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Miniatures

I have a few books with chess miniatures.  They are usually collections of games played many years, where the players did some mistakes in the openings.  Below you will find some links dedicated to chess miniatures, including at least four sources where you can download the games themselves.

I have also collected some links to the books (and where they can be bought) – I tried my best not to repeat the same shops, so you have a variety of  nine different internet shops.

I published a few weeks ago the game where Kramnik won with black in very few moves, then curiosity got me to look at recent games (August-September, 2006) played in grandmaster and master level tournaments if they are really so rare.  Below you will find 15 of my findings, all of them played during August, 2006.

It also explains why players sometimes begin to concentrate even before the first move.  There is simply no place to mechanical moves – they can lead to disaster.

Please have a look at the examples below.

Some links:

http://www.geocities.com/lifemasteraj/short_games.html

http://www.playchess.de/blogs/chess/000031.html

ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/Newstuff/allindex.txt

Here you can download (by Bill Wall):

trap-pg.zip    110 Tactical Miniatures

minis-pg.zip   1997 Wins in 12 Moves or Less

ten-pg.zip     1132 Wins in 10 or less moves

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/apct.htm

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/kg.htm

CHESS BOOKS WRITTEN BY BILL WALL

You can download the games of 300 King's Gambit Miniatures
(1982 from : http://www.gambitchess.com/semi/db4.htm

Or buy the books at : (They have 16 of Wall's books!)

http://www.ukgamesshop.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?

300 King's Gambit Miniatures (1982)      ISBN 0-931462-17-7    80 pages

500 Sicilian Miniatures (1983)           ISBN 0-931462-24-X   107 pages

500 French Miniatures (1984)             ISBN 0-931462-31-2   126 pages

500 Queen's Gambit Miniatures (1985)     ISBN 0-931462-38-X   127 pages

and many more.

Some books:

Modern Chess Miniatures Author: Leonard Barden
     http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Modern_Chess_Miniatures-ISBN_0486235416.html?isrc=b-search

1000 Best Short Games of Chess  by Irving Chernev
     http://www.amazon.com/1000-Best-Short-Games-Chess/dp/0671538012

100 Soviet Chess Miniatures  by  P.H. Clarke
     http://www.chesshouse.com/Soviet_Chess_Miniatures_p/6097.htm

Startling Correspondence Chess Miniatures  by Tim Harding
     http://www.chessmail.com/sales/mini_order.html

Modern Chess Miniatures - Neil McDonald
     http://chessville.com/Mall/Chess4Less.htm

101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures  by  GM John Nunn
     http://www.chess-space.com/shop/item2117.htm

Chess Miniatures and Caricatures by Jovan Prokopljevic. 80pp. (Chess Informant 2000)
     http://uscfsales.com/item.asp?cID=156&PID=83

Great Short Games of The Masters  by  Fred Reinfeld
     http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?&isbn=0486292665&nsa=1

(1) Morozevich,A (2731) - Kritz,L (2578) [C42]
13th Ordix Open Mainz GER (11), 20.08.2006

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.0–0 Be7 8.Re1 Bg4 9.c3 f5 10.Qb3

Maybe Rb8 is better

 10...Na5 11.Qa4+ c6 12.Ne5 Bh5 13.f3 Nd6+- 14.Bg5 b5 15.Qb4 1–0

(2) Peralta,Fe (2546) - Zysk,R (2474) [A86]
Acropolis Open Athens GRE (4), 16.08.2006

1.d4 f5 2.c4 d6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 g6 5.b4 Bg7 6.Bb2 e5 7.dxe5 Nfd7 8.Bg2 Nc6 (maybe d:e5 is better) 9.0–0 Ndxe5? (maybe 0-0 is better) 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.f4 Nf3+ 12.exf3 1–0

(3) Smerdon,D (2472) - Ris,R (2364) [C47]
Stukkenjagers Weekend Tilburg NED (4), 19.08.2006

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.a3 Bd6  Very strange place to put the bishop.  5.Bc4 0–0 6.d3 h6 7.g4 Nh7 8.g5 hxg5 9.Rg1 Bc5 10.Nd5 Ne7 11.Bxg5 Nxg5 12.Nxg5  Even nicer is 12.Nf6+ Kh8 13.Nxg5 g6 14.Nxf7+ Rxf7 15.Bxf7  Nxd5 13.Qh5 1–0

(4) Pandavos,P (2312) - Khetsuriani,B (2393) [C42]
Acropolis Open Athens GRE (8), 20.08.2006

I have in my database some games that started with this gambit, but for a master to try this nowadays is really daring...

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nxf7?! Kxf7 5.Bc4+ Be6 6.Bxe6+ Kxe6 7.0–0 Kf7 8.b3 Be7 9.Bb2 Re8 10.d4 Kg8 11.e5 dxe5 12.dxe5 Qxd1 13.Rxd1 Ng4 14.e6 Nc6 0–1

White has no compensation for the piece.

(5) Brandenburg,D (2392) - Broekmeulen,Ja (2284) [B22]
Dutch Open Dieren NED (6), 31.07.2006

1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Bc4 Nb6 6.Bb3 d6 7.Qe2 dxe5 8.Nxe5 N8d7?+- [8...Be7 9.0–0²]

9.Nxf7 1–0

(6) Golubev,M (2467) - Agafii,V (2317) [B87]
Sunny Pawn A Illichevsk UKR (10), 30.07.2006

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 b5 8.Bg5 Qc7 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Qf3

Here Black should play ...Bg7 or ...Rg8.

10...Nd7? 11.Bxe6! fxe6 12.Nxe6 Qb7 13.Qh5+ Ke7 14.Nd5+
1–0

If 14...Kxe6 15.Qe8+ Be7 16.Qxe7#

 

(7) Britton,R (2288) - Ward,C (2461) [B25]
93rd ch-GBR Swansea WLS (3), 09.08.2006

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 d6 6.f4 e6 7.Nf3 Nge7 8.0–0 0–0 9.Be3 b6 10.d4 Ba6 11.Re1 Rc8 12.a4 d5 13.exd5 exd5 14.dxc5 d4 0–1  And White had enough.

(8) Day,L (2278) - Adams,Mi (2732) [C34]
4th Staunton Mem London/Crowthorne ENG (9), 23.08.2006

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 Ne7 4.d4 d5 5.Bd3 dxe4 6.Bxe4 Ng6 7.h4 Bd6 8.Nc3 0–0 9.Qd3 h6 10.Ne2 (e5 is more consistent) Nd7 11.Qb3 (again, e5 is better) Nb6 12.c4? Be6 13.Qc2?  This is the losing move.  13...Bxc4 0–1

(9) Otte,Mari (2117) - Timman,T (2260) [C34]
Dutch Open Dieren NED (8), 02.08.2006

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 h6 4.Bc4 d6 5.h4 Nf6 6.Nc3  Bg4 7.d4 Nh5 8.Ne5 dxe5 9.Qxg4 Ng3 10.dxe5 Nxh1 11.Bxf4

11...Nf2?+-  Black forgot the basics – first develop your pieces! 11...Nc6 12.Rd1 Nd4  12.Qf5 Qd7 13.Bxf7+ Kd8 14.e6 Qd4 15.Bxc7+ 1–0

(10) Steiner,B (2253) - Kostic,Vl (2433) [D00]
15th Open A Vienna AUT (7), 04.08.2006

1.d4 d5 2.Bf4  Nc6 3.e3 Bf5 4.c4 e5 5.dxe5 d4 6.exd4 Qxd4