914 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 24 moves, 0-1

French Def: McCutcheon. Janowski Var (C12) 0-1 Rolling Knights
D Coleman vs I Lopez Mulet, 2018 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 23 moves, 0-1

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

French Defense: Winawer (C15) 1-0 Greek gift, challenging mate
K Shirazi vs A Lein, 1986 
(C15) French, Winawer, 29 moves, 1-0

French Winawer. Poisoned P General (C18) 1-0
A Balzar vs S Wernbacher, 2001 
(C18) French, Winawer, 25 moves, 1-0

French Def: Winawer. Poisoned Pawn ML (C18) 0-1 Blind Swine
I Andersen vs S Christensen, 2007
(C18) French, Winawer, 27 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Defense: French Variation (B40) 1-0 14.?
Movsesian vs N Miezis, 2008 
(B40) Sicilian, 32 moves, 1-0

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