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Kasparov vs Anatoly Karpov, 24th Match Game, Seville. Trailing by a point before the final game of their fourth World Championship match, Garry Kasparov surprises Karpov by beginning quietly in Anatoly Karpov's own style. With Karpov running low on time, Kasparov ratchets up the tension by
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Ljubomir Kavalek, Marianske Lazne. Kavalek sacrifices a piece, then one exchange, then the other exchange to push his avalanche of pawns down the board. By the end of the game he has lost all seven of his pieces but kept all eight of his pawns, which roll over White's remaining
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Bogoljubov vs Alexander Alekhine, Hastings. Irving Chernev called this the greatest game of chess ever played, adding: "Alekhine's subtle strategy involves manoeuvres which encompass the entire chessboard as a battlefield. There are exciting plots and counterplots. There are fascinating
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Karjakin vs Viswanathan Anand, Corus chess tournament, Round 1, Wijk aan zee. Viswanathan Anand played a brilliant combination against Sergey Karjakin, beginning with the sacrifice of a knight followed by sacrifice of a bishop and finally a rook mating with just a rook and a
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Ivanchuk vs Viswanathan Anand, Linares, 1st Match Game. Anand breaks all principles of positional chess by getting doubled pawns, trading his good bishop only to reveal the deep idea later in the game, managing to create 2 passed pawns and eventually winning the game
1242:, Game 18. In a winner-take-all tiebreak game, Ding Liren avoids a draw with a risky self-pin on move 46. Both players make errors in the subsequent play but Nepomniachtchi makes the last one as Ding breaks through to become the 17th undisputed World Chess Champion.
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Kasparov, World Chess Championship, Lyon, 23rd Match Game. The 5th World Championship match between the two dominant players of the 1980s ends with Karpov winning the last decisive game but Kasparov winning the match to remain World
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in a positional game where his winning strategy seemed to flow right out of the opening to the end. Capablanca, himself renowned as a master of simple positions, was sufficiently rattled to lose in the next round as well, handing the tournament victory to
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Stefano Tatai vs
Anatoly Karpov, Las Palmas. World Champion Karpov dominated tournament chess in the 1970s with his signature style of elegant positional play crowned by crisp tactics, like in this game where he places his queen en prise to a
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Mikhail Tal vs
Mikhail Botvinnik, 1st Match Game, Moscow. Tal's critics said his daring, complicated style couldn't possibly work against the ironclad logic of the Father of Soviet Chess, but it did and Tal became the youngest World Champion
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Geller–Euwe, Zurich. Geller's attack seems to be sweeping Euwe off the board but the former World
Champion has everything under control, uncorking an amazing sacrifice on move 22 to begin a counterattack that wins the game in only four more
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Nigel Short vs Garry
Kasparov, PCA World Championship, London, 8th Match Game. Although the match was one-sided, the games were hard fought. In this game Short exposes Kasparov's king with a shower of sacrifices but can't land the knockout
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Robert Eugene Byrne vs Bobby Fischer, New York. Fischer executes a deep sacrificial attack to win in this miniature. Many of the players in the press room thought Fischer's position was hopeless and were surprised when they heard Byrne had
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11 six hours and 48 minutes at Depth 73/49 to recommend the queen sacrifice in 2020; Gusev went on to win. The game has been studied extensively online. National Master Sam Copeland ranked it the second-best game of the 1940s. Grandmaster
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Bruce Harper vs Bob Zuk, Burnaby. The famous "Tomb Game" (Bruce Harper vs Bob Zuk) sees Black exploit two pins to drive his opponent's pieces into a corner and toward a position where White's only legal move will help Black to checkmate
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Steinitz–von Bardeleben, Hastings. This game is famous for its ten-move mating combination in the final position, which Steinitz demonstrated after the game. The peculiar circumstance of the conclusion of this game has been subject of
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David Bronstein vs Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Petropolis Interzonal. Bronstein, who played a match for the World Championship before his grandmaster opponent could walk, turns back the clock, sacrifices both rooks and wins through sheer
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Milunka Lazarevic vs Nona Gaprindashvili, Candidates Tournament, Vrnjacka Banja. On her way to a 16-year reign as Women's World Champion, the future queen of women's chess constructs a mating net with, appropriately, her king and
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Vassily Ivanchuk vs Artur Yusupov, Brussels, 9th Match Game. Yusupov sacrifices his knight in his quest for the attack and breaks through after Ivanchuk's inaccuracies. In 1996, a jury of grandmasters and readers, voting in the
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Garry Kasparov vs Viktor Gavrikov, USSR Championship, Frunze. One of Garry Kasparov's dynamic, attacking wins from his first Soviet Championship victory at age 18 that heralded the arrival of a new contender for the World Chess
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Lajos Portisch vs Jozsef Pinter, Hungarian Championship, Budapest. Jozsef Pinter plays the game of his life against his famous opponent, sacrificing a piece in a queenless middlegame to draw Lajos Portisch's king into a deadly
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Carsten Hoi vs Boris Gulko, Thessaloniki Olympiad. Representing Denmark at the biennial Chess Olympiad, Hoi fulfils the dream of every unknown player by crushing a former Soviet and future US Champion with a beautiful mating
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Alireza Firouzja–Murali Karthikeyan. Karthikeyan sacrifices his queen on move 9 in a known position for a knight and a bishop against prodigious Alireza Firouzja, leaving the latter's pieces uncoordinated and without decent
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of the highly publicized World Championship Match. Bobby Fischer surprises by opening with 1.c4 instead of his favorite 1.e4. Boris Spassky joined the audience in applauding Fischer's win and called it the best game of the
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Mikhail Tal vs Vasily Smyslov, Bled. Tal initiates complications early in this game and obtains a strong attack. Smyslov defends well, but eventually stumbles with one erroneous move and Tal delivers the winning tactical
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Anand–Carlsen, World Championship 2013, Game 9, Chennai. Two games down with only three to go in the match, Viswanathan Anand develops a dangerous kingside attack only to make a fatal blunder on move 28. One game later,
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Akiba Rubinstein vs Emanuel Lasker, Saint Petersburg. Akiba Rubinstein's brilliant play culminates in 18.Qc1!! subsequently forcing Emanuel Lasker to enter a rook endgame down a pawn which Rubinstein wins in masterly
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Garry Kasparov vs Anatoly Karpov, 16th Match Game, Leningrad. The most spectacular game of their third World Championship match hangs in the balance until Garry Kasparov's diabolical 37th move blows Karpov's defence
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in more than five years, ending the longest-ever streak of 19 draws in consecutive World Chess Championship classical games, and the 136-move game became the longest in the history of the World Chess Championship.
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Anatoly Karpov vs Garry Kasparov, 16th Match Game, Moscow. Garry Kasparov employs a daring gambit and obtains a dominating position for his knight, stifling Anatoly Karpov's forces and finishing off with a mating
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Alexey Shirov vs. Judit Polgar, Buenos Aires. The attacking prowess of the strongest woman chessplayer of all time is on full display as she rips White's position apart with her pawns and routs his army with her
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Veselin Topalov vs Vladimir Kramnik, Belgrade. Foreshadowing their bitter rivalry a decade later, two future World Champions refuse to draw and throw everything at each other until only one is left standing.
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Vladimir Kramnik vs Veselin Topalov, World Chess Championship 2006, 16th Match Game, Elista. After 13 years of a divided World Chess Championship, the reunification match comes down to a final tiebreak
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Jeroen Piket vs Garry Kasparov, Tilburg. A typically devastating performance by Garry Kasparov, whose dominance of super-tournaments in 1989 increased his rating to 2800, the first to reach that number.
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Vladimir Kramnik vs Peter Leko, Classical World Chess Championship 2004, 14th Match Game, Brissago. Needing only a draw to win the World Championship, Peter Leko plays too passively and pays the price.
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Anatoly Karpov vs Boris Spassky, 9th Match Game, Leningrad. Former World Champion Boris Spassky can't cope with future World Champion Anatoly Karpov's subtle, seemingly effortless positional mastery.
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Veselin Topalov vs Alexey Shirov, Linares. Though known for his attacking play, Alexey Shirov produces "The best move of all time" on move 47 of a quiet endgame to score a seemingly impossible win.
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Mikhail Tal vs Joel Lautier, Barcelona. In his final tournament before his death at age 55, the Magician from Riga produces one last masterpiece against a Grandmaster from the next generation.
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Lev Polugaevsky vs Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Sochi. In one of the most celebrated games of all time, Nezhmetdinov sacrifices his queen on move 24, and goes on to win the game with a king hunt.
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Jose Raul Capablanca vs Savielly Tartakower, New York. One of the most famous and instructive endgames ever played. Capablanca sacrifices two pawns with check to support his passed pawn.
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plays a rook sacrifice that forces Black to take a king walk. Several quiet moves eventually force Black to concede defeat. This game has been compared to Kasparov's Immortal and the
1049:, the reigning world champion, faced a group of players in consultation, who decided moves by vote. This group included 50,000 individuals from more than 75 countries. Kasparov won.
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Roberto Cifuentes Parada vs Vadim Zvjaginsev, Wijk aan Zee. Black wins with a series of sacrifices that force White's king up to the 6th rank. Known as "The Pearl of Wijk aan Zee".
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Mikhail Botvinnik vs Vasily Smyslov, 14th Match Game, Moscow. Smyslov sacrifices his queen for three minor pieces and coordinates them superbly to force Botvinnik's capitulation.
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Harry Nelson Pillsbury vs Isidor Gunsberg, Hastings. In the final round of this prestigious tournament, Pillsbury secures overall victory by triumphing in an instructive endgame.
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sacrifice the exchange twice, followed by sacrifices of two minor pieces. After 33 moves, all three of his remaining pieces are en prise—and his opponent cannot stop checkmate.
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Max Euwe vs Alexander Alekhine, 26th Match Game, Zandvoort. This decisive game from the 1935 match for the world championship was dubbed 'The Pearl of Zandvoort' by Tartakower.
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Tigran Petrosian vs Boris Spassky, 10th Match Game, Moscow. Petrosian, the master of the exchange sacrifice, does it twice in one game with the World Championship on the line.
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Emanuel Lasker vs William Ewart Napier, Cambridge Springs. Both players show great ingenuity. After a complicated web of tactics, Lasker simplifies into a winning endgame.
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Boris Spassky vs Tigran Petrosian, 19th Match Game, Moscow. Having fought his way to a World Championship rematch with Petrosian, Boris Spassky wins the match decisively.
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Carlsen–Karjakin, World Championship 2016, Game 16, New York. Magnus Carlsen retains his title with the most beautiful move ever to end a World Chess Championship match.
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combinations and brilliant sacrifices of Queens and Rooks. There are two remarkable promotions of Pawns and a third in the offing, before White decides to capitulate." (
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Viswanathan Anand vs Veselin Topalov, Sofia. Amazing in its complexity, this game finally ended in a hard-fought draw and was called "23rd-century chess" by Kramnik.
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sacrificing a pawn for an attack. Karpov fails to find the best defence and is finally forced to resign, leaving Kasparov the champion for another three years.
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Richard Reti vs Alexander Alekhine, Baden-Baden. Alekhine initiates a stunning combination and foresees the final position resulting more than 15 moves later.
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Bent Larsen vs Boris Spassky, Belgrade. Spassky finds immediate punishment for Larsen's opening experiments, sacrificing a knight and a rook to create a
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Bobby Fischer vs Tigran Petrosian, Zagreb. The only prominent game in which four queens were on board for seven moves. Match ends with draw by agreement.
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Frank Parr vs George Wheatcroft, London. Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld described this as "one of the greatest combinative games on record!" (
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Victor Knorre vs Mikhail Chigorin, St. Petersburg. White's premature castling on the king side combined with an ineffective pin allows
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Richard Réti–José Raúl Capablanca, New York. The game that ended Capablanca's eight-year run without a single loss in tournament play.
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and E Auerbach in an equally obscure minor tournament. It involved a sound positional queen sacrifice from Gusev, which was blind to
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to strike back with a violent counterattack culminating in a brilliant queen sacrifice and subsequent checkmate.
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Kasparov has a long list of brilliancies to his credit, but this game is his virtually undisputed masterpiece.
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2097:"The Spectacular Winning Queen Sacrifice Chess Computers Don't Understand - Gusev vs. Auerbach, 1946"
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Brilliant Chess Game: Positional Queen Sacrifice! - Gusev vs Averbakh - Moscow 1946 (Chessworld.net)
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The Spectacular Winning Queen Sacrifice Chess Computers Don't Understand - Gusev vs. Auerbach, 1946
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in three different ways. The spectators are said to have showered the board with gold coins.
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Boris Spassky vs David Bronstein, Leningrad, "The Blue Bird Game". Boris Spassky plays the
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Queen Sacrifice Made 74 Years Ago Is Still A Headache For Stockfish And Leela Chess Zero
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with a bold pawn sacrifice. Capablanca accepts the challenge fully aware of the fierce
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Liu Wenzhe vs Jan Hein Donner, Buenos Aires. "The Chinese Immortal"; at China's first
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Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais vs Alexander McDonnell, 50th Match Game, London.
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combination in chess literature, involving six consecutive offers of the queen.
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as a tribute to his benefactor E. Z. Adams, this game features the most famous
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Edwin Ziegler Adams vs Carlos Torre Repetto, New Orleans. Likely composed by
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1891:"Friedrich Saemisch vs Aron Nimzowitsch (1923) "The Immortal Zugzwang Game""
1837:"Edwin Ziegler Adams vs Carlos Torre Repetto (1920) "Take my wife. Please!""
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2460:"Robert Eugene Byrne vs Robert James Fischer (1963) "The Brilliancy Prize""
2370:"Robert James Fischer vs Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1959) "Four Queens""
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1873:"Efim Bogoljubov vs Alexander Alekhine (1922) "The Triple Queen Sacrifice""
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1492:"Paul Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard (1858) "A Night at the Opera""
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2935:"Alexey Shirov vs. Judit Polgar (1994) "She Loves Me, Shirov Me Not""
2568:"Boris Spassky vs Robert James Fischer (1972) "Crime and Punishment""
1744:"Stefan Levitsky vs Frank James Marshall (1912) "The Gold Coin Game""
1420:"F Alexander Hoffmann vs Alexander Petrov (1844) "Petrov's Immortal""
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Carlsen versus Nepomniachtchi, World Chess Championship 2021, Game 6
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B Molinari vs Luis Roux Cabral, Montevideo. This game from the 1943
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2316:"Bogdan Sliwa vs David Bronstein (1957) "The Immortal Losing Game""
2280:"Mikhail Botvinnik vs Vasily Smyslov (1954) "The Peasant's Revolt""
1672:"Harry Nelson Pillsbury vs Emanuel Lasker (1896) "Pillsbury d'oh!""
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Jose Raul Capablanca vs Frank Marshall, New York. In the main line
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termed " combination second to none in the literature of the game."
3330:"Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin (2016) "Navigating the Rapids""
3129:"Viswanathan Anand vs Veselin Topalov (2005) "23rd Century Chess""
2712:"Anatoly Karpov vs Garry Kasparov (1985) "The Brisbane Bombshell""
1819:"Jose Raul Capablanca vs Frank Marshall, (1918) "Marshall Attack""
1708:"Georg Rotlewi vs Akiba Rubinstein (1907) "Rubinstein's Immortal""
1402:"Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint Amant vs Howard Staunton (1843)"
1294:"Francesco di Castellvi vs Narciso Vinyoles (1475) "Old in Chess""
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Paul Morphy vs Duke of Brunswick & Count Isouard, Paris. "The
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2784:"Jeroen Piket vs Garry Kasparov (1989) "Crossing the Piket Line""
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Pierre de Saint Amant vs Howard Staunton, 5th Match Game, Paris.
2881:"Anand's Positional Chess Masterpiece? Ivanchuk vs. Anand, 1992"
2863:"Mikhail Tal vs Joel Lautier (1992) "And for my final trick...""
2550:"Robert James Fischer vs Boris Spassky (1972) "Best by Protest""
2078:"B Molinari vs Luis Roux Cabral (1943) "The Uruguayan Immortal""
2024:"Max Euwe vs Alexander Alekhine (1935) "The Pearl of Zandvoort""
1456:"Adolf Anderssen vs Jean Dufresne (1852) "The Evergreen Partie""
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wrote that " might surely go down as the game of the year", and
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3147:"Sergey Karjakin vs Viswanathan Anand (2006) ""A Corus Line" ""
2971:"Veselin Topalov vs Vladimir Kramnik (1995) "Toppling Topalov""
2730:"Garry Kasparov vs Anatoly Karpov (1986) "Tossed on the Flohr""
1762:"Edward Lasker vs George Alan Thomas (1912) "Fatal Attraction""
1582:"Emanuel Lasker vs Johann Hermann Bauer (1889) "Emanuel Labor""
1222:, after only seven pieces remained on the board—but challenger
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943:, chose this game as the best game played in the years 1966–96.
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Boris Spassky vs Bobby Fischer, 11th Match Game, Reykjavik. In
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Carlsen Wins Longest World Chess Championship Game Of All Time
3008:"Veselin Topalov vs Alexey Shirov (1998) "Troublesome Priest""
2478:"Tigran Petrosian vs Boris Spassky (1966) "Boris Bad and Off""
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3312:"Wei Yi vs Lazaro Bruzon Batista (2015) "Prepare Yi the Wei""
3255:"Levon Aronian vs Viswanathan Anand (2013) "Nerves of Steel""
2748:"Anatoly Karpov vs Garry Kasparov (1987) "Crisis in Seville""
2658:"Liu Wenzhe vs Jan Hein Donner (1978) "The Chinese Immortal""
2586:"Boris Spassky vs Robert James Fischer (1972) "Fischer King""
2496:"Boris Spassky vs Tigran Petrosian (1969) "Taming the Tiger""
2388:"Boris Spassky vs David Bronstein (1960) "The SMERSH Gambit""
1690:"Emanuel Lasker vs William Ewart Napier (1904) "Pawnslaught""
1330:"Thomas Bowdler vs Henry Seymour Conway (1788) "Bowdlerized""
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3273:"Viswanathan Anand vs Magnus Carlsen (2013) Game of Thrones"
2899:"Vasyl Ivanchuk vs Viswanathan Anand (1992) "Double Vision""
2406:"Mikhail Tal vs Mikhail Botvinnik (1960) "Winawer Winnowed""
2238:"The Craziest Game of Chess Ever? - GingerGM Simon Williams"
1546:"Victor Knorre vs Mikhail Chigorin (1874) "Ineffective Pin""
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2845:"Vassily Ivanchuk vs Artur Yusupov (1991) "Brussels Routs""
2694:"Lajos Portisch vs Jozsef Pinter (1984) "Queenless Attack""
1963:"Glucksberg vs Miguel Najdorf (1929) "The Polish Immortal""
1945:"Richard Reti vs Alexander Alekhine (1925) "Roughin' Reti""
1726:"Akiba Rubinstein vs Emanuel Lasker (1909) "First Meeting""
1528:"Carl Hamppe vs Philipp Meitner (1872) "The Immortal Draw""
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3166:"The Liveliest Game at Corus? Anand Demolishing Karjakin"
2514:"Bent Larsen vs Boris Spassky (1970) "When Pawns Attack""
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2640:"Stefano Tatai vs Anatoly Karpov (1977) "TĂŞte-Ă -Tatai""
2442:"Eduard Gufeld vs Ljubomir Kavalek (1962) "Kavalanche""
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3513:"Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren (2033) "King Liren""
2917:"Nigel Short vs Garry Kasparov (1993) "Came Up Short""
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1981:"Edward Winter presents: Unsolved Chess Mysteries (7)"
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3298:"Wei Yi Plays 21st-Century Immortal Game - Chess.com"
2006:"Esteban Canal vs NN (1934) "A Man, a Plan, a Canal""
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3085:"Vladimir Kramnik vs Peter Leko (2004) "Last Dance""
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Wei Yi–Bruzon, Danzhou. In this game, chess prodigy
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won the tournament's brilliancy prize for this game.
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Adolf Anderssen vs Lionel Kieseritzky, London. "The
750:, based on a tournament game between A. Roesch and
2352:"Mikhail Tal vs Vasily Smyslov (1959) "Tal Tales""
2190:"Yuri Gusev vs E Auerbach (1946) Gusev's Immortal"
1474:"Louis Paulsen vs Paul Morphy (1857) "Morphy Us""
1157:becomes the 16th undisputed World Chess Champion.
306:, then one of the strongest players of the world.
138:La Bourdonnais–McDonnell, 62nd Match Game, London
102:Andrew Smith vs François André Philidor, London.
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3228:"Two of the World's Best in a Game for the Ages"
2622:"Anatoly Karpov vs Boris Spassky (1974) "AK-74""
2532:"Bruce Harper vs Bob Zuk (1971) "The Tomb Game""
1348:"Andrew Smith vs François André Philidor (1790)"
1274:List of chess games between Kasparov and Kramnik
167:Alexander Hoffmann vs Alexander Petrov, Warsaw.
92:Thomas Bowdler vs Henry Seymour Conway, London.
3373:"Jinshi Bai vs Ding Liren (2017) Unruly Minors"
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1780:"St Petersburg 1914: Chess on the brink of war"
1171:, and described as the "21st-century Immortal".
202:Adolf Anderssen vs Jean Dufresne, Berlin. "The
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1855:"Efim Bogoljubov vs Alexander Alekhine (1922)"
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561:, Simon & Schuster, 1949, pp. 392–93)
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2095:Copeland (SamCopeland), Sam (30 April 2021).
1269:List of chess games between Anand and Kramnik
653:Bogdan Sliwa vs David Bronstein, Gotha. "The
246:Carl Hamppe vs Philipp Meitner, Vienna. The "
3202:"Tata R04: Carlsen, Anand and Caruana score"
2262:"Efim Geller vs Max Euwe (1953) "Game Euwe""
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1636:"Edward Winter: Steinitz v von Bardeleben"
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3029:"Throwback Thursday: Kasparov's immortal"
3027:Alberto Colodro, Carlos (11 March 2021).
2802:"Anatoly Karpov vs Garry Kasparov (1990)"
16:Chronological list of notable chess games
2820:"The Time Limits They Are a-Changin'..."
1214:. In this game, reigning world champion
457:, Chernev, Faber & Faber Ltd, 1970).
216:Louis Paulsen vs Paul Morphy, New York.
1124:. In this game reigning world champion
1013:Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1997, Game 6
989:Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1996, Game 1
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2990:"The 10 Best Chess Moves Of All Time"
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3103:"Mtel R1: Kramnik beats Ponomariov"
1032:Kasparov–Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999
589:. Not to be confused with the late
206:". Adolf Anderssen mates with what
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3462:Graham, Bryan Armen (2021-12-03).
3164:Byrne, Robert (19 February 2006).
3046:"The Best Chess Games Of All Time"
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3643:Internet chess server
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747:2001: A Space Odyssey
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4572:Two Knights Defense
4512:Nimzowitsch Defence
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3839:Soviet chess school
3714:Dubrovnik chess set
2172:, 23 September 2012
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4710:Old Indian Defense
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585:Gusev–Auerbach,
577:Luis Roux Cabral
266:Mikhail Chigorin
238:Wilhelm Steinitz
169:Alexander Petrov
36:list of notable
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4690:Catalan Opening
4665:English Defence
4650:Budapest Gambit
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4594:Austrian Attack
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4409:
4405:School of chess
4388:Minority attack
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4289:Queen sacrifice
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4040:Touch-move rule
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624:
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493:Polish Immortal
336:
256:Philipp Meitner
191:Adolf Anderssen
159:Howard Staunton
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73:Gioachino Greco
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4966:Chess Olympiad
4963:
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4817:Scholar's mate
4814:
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4732:Queen's Gambit
4729:
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4719:
4718:
4717:
4712:
4707:
4702:
4697:
4692:
4687:
4682:
4677:
4675:Benoni Defence
4670:Indian Defence
4667:
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4507:Modern Defence
4504:
4502:French Defence
4499:
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4437:Bird's Opening
4434:
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4408:
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4368:Pawn structure
4365:
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4125:Half-open file
4117:
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4068:Chess notation
4065:
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4023:Pawn promotion
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3924:Women in chess
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3836:
3834:Hypermodernism
3831:
3829:Romantic chess
3826:
3824:Lewis chessmen
3821:
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3662:world rankings
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3013:Chessgames.com
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1155:Magnus Carlsen
1147:
1132:, then ranked
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1076:Garry Kasparov
1055:
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1047:Garry Kasparov
1036:
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997:world champion
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428:
425:back-rank mate
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204:Evergreen Game
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5277:Solving chess
5275:
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5267:Chess prodigy
5265:
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5250:Chess problem
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4747:Slav Defence
4655:Colle System
4630:Scheveningen
4589:Pirc Defence
4532:Italian Game
4527:Giuoco Piano
4472:RĂ©ti Opening
4395:Piece values
4383:MarĂłczy Bind
4344:the exchange
4334:Compensation
4264:Interference
4254:Double check
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4577:Vienna Game
4567:Scotch Game
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4301:Undermining
4269:Overloading
4229:Combination
4078:descriptive
3773:Chess table
3768:Chess clock
3584:Grandmaster
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3113:26 November
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587:Chelyabinsk
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218:Paul Morphy
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5260:joke chess
5213:Chess club
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4363:Middlegame
4351:Initiative
4274:Pawn storm
4239:Deflection
4110:Key square
4100:Fianchetto
4033:Fast chess
4017:En passant
3709:chessboard
3481:2021-12-04
3431:2018-07-15
3407:2020-01-01
3401:Chess News
3382:2018-07-15
3358:2018-07-15
3352:Chess News
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5228:AlphaZero
5136:paintings
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4557:Ruy Lopez
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4284:Sacrifice
4244:Desperado
4147:connected
4120:Open file
4115:King walk
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4004:Stalemate
3979:Checkmate
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