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  1. Boden's Mate
    Games that end in Boden's mate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boden'...
    26 games, 1853-2017

  2. Classic Games
    These are the games that were selected by GM Avetik Grigoryan for his ChessMood course "Commented Classical Games."
    53 games, 1885-2006

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. FSR's favorite games
    79 games, 1851-2016

  7. Games between spouses
    14 games, 1884-2018

  8. Games from P. Lalic, Play the Accelerated Dragon
    2 games, 1970-1997

  9. Games I submitted to chessgames.com
    116 games, 1896-2022

  10. Games I want to study
    33 games, 1928-2021

  11. Games where NxKBP is met by O-O
    4 games, 1844-2024

  12. Games with notation errors
    These are games where the score as given by chessgames.com is apparently wrong.
    89 games, 1897-2021

  13. 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

  14. Great players lose miniatures
    50 games, 1857-2024

  15. Horrible theoretical novelties
    These are games where someone played a <really bad> theoretical novelty in a well-known position.
    77 games, 1851-2025

  16. How to Lose Quickly to From's Gambit
    53 games, 1802-2025

  17. Kasparov-Deep Blue 1997
    6 games, 1997

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. Miniatures
    5 games, 1910-2002

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