F-pawn fracas
Greco vs NN, 1619  (B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 8 moves, 1-0
"The Immortal Game"
Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851  (C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 23 moves, 1-0
"The Evergreen Game"
Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852  (C52) Evans Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0
"The Opera Game"
Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858  (C41) Philidor Defense, 17 moves, 1-0
Everything en prise to win
Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895  (C54) Giuoco Piano, 25 moves, 1-0
"The Pipe Game"
Marshall vs Burn, 1900  (D55) Queen's Gambit Declined, 18 moves, 1-0
The greatest move?
S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912  (B23) Sicilian, Closed, 23 moves, 0-1
A Benko Gambit fore-runner
Nimzowitsch vs Capablanca, 1914  (C62) Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense, 42 moves, 0-1
Central pawn avalanche
Tarrasch vs Alekhine, 1922  (E10) Queen's Pawn Game, 40 moves, 0-1
"The Immortal Zugzwang Game"
Saemisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1923  (E18) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 7.Nc3, 25 moves, 0-1
"The Polish Immortal"
Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929  (A85) Dutch, with c4 & Nc3, 22 moves, 0-1
An Olympiad brilliancy prize
Stahlberg vs Alekhine, 1930  (E23) Nimzo-Indian, Spielmann, 31 moves, 0-1
Storming the barricades
Alekhine vs Lasker, 1934  (D67) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line, 26 moves, 1-0
The Botvinnik Variation
Denker vs Botvinnik, 1945  (D44) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 25 moves, 0-1
A brilliant Italian Game in Venice
Tartakower vs Euwe, 1948  (C53) Giuoco Piano, 42 moves, 0-1
"The Game of the Century"
D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956  (D92) Grunfeld, 5.Bf4, 41 moves, 0-1
Beating the Dragon 101
Fischer vs Larsen, 1958  (B77) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 31 moves, 1-0
Good enough for a Bond film
Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960  (C36) King's Gambit Accepted, Abbazia Defense, 23 moves, 1-0
David downs Goliath in a model Benoni
J Penrose vs Tal, 1960  (A65) Benoni, 6.e4, 39 moves, 1-0
Samisch steamroller
Botvinnik vs Tal, 1961  (E24) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 33 moves, 1-0
Dubious pawn sacrifice leads to usual Tal fireworks
Tal vs Hecht, 1962  (E12) Queen's Indian, 49 moves, 1-0
The Patriarch on steroids
Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968  (A22) English, 26 moves, 1-0
When hypermodernism goes wrong
Larsen vs Spassky, 1970  (A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 17 moves, 0-1
Spassky squashed
Spassky vs Tal, 1973  (E30) Nimzo-Indian, Leningrad, 38 moves, 0-1
Asphyxiated
Karpov vs Unzicker, 1974  (C98) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 44 moves, 1-0
Miles wins with the Miles Variation
Miles vs Spassky, 1978  (E12) Queen's Indian, 28 moves, 1-0
Psychology in chess
Karpov vs Miles, 1980  (B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 46 moves, 0-1
Karpov's revenge
Seirawan vs Karpov, 1982  (D55) Queen's Gambit Declined, 30 moves, 0-1
An instructive pawn sacrifice
E Torre vs Spassky, 1982  (E13) Queen's Indian, 4.Nc3, Main line, 47 moves, 0-1
Mutual mistakes in a sharp King's Gambit
Spassky vs Karpov, 1982  (C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 84 moves, 1-0
Second to Nunn
Beliavsky vs Nunn, 1985  (E81) King's Indian, Samisch, 27 moves, 0-1
A Knight to remember
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985  (B44) Sicilian, 40 moves, 0-1
A tale of two Kings
Spassky vs Seirawan, 1985  (C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 32 moves, 1-0
A textbook KID hack-attack
Korchnoi vs Kasparov, 1991  (E99) King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 31 moves, 0-1
"The Return of the King"
Fischer vs Spassky, 1992  (C95) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer, 50 moves, 1-0
Miniature win with the Evans Gambit
Kasparov vs Anand, 1995  (C51) Evans Gambit, 25 moves, 1-0
Route-one chess
Judit Polgar vs Adams, 1999  (C89) Ruy Lopez, Marshall, 45 moves, 0-1
"The Alterman Wall"
B Alterman vs Deep Fritz, 2000  (A03) Bird's Opening, 87 moves, 1-0
A model game in the Dutch
P J Sowray vs R Pert, 2005  (A04) Reti Opening, 24 moves, 0-1
"Anand's immortal"
Karjakin vs Anand, 2006  (B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 37 moves, 0-1
A Dutch surprise
I Sokolov vs S Williams, 2006  (A96) Dutch, Classical Variation, 37 moves, 0-1
Reviving an ancient opening
Short vs Fressinet, 2010  (C55) Two Knights Defense, 29 moves, 1-0
No-nonsense chess beats the North Sea Defence
Adams vs Carlsen, 2010  (B06) Robatsch, 38 moves, 1-0
An Englishman wins in London with the English
McShane vs Carlsen, 2010  (A37) English, Symmetrical, 39 moves, 1-0
A Williams upset with the Dutch
R Wojtaszek vs S Williams, 2011  (A96) Dutch, Classical Variation, 20 moves, 0-1
Caro-Kann miniature
Shirov vs Anand, 2011  (B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 17 moves, 0-1
Shocking with the Smith-Morra
M Esserman vs Van Wely, 2011  (B21) Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4, 26 moves, 1-0
Kasparov given Short shrift
Short vs Kasparov, 2011  (C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 35 moves, 1-0
Unexpected Queen trap
Anand vs Gelfand, 2012  (D70) Neo-Grunfeld Defense, 17 moves, 1-0
A powerful exchange sacrifice
Aronian vs McShane, 2012  (D15) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 38 moves, 0-1
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