First game ever played Castellvi vs Vinyoles, 1475  (B01) Scandinavian, 21 moves, 1-0 Ruy Lopez strikes quickly Ruy Lopez vs G da Cutri, 1560  (C20) King's Pawn Game, 9 moves, 1-0 First Victory earned during the Middle Game Polerio vs Lorenzo, 1575  (C53) Giuoco Piano, 32 moves, 1-0 Knight and Bishop sacs lead to smothered mate Busnardo vs NN, 1590  (C53) Giuoco Piano, 14 moves, 1-0 Fried Liver attack succeeds Polerio vs Domenico, 1610  (C57) Two Knights, 21 moves, 1-0 Greco's Greatest? Greco vs NN, 1619  (B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 8 moves, 1-0 White King flees across the board and still wins! L L'Aisne vs Maubisson, 1680  (C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 35 moves, 1-0 Philidor's 1st game Philidor vs NN, 1749  (C23) Bishop's Opening, 40 moves, 1-0 1st recorded Blindfold game, nice endgame win J Bruehl vs Philidor, 1783  (C23) Bishop's Opening, 47 moves, 0-1 1st legit draw of all time? J Bruehl vs Philidor, 1787  (C23) Bishop's Opening, 44 moves, 1/2-1/2 The Little General is mated by a "Machine" Napoleon Bonaparte vs The Turk, 1809  (C20) King's Pawn Game, 24 moves, 0-1 How to play the Evans Gambit by its originator Captain Evans vs McDonnell, 1826  (C52) Evans Gambit, 20 moves, 1-0 1st Clash of Titans (the first world championship game?) La Bourdonnais vs McDonnell, 1834   (C21) Center Game, 51 moves, 1/2-1/2 Queen sac for two minor pieces prevails! (1st QP game here) La Bourdonnais vs McDonnell, 1834  (D20) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 36 moves, 0-1 1st International Group correspondence game London Chess Club vs Paris, 1836  (C01) French, Exchange, 27 moves, 0-1 Corner Pocket! (pawn grab by rook seals white's fate) Cochrane vs Staunton, 1841  (C23) Bishop's Opening, 20 moves, 0-1 Black castles (to hell with the Queen) and wins! F A Hoffmann vs A Petrov, 1844  (C53) Giuoco Piano, 20 moves, 0-1 The first true genius of chess beats his dad at 10 years of age Morphy vs A Morphy, 1848  (C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 18 moves, 1-0 Morphy at 12 already the best player in the world? Morphy vs Loewenthal, 1850  (B21) Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4, 49 moves, 1-0 Or is Anderssen the best player in the world? Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851  (C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 23 moves, 1-0 Anderssen stakes his claim again (mates in one less move!) Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852  (C52) Evans Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0 Morphy wins the 1st American Chess Congress (Queen sac!) Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857   (C48) Four Knights, 28 moves, 0-1 An American (in Paris) is the world's best player! Morphy vs Anderssen, 1858   (B44) Sicilian, 17 moves, 1-0 Corner Pocket II (very close to the Staunton as black game) A Steinkuehler vs Blackburne, 1863   (C54) Giuoco Piano, 22 moves, 0-1 A new Champion emerges (great double edged game!) Steinitz vs Anderssen, 1866  (C37) King's Gambit Accepted, 36 moves, 1-0 Steinitz official world champ-baits his King for black's Queen! Steinitz vs Zukertort, 1886  (C25) Vienna, 19 moves, 1-0 32. Bb4-Worst blunder in World Championship history? Chigorin vs Steinitz, 1892  (C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 32 moves, 0-1 Gratuitous Pawn Pushing pays the price! Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907   (D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 0-1 Experience wins over Youth (Sammy was just 9!) Reshevsky vs Ed Lasker, 1921  (C80) Ruy Lopez, Open, 29 moves, 0-1 A woman beats an upcoming world champ for the first time! Euwe vs Menchik, 1930  (D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 61 moves, 0-1 The new American Genius emerges! (best tactical game ever?) D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956   (D92) Grunfeld, 5.Bf4, 41 moves, 0-1 From Russia with Love-Spassky plays beautifully! Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960  (C36) King's Gambit Accepted, Abbazia Defense, 23 moves, 1-0 Tal's knight sac shocker, 6th game of the World Championship Botvinnik vs Tal, 1960  (E69) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line, 47 moves, 0-1 Worst defeat of a Candidates qualifier by a World Champ? Larsen vs Spassky, 1970  (A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 17 moves, 0-1 4 losses, no wins vs Spassky lifetime-Bobby breaks through! Spassky vs Fischer, 1972  (A61) Benoni, 41 moves, 0-1 Fischer plays a QP game for the first time in his life and wins Fischer vs Spassky, 1972  (D59) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower, 41 moves, 1-0 e5 blunder costs Karpov his world title, Kasparov is new King! Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985  (B84) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 42 moves, 0-1 Karpov only needs a draw to win the title but Kasparov wins! Kasparov vs Karpov, 1987   (A13) English, 64 moves, 1-0 A near 50 year old still the world's best player? Maybe... Fischer vs Spassky, 1992  (C95) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer, 50 moves, 1-0 A woman beats a current world champion for the 1st time! Judit Polgar vs Karpov, 1993  (E54) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System, 32 moves, 1-0 A non-human becomes the best chess player in the world?! Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997  (B17) Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation, 19 moves, 1-0 Black is forced to promote to a knight which gets rook trapped! Kamsky vs Bacrot, 2006  (C88) Ruy Lopez, 103 moves, 1-0 Karpov Mates Kasparov in less than 40 moves Kasparov vs Karpov, 1987  (A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 32 moves, 0-1 One bad move by Black and it's over Karpov vs Hort, 1978  (B17) Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation, 25 moves, 1-0 Tal sacs his Queen for bishop diagonal M Bobotsov vs Tal, 1958  (E81) King's Indian, Samisch, 30 moves, 0-1 Marshall attack! Marshall vs Von Scheve, 1904  (C39) King's Gambit Accepted, 31 moves, 1-0 Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958  (A54) Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3, 33 moves, 0-1