Post your best miniatures here

Oh boy. This is why I've avoided talking directly to TBP a long time ago, everytime someone gives him attention he ruins the thread completely.

When asked by other poster I have provided many articles that present miniatures beyond 25 moves, just from a quick Google search. If anyone here besides TBP asks me, I'll gladly search them again or look the post that is here in this thread somewhere. For now I wish this argument dies again and people just share their short games.

Well, now that I've set the record on psychology straight I'd actually prefer if the thread went back to focus on games, that's what makes the thread interesting.
Ironic when the person arguing that others are derailing the thread with non-miniatures derails the thread in a massive way in the process.

My contribution to return to sanity

And myself as well, back to our regularly scheduled program. Dug out this old game of mine from the 90s, played against one of the lower CM settings (Moderate), after having come across an historic game showing a double bishop sacrifice in Bird's Opening. It was fun to have it work out, but not the sort of thing that works against humans if you just try and set it up from the start.

Luluke,

Is this the way you usually end an argument when you have no answer? Just to stop talking and perhaps even run away? Are you interested in finding out the truth about what we’ve been talking about? Doesn’t that interest you?

You said you already answered my question. I have searched this forum but could not find it. Perhaps you never sent it? 

Stop saying that you posted or that you will post later. Just post it now. Is that so hard?

Otherwise, we are likely to revisit this very subject which will probably end the same way. With me asking you to provide what your evidence is and you refusing to answer. Maybe you don’t have the GMs or publishers to back your claim. Maybe you fear being wrong. Maybe you fear that I, or someone else, might just look up what you submitted in your posting. Yeah, I gotta tell you that might happen. So what? If you are correct and being truthful, then you should have no fear about myself, or anyone else looking it up.

Just post it! It’s not hard if you are telling the truth.

Now in response to calling up miniatures, here is one more.

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I enjoy playing the Sozin Najdorf. I’m glad that I wasn’t White in this game.

"masoodch"-"backrankbrawler"15 minute gamechess.com, Aug. 30 2020["backrankbrawler", https://www.chess.com/blog/backrankbrawler/a-najdorf-sicilian-miniature]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.O-O Be7 8.Re1 O-O 9.f4 [This is the first position where I wasn't sure what to do. My main candidates here were ...e5, ...b5, and ...Nbd7. I chose ...b5 because I thought ...e5 might have been premature (or wasn't ready to open up the diagonal for the bishop).] 9...b5! (9...Nbd7 10.Bxe6 fxe6 11.Nxe6 seemed unpleasant to me during the game. However, 11...Qb6+ 12.Be3 Qc6 13.Nxf8 Bxf8 = seems fine. 9...e5 10.Nf5 Bxf5 11.exf5 +/= seemed a little too loose for my liking, especially with White's light-square bishop enjoying the a2-g8 diagonal.) 10.Bd3 Bb7 11.Nf3 Nbd7 12.e5 dxe5 13.fxe5 Ng4 14.Kf1 (If White is careless, things can go downhill quickly.14.h3? Qb6+ 15.Kh1 Nf2+ -+ ; 14.Rf1 Ndxe5 -+ winning a pawn with a continuing attack. ; 14.Qe2 Bc5+ 15.Kf1 Ndxe5 -+ with similar threats to what happened in the game.) 14...Qb6 15.Qe2 Ndxe5 16.Nxe5? (16.h3 Nxd3 17.cxd3 Bxf3 18.gxf3 Nf6 -+ with a very comfortable position. White's kingside is in shambles.; 16.Be3 Nxe3+ 17.Qxe3 Qxe3 18.Rxe3 Nxd3 19.Rxd3 Rfd8 Black's extra pawn and two bishops should be decisive here.) 16...Nxh2mate 0-1

There's an embedded board you can use, FYI. 
You can even export games in PGN format and paste that into the board.

Yes, 

And thank you crazedrat100. But this game is copied from a Word document.

Barefoot

Yawn...

Back to more games, this time against a GM.

It's not that easy to counter the white initiative even after 8...Be8. You have g4-h4 ideas. Nice game

Thanks. Admittedly White got the ideal set up and Black didn't try to hinder White at all.

This is the first 'rapid' (15/10) game I've played for about a year. Busyness has meant that I've just been doing the puzzles every day and playing occasional 'daily' matches.

This is a Sicilian Dragon, so-called because the analysis tends to drag on. It was very popular when I was growing up in the 1960s and early '70s, but I hadn't met it for years. When I won the game I thought I'd done really well, but analysis shows that all my best moves could have been improved upon, especially my dynamic Rook sacrifice to force mate in 3.

Happy to have a brilliant move. 10. Nxg5

The Dragon variation gets its name from the resemblance of Black's pawn structure to the constellation Draco.

I think he was joking. But that's a cool trivia.

I enjoy playing in thematic tournaments. It helps me better understand my favorite openings.

Here are two games from two different Fried Liver tournaments.

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Originally, it was thought the Fried Liver would give White a perpetual advantage. However, that is not the case.

I've always liked the Scotch Gambit despite not having a great record with it. But it is fun, so I persist. This was against a chess app on my phone, which even on level 10 would play some very questionable moves sometimes but I'll take what I can get

Attack, attack, and attack

How do you make the squares different colors (you made some orange and some green)

join this club https://www.chess.com/club/xx-universe-of-chess-xx/join

A combination of brilliant and blunder. I was proud of this 30 move game