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INDEX

          

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1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe4 Nc6 6.Qf3+ Kg8 

7.Ng5 Qe7 8.Qd5+ wins the Queen (Imbusch - Goring, Munich 1899 and 

repeated in Kutjanin - Jacobiuk, Moscow 1940)

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Qh5 Nd6 5.Bb3 Nc6 6.d4 exd4 7.Nd5 g6? 

[7…Be7 and 8…O-O is good for Black] 8.Qe2+ Be7 9.Nf6+ Kf8 10.Bh6 

mate (Bass - Armstrong, USA 1952)

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f3 Nh5 4.d4 Qh4+ 5.g3 Nxg3 and if 6.hxg3 Qxh1, 

winning the Rook  (Lovegren - Wall, Dayton 1980)

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.d4?! [book moves are 4.fxe5 and 4.exd5]Bb4 

5.fxe5 Nxe4 6.Bd2 Qh4+ 7.Ke2 Qf2+ 8.Kd3 Bf5, threatening 9…Nc5 mate 

(Ninov - Nathan, 1902)

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Qe2 Nc6 7.Nxe4 Nd4? 

[simply 7…dxe4 8.Qxe4 Qd7] 8.Qd3 Bxf3 9.Ng3 and Black loses a piece 

(Wessman - Becx, Reykjavik 1990)

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Qf3 Nc6 6.Nxe4 Nd4 7.Qd3? 

[safer is 7.Qd1 or 7.Qc3] 7…dxe4 8.Qc3 [8.Qc4 b5] 8…Bb4 9.Qc4 [not 

9.Qxb4?? Nc2+, winning the Queen] 9…Be6, trapping the Queen (Neureiter 

- Reinle, Germany)

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d6 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.Bc4 Be7 [perhaps 5…Nb6] 

6.Bxf7+ Kxf7 7.Ng5+ Kg6?? [7…Kg8 8.Ne6 Qe8 9.Nxc7] 8.f5+ Kxg5 9.d3+ 

Kh4 10.Qf3  and 11.Qh3 mate (Kadisch - Unknown, Mannheim 1931)

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 exf4 4.e5 Qe7 5.Qe2 Ng8 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.d4 d6? 

[7…Qb4 looks playable] 8.Nd5 Qd8 9.Nxc7+  wins since 9…Qxc7 fails to 

10.exd6+, winning the Queen (Wurzburger - Peifer, Paris 1933)

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 exf4 4.e5 Qe7 5.Qe2 Ng8 6.Nf3 d6? [6…c6 or 6…

Qd8] 7.Nd5 Qd7 8.exd6+ Kd8 9.dxc7+ wins the Queen (Krejcik - Kraus, 

1952)

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 g6 3.Nd5 Ne7?? 4.Nf6 mate (Reinle - Neureiter, Germany)

Aaron 14

Aasum 34

Abrahams 30

Abrikossowski 73

Acs 20

Adams 76

Adams, R. 31

Adler 62

Adorjan 15

Afek 85

Akoneau 51

Akopian 42

Akvist 31

Alekhine 28, 90

Alexandrova 67

Alfredsson 86

Allen 73

Almgren 77

Amberger 57

Anand 62

Anders 56

Andersen 72, 81

Angelov 31

Angermann 29

Aouriri 23

Apodaca 78

Aprea 44

Arau 43

Armas 89

Armstrong 92

Arnason 66

Arnold 26

Ashley 36

Aspengren 72

Asphaltboy 23

Atkins 54, 69

Atkinson 54

Auer 59

 

Babaev 53

Baird 70

Baitsch 25

Balabanov 68

Balduan 87

Baljon 76

Balode 30

Bamber 60

Baralou 20

Barkoviak 84

Barnett 33

Baneras 41

Bartsch 25

Basman 14

Bass 92

Batchis 39

Bath 79

Bauer 80

Bayer 83

Beaulieu 80

Beaver 62

Becx 92

Bej 60

Belanger 79

BELLE 65

Belmondo 57

Bender 34