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Immortal games
Compiled by KokeFischer
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You are going to love these immortal struggles! (World champions and best players of all times)

Staunton: creator of forms
Saint-Amant vs Staunton, 1843 
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 66 moves, 0-1

Anderssen's immortal
Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851  
(C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 23 moves, 1-0

A night at the opera
Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858  
(C41) Philidor Defense, 17 moves, 1-0

Zukertort's immortal
Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 
(A13) English, 33 moves, 1-0

The battle of Hastings
Steinitz vs von Bardeleben, 1895 
(C54) Giuoco Piano, 25 moves, 1-0

Pillsbury classic attack
Pillsbury vs Tarrasch, 1895 
(D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 52 moves, 1-0

Maroczy music
Maroczy vs Chigorin, 1903 
(C37) King's Gambit Accepted, 24 moves, 1-0

Rubinstein's immortal
Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907  
(D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 0-1

Marshall's american beauty
S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912 
(B23) Sicilian, Closed, 23 moves, 0-1

Tarrasch the thought
A Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1914  
(D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 32 moves, 0-1

Lasker's rage against the machine
Lasker vs Capablanca, 1914 
(C68) Ruy Lopez, Exchange, 42 moves, 1-0

Alekhine's russian challenger
Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 
(A90) Dutch, 53 moves, 0-1

Tartakower's immortal
Maroczy vs Tartakower, 1922 
(A84) Dutch, 35 moves, 0-1

The Nimzowitchean immortal zugzwang game
Saemisch vs A Nimzowitsch, 1923  
(E18) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 7.Nc3, 25 moves, 0-1

A Reti knight in Capablanca
Reti vs Capablanca, 1924 
(A15) English, 31 moves, 1-0

The other blanca immortal zugzwang
A Nimzowitsch vs Capablanca, 1927  
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 46 moves, 0-1

The polish immortal
Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1930 
(A85) Dutch, with c4 & Nc3, 22 moves, 0-1

Botvinnik's jewel
Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938 
(E40) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, 41 moves, 1-0

Keres and the former dutch champion
Euwe vs Keres, 1940 
(E19) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3, 34 moves, 0-1

Do not shoot the piano man
Tartakower vs Euwe, 1948 
(C53) Giuoco Piano, 42 moves, 0-1

Mikhailovich is refuted
Botvinnik vs Smyslov, 1954 
(E67) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 33 moves, 0-1

Fischer's: Immortal of the history!
D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956  
(D92) Grunfeld, 5.Bf4, 41 moves, 0-1

Nezhmet Kismet
Polugaevsky vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1958 
(A53) Old Indian, 33 moves, 0-1

Spassky's Immortal: popularized in a 007 film!
Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960 
(C36) King's Gambit Accepted, Abbazia Defense, 23 moves, 1-0

Hunter hunted
Korchnoi vs Tal, 1962 
(A62) Benoni, Fianchetto Variation, 54 moves, 1-0

Tal's sacrifice
Tal vs B Larsen, 1965  
(B82) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 37 moves, 1-0

Petrosian's petra
Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 
(E63) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation, 30 moves, 1-0

Ivanchuk hunts a mouse
Ivanchuk vs Kasparov, 1991 
(B51) Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack, 38 moves, 1-0

Karpov's immortal
Karpov vs Topalov, 1994 
(A32) English, Symmetrical Variation, 39 moves, 1-0

Anand and the lion
Anand vs Kasparov, 1995 
(B84) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 35 moves, 1-0

Kasparov's immortal
Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999 
(B07) Pirc, 44 moves, 1-0

Kramnik's grip
Kramnik vs Leko, 2004  
(B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 41 moves, 1-0

Topalov's immortal
Topalov vs Kramnik, 2008 
(D44) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 45 moves, 1-0

Wonder boy
Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2008 
(A30) English, Symmetrical, 57 moves, 0-1

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