Educational Chess Games Part II

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I haven’t given up on compiling the list of educational games, but it was more difficult than I first thought. I have come up with a list of approximately 150 games from different sources, and I have narrowed it down to the 50 you see here. I tried to keep at least one version of each theme, but I wanted to keep the number of games manageable.

Below are the games so far, if you don’t see one that you think might be of educational value, please feel free to leave a comment.

White Black Location Year Theme
Paulsen Morphy New York 1857 Attack:Queen Sacrifice
Morphy  Meek   1857 Open Lines
Rosenthal Steinitz Vienna 1873 Bishop Pair
Porges Lasker Nuremberg 1896 Threatening Moves
Tarrasch Showalter Vienna 1898 Space
Steinitz Lasker London 1899 Coordination
Tarrasch Lasker Dusseldorf 1904 Defense
Rubinstein Duras Vienna 1908 Simplification
Marshall Capablanca New York 1909 Pawn Roller
Tarrasch Vogel Nuremberg 1910 Strong Knights
Rubinstein Schlechter San Sebastian 1912 Centralization
Nimzowich Lasker St. Petersburg 1914 Defense
Lasker Tarrasch St. Petersburg 1914 IQP
Capablanca Lasker Havana 1921 Minority Attack
Alekhine Yates London 1922 Outposts / Dark Square Control
Reti Borovski London 1922 Positional Sacrifice
Capablanca Tartakower New York 1924 Rook & Pawn Endgame
Tarrasch Alekhine Baden Baden 1925 Centralization
Alekhine Capablanca New York 1927 Knight Outposts
Rubinstein Nimzowich Berlin 1928 Bishop Pair in closed position
Capablanca Yates New York 1929 Weak Color Complex
Mattison Nimzowich Carlsbad 1929 Weak Squares, Outposts, Weak Pawns
Euwe Riemin Leningrad 1934 Development
Botvinnik Flohr Moscow 1936 Bishop versus Knight
Botvinnik Reshevsky AVRO 1938 Bishop Pair in open position
Euwe Flohr Amsterdam 1939 Weak Squares 
Smyslov Lilenthal Moscow 1942 IQP
Smyslov Rudakovsky Moscow 1945 Knight Outposts
Bondarevsky Smyslov Moscow 1946 Bishop Pair
Botvinnik Vidmar Groningen 1946 Exchange Sacrifice
Smyslov Keres   1948 Minority Attack
Botvinnik Bronstein World Ch. 1951 Bishop Pair, IQP
Vesely Pachman Prague 1951 Blockade 
Najdorf Stahlberg Zurich 1953 Bishop versus Knight
Euwe Najdorf Zurich 1953 Passed Pawns
Taimanov Euwe Zurich 1953 Strong Knights
Taimanov Najdorf Zurich 1953 Weak Color Complex
Glicoric Keres Zurich 1953 Weak Pawns
Tal Lisitsin   1956 Active King
Tal Simagin   1956 Initiative
Boleslavsky Lissitzin Moscow 1956 Knight Outposts
Tal  Bronstein   1956 Overprotection
Tal Bronstein Tibilis 1959 Outposts
Fischer H. Berliner New York 1960 Passed Pawns
Petrosian smyslov Moscow 1961 Destructive Sacrifice
Petrosian Pachman Bled 1961 Two Weaknesses
Petrosian Portisch g5 1974 Space
Kasparov Karpov New York  / Lyons g20 1990 Attack
Kasparov Shirov Horgen  1994 Weak Color Complex

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