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Chess Curiosities Collections
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The games in these collections are not annofritzed unless stated otherwise.
- famous.zip 500 famous games (most featuring Kasparov) are presented with verbal comments. For all who would like to read the main ideas without any variations. Thanks to Mick Hensler for this extraordinary contribution. (06/June/2001)
- kas-top.zip (24th Edition) Tauno Leinonen (Finland) has compiled over 60(!!!!) different annotations of the famous Kasparov - Topalov game on Jan 20th 1999 in Wijk aan Zee, which has been coined as the "game of the century". The comments are by GM Ivanov, MIG, GM Seirawan, Ftacnik, Bilounov, Balinov, Eric Schiller, Kasparov himself and of course several versions of the Fritz-Engines - and others. Moreover this multitude of different annotations packed into one collection is most probably a fine world record, achieved by Tauno. Thanks for improving that fine work again and again! As a tribute to this extraordinary game I deviated here from the rule not to provide any grandmaster game annotations on my chess site. (31/Mar/2003)
- rp-r-oss.zip A number of Rook vs. Rook+Pawn Endings with only one winning move. Some positions are trivial, others really tricky! Thanks to Akorps for this witty contribution! (29/May/2000)
- rxc3-bw.zip A collection of about 1400 games with black sacrificing the exchange against the white knight on c3. This idea might appear in different lines of the sicilian defence with an half-open c-file for black after exchanging the white knight on d4: ... c5xd4, Nf3xd4, Nc6xd4, ... The collection shows that black gets often some pawns and extra attacking chances for the exchange. Thanks to Akorps for this interesing contribution!
(16/Feb/2000)
- endgame.zip A collection of about 100 endgame - positions
from a Tablebase CD; annotated with Crafty or some other engines! Thanks to Chris Taylor, England for this curious collection! (BTW: I have no idea by what criterium these positions have been chosen. Maybe they represent some exxxtra long forced mates. 11/Jan/2000)
- smothmat.zip Games with "smothered mates": enjoy the classical, unusual and "almost smothered" cases I found in my databases. The +150 games are annofritzed for your fun and convenience.
(06/Sep/99)
- 2600.zip A collection of exactly 7979 super-GM games (both players have ELO of at least 2630). For all guys with CBLight who need a downsqueezed version of 2500.zip! (23/Jul/99)
- 64golden.zip 64 Golden Games from Chess Informant 1966-1998. Annofritzed by Tauno Leinonen. Thanks!
- 2500.zip THIS IS A SPECIAL GEM for people doing automatical annofritzations! A selection of +75.000 true "grandmaster" games (=both players having an ELO of over 2500)! Short games with less than 12 moves are eliminated! I have created this database as a reference database for annofritzations in order to avoid references to games between "nobodies", which are contained en masse in any Megabase. I have used Knut Neven's "Research" 1.3 Mio games Megabase as the main source for this collection, because Knut has given (approximate) ELO's also to most classical players. Thus you will find in that collection both recent grandmaster games and the games between top players of former eras, like Anderssen, Morphy, Steinitz, Zukertort, Chigorin, Pillsbury, Tarrasch, Lasker, Schlechter, Janowski etc. BE AWARE! 7 MB ZIP-File! You need Chessbase 6.0, CB 7 or Fritz5.00 or higher for opening that file!! If you do so with CBLight only the first 8000 games will appear! Sorry, I will NOT split that file into 8000er pieces... Instead of complaining, please look at the file 2600.zip: it has just 7979 games with both players beyond ELO 2630.
- loong.zip The loooongest chess games I could find! More than 100 games with more than 140 moves each! Most of these are boring draws, but some are interesting fights. The 269 move record game between Nicolic and Arsovic is even too long for CBH format (ending at move 255!). Really stunning is the 151 move fight that Piket won against Lautier in the 1995 Amber blindfold tournament in Monaco (probably the longest blindfold game in chess history). - I have eliminated all Computer and ICS stuff. Many of the extra-long games are strored in different databases with different lengths. I chose just the longest (I hope)... See Tim Krabbe's Chess Record Page for a more serious approach to that issue.
- quickmat.zip NOW EXTENDED! This ZIP-File includes now two databases with quick mates:
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A collection of +1000 "shorties" with mates in 12 moves or less! Quick wins and opening blunders
en masse! All games are annofritzed and sorted according to ECO-Codes. See the dangers of the Blackmar-Diemer-Gambit (D00)
and other quick opening killers! (In some cases it is only the last move of the losing side that leads to
immediate mate. In these cases the "out of book" comment precedes immediately the mate - and then there are no further
annotations - sorry!) The collection contains an introduction text file, giving hints about some outstanding "quickmate specialists". Enjoy!
- A collection of additional +3000 games that ended in 14 moves or less with mate (without annofritzations). This collection includes all kind of stuff: ICC games, the fool's mate in 2 etc., Sam Loyd's quickest mate in 4 with black repeating all white moves; two more interesting "symmetrical" shorties under the name "Munchhausen" and much more weird stuff. (I have no
time to look in detail at all these games. Look and enjoy! Sorted according to ECO.
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althofer.zip
is a collection of some games of Prof. Ingo Althöfer, University of
Jena, Germany.
Prof.
Althöfer did some experimental research with computer-assisted chess
playing. Ignacio Derecho provided eight annofritzed games of an experimental
match between Althöfer, assisted by "Double Fritz", against GM Timoshchenko.
Thanks!
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knibi.zip
Over 300 games with knight and bishop vs. king endings! See how weak and
strong players succeed or fail to mate the bare king with knight and bishop.
Enjoy some really curious struggles and see some sad draws! The probably most
curious game of that collection ends both with checkmate and draw!!
It is being discussed in Geurt Gijssen's May 1999 column
"An Arbiters Notebook" at Chess-Cafe.
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3queens.zip
Some people seem to need more than one queen to mate the bare king. In this
collection you can find games with 2, 3 and even 4 queens against the bare
king. And again some of these are draws...
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2knights.zip
+280 games, that ended with an endgame of two knights vs. king (and possibly
some pawns on either side).
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stalmat.zip
+760 games that ended in a stalemate. From trivial draws to horrible blunders...
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allwer.zip
The Allwermann Saga: a no-name player scored at the Böblingen Christmas
1998 tournament +2600, or was it Fritz5.32? See Allwermann's collected games.
(Here is an Allwermann-article in the german newspaper
"Die
Welt").
Allwermann's games at Böblingen 1998, with german
annotations
approved by Allwermann himself!
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myanmar.zip
A sensational report about the incredible ELO-boom in Myanmar (=Burma). See how chess heroes like Zaw Win Lay, Moun Moun Latt and
dozens other cracks from Myanmar in south east asia raised their ELO-count to GM-level within
the last two years. Look at some of their fabulous games (against each other)
and see what others say about this phenomen...
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under.zip
+1400 Games with underpromotions from 1810 - 1999! I have tried to eliminate
the "junk" cases (e.g. the underpromoted piece is being captured immediately
after promotion).
