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25. BeCause that's what FTB was told by Stan 45
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Compiled by Fredthebear

"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective." Source: "The Soviet School of Chess" Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001.

"Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble." — Stanley Kubrick

"Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules, take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment." — Garry Kasparov

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game." — Savielly Tartakower

"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter." ― Winston S. Churchill

"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him." ― Napoleon Bonaparte

Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever.

"I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective." ― Tim Tebow

"A God you understood would be less than yourself." ― Flannery O'Connor

"The journey is its own reward." — Homer

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." ― George Orwell

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

"I always plan for long-term; life to me is a never-ending chess match." ― James D. Wilson

"Tis action moves the world....in the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it." ― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea

"It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame." ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

"In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions." ― Vladimir Nabokov

"You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime." ― Thomas Paine

"Never play to win a pawn while your development is yet unfinished!" ― Aron Nimzowitsch

"Check your moves well, because it can cost one pawn or losing a lot of just from three moves!" ― Deyth Banger

"What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded backward." ― Samuel Reshevsky, Art of Positional Play (Note: A weak pawn cannot be defended by another pawn; it's protection must come from a piece of the back rank that might rather be more aggressively active.)

"The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'." ― Emanuel Lasker

"The move is there, but you must see it." ― Savielly Tartakower

"Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless." ― Mikhail Tal

"Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it's futile to continue playing (conceptualizing)." ― Bill Gaede

"Chess is not a game, it's a war." ― Joshua the poetic penguin

"The King in chess is indeed a symbol of unity and wholeness and the other pieces are not separate entities but rather parts of "the One Thing", as Campbell put it." ― Roumen Bezergianov, Character Education with Chess

"In chess, without the king, the other pieces would all be "dead", so their existence is supported by the king, but they need to serve the king with their capacity for action in order to have a good game." ― Roumen Bezergianov

"...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.

JOURNALIST. And your plans?
PLAYER. To play!"
― Mikhail Tal, The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal

"There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but nearly terrified by the endlessness of chess." ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

"Но человек существо легкомысленное и неблаговидное и, может быть, подобно шахматному игроку, любит только один процесс достижения цели, а не самую цель." ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground Russian

"But man is a frivolous and unseemly creature and, perhaps, like a chess player, loves only one process of achieving a goal, and not the goal itself." ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground English translation

"Le jeu dechec, say the French, n'est pas assez jeu: That is, chess games and others of the same importance, are not Spill, but a Study. Such may be presented to those who have nothing to order, and who fear, out of idleness, for the rust of Hiernen, but not industrious people who seek recreation in Spill and Company." ― Ludvig Holberg, Epistles

"To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight." ― Emanuel Lasker

"An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages." ― Emanuel Lasker, "Lasker's Manual of Chess", p.464

"Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own; if your knight could shuffle himself on to a new square by the sly; if your bishop, at your castling, could wheedle your pawns out of their places; and if your pawns, hating you because they are pawns, could make away from their appointed posts that you might get checkmate on a sudden. You might be the longest-headed of deductive reasoners, and yet you might be beaten by your own pawns. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with the game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for his instruments." ― George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

"She had heard of the genetic code that could shape an eye or hand from passing proteins. Deoxyribonucleic acid. It contained the entire set of instructions for constructing a respiratory system and a digestive one, as well as the grip of an infant's hand. Chess was like that. The geometry of a position could be read and reread and not exhausted of possibility. You saw deeply into the layer of it, but there was another layer beyond that, and another, and another." ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

"Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination." ― Emanuel Lasker, Common Sense in Chess

"Chess, like love, is infectious at any age - Salo Flohr" ― Irving Chernev, The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy

"Life is short, precious, and should not be wasted. Everyone has a chance at it. We're equals after all. There are no pawns, no kings, and no queens.
We're all humans and we all have the same value." ― Cristelle Comby, Blind Chess

"Life is a mysterious and witty intermingling of fate and events." ― Alexandra Kosteniuk

"Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move." ― Michael Chabon

"Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world will be stuck in an eternal stalemate: nobody moves and nobody wins." ― Laura L.

"У нас есть шахматы с собой, Шекспир и Пушкин, с нас довольно." ― Vladimir Nabokov, Стихотворения Russian

"We have chess with us,
Shakespeare and Pushkin, we've had enough." English translation ― Vladimir Nabokov, Poems

"So if you think that when you are better, it means that you can smash ahead and mate the guy, you are wrong, that is not what better means. What better means is that your position has the potential, if played correctly, to turn out well. So do not think that when you are better and when you are attacking that you can just force mate. That is not what it is about. Often the way to play best, the way to play within the position, is to maintain it." ― Josh Waitzkin

"I put my hand on a bishop, my would be assassin, and thought of my father's heights when he won, how he galloped around. The depths of his despair at losing, I expected, would be equal to the peaks. He'd mope about, his face fallen and miserable, his posture stooped as if his back ached. I took my hand from the piece and leaned back in deliberation." ― Rion Amilcar Scott, Insurrections: Stories

"We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?" ― Noah Boyd, Agent X

"I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake." ― Emanuel Lasker

"You need to realize something if you are ever to succeed at chess,' she said, as if Nora had nothing bigger to think about. ‘And the thing you need to realize is this: the game is never over until it is over. It isn't over if there is a single pawn still on the board. If one side is down to a pawn and a king, and the other side has every player, there is still a game. And even if you were a pawn – maybe we all are – then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.'

Mrs. Elm"
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

"and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook. I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice said at last. 'There ought to be some men moving about somewhere--and so there are!' she added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. 'It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is!" ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

"Grandmaster games are said to begin with novelty, which is the first move of the game that exits the book. It could be the fifth, it could be the thirty-fifth. We think about a chess game as beginning with move one and ending with checkmate. But this is not the case. The games begins when it gets out of book, and it end when it goes into book..And this is why Game 6 between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue didn't count...Tripping and falling into a well on your way to the field of battle is not the same thing as dying in it...Deep Blue is only itself out of book; prior to that it is nothing. Just the ghosts of the game itself." ― Brian Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

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

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

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* Fabulous chess brilliancies:
https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

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

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* Opening Names: https://allchessopenings.blogspot.c...

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

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* RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures

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

"The only way to change anything in Russia is a revolution" ― Daniil Dubov https://en.chessbase.com/post/dubov...

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

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

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

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

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

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

'A rising tide lifts all boats'

'Don't put the cart before the horse'

"Examine what is said, not who is speaking." ~ African Proverb

Colorado: San Luis
Established in: 1851

San Luis has a predominately Hispanic population of less than 700 people, and so the town features a very strong Spanish influence. It was once part of four Spanish land grants decreed by the King of Spain, and a classic adobe architecture and Spanish town layout remain.

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

* World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO...

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

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

Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother

chess writer and poet Henry Thomas Bland.

Another example of his way with words is the start of ‘Internal Fires', a poem published on page 57 of the March 1930 American Chess Bulletin:

I used to play chess with the dearest old chap,
Whom naught could upset whatever might hap.
He'd oft lose a game he might well have won
But made no excuse for what he had done.
If a piece he o'erlooked and got it snapped up He took it quite calmly and ne'er ‘cut up rough'.>

"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

The Use Of Knowledge

Between two citizens
A controversy grew.
The one was poor, but much he knew:
The other, rich, with little sense,
Claimed that, in point of excellence,
The merely wise should bow the knee
To all such moneyed men as he.
The merely fools, he should have said;
For why should wealth hold up its head,
When merit from its side has fled?
"My friend," said Bloated-purse,
To his reverse,
"You think yourself considerable.
Pray, tell me, do you keep a table?
What comes of this incessant reading,
In point of lodging, clothing, feeding?
It gives one, true, the highest chamber,
One coat for June and for December,
His shadow for his sole attendant,
And hunger always in the ascendant.
What profits he his country, too,
Who scarcely ever spends a sou –
Will, haply, be a public charge?
Who profits more the state at large,
Than he whose luxuries dispense
Among the people wealth immense?
We set the streams of life a-flowing;
We set all sorts of trades a-going.
The spinner, weaver, sewer, vender,
And many a wearer, fair and tender,
All live and flourish on the spender –
As do, indeed, the reverend rooks
Who waste their time in making books."
These words, so full of impudence,
Received their proper recompense.
The man of letters held his peace,
Though much he might have said with ease.
A war avenged him soon and well;
In it their common city fell.
Both fled abroad; the ignorant,
By fortune thus brought down to want,
Was treated everywhere with scorn,
And roamed about, a wretch forlorn;
Whereas the scholar, everywhere,
Was nourished by the public care.

Let fools the studious despise;
There's nothing lost by being wise.

The Two Friends

Two friends, in Monomotapa,
Had all their interests combined.
Their friendship, faithful and refined,
Our country can't exceed, do what it may.
One night, when potent Sleep had laid
All still within our planet's shade,
One of the two gets up alarmed,
Runs over to the other's palace,
And hastily the servants rallies.
His startled friend, quick armed,
With purse and sword his comrade meets,
And thus right kindly greets:
"You seldom com'st at such an hour;
I take you for a man of sounder mind
Than to abuse the time for sleep designed.
Have lost your purse, by Fortune's power?
Here's mine. Have suffered insult, or a blow,
I have here my sword – to avenge it let us go." "No," said his friend, "no need I feel
Of either silver, gold, or steel;
I thank you for your friendly zeal.
In sleep I saw you rather sad,
And thought the truth might be as bad.
Unable to endure the fear,
That cursed dream has brought me here."

Which think you, reader, loved the most!
If doubtful this, one truth may be proposed:
There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:
Not only is he prompt to lend –
An angler delicate, he fishes
The very deepest of your wishes,
And spares your modesty the task
His friendly aid to ask.
A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,
When pointing at the object dear.

"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

The Bear and the Amateur Gardener

A certain mountain bear, unlicked and rude,
By fate confined within a lonely wood,
A new Bellerophon, whose life,
Knew neither comrade, friend, nor wife, –
Became insane; for reason, as we term it,
Dwells never long with any hermit.
It's good to mix in good society,
Obeying rules of due propriety;
And better yet to be alone;
But both are ills when overdone.
No animal had business where
All grimly dwelt our hermit bear;
Hence, bearish as he was, he grew
Heart-sick, and longed for something new.
While he to sadness was addicted,
An aged man, not far from there,
Was by the same disease afflicted.
A garden was his favourite care, –
Sweet Flora's priesthood, light and fair,
And eke Pomona's – ripe and red
The presents that her fingers shed.
These two employments, true, are sweet
When made so by some friend discreet.
The gardens, gaily as they look,
Talk not, (except in this my book;)
So, tiring of the deaf and dumb,
Our man one morning left his home
Some company to seek,
That had the power to speak. –
The bear, with thoughts the same,
Down from his mountain came;
And in a solitary place,
They met each other, face to face.
It would have made the boldest tremble;
What did our man? To play the Gascon
The safest seemed. He put the mask on,
His fear contriving to dissemble.
The bear, unused to compliment,
Growled bluntly, but with good intent,
"Come home with me." The man replied:
"Sir Bear, my lodgings, nearer by,
In yonder garden you may spy,
Where, if you'll honour me the while,
We'll break our fast in rural style.
I have fruits and milk, – unworthy fare,
It may be, for a wealthy bear;
But then I offer what I have."
The bear accepts, with visage grave,
But not unpleased; and on their way,
They grow familiar, friendly, gay.
Arrived, you see them, side by side,
As if their friendship had been tried.
To a companion so absurd,
Blank solitude were well preferred,
Yet, as the bear scarce spoke a word,
The man was left quite at his leisure
To trim his garden at his pleasure.
Sir Bruin hunted – always brought
His friend whatever game he caught;
But chiefly aimed at driving flies –
Those hold and shameless parasites,
That vex us with their ceaseless bites –
From off our gardener's face and eyes.
One day, while, stretched on the ground
The old man lay, in sleep profound,
A fly that buzz'd around his nose, –
And bit it sometimes, I suppose, –
Put Bruin sadly to his trumps.
At last, determined, up he jumps;
"I'll stop your noisy buzzing now,"
Says he; "I know precisely how."
No sooner said than done.
He seized a paving-stone;
And by his modus operandi
Did both the fly and man die.

A foolish friend may cause more woe
Than could, indeed, the wisest foe.

Apr-12-21 phone screen for lie:
Obviously I'm involved in several on-going "controversies" here on CG, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

That's an admission of guilt to no one's surprise.

Riddle: What is at the end of a rainbow?

Answer: The letter W.

Annabel Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

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

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

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

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

Q: What do you call something that goes up when the rain comes down? A: An umbrella.

Q: What do you call a doctor who fixes websites? A: A URL-ologist.

Q: What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?
A: A dinosnore.

Q: What do you call a Christmas tree that knows karate A: Spruce Lee.

Q: What does a triangle call a circle?
A: Pointless.

Q: What do you call a piece of sad cheese?
A: Blue cheese.

Q: What do you call a cow in an earthquake?
A: A milkshake.

Q: What do you call an M&M that went to college? A: A smarty.

Q: What do you call a baby polar bear?
A: An ice cub.

Q: What do you call a witch that lives at the beach? A: A sand witch.

Q: What do you call a key that opens the door on Thanksgiving? A: A turkey.

Q: What do you call a cheese that doesn't belong to you? A: Nacho cheese!

Q: What do you call a cow that plays a musical instrument? A: A moosician.

Q: What do you call shorts that clouds wear?
A: Thunderwear.

Q: What do you call milk that gets anything it wants? A: Spoiled milk.

Q: What do you call a dog magician?
A: A labracadabrador.

Q: What do you call a funny mountain?
A: Hill-arious.

Q: What do you call a cute door?
A: Adorable.

Q: Why do cows have hooves instead of feet?
A: Because they lactose.

Q: Why did the cow cross the road?
A: To get to the udder side!

Q: What does the farmer talk about while milking a cow? A: Udder nonsense.

Q: What do you call a cow jumping on a trampoline? A: A milkshake.

Q: Where do cows get all their medicine?
A: The farmacy!

Q: How did the cow get to the moon?
A: It went to udder space.

Q: Why did the cow jump over the moon?
A: To get to the Milky Way.

Q: What do you call it when one cow spies on another cow? A: A steak-out.

Q: Why do cows have hooves instead of feet?
A: Because they lactose.

Q: What do you get if you cross a cow and rooster? A: Roost beef.

Q: What kind of shows do cows like best?
A: Moosicals.

Q: What happens when a cow laughs?
A: Milk comes out of its nose.

Q: What has the lone cow been up to lately?
A: Nobody's herd…

Q: How do dairy farmers do their taxes?
A: They go to an accountant.

Q: What do you call an acid with an attitude?
A: A mean-o-acid!

Q: What do you call a priest who becomes a lawyer? A: A father-in-law!

Q: What do you call birds that stick together?
A: Vel-crows!

Q: What do you call a bagel that can fly?
A: A plain bagel!

Q: What do you call a snobby criminal walking down the steps? A: A condescending con descending!

Q: What do you call an illegally parked frog?
A: Toad!

Q: What do you call twin dinosaurs?
A: A pair-odactyls!

Q: What do you call a pile of cats?
A: A meow-ntain!

Q: What do you call a row of rabbits hopping away? A: A receding hare line!

Q: What do you call the wife of a hippie?
A: A Mississippi!

Q: What do you call a monkey that loves Doritos? A: A chipmonk!

Q: What do you call a mac 'n' cheese that gets all up in your face? A: Too close for comfort food!

Q: What do you call a cow in an earthquake?
A: A milkshake!

Q: What do you call a cold dog?
A: A chili dog!

Q: What do you call a sad cup of coffee?
A: A depresso!

Q: What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A: A thesaurus!

Q: What do you call a dog magician?
A: A labracadabrador!

Q: What do you call a magic owl?
A: Whooo-dini!

Q: What do you call a cow with two legs?
A: Lean beef!

Q: What do you call blueberries playing the guitar? A: A jam session!

Q: What do you call a joke you make in the shower? A: A clean joke!

Q: What do you call an elephant that doesn't matter? A: An irrelephant!

Q: What do you call a pony with a cough?
A: A little horse!

Q: What do you call a farm that makes bad jokes? A: Corny!

Q: What do you call a deer that costs a dollar? A: A buck!

Q: What do you call a fake noodle?
A: Impasta!

Q: What do you call a cat on the rocks?
A: One cool cat!

Q: What do you call the fear of being trapped in a chimney? A: Claus-traphobia!

Q: What do you call two birds in love?
A: Tweethearts!

Q: What do you call it when one cow spies on another? A: A steak out!

Q: What do you call a computer that sings?
A: A-Dell!

Q: What do you call a bear with no teeth?
A: A gummy bear!

Q: What do you call a man with a rubber toe?
A: Roberto!

Q: What do you call it when a cat wins a dog show? A: A cat-has-trophy!

Q: What do you call a smelly Santa?
A: Farter Christmas!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Q: What do you call a tiny mother?
A: A minimum!'

Q: What do you call a person who doesn't fart in public? A: A private tutor!

Q: What do you call someone wearing a belt with a watch on it? A: A waist of time!

Q: What do you call a seagull that flies over the bay? A: A bagel!

Coleen Mzarriz wrote:

Thunder in the Spring of Casmorville
She has freckles like little eyes boring a hole into your soul when she looks at you. She has a face as clear as crystal that when you look at her, you can see your own reflection—mirrorless, empty, and reserved. When you press your lips against hers, a flood of poisonous schemes awaits you, and you'll be lost like Alice in Wonderland.

She's an important chess piece that cannot be easily moved; she's a queen, the ace, the king. A pawn may capture a queen, but she is also the king. Her throne reeks of gold and fortune, her mind flows with wisdom, and her body's attached like the goddess Aphrodite. She's the thunder in the rain. Her cries are a woe of revenge and power. Death can not capture a woman like her. She's Eve and she's Lilith. She's a spirit and she can be a snake—crawling with her reptile skin. Her eyes are as fierce shaped as the diamond's emerald and lastly, she's macabre surrealism that when you read her, her true self shows and pushes you to infinite possible dreams you can dream of.

Avary is the bird of thunder. In her cage, she's a young soul duplicated to bring misfortune every time it rains in the spring of Casmorville.

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

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

* Riddle-stone-pee: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch...

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

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

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

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

Caro-Kann Def: Maroczy Gambit (B12) 1-0 Scintillating!!
Teichmann vs J Mieses, 1910 
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Evans Gambit. ML (C51) 1-0 Rare Royal Family Pin!
Recsi vs Szen, 1856 
(C51) Evans Gambit, 25 moves, 1-0

variants White N removed / Scotch Gambit (000) 1-0 Lolli's Mate
Morphy vs A Reif, 1857 
(000) Chess variants, 24 moves, 1-0

Van Geet (Dunst) / Scandi Declined 2.Nc3 d4 GP Attk (A00) 1-0
T Dunst vs M Osher, 1956 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Classical. General (B56) 1-0 Bad bishop
A Planinc vs I Cudina, 1970
(B56) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Najdorf. Opocensky Var (B92) 0-1 Discovery
D Ruth vs Fischer, 1956 
(B92) Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Najdorf. Amsterdam (B93) 1-0 Elements of Greco
G Garcia vs B Zuckerman, 1986 
(B93) Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4, 25 moves, 1-0

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

Nimzowitsch Defense: Williams Var (B00) 0-1 20...?
E de Groote vs D Arutinian, 2009 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 25 moves, 0-1

Alekhine Defense: Saemisch Attack (B02) 1-0 Just take it!
Taimanov vs Tolush, 1948 
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Alekhine Def: Spielmann Gambit (B02) 1-0 Discovery
J Hector vs W Schoen, 1988 
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

Alekhine Def: Four Pawns Attack. ML (B03) 0-1 Clearance sac
H Kokkoris vs D Marovic, 1970 
(B03) Alekhine's Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

Alekhine Def: Modern. Alburt Var (B04) 1-0 puzzle 21.?
I Gurevich vs K K Karanja, 1987 
(B04) Alekhine's Defense, Modern, 25 moves, 1-0

Modern Def: Pseudo-Austrian Attk (B06) 1-0 from center to flank
I Nikolayev vs R Burnett, 1998 
(B06) Robatsch, 25 moves, 1-0

Modern Def: Bb2 vs Bg7 Fianchetto (B06) 1-0 thru the center
H T Tu vs E Sapar, 2012
(B06) Robatsch, 24 moves, 1-0

Modern Defense: Three Pawns Attack (B06) 0-1
Heian vs E Schiller, 2004
(B06) Robatsch, 25 moves, 0-1

Modern Def: Bg7 vs Pseudo-Torre Bg5 (B06) 1-0 Heavies on 7th
Kholmov vs N Zilberman, 1989 
(B06) Robatsch, 24 moves, 1-0

Pirc Defense: General (B07) 0-1 Q trap
D Vella vs L Vajda, 2014 
(B07) Pirc, 25 moves, 0-1

Pirc Def: Classical. Two Knights System (B08) 1-0 fiery gem!
H Weenink vs S Landau, 1930 
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 25 moves, 1-0

Pirc Def: Austrian Attk. Kurajica Var (B09) 1/2-1/2 Photo
Kasimdzhanov vs Svidler, 2005 
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 24 moves, 1/2-1/2

Caro-Kann Def: Accelerated Panov Attk. Open Var (B10) 1-0hit f7
I Nei vs E Book, 1969 
(B10) Caro-Kann, 24 moves, 1-0

Game 734 in Chess Informant Best Games 701-800
Shirov vs Hracek, 1998 
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Panov Attack (B14) 1-0 Kside crusher
Portisch vs Bagirov, 1965 
(B14) Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack (B14) 1-0 Blitz; clearance sac
Korchnoi vs L Levy, 1974 
(B14) Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Bronstein-Larsen (B16) 1-0 Ks on half-open files
L Vogt vs Bronstein, 1990 
(B16) Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: McDonnell Attack (B21) 0-1 Slash & Burn!
C Bell vs A F Ker, 1981 
(B21) Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4, 24 moves, 0-1

Attacking 101 - Volume #5 by Joel Johnson
F Rhine vs NN, 2019 
(B21) Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Alapin. Stoltz Attack Ivanchuk Line (B22) 1-0
D Sermek vs M Tratar, 2001 
(B22) Sicilian, Alapin, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Hyperaccelerated Dragon (B27) 0-1 N pain in the arse
J W Naylor vs R G Wade, 1958 
(B27) Sicilian, 24 moves, 0-1

"Samhouri Knight Fever" (game of the day May-22-2015)
A Samhouri vs J Polgar, 2010 
(B30) Sicilian, 24 moves, 0-1

Old Sicilian. Open (B32) 0-1f-pawn swoops like a bat outta hell
D G Baird vs H G Voigt, 1896 
(B32) Sicilian, 25 moves, 0-1

Old Sicilian. Open(B32) 0-1He who captures first, captures best
V Shleimovitch vs I Akimov, 2001
(B32) Sicilian, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Defense: Kramnik Var (B40) 0-1 Black octopus
B Beard vs B Wall, 1979
(B40) Sicilian, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Kan. Wing Attack (B43) 0-1 long range strikes
S Chumfwa vs Bacrot, 2014 
(B43) Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Paulsen. Bastrikov Var (B47) 0-1 Remove the Def
Shamkovich vs S Matera, 1977
(B47) Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Canal Attk. ML(B52) 0-1Wee bit too much rocket science
G Widmer-Babic vs A Matsuo, 2004 
(B52) Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Richter-Rauzer. Neo-Modern (B67) 1-0 Slashing Bs
Tal vs J Klavins, 1959 
(B67) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 8...Bd7, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Dragon. Classical, Maroczy Line (B74) 1-0Triple h-file
Kupreichik vs Tukmakov, 1985 
(B74) Sicilian, Dragon, Classical, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicil Dragon. Yugoslav Attk Panov Var (B76) 1-0 h-file battery
I Ivanov vs V McCambridge, 1985 
(B76) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Najdorf. English Attk (B90) 1-0 X-ray, Gueridon#
P Peschlow vs A Donchenko, 2004 
(B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Najdorf. Adams Attack (B90) 1-0 Lolli's Mate
N Borge vs D Alsina Leal, 2018 
(B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 24 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Two Knights (C00) 1-0 email
B Vandermeulen vs V Napalkov, 2008 
(C00) French Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

French Def: Normal/Delayed Owen Def (C00) 0-1impressive assault
M Skachkov vs M Shutalev, 2002 
(C00) French Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

French Def: Mediterranean Def (C01) 1-0 Bazar
B Khatanbaatar vs Emad Al Habeeb, 2014 
(C01) French, Exchange, 24 moves, 1-0

French Def: Tarrasch. Open System Suechting Line (C07) 1-0
E McCormick vs A Bisguier, 1946 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 1-0

French Tarrasch. Open System Euwe-Keres Line (C07) 1-0Back rank
Smirin vs G Dizdar, 2005 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 1-0

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

French Def: Rubinstein. Blackburne Def (C10) 0-1 Battery
A Chistiakov vs P Dubinin, 1939
(C10) French, 25 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Rubinstein. Fort Knox Var (C10) 1-0 Incoming
Sutovsky vs L D'Costa, 2006 
(C10) French, 25 moves, 1-0

French Def: Rubinstein 0-0-0 vs 0-0 (C10) 1-0 Pawn storm!
E C Price vs E Gibb, 1920 
(C10) French, 24 moves, 1-0

French Def: Classical. Steinitz Var (C11) 1-0 Kside theft
Spielmann vs P Schmidt, 1938 
(C11) French, 25 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Classical. Burn Var (C11) 0-1 Save the Day!
L Prokes vs Rubinstein, 1926 
(C11) French, 25 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Steinitz. Boleslavsky Variation (C11) · 1-0
Khalifman vs Speelman, 1992
(C11) French, 24 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Steinitz. Boleslavsky Var (C11) 1-0 U2100
M Nicholson vs D Raats, 2010
(C11) French, 24 moves, 1-0

Game 45 Chess Highlights of the 20th Century by Graham Burgess
N Grigoriev vs Alekhine, 1915 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 25 moves, 0-1

French Def: McCutcheon. Chigorin Var (C12) 0-1 Skewer+
B Stam vs L Hinrichs, 2015 
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 24 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Classical. Richter Attk (C13) 0-1 Combo blunder
K Rosenkrantz vs N Riumin, 1928
(C13) French, 25 moves, 0-1

FR Richter Attack (C13) 1-0 Greek gift, Q sac sets up Arabian #
Alekhine vs A Asgeirsson, 1931 
(C13) French, 25 moves, 1-0

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

French Def: Classical. Steinitz Var (C14) 0-1Discovered+ invert
N Soudre vs F Gagnon, 2001 
(C14) French, Classical, 25 moves, 0-1

French Def: Winawer Var (C15) 1-0 As the smoke clears
G Timoscenko vs B Katalymov, 1973
(C15) French, Winawer, 24 moves, 1-0

French Def: Winawer. Advance General (C16) 1-0 Kside smash
Unzicker vs R Czaya, 1948 
(C16) French, Winawer, 25 moves, 1-0

French Def: Winawer. Bogoljubow Var (C17) 1-0 Semi-Smothered #
T Gharamian vs S Ivanov, 2006 
(C17) French, Winawer, Advance, 25 moves, 1-0

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

the Swarm, short for Swiss-Armenian Variation, 5...Ba5
K Kulaots vs Vaganian, 2004 
(C18) French, Winawer, 25 moves, 0-1

French Def: Winawer. Retreat Variation Armenian Line (C18) 0-1
H Abels vs A Whiteley, 1966
(C18) French, Winawer, 25 moves, 0-1

French Def: Winawer. Poisoned Pawn General (C18) 0-1 intermezzo
S Sulskis vs V Gasthofer, 2003 
(C18) French, Winawer, 25 moves, 0-1

Game 17 in Richard Réti's Best Games by Harry Golombek
G Nyholm vs Reti, 1914 
(C21) Center Game, 24 moves, 0-1

Danish Gambit: General (C21) 1-0 Kelly's Heroes in San Franciso
S Rubin vs D C Sutherland, 1961 
(C21) Center Game, 24 moves, 1-0

Center Game: Halasz-McDonnell Gambit (C21) 1-0 K target
A Granero Roca vs D Masegosa, 2001 
(C21) Center Game, 24 moves, 1-0

Santasiere's "My Love Affair With Tchigorin"
J Mieses vs Chigorin, 1902 
(C21) Center Game, 24 moves, 0-1

Danish Gambit: Declined. Sorensen Def (C21) 1-0 Another 0-0 win
J Yuchtman vs G Ravinsky, 1959 
(C21) Center Game, 25 moves, 1-0

Center Game: Paulsen Attack (C22) 1-0 f4 removes the defender
S Levitsky vs Alekhine, 1913 
(C22) Center Game, 25 moves, 1-0

V Gonsiorovsky vs Alekhine, 1918 
(C24) Bishop's Opening, 24 moves, 0-1

Vienna Gambit. Hamppe-Allgaier-Thorold Gambit (C25) 1-0 exhibit
Pillsbury vs Winkler, 1902 
(C25) Vienna, 24 moves, 1-0

Vienna Gambit. Modern Var (C29) 1-0 Purdy failed to castle?!?
D Horseman vs J S Purdy, 1955 
(C29) Vienna Gambit, 25 moves, 1-0

KGD. Classical Var (C30) 1-0 Nxf7, Bxh6, etc.
Koltanowski vs R Durkin, 1940 
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 24 moves, 1-0

King's Gambit: Declined. Classical (C30) 1-0 18.?
A David vs Z Sturua, 1997 
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 25 moves, 1-0

KGD. Classical (C30) 0-1 Stockfish notes to The Boston Massacre
Steinitz vs Barry / Pillsbury / Snow, 1892 
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 25 moves, 0-1

KGD. Classical General (C30) 0-1 Center Pawn Fork Trick
J Polgar vs M Sharif, 1989 
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 25 moves, 0-1

KGD: Falkbeer Countergambit. Nimzowitsch-Marshall CG (C31) 0-1
J Kuchta vs R Kichinski, 1991 
(C31) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 24 moves, 0-1

KGA. Bishop's Gambit (C33) 0-1 Q+ sac for a back ranker
S Polgar vs S J Solomon, 1987 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 0-1

KGA. Bishop's Gambit (C33) 1-0Interesting threats w/Dbl Octopus
Harrwitz vs C Mayet, 1847 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 1-0

KGA. Bishop's Gambit Lopez Var (C33) 1-0 Promotion battle
Wilson vs Blecher, 1858 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 1-0

KGA. Stamma Gambit (C33) 0-1 Kill Box Mate
Lionne / Morant vs Auzout / Maubuisson, 1680 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 0-1

Game 13 in Common Sense in Chess by Lasker
J Schulten vs Morphy, 1857 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 0-1

KGA. Becker Defense (C34) 1-0 Bishop fork coming
Spassky vs P C Gibbs, 1960 
(C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 1-0

KGA. Schallop Defense 3.Nf3 Nf6 (C34) 1-0 Rather quiet KG game
Chigorin vs Shumov, 1875 
(C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 1-0

KGA. Fischer Defense (C34) 1-0 Q sac for raking bishops #!
Fedorov vs Z Gyimesi, 2001 
(C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 1-0

KGA. Double Muzio Gambit Paulsen Def (C37) 1-0 Stockfish; 23.?
Anderssen vs Zukertort, 1865 
(C37) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 1-0

KGA. Greco Gambit (C38) 1-0 JHB shuns castling
Blackburne vs K M Giltay Jr, 1877 
(C38) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 1-0

Great imagination from the Carribean Tal
T Sakelsek vs P Corbin, 2004 
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 24 moves, 0-1

Latvian Gambit: Fraser Defense (C40) 1-0 Correspondence
R H Steinmeyer vs W F Baker Jr, 1959
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

Philidor Def. Modern, Nc6 Exchange (C41) 1-0 Tear open center
Y Wen vs Z Lan, 2017 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

Philidor Def: Hanham. Delmar Var (C41) 1-0 Namesakes
E Delmar vs J M Hanham, 1889 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Nimzowitsch Attack (C42) 1-0 half-open g-file pin
Motylev vs Koneru, 2006 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Three Knights Game (C42) 0-1 blindfold
J Polgar vs Ivanchuk, 1994 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

Russian Game: 3.d3 Reversed Philidor (C42) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Keres vs D Allan, 1975 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Damiano Var. Kholmov Gambit (C42) 0-1 Correspond
Ed Lasker vs F Chalupetzky, 1903 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

Russian Game: Modern Attk. Center Var (C43) 1-0 Bold Q sac!
Bronstein vs I Zaslavsky, 1938 
(C43) Petrov, Modern Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Modern Attk. Center Var (C43) 0-1 w/his pants up!
V Gazik vs Mamedyarov, 2020 
(C43) Petrov, Modern Attack, 25 moves, 0-1

Scotch Game: Göring Gambit. Declined (C44) 0-1 N double attack
A Kakimi vs S Rubin, 1971
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 0-1

Scotch Game: Göring Gambit ML (C44) 0-1The door opens both ways
T Apeldoorn vs R Boonstra, 1988 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 0-1

Scotch Game: Göring Gambit. Dbl P Sacr (C44) 0-1Nerves of steel
T Espig vs G Moehring, 1973 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 25 moves, 0-1

Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit. Saratt Var (C44) 0-1 Stockfish
H Kennicott vs Morphy, 1857 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 0-1

Scotch 4...Qh4 Horwitz Attk (C45) 1-0 P thrusts & Batteries
J D Ruiz Castillo vs R Aguiar Freitas, 2014 
(C45) Scotch Game, 25 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Haxo Gambit (C45) 1-0 Dashing Dbl Check finish!!
Staunton / Barnes vs Lowenthal / NN, 1856 
(C45) Scotch Game, 25 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Mieses Var (C45) 1-0 Unpreventable Back Ranker
J Christiansen vs D Makhnev, 2017
(C45) Scotch Game, 25 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Classical (C45) 0-1 Blindfold Simul
Blackburne vs H Atkins, 1890 
(C45) Scotch Game, 24 moves, 0-1

Scotch Game: Steinitz Var (C45) 0-1 Notes by JHB
NN vs Blackburne, 1870  
(C45) Scotch Game, 25 moves, 0-1

Four Knights Game: Halloween Gambit (C46) 1/2-1/2 Copycat
E Schinske vs S Feldhaus, 2005 
(C46) Three Knights, 25 moves, 1/2-1/2

4 Knts Scotch. Belgrade Gambit Modern Def (C47) 0-1 g2-destruct
T Klauner vs M Hebden, 1982 
(C47) Four Knights, 25 moves, 0-1

Four Knights Game: Dble Spanish Misc. w/5.O-O (C49) 0-1 23...?
C Wallwork vs Duras, 1911 
(C49) Four Knights, 26 moves, 0-1

Italian Game: Italian Var (C50) 0-1 "Dill Pickle"
S R Dill vs E McCutcheon, 1875 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 24 moves, 0-1

Italian Game: Evans Gambit. Tartakower Attk (C52) 1-0 Dbl N sac
A Khachaturov vs A A Bikhovsky, 1955
(C52) Evans Gambit, 25 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Evans Gambit. Lasker Def(C52) 1-0blindfold beauty
E Canal vs NN, 1917 
(C52) Evans Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0

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

Italian Game: Evans Gambit. Slow Var (C52) 0-1 Stockfish Notes
J McConnell vs Morphy, 1852 
(C52) Evans Gambit, 25 moves, 0-1

Tim Harding's 100th "Kibitzer" column for Chesscafé.
T Harding vs S Szilagyi, 1988 
(C52) Evans Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0

Italian, Classical. Greco Gambit Traditional (C54) 0-1Mate next
P Dietz vs W Shipman, 1946
(C54) Giuoco Piano, 25 moves, 0-1

Italian Game: Classical. Greco Gambit Traditional (C54) 0-1Q up
Santasiere vs A Pinkus, 1925 
(C54) Giuoco Piano, 24 moves, 0-1

Italian, Classical. Greco Gambit Moeller-Therkatz Attk (C54)1-0
V Dyakov vs V Lazarev, 2012 
(C54) Giuoco Piano, 25 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Scotch Gambit. Max Lange Attack (C55) 0-1 Corresp
J Aldrete Lobo vs T Oim, 1998 
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 24 moves, 0-1

Italian Game: Scotch Gambit. Max Lange Attack (C55) 1-0 K walk
Paulsen vs Mackenzie, 1861 
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

Italian, Two Knts Def. Modern B's Opening (C55) 0-1 Stockfish
G Beihoff vs Capablanca, 1913 
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 24 moves, 0-1

Italian Game: Two Knights Def (C55) 1-0 Simul blindfold
Koltanowski vs S Zeitlin, 1938 
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Italian, Scotch Gambit. Anderssen Attk (C56) 1-0En prise Bishop
I Nikolayev vs J Sutorikhin, 1988 
(C56) Two Knights, 25 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Scotch Gambit. Anderssen Attack (C56) 1-0 Author
J Johnson vs H Lyman, 1976 
(C56) Two Knights, 24 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Two Knights Def. Ulvestad Var (C57) 1-0 Juniors
Sax vs Nunn, 1972 
(C57) Two Knights, 25 moves, 1-0

G4 in'The Modern Chess Instructor: Part II' by Wilhelm Steinitz
G Fraser vs Steinitz, 1867 
(C60) Ruy Lopez, 25 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Bird Var (C61) 1-0 BxNf6 creates corridor mate
F Ekstrom vs G Carrisson, 1961 
(C61) Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Bird Variation (C61) 1-0 notes by Steinitz
J W Baird vs Bird, 1889  
(C61) Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Bird Variation (C61) 1-0 Raking bishops
P Michel vs H Rossetto, 1947 
(C61) Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Classical Var (C64) 1-0 pinned g- and h- pawns
K Treybal vs A Cheron, 1928 
(C64) Ruy Lopez, Classical, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Berlin Def. l'Hermet Var (C67) 1-0 Blackburne's #
Ganguly vs A Ismagambetov, 2006 
(C67) Ruy Lopez, 24 moves, 1-0

Pillsbury's Chess Career. by Sergeant & Watts ISBN: 978-1-92717
Halprin vs Pillsbury, 1900 
(C67) Ruy Lopez, 24 moves, 1/2-1/2

Spanish Game: Exchange. Keres Var (C68) 0-1 Crossfire in center
D Polland vs I A Horowitz, 1936
(C68) Ruy Lopez, Exchange, 24 moves, 0-1

Game 3 in 'Simple Chess' by Michael Francis Stean, p. 13
Adorjan vs M Mukhin, 1973 
(C69) Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation, 25 moves, 1-0

Spanish, Morphy Def. Modern Steinitz Def (C71) 0-1Mate thwarted
H Villup vs K Pitksaar, 1956 
(C71) Ruy Lopez, 25 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Morphy Def. Mackenzie Var (C77) 1-0 Impressive
Adorjan vs A Urzica, 1970 
(C77) Ruy Lopez, 25 moves, 1-0

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

Spanish Game: Open. Open Variation (C80) · 0-1
J Quispe Santacruz vs A Sorin, 2001 
(C80) Ruy Lopez, Open, 24 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Open. St. Petersburg Var (C82) 0-1 U18 ch
R L Paige vs D Reynolds, 1962 
(C82) Ruy Lopez, Open, 24 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Closed Var (C84) 1-0 Black Q trapped by Rg1-Rg4
Ljubojevic vs Sax, 1973 
(C84) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Closed. Worrall Attk Castling line (C86) 1-0 Greco attk
Short vs I Sokolov, 1995 
(C86) Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

150 Attk vs Delayed Pirc Def, both 0-0-0 (B06) 1-0 Long rangers
Adams vs P Wolff, 1990 
(B06) Robatsch, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicil Dragon. Yugoslav Attk ML (B77) 0-1Hellacious counterattk!
F Frilling vs J L Watson, 1969 
(B77) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Paulsen Var (B46) 1-0 Rapture by Rook
Hort vs Reshevsky, 1970 
(B46) Sicilian, Taimanov Variation, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicil Closed 3.f4 a6 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.g4 b5 (B23) 1-0 long diagonal!
I Ivanisevic vs Marjanovic, 2013
(B23) Sicilian, Closed, 25 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Classical. Main lines (B18) 1-0 Pounding the 6th
Kupreichik vs G Castiglioni, 1968 
(B18) Caro-Kann, Classical, 24 moves, 1-0

Van Wely's Najdorf demolished by Kasparov's English Attack
Kasparov vs Van Wely, 2000 
(B80) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 25 moves, 1-0

Bc4 vs Modern Def: Bg7 (B06) 1-0 B & Q trapped on Kside
K Wong vs C Carrero, 2008 
(B06) Robatsch, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Paulsen Var (B46) 1-0 Blindfold Simul
Steinitz vs D Lindsay, 1867 
(B46) Sicilian, Taimanov Variation, 24 moves, 1-0

Owen Defense: General (B00) 0-1 Komotini (1992)
A Karagiannis vs Miles, 1992 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Defense: Paulsen Variation. General (B44) 0-1
G Garcia vs Suetin, 1969
(B44) Sicilian, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B90) 0-1
G Garcia vs Browne, 1990
(B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicil Richter-Rauzer. Classical (B64) 0-1 Exch Sac, Rob the pin
Sax vs Van der Wiel, 1985 
(B64) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian O'Kelly. Normal System Kan Line (B28) 1-0 back rank
Staunton vs NN, 1852 
(B28) Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Scheveningen. Modern Var (B83) 1-0 Stockfish
Kasparov vs F Sideifzade, 1978 
(B83) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack (B14) 1-0 20.?
H Runde vs Morten Jensen, 2003 
(B14) Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

Scandinavian Def: Portuguese Var (B01) 0-1 Dbl R sacs by MC
S Vaibhav vs Carlsen, 2018 
(B01) Scandinavian, 25 moves, 0-1

Owen Defense/French Advance Bb6 0-0 vs 0-0-0 (B00) 1-0
R Antonio vs F Donguines, 2008
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicil Wing Gambit. Deferred (B50) 1-0 Sideways Swallow's Tail #
Tartakower vs J T Andor, 1952 
(B50) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

Old Sicilian. General (B30) 1-0 Snappy game!
Lasker vs W Brooke, 1904 
(B30) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Urusov Gambit (C42) 0-1 Correspondence
G Nickel vs R H Steinmeyer, 1963 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Scheveningen. Fianchetto Var (B80) 0-1 Spearhead
S Bergsson vs S Polgar, 1988 
(B80) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Hyperaccelerated Dragon (B27) 1-0 Spearhead
Geller vs G Garcia, 1965 
(B27) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0

Lesson 3 in Sunil Weeramantry's "Best Lessons of A Chess Coach"
M Lamon vs S Weeramantry, 1990 
(B06) Robatsch, 25 moves, 0-1

Philidor Defense: General (C41) 0-1 Rolling knights
Z Franco Ocampos vs C Guimard, 1980 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

KGD. Classical Var (C30) 1-0 Blindfold simul
Blackburne vs J Ascher, 1889 
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 25 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: General (C45) 0-1 blitz; Stockfish notes
Xiong vs Mamedyarov, 2020 
(C45) Scotch Game, 25 moves, 0-1

Center Game: Accepted (C21) 0-1 Black's passed pawn insures win
J Robertson vs E Williams, 1841 
(C21) Center Game, 25 moves, 0-1

French Def: Winawer. Delayed Exchange (C01) 1-0 Blindfold simul
Blackburne vs E Hall Wood, 1871 
(C01) French, Exchange, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Closed (B25) 1-0 R retreat traps the Black Q
T Tian vs Z Nemeth, 2001 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

Vienna Game: Anderssen Defense (C25) 1-0 N fork
Mason vs D Martinez, 1874 
(C25) Vienna, 25 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Evans Gambit (C51) 1-0 Crossfire
J Jacobsen vs W Ridley, 1889 
(C51) Evans Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0

French Def: Winawer. Maroczy-Wallis Var (C18) 0-1 Unpin+
J van den Bosch vs S Landau, 1934 
(C18) French, Winawer, 25 moves, 0-1

Caro-Kann Adv. Van der Wiel Attk B Hunt (B12) 1-0 Wet Willy
Van der Wiel vs W Iclicki, 1985 
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicil Richter-Rauzer. Neo-Modern Early deviat (B62)0-1 Cozio's#
K Zvorykina vs E Bykova, 1959 
(B62) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, 25 moves, 0-1

Nimzowitsch Def: Scandinavian. Exch Marshall Gambit (B00) 1-0
Lasker vs E N Olly, 1892 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

Scandinavian Defense: Icelandic-Palme Gambit (B01) · 0-1
P Li Ying vs D Laylo, 2006 
(B01) Scandinavian, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Defense: Alapin. Barmen Def (B22) 1-0 Raking bishops
C Garma vs P Joshi, 2001 
(B22) Sicilian, Alapin, 24 moves, 1-0

Game 165 in Wonders and Curiosities of Chess by Irving Chernev
Olland vs A Hamming, 1933 
(B83) Sicilian, 25 moves, 0-1

"'Rigasche Rundschau', 11 May 1929, page 17"
Petrov vs T Bergs, 1929 
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 24 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Maroczy Gambit (B12) 1-0 Two hogs on the 7th
P Hair vs S Yee, 2017 
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Alapin. Smith-Morra Declined (B22) 0-1 women
A Matoussi vs J Vedrickiene, 2012 
(B22) Sicilian, Alapin, 24 moves, 0-1

Alekhine Def: Exchange Var (B03) 1-0 Central passer
J Rowson vs T Hinks-Edwards, 1998
(B03) Alekhine's Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

G22 in 'My Best Games of Chess: 1908-1937'by Alexander Alekhine
S von Freymann vs Alekhine, 1914  
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 24 moves, 0-1

Caro-Kann Defense: Classical Var (B18) 0-1 castle blunder
B Niezgoda vs M Miroslaw, 2001 
(B18) Caro-Kann, Classical, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian, Dragon. Classical Normal Line (B74) 0-1 Stockfish
Spielmann vs O Bernstein, 1909  
(B74) Sicilian, Dragon, Classical, 25 moves, 0-1

Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack (B14) 1-0 Q sortie!
Anand vs Timman, 1992 
(B14) Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Fischer-Sozin Attack. Flank Var (B87) 0-1 video
Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2020 
(B87) Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5, 24 moves, 0-1

Pirc Defense: Austrian Attack. Dragon Formation (B09) 1-0 18.?
T L Petrosian vs G Halvax, 2018 
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Paulsen. Normal (B45) 0-1 Notes by Stockfish
Tseshkovsky vs Kasparov, 1981 
(B45) Sicilian, Taimanov, 25 moves, 0-1

Caro-Kann Def: Advance. Botvinnik-Carls Def (B12) 0-1 Juniors
J D Figueroa Bernal vs X Zhang, 2019 
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

Caro-Kann Defense: Maroczy Variation (B12) 0-1 24...?
X Zhang vs R Yu, 2009 
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

Scandinavian Defense: Lasker BxNf3 BxBf3 vs Nc6 (B01) 0-1
Morozevich vs Kramnik, 2009 
(B01) Scandinavian, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: McDonnell Attack (B21) 0-1 Dissolve the center
J Barle vs Browne, 1979
(B21) Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4, 25 moves, 0-1

Pirc Defense: Classical. Schlechter Var (B08) 0-1
R Schmaltz vs Benjamin, 2001 
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Defense: Canal Attack (B51) 1-0 Find the finish
Naiditsch vs T Sanikidze, 2010 
(B51) Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: French Var. Westerinen Attack (B40) 0-1 20...?
A Minasian vs A Sokolov, 1999 
(B40) Sicilian, 24 moves, 0-1

Caro-Kann Def. 3.f4 dxe4 (B10) 0-1 21.0-0 leaks
S Wehmeier vs Chiburdanidze, 1996 
(B10) Caro-Kann, 24 moves, 0-1

Italian Game: Evans Gambit. Morphy Attack (C51) 1-0 Stockfish
Morphy vs de Riviere, 1863 
(C51) Evans Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Classical. Alapin Var (C14) 1-0 blindfold simul
Pillsbury vs R W Raymond, 1895 
(C14) French, Classical, 25 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Classical. Tarrasch Variation (C14) · 1-0
R Loman vs J Esser, 1910
(C14) French, Classical, 24 moves, 1-0

King Pawn Game: Maroczy Defense QxQd8 KxQ (B07) 1-0
Lasker / Maroczy vs NN, 1900 
(B07) Pirc, 25 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Schmidt Variation (C45) 1-0 storming the castle!
Lasker vs Daniel, 1897 
(C45) Scotch Game, 25 moves, 1-0

KIA vs French Be7, Bb7 (A07) 1-0 Rook demolition of e-file
Yagupov vs A Rustemov, 1995 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

"left the factory, left the forge & followed the new St. Georg"
G Welling vs J Jansen, 1991 
(A00) Uncommon Opening, 25 moves, 0-1

BF annotated this game in the Sept 1963 issue of Chess Life
A Reinhard vs Fischer, 1963 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 24 moves, 0-1

Scandinavian Def: Marshall 3.d4 Nxd5 4.c4 Nb6 (B01) 1-0 Hack
B Molnar vs S Savoia, 2010 
(B01) Scandinavian, 24 moves, 1-0

If Mieses can't do it, Marcus Kann. B12 0-1 24
J Mieses vs M Kann, 1885 
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Defense: Nimzowitsch. Main Line (B29) 1-0
C Pritchett vs E Gonzales, 1978 
(B29) Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein, 25 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Panov Attack. Modern Def Mieses Line (B13) 0-1
B Adhiban vs A M Sargsyan, 2019 
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 24 moves, 0-1

Alekhine Defense: Modern. Main Line (B05) 1-0 R snookers R
Lagno vs A Maeckelbergh, 2006 
(B05) Alekhine's Defense, Modern, 25 moves, 1-0

Pirc Def: Austrian Attack. Weiss Var (B09) 1-0 Stockfish
Fischer vs F J Perez, 1965 
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicil Scheveningen. Classical, Paulsen Var (B85) 1-0 smashing R
Lagno vs A Alexikov, 2003 
(B85) Sicilian, Scheveningen, Classical, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Chekhover Var (B53) 1-0 22.?
B Gibbons vs C Hansen, 1988 
(B53) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Kaufmann Attack (C42) 0-1 White lost count
N Lakos vs Lagno, 2004 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Defense: Classical Var (B58) 1-0 Q penetration damage
Lagno vs S Melia, 2007 
(B58) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0

King's Gambit: Declined. Keene Def (C30) 1-0 Mate in 2
K Krantz vs K Dehmelt, 1986 
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65) 1-0 Up a knight
Paulsen vs S Rosenthal, 1870 
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Closed (B25) 1-0 Thunderbolt Rook
H Bastian vs G Walter, 1997 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

KGA. B's Gambit Lopez Var (C33) 1-0 Discovered Attack w/check
Lionne / Morant vs Auzout / Maubuisson, 1680 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Kan. Wing Attack Fianchetto Var (B43) 0-1
H Lopez Silva vs J Hellsten, 2005 
(B43) Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicil Smith-Morra Gambit. Accepted Scheveningen (B21) 1-0
M Muzychuk vs N Gaprindashvili, 2012 
(B21) Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4, 25 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Schmidt Variation (C45) · 0-1
J Meyer vs Euwe, 1922 
(C45) Scotch Game, 24 moves, 0-1

KGA. Bishop's Gambit (C33) 0-1 Two Bishop Deflection Sacs
NN vs Steinitz, 1862 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 0-1

Four Knights Game: Spanish. Rubinstein Var (C48) 1-0Squeezed in
Nunn vs L Cooper, 1992
(C48) Four Knights, 24 moves, 1-0

Game 36 in 'The Guinness Book of Chess GMs' by William Hartston
Morphy vs W Budzinski, 1859 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Berlin Def (C65) 1-0 Tactics - all kinds!
Carlsen vs T Bae, 2006 
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Italian, Greco G. Moeller-Therkatz Attack (C54) 1-0 Windmill
E Jacobson vs V Kornia, 1913 
(C54) Giuoco Piano, 25 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Panov Attack (B14) 1-0 Member munch in Las Vegas
D Arond vs T Thrush, 2001 
(B14) Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

French Winawer 4.Qg4 (C15) 0-1 Tactics, Spearheads
A Planinc vs Ivkov, 1970 
(C15) French, Winawer, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Defense: Prins Variation (B54) 1-0 weak move
E Tate vs V West, 2002 
(B54) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Najdorf (B96) 1-0 Tringovometry
G Tringov vs S Martinovic, 1978 
(B96) Sicilian, Najdorf, 25 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Schliemann Def. Schönemann Attk (C63) 1-0 K walk
V Yurevich vs S F Lebedev, 1903 
(C63) Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Classical. Swiss Variation (C11) 1-0 22.?
Schlechter vs J Bendiner, 1893 
(C11) French, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian, Rossolimo Var (B31) 1-0 Uncastled, Bxf7+, Bh6+
J Curdo vs B Mikic, 1974 
(B31) Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation, 25 moves, 1-0

Game 48 Modern Chess Instructor - Part I (Steinitz)
W N Potter vs Mason, 1879 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 28 moves, 1-0

Game 63 from Max Euwe - The Biography (Munninghoff)
Euwe vs L Prins, 1936 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Najdorf. English Attack (B90) 1-0 18.?
A Sherzer vs H Olafsson, 1991 
(B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 25 moves, 1-0

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

Scandinavian Def: Modern. Gipslis Var (B01) 1-0 Discovered+
L Christiansen vs K Commons, 1978 
(B01) Scandinavian, 24 moves, 1-0

A Legend on the Road: BF's 1964 Simul Tour by John Donaldson
Fischer vs M Bedford, 1964 
(B06) Robatsch, 25 moves, 1-0

Nimzowitsch Def: Franco-Nimzowitsch Var (B00) 1-0 Australian Ch
P Eiffe vs H Hookham, 1887 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

Lombardy vs R Mateo, 1986
(B63) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit. Modern Var (C29) 1-0 Q sac
R Persitz vs D V Hooper, 1954 
(C29) Vienna Gambit, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Bowdler Attack (B20) 0-1 Q trap
P Priya vs O Alexandrova, 2012 
(B20) Sicilian, 24 moves, 0-1

Center Game: Paulsen Attk (C22) 1-0 24...Kf7 25.Qh5# Dovetail#
A Dimovski vs J Krivec, 2001
(C22) Center Game, 24 moves, 1-0

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

French Def: Advance. Milner-Barry Gambit (C02) 1-0 20.?
B Koch vs H Nowarra, 1938 
(C02) French, Advance, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Four Knights (B45) 1-0 U18
E Groberman vs M Simes, 2001
(B45) Sicilian, Taimanov, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Alapin. Barmen Def Modern Line (B22) 1-0Stockfish
L Keitlinghaus vs Miles, 1997 
(B22) Sicilian, Alapin, 24 moves, 1-0

Italian, Scotch Gambit. Anderssen Attack (C56) 1-0 89 yrs old
A van Foreest vs J van Oosterwijk Bruyn, 1952 
(C56) Two Knights, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Morphy Def. Steinitz Deferred (C79) 1-0 24.?
I Zybin vs Znosko-Borovsky, 1902 
(C79) Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense Deferred, 25 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Classical Attk. Mason Var (C42) 1-0 No Deflection
Vidmar vs F Englund, 1905 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Steiner Var links (C00) 1-0 Q trap
H Grob vs G Fletzer, 1948 
(C00) French Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Steinitz Defense (C62) 1-0 Nxf7 & keep a' comin'
L Barden vs M Dent, 1946 
(C62) Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

French Def: Winawer. Poisoned Pawn Main Line (C18) 0-1Stockfish
M Delage vs S Prokofiev, 1937 
(C18) French, Winawer, 25 moves, 0-1

Caro-Kann Def: Panov Attack. Modern Def (B13) 1-0 Correspond
Keres vs L Laurine, 1934
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 25 moves, 1-0

Pins and penetration against the Maroczy Bind, 0-1
R Schmidt vs R C Simpson, 1948 
(C00) French Defense, 24 moves, 0-1

Kasparov vs Krasenkow, 2002 
(C80) Ruy Lopez, Open, 24 moves, 1-0

KGA. Kieseritsky Gambit Long Whip (C39) 1-0 Pins & P roller
von der Lasa vs L von Perenyi, 1846 
(C39) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Open. Open Var (C80) 1-0 Pawn majority
Glek vs Krasenkow, 1989
(C80) Ruy Lopez, Open, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Paulsen. Bastrikov Var (B47) 1-0 23.?
R Bogdanovic vs Suetin, 1967 
(B47) Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation, 25 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo. Canal Var (C50) 0-1 Correspond
G Fluss vs A Nimzowitsch, 1912 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 25 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Exchange Variation (C01) 1-0 25.?
G Nagy vs Rubinstein, 1926 
(C01) French, Exchange, 25 moves, 1-0

Bishop's Gambit Bogoljubow Var (C33) 1-0 Rook Deflection Sac
Westerinen vs B Thorfinnsson, 1997 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 1-0

19. Rxg7! is the solution to Laszlo Polgar's #4913
C Hartlaub vs Testa, 1912 
(C21) Center Game, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Hyperaccelerated Dragon (B27) 1-0 Pins
S Djuric vs T Sorensen, 2006 
(B27) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0

KGD. Falkbeer Countergambit. Accepted (C31) · 1/2-1/2
Philidor vs NN, 1749 
(C31) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 24 moves, 1/2-1/2

Alekhine Defense: Scandinavian Var (B02) 1-0 Another threat
A Young vs L Davis, 2005 
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Schliemann Def (C63) 1-0 Q hunt becomes K hunt
Simagin vs Muratov, 1959 
(C63) Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

King's Indian Attack (A07) 1-0 Long diagonal battle
M Daneri vs T Spanton, 2015 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

KGA. Double Muzio Gambit Paulsen Def (C37) 1-0
A Leise vs S B Wilson, 1925 
(C37) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 1-0

KGA. Schallop Defense (C34) 1-0 Vukovic Mate next
J Bolacky vs L Pospisil, 1994 
(C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Dragon. Modern Bc4 Var (B35) 1-0
J Bednarski vs W Schmidt, 1968 
(B35) Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Modern Variation with Bc4, 25 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Exchange Var (C01) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish
Morphy vs Lowenthal, 1858 
(C01) French, Exchange, 25 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Berlin Def (C65) 0-1 White gifts pawns
F Amelung vs Anderssen, 1862 
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

Philidor Defense: Alapin-Blackburne Gambit (C41) 1-0
Shabalov vs P Laub, 1992 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Exchange Variation. General (C68) 0-1 Training
A Nimzowitsch vs Ed Lasker, 1910 
(C68) Ruy Lopez, Exchange, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Defense: Canal Attack. Haag Gambit (B51) ? 1-0
J Curdo vs D Bartley, 1988 
(B51) Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

KGA. Fischer Defense (C34) 1-0 Raking bishops
Blackburne vs J H Shayler, 1879 
(C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 1-0

KGD. Falkbeer Countergambit. Modern Transfer (C32) 0-1 Swarm Ns
J Congdon vs A Cohnfeld, 1880
(C32) King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit, 24 moves, 0-1

Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange (B13) 0-1 Open the g-file
A H Abdulgalil Saleh vs J L Marckens, 2018 
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 24 moves, 0-1

Rat Defense: English Rat (A41) 1-0 Overloaded Rook
Portisch vs Gulko, 1993 
(A41) Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6), 24 moves, 1-0

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

Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B54) 1-0 Stockfish notes
V Gashimov vs R Kempinski, 2011 
(B54) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

Killer Chess Tactics by E. Schiller, R. Keene, L. Shamkovich
Morphy vs S Lewis, 1859 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Najdorf. Zagreb (Fianchetto) Var (B91) 0-1 Stockfish
B Goldenov vs Korchnoi, 1964 
(B91) Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicil Nezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Attk (B30) 1-0 By hook or by crook
E Kaya vs M G Ubaldo Suarez, 2010 
(B30) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Italian Var (C50) 0-1 Infiltrate the 2nd rank
J Clementson vs Ruiqi Tin, 2016
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 25 moves, 0-1

Russian Game: Stafford Gambit (C42) 1-0 Can you handle it?
N Nestorovic vs M Nikolic, 2008 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Ludek Pachman's four-volume opus, Theory of Modern Chess
A Smorodsky vs A Nimzowitsch, 1914 
(B17) Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation, 25 moves, 1-0

KGA: Kieseritsky Gambit Long Whip (C39) 1-0 Nxf7
Tal vs W H Pratten, 1964 
(C39) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Closed. Chigorin Def (C97) 1-0 B sacrifice
A Saidy vs K Zangerle, 1959 
(C97) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 25 moves, 1-0

Maroczy vs Alekhine, 1924 
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 24 moves, 0-1

English Opening: Anglo-Slav. General (A11)1-0 Rxg7 shell buster
J Majdan vs M Coimbra, 2008 
(A11) English, Caro-Kann Defensive System, 25 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: 5...exNf6 Tartakower Var (B15) 1-0 King walk
H Norman-Hansen vs Tartakower, 1923 
(B15) Caro-Kann, 24 moves, 1-0

Pirc Defense: Austrian Attk. Weiss Var (B09) 1-0 En prise save
Tal vs M Ilijc, 1974 
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

Tarrasch Def: Classical. Bogoljubow Var (D34) 1-0
Saemisch vs H Taube, 1935
(D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 24 moves, 1-0

KIA vs Old Sicilian (A07) 0-1 wildfire, promotion
C Irvine vs E Meyer, 1970 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Fischer-Sozin Attk. Leonhardt Var (B88) 1-0 story
Gheorghiu vs M Basman, 1968 
(B88) Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

Old Sicilian. General (B30) 1-0 20.?
M Sibarevic vs M Pavlov, 1988 
(B30) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

KGA. Muzio Gambit Accepted From Def (C37) 1-0Zuke's BIG Battery
Zukertort vs NN, 1862 
(C37) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 1-0

variants minus f-pawn; Nimzowitsch Defense (000) 1-0 pins
W Chinnery vs V Green, 1862
(000) Chess variants, 25 moves, 1-0

Scandinavian Def: 4.c4 Nf6 Marshall Var (B01) 0-1Q+ & fork LPDO
G Marco vs Gunsberg, 1902 
(B01) Scandinavian, 24 moves, 0-1

Game 15 The Giants of Power Play by Neil McDonald
Geller vs Dreev, 1990 
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Exchange Var (C01) 0-1 Underpromotion N+
D Menikos vs M Wiedenkeller, 2013 
(C01) French, Exchange, 24 moves, 0-1

Ponziani Opening: Ponziani Countergambit (C44) 1-0 Stockfish
Falkbeer vs R Schurig, 1850 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 25 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Italian Var (C50) 1-0 Go slow, then pick up pace
J Burke vs Xiong, 2021 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 25 moves, 1-0

Alekhine Def: Scandinavian Var (B02) 1-0 Uncastled K
V Onyshchuk vs H Slavov, 2012 
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Panov Attack (B14) 1-0 Pile on the Pin
Browne vs R M Bond, 1966
(B14) Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Bird Variation (C61) 0-1 Promotion
Andreev vs Alekhine, 1911 
(C61) Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense, 24 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Morphy Defense (C78) 0-1 fork & pin
Tiviakov vs Ponomariov, 2001 
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 24 moves, 0-1

French Def: Tarrasch. Closed Var (C05) 0-1 16...? & 19...?
M Sorokin vs M Ulybin, 1986 
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 24 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65) 0-1 Wall notes
A Bisguier vs R Toran, 1958 
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Lasker-Pelikan. Sveshnikov (B33) 0-1 24...?
S Neubronner vs So, 2005 
(B33) Sicilian, 25 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Closed. Pilnik Var (C90) 1-0 Stockfish; 19.?
Teichmann vs Schlechter, 1911 
(C90) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian, Closed (B23) 1/2-1/2Link to White approaches vs Sicil
G Goldberg vs Boleslavsky, 1957 
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 24 moves, 1/2-1/2

Spanish Game: Classical. Central Var (C64) 1-0 Blindfold simul
Lasker vs Richards, 1892 
(C64) Ruy Lopez, Classical, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: French Variation. Normal (B40) 0-1 Stockfish
J Hannah vs Anderssen, 1862 
(B40) Sicilian, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian, Dragon. Yugoslav Attack Modern Line (B76) 1-0
J Fichtl vs K A Hirsch, 1947 
(B76) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Closed Var C84) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish
Alekhine vs Eliskases, 1936 
(C84) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 25 moves, 1-0

French Def: Winawer. Poisoned Pawn Var General (C18) 1-0 h-file
Ponomariov vs S Noppes, 2002 
(C18) French, Winawer, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: O'Kelly Variation. Venice System (B28) 0-1 18...?
B Pietrusiak vs Velimirovic, 1964 
(B28) Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation, 25 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65) 0-1 blitz
Svidler vs Bacrot, 2006
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Paulsen. Bastrikov Var (B47) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Carlsen vs Kasimdzhanov, 2017 
(B47) Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation, 25 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish
Lasker vs Walbrodt, 1895 
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Open. Karpov Gambit (C80) 1-0 Honza corresponds
J Cervenka vs K Dudek, 1998 
(C80) Ruy Lopez, Open, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Najdorf. Opocensky Var (B92) 0-1 Crossfire
J Kaderabek vs P Cerveny, 2019
(B92) Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation, 25 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Bird Var (C61) 0-1 Notes by Stockfish
E G Sergeant vs Blackburne, 1908
(C61) Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

Pirc Def: Austrian Attack. Weiss Var (B09) 1-0 blitz combo
Mamedyarov vs R Mamedov, 2010 
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

KGA. Bishop's Gambit Boden Var (C33) 0-1
W Martin vs Zukertort, 1876 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 0-1

French Def: Advance. Paulsen Attk 0-0 vs 0-0-0 (C02) 1-0 blitz
A Volokitin vs Caruana, 2014 
(C02) French, Advance, 25 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Closed. Averbakh Var (C87) 0-1 Stockfish notes
Y Kots vs Spassky, 1961 
(C87) Ruy Lopez, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Var (B94) 1-0 Notes by Stockfish
Spassky vs B Vladimirov, 1961 
(B94) Sicilian, Najdorf, 25 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Def: Standard. Unorthodox Replies (B15) 0-1 Dbl Attk
Vishal Kobla vs G Vazquez, 2022
(B15) Caro-Kann, 24 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Classical. Burn Var (C11) 0-1 Simul Exhibit
Lasker vs A Arnold, 1913 
(C11) French, 24 moves, 0-1

Vienna Game: Omaha Gambit (C25) 1-0 blitz
A Muzychuk vs Z Mamedjarova, 2021
(C25) Vienna, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Kan. Modern Var (B42) 1-0 Stockfish notes; 17.?
M Parligras vs C Ionescu, 2005 
(B42) Sicilian, Kan, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Closed. Traditional (B25) 0-1 Overthunk it
I Schneider vs K Shevchenko, 2021 
(B25) Sicilian, Closed, 24 moves, 0-1

Spanish Berlin Def Minckwitz Var (C67) 1-0Rip open the file
Marshall vs J A McKee / F G Harris, 1903 
(C67) Ruy Lopez, 24 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Damiano Variation. Kholmov Gambit (C42) 0-1NOTES
NN vs Kieseritzky, 1846 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

Pirc Defense: Classical. Quiet System (B08) 1-0 Invading N
N Friedrich vs M Mascheroni, 2001 
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Bowdler Attack (B20) 1-0 Stockfish notes
Lowenthal vs Harrwitz, 1853 
(B20) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

Pirc Def: Classical. Quiet System (B08) 1-0 Use half-open files
E Perelshteyn vs I Krush, 1999 
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 24 moves, 1-0

Nimzowitsch Def: Scandi. Bogoljubow Var Nimzowitsch Gambit (B00
D King vs M Macdonald-Ross, 1979 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Cochrane Gambit. Center Var (C42) 1-0 Nxf7 & Bxf2
A Vitolinsh vs T Viksna, 1985 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Rubinstein. Blackburne Def (C10) 1-0
J Shaw vs E Fonseca Cabrera, 2012 
(C10) French, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Canal Attack. Main Line (B52) 1-0 Stockfish
Hort vs B Jansson, 1972 
(B52) Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

King's Gambit: Accepted. Abbazia Def (C36) 1-0 banter blitz
Carlsen vs NN, 2019 
(C36) King's Gambit Accepted, Abbazia Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo (C50) 1-0 Foxy Combination
A W Fox vs Karper, 1900 
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Four Knights (B45) 0-1 Cluster bomb
Harikrishna vs Vitiugov, 2022 
(B45) Sicilian, Taimanov, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Defense: French. Alapin, Haag Attack (B40) 0-1
Vasiukov vs S Gorelov, 1989 
(B40) Sicilian, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Dragon. Classical General (B72) 0-1
R Britton vs H Angantysson, 1979 
(B72) Sicilian, Dragon, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: O'Kelly. Maroczy Bind Paulsen Line (B28) 0-1 Pin
K Aydincelebi vs F Mandizha, 2012 
(B28) Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation, 24 moves, 0-1

Philidor Defense: General (C41) 1-0 N Discovered+
Staunton vs C Jaenisch, 1851 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

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

Sicilian Defense: Kan. Modern Var (B42) 1-0 19.?
M Michailov vs D Carlo, 2009 
(B42) Sicilian, Kan, 24 moves, 1-0

KGA. Schallop Defense (C34) 1-0 armageddon
Nepomniachtchi vs Firouzja, 2021 
(C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Classical. Fianchetto Variation (B58) · 1-0
C Vlagsma vs A Babel, 1952 
(B58) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0

G Oparin vs Vladislav Perelomov, 2004
(B43) Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3, 25 moves, 1-0

Gufeld vs Bronstein, 1973 
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 24 moves, 1-0

She's famous. 23.? White mates in four moves.
P Mutesi vs Mustafa Mansour Zienab, 2014 
(B26) Sicilian, Closed, 6.Be3, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Classical. Central Var (C64) 1-0 Kside assault!
E Pindar vs J Kipping, 1856
(C64) Ruy Lopez, Classical, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Hyperaccelerated Dragon (B27) 1-0 San Diego
T Abrahamyan vs N Christiansen, 2006 
(B27) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0

Danish Gambit: Accepted 6...Qe7 (C21) 1-0 1904 history
S Mlotkowski vs H B Daly, 1904 
(C21) Center Game, 25 moves, 1-0

Philidor Def: Lion. Sozin Var (C41) 1-0 Two steps forward...
Tseshkovsky vs Lutikov, 1969 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Defense: Maroczy Variation (B12) 0-1 Q trap
H Richards vs S Williams, 2015 
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

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

Four Knights Game: Spanish. Classical Var (C48) 0-1
Teichmann vs Mason, 1893 
(C48) Four Knights, 24 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Winawer. Classical Var (C18) 1-0 Deflection
M Kobalia vs J Lundin, 2019 
(C18) French, Winawer, 24 moves, 1-0

Italian Game: Classical Variation. Greco Gambit (C53) · 0-1
D Coleman vs K Korley, 2015
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 24 moves, 0-1

Italian Game: Italian Variation (C50) 0-1 internet
So vs Radjabov, 2021
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 25 moves, 0-1

Old Sicilian. General (B30) 1-0 Crime and Punishment
W Crane vs V Quiroga, 1892 
(B30) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

Vienna Gambit. Steinitz Gambit Zukertort Def (C25) 1-0Dbl R sac
Charousek vs Gruenn, 1890 
(C25) Vienna, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Wing Gambit. Deferred Var (B50) 1-0 ...0-0??
Spielmann vs S Landau, 1938 
(B50) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0

Russian Game: Classical Attk. Staunton Var (C42) 1-0 Stockfish
C Grubert vs Carlsen, 2001 
(C42) Petrov Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Paulsen. Bastrikov Var (B49) 1-0 Pin, Spearheads
J Riff vs M Hrabinska, 2006 
(B49) Sicilian, Taimanov Variation, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Paulsen. General (B44) 1-0 Q trap
L J Wong vs M Smith, 2016 
(B44) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Closed (B25) 0-1
J Gabriel vs M Bauer, 1994 
(B25) Sicilian, Closed, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Najdorf. Amsterdam Var (B93) 1-0
de Firmian vs Yudasin, 1990 
(B93) Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4, 24 moves, 1-0

KGA. Kieseritsky Gambit Rice Gambit (C39) 0-1 Q sac for K chase
Lipschutz vs I E Orchard, 1898 
(C39) King's Gambit Accepted, 25 moves, 0-1

Bishop's Opening: Berlin Defense (C24) · 0-1
Aronian vs Anand, 2022 
(C24) Bishop's Opening, 24 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Berlin Def. Rio de Janeiro Var (C67) 1-0 SF notes
Reti vs P Meitner, 1909 
(C67) Ruy Lopez, 25 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Open Variations. Howell Attack (C81) 1-0 SF notes
Fischer vs H Ree, 1968 
(C81) Ruy Lopez, Open, Howell Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

P-K4: Macleod Attack (C20) 1-0 Fried Liver Attk w/an extra move
W D Evans vs Saint-Amant, 1843 
(C20) King's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Schmidt Var (C45) 0-1 Notes by Stockfish
W Moorman vs R S Hoff, 1916 
(C45) Scotch Game, 24 moves, 0-1

French Def: Reti-Spielmann Attack (C00) 1-0 Here, take my rook!
H Reefschlaeger vs U Kersten, 1994 
(C00) French Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

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

Pirc Defense: Austrian Attack (B09) 1-0 It's knights out!
A Tari vs M Mchedlishvili, 2018 
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 25 moves, 1-0

Nimzowitsch Def: Mikenas Var 0-0-0 vs 0-0 (B00) 1-0
Boleslavsky vs F Duz-Khotimirsky, 1942 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 24 moves, 1-0

Source "Illustrated London News, 1857.10.10, p374"
Anderssen vs J Kipping, 1857 
(C39) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 1-0

Cochrane vs Moheschunder, 1854 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

Modern Def: Pseudo-Austrian Attack (B06) 1-0 Raking Bishops
A Lanc vs P Spacek, 1976
(B06) Robatsch, 24 moves, 1-0

Philidor Defense: Philidor Countergambit (C41) 1-0 Promotion #
G Atwood vs J Wilson, 1801 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

KGA. Kieseritsky Gambit Long Whip (C39) 0-1 2 pieces can't stop
K Pitschel vs Anderssen, 1851 
(C39) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 0-1

Geller vs J Pribyl, 1984 
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 25 moves, 1-0

J Polgar vs J de la Villa Garcia, 1991 
(C63) Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

F Rhine vs NN, 2010 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 24 moves, 1-0

B Ivanovic vs V Malaniuk, 1993
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

D Gumula vs V Malaniuk, 2005
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 25 moves, 0-1

Spanish, Schliemann Def. Dyckhoff Var (C63) 1-0 0-0-0 vs 0-0
Showalter vs Marshall, 1909 
(C63) Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Closed. Traditional (B25) 1-0 22.?
F Ferster vs W Tjipueja, 2004 
(B25) Sicilian, Closed, 24 moves, 1-0

Philidor Defense: Exchange Variation (C41) · 1-0
T Espig vs G Braun, 1977 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

Reshevsky vs E B Adams, 1922
(B01) Scandinavian, 25 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Najdorf. Opocensky Traditional Line (B92) 1-0 blitz
Svidler vs Nepomniachtchi, 2010 
(B92) Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation, 25 moves, 1-0

Kolisch vs H Schlemm, 1857
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Defense: General (B20) 1-0 Kings caught in the center
Anaya Lall vs Khuloud El Flow, 2022
(B20) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

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

Italian Game: Evans Gambit. ML (C51) 1-0 Stockfish; video link
Morphy vs A Mongredien, 1859 
(C51) Evans Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Najdorf. English Attack (B90) 1-0 blindfold
Anand vs Van Wely, 2007 
(B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 25 moves, 1-0

Scandinavian Def: Portuguese Var (B01) 1-0Young NM blitzes Levy
T Adewumi vs L Rozman, 2022 
(B01) Scandinavian, 24 moves, 1-0

Modern Def: King Pawn Fianchetto (B06) 0-1 internet blitz
NN vs Carlsen, 2020 
(B23) Sicilian, Closed, 24 moves, 0-1

Modern Defense: Bg7 (B06) 1-0 Black takes the bait
A Karklins vs J Hanken, 1992
(B06) Robatsch, 24 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Closed. Delayed Exchange (C85) 0-1 Rxh2+!
G Kuzmin vs V Muratov, 1981 
(C85) Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation Doubly Deferred (DERLD), 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer. Neo-Modern Var (B67) 1-0Q sac, Dbl B#
S Wagman vs E Joppen, 1977 
(B67) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 8...Bd7, 24 moves, 1-0

Italian, 2Knts Def. Polerio Def Bogoljubow Var (C58) 1-0 Turn!
J Zhu vs W Doudou, 2015 
(C58) Two Knights, 25 moves, 1-0

Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Steinitz Deferred (C79) · 0-1
J Esser vs A Speijer, 1909 
(C79) Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense Deferred, 24 moves, 0-1

Spanish Game: Open. Italian Var (C82) 0-1 Battery piles up
A van den Hoek vs Euwe, 1942 
(C82) Ruy Lopez, Open, 25 moves, 0-1

Anderssen's Mate
P Lebedev vs Valdaev, 1930 
(B17) Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation, 25 moves, 0-1

Spanish, Cozio Defense (C60) 1-0 Notes by JHB; h-file attack
Blackburne vs NN, 1893  
(C60) Ruy Lopez, 24 moves, 1-0

Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange (B13) 0-1 P grab backfires
I Salgado Lopez vs J van Foreest, 2022 
(B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 24 moves, 0-1

Gottschall's "AA der Altmeister Deutscher Schachspielkunst"
M Lange vs Anderssen, 1852 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Kan. Modern Var (B42) 0-1 Retreat into defeat
F Stuhr vs N Daler, 2001
(B42) Sicilian, Kan, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Kan. Wing Attack (B43) 0-1 Disc+ nets material
Narino Rivera vs S Garcia Martinez, 1966
(B43) Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3, 25 moves, 0-1

D Eynon vs Aronian, 1995
(B78) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long, 24 moves, 0-1

Alekhine Defense: Spielmann Gambit (B02) 1-0 Correspondence
G T Crown vs J Thorn Leeson, 1947 
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

S Volkov vs Vaganian, 2005 
(C02) French, Advance, 25 moves, 1-0

Dvoirys vs Vaganian, 2003 
(C02) French, Advance, 24 moves, 1-0

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

Alekhine Def: Mokele Mbembe (B02) 1-0 N takes the long way
D Baramidze vs S Buecker, 2009 
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Velimirovic Attack (B89) 1-0 Centralized Bishops
Janosevic vs E Paoli, 1974 
(B89) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0

Vienna Game: Anderssen Defense (C25) 0-1 Notes by Stockfish
Gossip vs Tarrasch, 1889 
(C25) Vienna, 25 moves, 0-1

Gossip/Pillsbury's Mate with the rook on the open file
Gossip vs J M Hanham, 1889 
(C30) King's Gambit Declined, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Pin. Koch Var (B40) 1-0 R goes nose-to-nose w/Q
M Yudovich Jr vs O Shtrom, 1961 
(B40) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0

Vienna Gambit. Steinitz Gambit Paulsen Def (C25) 0-1 it's ugly
A Urzica vs C Botez, 1968
(C25) Vienna, 24 moves, 0-1

French Def: Rubinstein. Maric Var (C10) 1-0 Hook mate on plate
E Tsuboi vs J Schammo, 1986 
(C10) French, 24 moves, 1-0

Arabian Mate / Mastering Tactical Ideas by IM Nikolay
Parma vs M Damjanovic, 1960 
(B42) Sicilian, Kan, 26 moves, 0-1

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

At move 20 the position looks quite harmless
Tal vs Geller, 1967 
(C81) Ruy Lopez, Open, Howell Attack, 24 moves, 1-0

G102 in Chess in the USSR 1945-72 Part 1, edited by Colin Leach
Ujtumen vs A Lein, 1965 
(C61) Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense, 24 moves, 0-1

Sicilian Def: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 Grand Shot!
E Paehtz vs D Wagner, 2023 
(B50) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

King's Gambit: Accepted. Abbazia Def (C36) 1-0 Correspondence
M Montserrat vs D Carta, 1972
(C36) King's Gambit Accepted, Abbazia Defense, 25 moves, 1-0

P-K4: Irish Gambit 3.Nxe5? NxNe5 4.d4 (C44) 1-0 Dbl N sac!?
F Tendering vs J Bothe, 1875 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian, Najdorf. Poisoned Pawn Accepted (B97) 1-0 Sac Attack
T Luther vs Ftacnik, 2006 
(B97) Sicilian, Najdorf, 24 moves, 1-0

Modern Defense: Bg7, Bb7 (B06) 1-0 Spearheads on long diagonal
Kupreichik vs J O Fries-Nielsen, 1993 
(B06) Robatsch, 25 moves, 1-0

Bishop's Dovetail Mate is coming!
M Kraemer vs Stellwagen, 2007 
(B49) Sicilian, Taimanov Variation, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Classical. General (B56) 0-1 Zwischenzug+
N Rogers vs A Karklins, 1992 
(B56) Sicilian, 25 moves, 0-1

KGA. Kieseritsky Gambit Anderssen Def (C39)1-0 Gain time on MVP
Steinitz vs E Thorold, 1864 
(C39) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 1-0

"A Stunning Minic-ure" (game of the day Aug-02-2022)
Fischer vs D Minic, 1968 
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 1-0

French Defense: Tarrasch. Modern System (C03) 1-0 19.?
J Arnason vs Dreev, 1990 
(C03) French, Tarrasch, 24 moves, 1-0

Smith-Morra Gambit. Accepted Paulsen Formation (B21) 0-1 blitz
NN vs F Rhine, 2022 
(B21) Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4, 25 moves, 0-1

Pirc Def: Classical. Two Knights System (B08) 1-0 Fredthebear
S Ter-Sahakyan vs A Aitbayev, 2023
(B08) Pirc, Classical, 24 moves, 1-0

Ponziani Opening: Jaenisch Counterattack (C44) 1-0 Spearhead#
H A Kennedy vs W Pulling, 1847 
(C44) King's Pawn Game, 25 moves, 1-0

French Def: Advance. Paulsen Attack 6.Be2 cxd4 (C02) 1-0 19.?
A Predke vs E Atakishiyev, 2023 
(C02) French, Advance, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B54) 1-0 Undermine the B
T Khoury vs T Leifsson, 2022 
(B54) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

Four Knights Game: Scotch. Accepted (C47) 0-1 Pile up
T Engqvist vs B Amin, 2022 
(C47) Four Knights, 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

Smith-Morra Gambit. Accepted Paulsen Formation (B21) 1-0 blitz
Jonathan Golob vs NN, 2022 
(B21) Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4, 25 moves, 1-0

Owen Defense: General (B00) 1-0 Uncastled K goes for a walk
Bird vs J Owen, 1868 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

Nimzowitsch Defense: Mikenas Variation (B00) 1-0 promotion
I Koenig vs J Mieses, 1939 
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 25 moves, 1-0

Scandinavian Def: Bronstein Var Poisoned P (B01) 1-0 Bullet
Firouzja vs Carlsen, 2023 
(B01) Scandinavian, 24 moves, 1-0

Elephant Gambit: Paulsen CG (C40) 0-1 Dbl Discovered Check
R Lunenfeld vs O Fernandez, 2000 
(C40) King's Knight Opening, 25 moves, 0-1

Philidor Defense: Larsen Var (C41) 1-0 22.? Fredthebear share
J Emms vs A Summerscale, 1997 
(C41) Philidor Defense, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Defense: Classical. General (B56) 1-0 Failed tactics
R G Wade vs E Van Hoorde, 1955 
(B56) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian Def: Wing Gambit. Marshall Var (B20) 1-0 Stockfish
A Zajarnyi vs V Malakhov, 1999 
(B20) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0

Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit. Advance (C45) 0-1 Correspondence
K Ahlers vs W Class, 1986
(C45) Scotch Game, 24 moves, 0-1

French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed (C05) 0-1 Kingside batteries
L Santos vs Keene, 1975
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 0-1

Pirc Defense: General (B07) 1-0 Svidler's charge
Svidler vs Mamedyarov, 2009 
(B07) Pirc, 24 moves, 1-0

Sicilian, Najdorf (B90) 1-0Failed zwischenzug leaves 2 en prise
T Stanciu vs Kavalek, 1965 
(B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 25 moves, 1-0

Jerome Gambit
Y Bukayev vs V Golshev, 2021 
(C51) Evans Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0

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