Questions tagged [famous-games]
Certain games are famous and well known among chess players, e.g. the Immortal game.
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Have there been brilliancy prizes awarded to the losing player?
Have there been brilliancy prizes awarded to the losing player? Preferably, it would be at a grandmaster level.
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Seeking a transcript of Hope vs. Fischer, 1972
On one of Bob Hope's television specials in 1972, Bobby Fischer appeared with him in a skit about himself (Fischer). The two also sat down at a board and sort-of played a game. (The moves were not all ...
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A certain game with a knight promotion checkmate
I once remember (this happened 2-3 years ago) one of my friends showing me a game that was about 20 moves long. It was maybe a little longer, but it definitely ended in the middle game. It ended with ...
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Is holding the opponent's captured pieces legal or allowed?
There was a controversial finish in a Canadian championship, where an opponent [un]knowingly held the queen of the other player. The [victimised] player wanted to promote his pawn to queen, but couldn'...
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What is the legend of Ossip Bernstein, who supposedly played chess to save his life?
Wikipedia article reads as following:
A famous story goes that in 1918, after the October Revolution, Bernstein was arrested in Odessa by the Cheka (Bolshevik secret police). He was ordered to be ...
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Famous grandmaster games of “torturous” winning or flaunting out of arrogance?
I was originally wondering why we don't see more torturous type of games among masters. For example, instead of proceeding to checkmate, the player in control methodically takes all pieces of his ...
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In “The Queen's gambit” were there any famous games played?
Throughout "The Queen's Gambit" (Netflix) we see games at an advanced stage (after the opening).
And while the characters are fictitious, the show being set in the 1960s (Beth adult), Benny ...
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World championship games where underpromotion was necessary
I have been frequenting tactics puzzles and a few books over the past year. I come across these underpromotion puzzles frequently, however, I never find them in real games. Has there ever been a world ...
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Latest time to castle in a tournament game
In a casual game I played, my opponent castled around the 80th move. I want to know what was the latest move in which a player has castled, in an official game. I don’t think that there is an entry ...
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A position with the only legal move resulting in checkmate
Theoretically, is it possible that for some position, the only legal move for a side leads to a checkmate (that is, the opposite king gets checkmated)? If so, has this ever occurred in a real game?
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Most pins in a chess game
I've looked at a few chess games on ChessBase that have a lot of pins, and I am wondering, what is the most number of pins that has occurred in a game, and what is the game?
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Finding a Kasparov Game
I remember seeing a Kasparov game, where Black played a classical bishop sacrifice. He was playing against a computer, and I'm pretty sure it was Deep Junior. I have tried to find this game, but it ...
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Finding a Seirawan game
I am looking for a game played by Seirawan. I remember in the position that Black was heading for a Botvinnik formation(c5 and e5 but without d6 yet), and White had sacrificed a knight on e5 for an ...
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Shortest stalemate in serious tournament game
I am looking for the shortest stalemate that has occurred in a serious chess game (there were no agreements between the players). So far, I have found only compositions, but is there a real game where ...
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Where can I find this game with a sacrifice followed by a long series of checks leading to a discovered mate?
I am looking for a chess game and frankly, I really know very little about it. I remember seeing it somewhere on the Internet.
The game goes something like this. A player (either White or Black) ...
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Games with consecutive en passants
Games with consecutive en passants, that is one side makes two en passats captures in a row, are few and far between to my knowlegde. I only know of one example thanks to Tim Krabbe.
Kudrin-R Douven, ...
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Looking for a historic chess game
I'm looking for an historic chess game, and I don't remember if Capablanca or Kasparov played it. In it, both queens are face to face and neither let pass the other one, for almost 7 or 10 movements, ...
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Looking for the complete game score of Vlastimil Jansa-Istvan Bilek, Rubinstein Memorial 1968
I am looking for the complete score of the game Vlastimil Jansa versus Istvan Bilek, Polanica-Zdoj, Rubinstein Memorial 1968.
Here are the first 20 moves of this Sicilian Dragon-Yugoslav Attack game ...
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Soltis's best chess game of the 20th century
In Andrew Soltis's book The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked, his number 1 game is a correspondence game between Yakov Estrin and Hans Berliner, from the 1965–1968 World ...
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Games with three en passants
Games with two en passants in them are are uncommon, and games with three are exceeding rare, and four has never been achieved as far as I know.
I only know of four games with three en passant ...
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The difficulty of finding the exact losing move
Are there examples of chess games where the exact losing move has been found only with the help of engines?
Better still, games where the exact losing move cannot be found even by the best current ...
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Franci de Castellvi - Narcis Vinyoles 18. … Qg6??, a blunder by black?
[Site "Valencia"]
[Date "1475"]
[White "Franci de Castellvi"]
[Black "Narcis Vinyoles"]
[Result "1-0"]
[startply "36"]
[FEN ""]
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd8 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. h3 ...
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How bad of a chess player was Alan Turing?
It is interesting that Turing worked with some of the best British chess players among them Golombek and Alexander. I am not sure how to characterize it, but he is considered a creative genius at a ...
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What are some games I can watch to become better in playing chess?
I have just started learning to play chess and I find it really interesting to learn. I would like to learn as much as possible in order to become a good player. I looked on Youtube, trying to find ...
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Games with two knight promotions in them
Games with two knight promotions are extremely rare, but a few have existed. In an article of his, Tim Krabbe stated that, about the game Zurakhov - Koblentz, "This is one in only 5 games with two ...
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Longest sequence of moves by one player with the same piece?
I suspect the following game in the European Club Champioship between David Howell and Pentala Harikrishna set a number of records.
[title "Howell, David W L vs Harikrishna, Pentala"]
[fen ""]
1. e4 ...
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Is there any game where AlphaZero wins against Stockfish thanks to a knight pair?
I have seen some of the games that were published in the match between AlphaZero and Stockfish.
In many games, as when it beats Stockfish as black playing the Berlin Defense, AlphaZero appears to ...
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Examples Of Unconventional Batteries
I recently played a funny blitz game on Lichess as White in which an usual battery was formed.
[FEN ""]
[startply "25"]
1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Nc6 3. e4 Nxe5 4. Nf3 d6 5. Nxe5 dxe5 6. Qxd8+ Kxd8 7. Bc4 ...
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What is the record for the most pawn double-steps in a professional game?
Quite simply, what is the record for the most pawn double-steps in a professional game? Drawn and won games are both considered. Computer games of any kind are not to be considered.
The most I have ...
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The Game of the Century - why didn't Byrne take the rook after he forked Fischer?
I'm guessing that there's a pretty simple explanation for this, but I can't seem to see it.
[White "Donald Byrne"]
[Black "Robert James Fischer"]
[fen ""]
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 O-O 5....
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Has promotion with double check ever happened in a professional game?
Promotion is common in many games, and is sometimes comes with check. But something I have never seen in a game is a promotion that comes with double check like this example illustrates.
[FEN "8/...
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What professional game has the quickest sequence, starting from move one, to quadrupled pawns?
In the blog "AJEDREZ, SIN DUDA", I came across a page that gives a game featuring quadrupled pawns.
[Title "Zheliandinov-T. Sereteli, 35th Championship of the USSR, Kharkov, 1967"]
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Reason why Kasparov resigned in the “Enrage the Beast” game
[White "Garry Kasparov"]
[Black " Vassily Ivanchuk"]
[fen ""]
[StartPly "62"]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 b6 5. a3 Bf8 6. Nf3 Ne7 7. h4 h6 8. h5 a5 9. Bb5+ c6 10. Ba4 Nd7 11. Ne2 b5 12. ...
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A question about piece development
As opening principles say, you shouldn't push too many pawns in the opening. Instead, you should concentrate more on piece development. However, I have good example where it worked the other way ...
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What is the longest forced mate optimally played in documented competition?
There are tons of questions about the longest forced mate on here and other chess forums. Usually the answers are the 2 Knights forced mate and another one that evidently takes 549 optimal moves. ...
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Longest number of moves that have been identical in two independently played games on record
Are there any recorded examples of two chess games that were identical till the end?
If the answer is no (which is most likely the case), what is the longest number of moves that have been identical ...
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Looking for a Horowitz game
I just remembered a puzzle from a Horowitz game in which he played white against an Italian (I believe) player whose name started with "M".
The black queen was defending f6, preventing Bxf6#. There ...
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Has anyone ever played and recorded a full game of Taikyoku Shogi?
I have googled for a little while and found pages and pages of rules and explanations but no documentation. Are there any documented games where the moves have been recorded? It's so ridiculous, I don'...
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Spectacular queen sacrifice game
I once watched a famous chess game that I can't find anymore and maybe someone could help me find it.
The game I watched evolved somehow natural until one moment: player1 sacrifices its queen. The ...
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Ancient style chess games?
I know there are some really old games on the internet there , but are there records of any really good/great games played in the ancient style of chess ?
This style had rules like pawns could move ...
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Games of Mikhail Tal under the influence of alcohol
It is commonly known that Mikhail Tal was an alcohol addict and also had a morphine addiction for a short time.
Are there any games where he played under the influence of drugs that affected his ...
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How is Kasparov vs Shirov 1992 a victory?
There is no check.
Was it a victory on time? Or did Shirov resign?
In all the discussion over this game it's just accepted that Kasparov won, without anyone mentioning the reason for his victory.
And ...
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Best programable chess game on the market
I would like to program famous chess matches into a chess program so I can watch the matches. Is there a chess program that allows this or is there already a program that has famous chess matches we ...
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Could you help me to find which game this is?
When I was a kid, I remember reading a newspaper article about a chess game. The article was written as if the writer was one of the players. It was a pretty surprising game and it looked as if it was ...
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Can watching grandmasters' games improve my chess 'thinking'?
Can my chess "thinking" (positional, tactical, strategic thinking, etc.) improve by watching grandmasters' games regularly? Of course, this is in addition to regular games/tactics solving etc.
As an ...
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Which is the oldest chess game?
Chess has more than 1000 years of existence and the pieces got their modern day movements in 15th century Spain. But which is the oldest chess game of which we know the moves?
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Famous pawn promotion matches
Except for a famous match between Tigran Petrosian and Bobby fischer, I don't know of any famous chess match between top notch players which had some climactic pawn promotions . Could anyone here ...
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Endgames with long king marches
I am doing a study that focuses on endgames which involve well-timed king marches, namely endgames in which the winning idea lies mainly in king positioning rather than the coordination of minor ...
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Complete game Troitzky-Vogt?
The Wikipedia on stalemate shows a position where Vogt became victim of a diabolic stalemate trap set by Troitzky.
[Title "Troitzky-Vogt"]
[FEN "2kr4/1ppb1pp1/1b4r1/pP2p3/P3P3/5qN1/2Q2P1P/2R1B1KR w - ...
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Looking for the complete game Sibilio-Mariotti, Ravenna 1982
Tim Krabbe shows this game on his record site.
[Title "Sibilio-Mariotti, Ravenna 1982"]
[FEN "5k2/1p4pp/4p3/3pP1q1/3P4/7K/7P/8 w - - 0 1"]
The game has a stalemate after only 27 moves. I would like ...
