Name↕ | White↕ | Black↕ | Year↕ | Result↕ | Claim to Fame↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Immortal Game | Adolf Anderssen | Lionel Kieseritzky | 1851 | 1-0 | Anderssen sacrificed both rooks, a bishop and the queen to win |
The Evergreen Game | Adolf Anderssen | Jean Dufresne | 1852 | 1-0 | Brilliant double bishop sacrifice attack |
The Opera Game | Paul Morphy | Duke of Brunswick / Count Isouard | 1858 | 1-0 | Played at the Paris Opera during a Norma performance |
The Game of the Century | Donald Byrne | Bobby Fischer (age 13) | 1956 | 0-1 | 13-year-old Fischer's queen sacrifice masterpiece |
Fischer vs Spassky, Game 6 | Bobby Fischer | Boris Spassky | 1972 | 1-0 | Cold War showdown; Spassky applauded Fischer's brilliance |
Kasparov vs Deep Blue, Game 6 | Deep Blue (IBM) | Garry Kasparov | 1997 | 1-0 | First time a reigning world champion lost a match to a computer |
Kasparov vs Topalov, Wijk aan Zee | Garry Kasparov | Veselin Topalov | 1999 | 1-0 | Considered the greatest game of the modern era; long king hunt |
Karpov vs Kasparov, World Championship 1985 | Various | Various | 1985 | Kasparov 13-11 | Kasparov became youngest world champion at age 22 |
Capablanca vs Marshall (Marshall Attack) | José Raúl Capablanca | Frank Marshall | 1918 | 1-0 | Marshall unleashed his prepared gambit; Capablanca refuted it OTB |
Botvinnik vs Capablanca, AVRO | Mikhail Botvinnik | José Raúl Capablanca | 1938 | 1-0 | Famous Be7! winning combination |
Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov | Lev Polugaevsky | Rashid Nezhmetdinov | 1958 | 0-1 | Queen sacrifice followed by 25 moves of brilliant tactics |
Aronian vs Anand, Wijk aan Zee | Levon Aronian | Viswanathan Anand | 2013 | 0-1 | Anand's stunning ...Nde5! sacrificial combination |
Carlsen vs Karjakin, World Championship | Various | Various | 2016 | Carlsen 3-1 (rapid) | Decided in tiebreaks on Carlsen's 26th birthday |
Short vs Timman, Tilburg | Nigel Short | Jan Timman | 1991 | 1-0 | Famous king march from h1 to h6 to deliver mate |
Niemann vs Carlsen, Sinquefield Cup | Hans Niemann | Magnus Carlsen | 2022 | 1-0 | Triggered the biggest cheating scandal in modern chess |
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