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Boden's Mate Games that end in Boden's mate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boden'... 26 games, 1853-2017 Classic Games These are the games that were selected by GM Avetik Grigoryan for his ChessMood course "Commented Classical Games." 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. 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... 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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). 21 games, 1850-2025 Miniatures 5 games, 1910-2002

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