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| Game | Viewed | Annotator | Game Quotation | Game Introduction |
| 6886779 | 4 | Earl of Norfolk | The Queen*s Indian Defence. | After 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6, White*s choice of 3.Nf3 invites Black to play 3...b6, the Queen*s Indian Defence. This defence is perhaps the most solid and relatively risk-free of all of the defences to the Queen*s Gambit. ... |
| 6898061 | 4 | Dion_Nicolaas | Race for queens | This game was all in balance for a long time, but in the end game it heated up. ... |
| 6874133 | 2 | Vakman | A strategic game | It is an interesting game where Black played strategically great and he finished his opponent using tactics. ... |
| 7004513 | 1 | dantes1 | Miniature with interesting checkmate | I think it was the GM Samuel Reshevsky who said these aren*t my best games they*re my opponents worst games. In that spirit... ... |
| 7021021 | 1 | HeyBuddy | weird scotch with a nice ending | this was a neat game where a timely pawn advance paid off hugely! ... |
| 7029205 | 1 | rooksac | | Mr_Toad*s annotations ... |
| 37581 | 1 | lekofan | Play Sosin Attack! | White sackrifed a piece for attack,but after his mistake situation was unclear from opening to ending black made rude mistake in better position and white easilly made draw ... |
| 83948 | 1 | stirling_newberry | Let off the hook | Black c an inferior opening, but than being punished for it, was allowed to explode the position on the white side and launch an attack.
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| 152053 | 1 | Curlywurly | Beware an early c5! | ... |
| Smyslov vs Rudakovsky | 1 | Earl of Norfolk | Vassily Smyslov, 1921-2010. | In tribute to the recently deceased former World Champion, I annotated this game which was taken from a Soviet Championship tournament played in Moscow, 1945. ... |
| 193041 | 1 | pskogli | Big misakes and fast death | Closed game. ... |
| 817296 | 1 | Argyre | Mat de Legal (Legal*s mate) | ... |
| 902883 | 1 | Earl of Norfolk | When the Maroczy didn*t bind. | Yes, I stole my title from one of the chapter titles in Bobby Fischer*s "My 60 Memorable Games." This was the first time I*ve ever faced this opening from the Black side (I had previously played it as White) and, like the game in Fischer*s book, my opponent "overlook[ed] a neat tactical point ... at the tail-end of a combination." Notes recently updated to include some new thoughts and to make the variations clickable. ... |
| Tromp vs Gonzalez Davila | 1 | EnasYorl | Miniature of the Month June 2010 "Tromp gets Stomped" | One of the best pieces of chess wisdom is to always calculate the consequences of you opponents forcing moves such as checks and captures. In this miniature white omits to do this producing one of the shortest games in chess Olympiad history ... |
| 1937655 | 1 | Arkba | Chess is all tactics!? | THe best of plans can be turned on their heads by a tactical feature of a position... ... |
| 2320162 | 1 | cjs150 | Missing chances | White has one chance to win this game but misses a very thematic win ... |
| 2380045 | 1 | d4 Dave | B89: Qe2 the common place for the queen | ... |
| Tal vs Karpov | 1 | dconterno | The old Champion strikes back | Brussels 1987 - Two world Champions meet over a blitz game. When you know that they are M. Tal and A. Karpov, then you know you are in for a treat! ... |
| 2763117 | 1 | rick53 | A Juicy Plum! | ... |
| 2766865 | 1 | John14v6 | truthwanted,s and bill gromleys annotation | Thanks to truthwanted who annotated this loss for me by email.it was out of my ability to annote this one.im posting as a reminder for me and for instruction for those playing against sicilian.also thanks to Bill Gromley who supplied some valuable advice also. ... |
| 2822903 | 1 | kmkane | themuttsknutts knight forks me twice | ... |
| Nezhmetdinov vs Paoli | 1 | kingscrusher | Leaving the knight on c3 to be munched! | Although he lacked international titles and his games are not well known, if you like attacking play, Nezhmetdinov’s games are worthy of study. This game is a typical Sicilian where Black*s play is a little passive and he makes one small error. White got a strong K-side attack and Black*s K was caught in the center. ... |
| 4986492 | 1 | ludvikaus | Ineffective bishop in the endgame | Ths was a close game until the endgame where my opponent*s knight proved much more effective than my bishop. ... |
| 5306520 | 1 | Questos | Deadly pawns in the center | I just can not resist trying to win with 3 pawns for a piece. ... |
| 5769828 | 1 | Earl of Norfolk | The Dragon rears its ugly head. | Well, not really. I was actually getting the worst of it in this Dragon Variation early in this game, but then White opted to exchange as many pieces as he could, and the advantage gradually shifted to my side. ... |
| 5776441 | 1 | fretensis10 | Black moves too fast to neutralize white center, losing the game. | Black had a promising start but threw it away with hasty attack to grab the center. Its better to get some development underway before such an attempt, otherwise black can fall victim to easy mating attacks as shown here. ... |
| 5892874 | 1 | agasa | B86 Sicilian: (Sozin attack) (1-0) Back from the brink | This is a game that Black should have lost ... |
| 5928818 | 1 | cjs150 | An odd opening | ... |
| 6010847 | 1 | stinkySQL | Correspondence chess note: reassess carefully after an absence. | Here I lost to my learned opponent while playing black. The opening is the Giuoco Piano: four knights variation, but my troubles were a bit further on in the middle game. On initial reflection I thought my troubles were because of one specific blunder. In analysis, I found many questionable moves that I cannot easily defend with any semblance of reason. Annotation really is an excellent exercise for learning chess. ... |
| 6290861 | 1 | Strikem | Hard Kingside Assault | Brutal ... |
| 6674591 | 1 | Little_Dorrit | The Archbishop of the Marshalsea | ... |
| 6770115 | 1 | Little_Mick | Knights to the rescue (nearly) | I had two matches against this player and lost one, so I was desparate to pull the score back to 1-1 ... |
| 6808453 | 1 | Batouken | Bitter sweet defeat. | At first starting with Sicilian, game kept the flow going, nice development, but gave in the center too early. Learned to keep an eye on the king-side pawns, if you know what i mean. ... |