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Beautiful combinations Beautiful combinations 122 games, 1849-2023 Capablanca 30 games, 1909-1939 Cooked! These sure looked like good combinations... 3 games, 1941-1988 Crouching Tigran I guess what fascinates me about Petrosian's style is his ability to demonstrate wins in positions that, superficially, seem equal at best. He seemed to be very good at luring his opponents into such positions. 51 games, 1945-1983 Exceptions to the "rules" You know the usual "rules" that I'm talking about--develop quickly, castle early, keep your king safe during the middlegame, two bishops are better than two knights in open positions but not in closed positions, doubled pawns are bad and tripled pawns are worse, etc. etc. Here are games which illustrate that these "rules" sometimes have exceptions. 41 games, 1863-2017 experiment The experiment was to see if putting this game in a game collection would get it onto the list of Jacobo Bolbochan's notable games. It seems that a game has to be in two collections before CG will elevate it to Notable Games status. 1 game, 1966 Fighting draws Not your typical "grandmaster draws." These are games where two great players fought hard to win, and the only logical outcome was a draw. 20 games, 1866-2009 Great Endgame Battles 30 games, 1858-2012 Humor in chess 16 games, 1893-2009 Masterpieces of long-term strategy 10 games, 1908-1993