Example of a tactically rich game?

[brtzsnr]

Do you have any example of a tactically rich game? I'm looking for one or two games where many tactics are employed. E.g.: passed pawns, promotion, under-promotion, castling, checkmate, en passant, several checks in a row, etc.

My goal is to write a bench command to test non-functional changes without running 1000s of games.

[Vinvin]

Do you have any example of a tactically rich game? I'm looking for one or two games where many tactics are employed. E.g.: passed pawns, promotion, under-promotion, castling, checkmate, en passant, several checks in a row, etc.

My goal is to write a bench command to test non-functional changes without running 1000s of games.

An EPD test set is probably better than only one game.
Like this 3 suites :
http://www.arasanchess.org/arasan18.epd
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Win+at+Chess
http://www.jakob.at/steffen/hossa/tests ... m-gcp.html

[jdart]

Not sure what you mean by "non-functional changes." You can't test quality of play with just a couple games.

There are plenty of tactical games, a couple famous ones:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1011478

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1085871

This one has a queen sac + underpromotion:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1128313

[brtzsnr]

"non-functional" change means that it doesn't change the behavior. It can be a typo fix, a micro optimization, etc. Search and evaluation are not affected. I only need an integration test to validate these kind of changes.

Thanks a lot for the games. I'll use them.

[Dann Corbit]

Go here:
http://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html
Get the games of Mikhail Tal.
Tactical genius if there ever was one.

[Vinvin]

Do you have any example of a tactically rich game? I'm looking for one or two games where many tactics are employed. E.g.: passed pawns, promotion, under-promotion, castling, checkmate, en passant, several checks in a row, etc.

My goal is to write a bench command to test non-functional changes without running 1000s of games.

Here's one with many mistakes : http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070708

[Event "Linares"]
[Site "Linares ESP"]
[Date "1994.??.??"]
[EventDate "1994.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Garry Kasparov"]
[Black "Joel Lautier"]
[ECO "C53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.Bb3 h6 7.h3 a6
8.Nbd2 Be6 9.Bc2 Ba7 10.Qe2 Qe7 11.b4 d5 12.a4 b5 13.O-O O-O
14.axb5 axb5 15.d4 exd4 16.e5 dxc3 17.exf6 Qxf6 18.Nb3 Nxb4
19.Bb1 d4 20.Rxa7 c2 21.Rxa8 cxb1=Q 22.Rxf8+ Kxf8 23.Qxb5 Qxb3
24.Qb8+ Ke7 25.Qxc7+ Ke8 26.Bd2 Qd8 27.Qe5 Kf8 28.Nxd4 Nd3
29.Qe3 Qc4 0-1

[bob]

Go here:
http://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html
Get the games of Mikhail Tal.
Tactical genius if there ever was one.

Not so much as you would think. Analyze a few of his games with a computer and you'll see what I mean.

[jdart]

I forgot to mention this one, known as the "Bluebird" (because it is so pretty):

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1034110

--Jon