Post your best miniatures here

Najdorf-ish counterpoint to an opponent's Bowdler attack (2.Bc4).

pretty good right?

Pretty good for what???

Both sides made blunders, there was  no planning involved with many of the moves, and it wasn't even a miniature.

And this was the best you could offer?

No, it's not like a 400 performance. He played like a 971 rated player, oh wait, that is his rating. Wow I must be good at guessing ratings...anyway, 971 is pretty bad. I remember having a rating like that. By the way, was that a bullet game?

its not a bullet game it is a 10 minutes blitz game and believe me .those players aren't that bad. I have never seen a 971 to fall for scholarsmate and they also recognize other mating threats(often also see some mating combnations.when i was way lower rated i have sawn some games by 600s that played better than him by far 

Some caveman-style speed chess, with a queen sac to end it. It's a bit of an unusual mating pattern.

Good one chuddog! =)

Sometimes a miniature begins with a mouse-slip. I meant to play 1.e4. Also, I played on the iPad, so it wasn't the mouse that slipped, but rather my finger.

The Amsterdam Attack  Bold black print is how the game actually went; the sidelines were very interesting too.  

Well then, here is one more. This is bullet. Only a double piece sac, not a queen sac.

I don't see what's interesting about the game or the sidelines. Black blundered horrribly with 6...Bg4?? and the game was over instantly.

Honestly, that describes 99% of the games posted here. One guy blunders, and the other guy simply collects what's given to him. Why is this interesting? Would you watch a highlight reel of Michael Jordan dunking over a 5-year-old girl?

To make a good miniature, there has to be some resistance by the loser. Doesn't anyone have games where they had to use some tactical vision, or technique, or creativity, or any sort of effort? (Converting an extra piece does not count as effort.) That's what I've tried to post, and it would be nice to see some actual nice games, not blunderfests.

Here is one I enjoyed tremendously, a 3 minute game:

We both made some mistakes, but I think the exchange sacrifice was nice. Didn't have time to consider the variations, it just felt right (the king is at the center, I should be able to get something done by removing his right to castle).

@chuddog: I see your point, but you have to consider that not everyone is a FM here.  For us mortals, the threshold for excitement may be quite a bit lower. I'd love to post some impeccable miniature, but I simply don't play chess on high enough level for that, and, pretty much, anything I post will have a lot of mistakes on both sides. Not necessarily 1-move blunders, but still.

@ MayCaesar: “I see your point, but you have to consider that not everyone is a FM here. For us mortals, the threshold for excitement may be quite a bit lower.”

As are standards of ability.

We all know that one gets excited about winning a game, esp. a miniature. But I thought this is a forum where the standard was “best” games, not the level of excitement.

Are you really supporting elementary examples of Scholar’s Mate we’ve seen here in the past?

As far your last game, White wins after 26.Nf3+. Why is this move neglected? At least I assume it’s neglected. Why show an incomplete game? Or is this not a miniature? Did you win on time? No annotations? Why is 21.Qf3+ a better move than 21.f4+? Why is this a good game?

This is careless and lousy editing. Or maybe you really don’t care about the game. And if you show you don’t care, why should we?

Took advantage of a tactical opportunity in a Bullet game and won by simple means.

My opponent resigned on the 24th turn, when I was going to play 24. Nd7+; what 26.Nf3+? I made a comment on the game right after it, because I thought the exchange sacrifice was the main point of it and I saw many people on the same page post games without a commentary. 21. f4 seemed slower and less to the point to me, although computer reasonably suggests that it is better. I don't know if it is a good game, it is just a game with an idea I thought was nice (11. Nxe4).

cag,

This is not a miniature, Not even a good game. 

Why even post it?? There are other forums to post games.

cag, get a PGN reader and then annotate there. Then post the game in the appropriate forum. By the way, it looks like 10.bxc3 may be better than 10.Bxc3. But this you would have to figure out yourself.

Maybe not my best game, also thanks Barefoot for being a constant presence. 

Thanks Ben!