Has there ever been a Grandmaster chess game where there were triple pawns?

Just what the title says.

I was wondering if there has ever been a grandmaster game where a player got triple pawn structure.

I am simply curious :D

If so, it could be in one of Tim Krabbé's books on chess curiosities.

there is one with quadrupled pawns i think

Van der Wiel didn't become a GM until a year later, but here's quadrupled pawns:

but here's tripled pawns when both were grandmasters at the time:

Is this what u mean by a triple pawn structure???

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YES !  ---   I found one : Alekhine-Nenerakov, Moskow, 1907.

I will try to give the position herebelow,  perhaps somebody else can find the game !

Tim Krabbé gives the game Kovacs–Barth, 1994 as an example of a game with quadrupled pawns, but Kovacs is an IM and Barth a FM (http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/records/records.htm). As for GM games with tripled pawns, the following recent one comes to mind:

Not only have there been grandmaster games, this theme occurred no less than 3 times in a world championship semi-final match between Korchnoi and Spassky in 1977! Surprisingly, I can still remember this from the time because it was so distinctive (I once had the book of the match but lent it to someone while he was in hospital and have never seen it since - lol).

See 

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1082384

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1082386

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1082387

It's worth noting that Korchnoi scored 2.5/3 in these games as black, so the tripled pawns did not serve Spassky very well!

Not necessarily a GM game, but Von Holzhausen-Nimzowitsch featured them.  Even though the opening it starts with is just plain bad and a bit stupid when White plays correctly, it's an instructive game for both the strengths and weaknesses of doubled and tripled pawns.

Wow, even Quadruple pawns! I thought triple pawns was possible, but I did not think strong players would have let such a thing as quadruple pawns ever happen :D

On the contrary, weaker players are more fearful of this sort of thing ("Oh not, I can't let him exchange those pieces, he'll double my pawns, so instead I'm going to put my knight on a rubbish square where it's totally locked out of the game, but I don't mind because my pawn structure is still Good")

That's the sort of thinking that strong players understand is wrong. They understand that structural weaknesses are often outweighted by dynamic advantages and are thus more willing to accept them than weaker players.

Agreed. For every doubled pawn there's an open, or half-open file, for my Rooks.

p.s. Here's a collection of master games, featuring the dreaded Irish Pawn Centre:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1016894

I searched the Millionbase 2.2 database and found 2,615 games with tripled pawns and both players rated 2500 or more.

I also searched the database and found 26 games with quadrupled pawns, although none with both players over 2500. (More than half of the games had one or both elo ratings missing.) There was a 1961 game with Victor Kortchnoi against some guy named Fichtl. One computer game snuck in with Van der Wal versus the Hitech computer.

P.S. -- No games with quintupled pawns, darn it!

i've done it.

Now wipe.

Yesterday I came across this puzzle with tripled pawns, from a Bisguier vs Fischer game, 1965. It doesn't compare to the whole database that EscherehcsE found, but I'll go ahead and post this puzzle anyway. The tripled pawns are probably a good indication that Bisguier is losing badly, especially since the ending was put into a book of chess puzzles!

Thanks Sqod for that puzzle, I found one too, in the yesterdays Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, chess columns edited by Hans Böhm.

It is part of the yearly Christmas puzzles on Chess and he adds : Mate by white, in 5 moves.   Try to find the best defence of black !  And he says : "It is Christmas time, so giving is better than taking..."

In case you find the solution, send it to me here on chess.com, don't publish it here !

I can transfer your solutions to him, here in the Netherlands.   Let us surprise him by many, many answers from all over the world, he deserves it (also because of his weekly column on chess).