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- Boden's Mate
26 games, 1853-2017 - Classic Games
These are the games that were selected by GM Avetik Grigoryan for his ChessMood course "Commented Classical Games."
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| 53 games, 1885-2006 - Drawing lines
These are short games (or in a few cases long games that could have been agreed drawn much earlier) that end in a draw as a logical consequence of the position, usually by perpetual check or other repetition of position, or by an agreed draw in a very drawish endgame.
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| 459 games, 1872-2024 - En passant mates
These are games where a player effected checkmate by capturing a pawn en passant. It's very rare, I think even rarer than mating by castling. I think it's become more common in recent years since anyone can play thousands of games on the Internet. I have the rare distinction of having achieved this feat twice! IM and chess streamer Eric Rosen, who has surely played more games than I, says that he has also done it twice, which I guess makes us the unofficial joint world record-holders. Eric looks at 25(!) games with en passant checkmates, assembled for him by Mark-Dev, who wrote computer script to find such games from games played on lichess, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKX... Mark-Dev's report, and all of those games, are at https://github.com/mark-dev/chessfa... If you're looking for moves that are even rarer than en passant mates, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDn...
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| 7 games, 1928-2023 - Exchange Sacrifices
These are games where a player sacrificed a rook for a bishop or knight, ultimately achieving at least a draw.
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| 10 games, 1908-1992 - FSR's favorite games
79 games, 1851-2016 - Games between spouses
14 games, 1884-2018 - Games from P. Lalic, Play the Accelerated Dragon
2 games, 1970-1997 - Games I submitted to chessgames.com
116 games, 1896-2022 - Games I want to study
33 games, 1928-2021 - Games where NxKBP is met by O-O
4 games, 1844-2024 - Games with notation errors
These are games where the score as given by chessgames.com is apparently wrong.
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| 89 games, 1897-2021 - Great comebacks
These are games where one player got a losing position early on (for example, by blundering away a piece), but came back to win or draw the game.
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| 14 games, 1851-2023 - Great players lose miniatures
50 games, 1857-2024 - Horrible theoretical novelties
These are games where someone played a <really bad> theoretical novelty in a well-known position.
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| 77 games, 1851-2025 - How to Lose Quickly to From's Gambit
53 games, 1802-2025 - Kasparov-Deep Blue 1997
6 games, 1997 - Lilienthal!
Andre Lilienthal, who died in 2010 at age 99, met or played every world champion except Steinitz, beating Lasker, Capablanca, Euwe, Botvinnik (twice), and Smyslov (four times). According to his biography, he also beat Alekhine "in a serious game," but I haven't seen that game.
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| 15 games, 1933-1953 - Mate by Castling
These are games where a player effected checkmate by castling (or came close to doing so, in the case of the Honorable Mentions). Someone recently ran a script on 915,052,285 lichess games, and found that 9,561 ended with O-O# or O-O-O#, i.e. about 1 in 96,000. https://github.com/owenps/Castlemates As yet, none of those games are in this collection (nor, to my knowledge, on chessgames).
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| 21 games, 1850-2025 - Miniatures
5 games, 1910-2002
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