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My Favorite Games of the World Champions
Compiled by Lokaz
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As a blundering patzer, I humbly arrange these recordings of what I believe show the style of our World Champions at their prime. Never faltering, never surrendering. Whether it is a swift and fluid endgame wrapped with brilliance, or a sparkling attack that shatters an entire army, or the demonstration of completely insane but winning conceptions, they are here.

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

Lasker
Lasker vs Capablanca, 1914 
(C68) Ruy Lopez, Exchange, 42 moves, 1-0

Capablanca
Capablanca vs K Treybal, 1929 
(D11) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 58 moves, 1-0

Alekhine
Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 
(A90) Dutch, 53 moves, 0-1

Euwe
Geller vs Euwe, 1953 
(E26) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 26 moves, 0-1

Botvinnik
Botvinnik vs Keres, 1948 
(E28) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch Variation, 23 moves, 1-0

Smyslov
Smyslov vs Ribli, 1983 
(D42) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 7.Bd3, 41 moves, 1-0

Tal
J Rukavina vs Tal, 1973 
(A04) Reti Opening, 27 moves, 0-1

Petrosian
Kasparov vs Petrosian, 1981 
(D25) Queen's Gambit Accepted, 42 moves, 0-1

Spassky
Spassky vs Geller, 1968 
(B25) Sicilian, Closed, 32 moves, 1-0

Fischer
Fischer vs Benko, 1963 
(B09) Pirc, Austrian Attack, 21 moves, 1-0

Karpov
Karpov vs Unzicker, 1974 
(C98) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 44 moves, 1-0

Kasparov
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985 
(B44) Sicilian, 40 moves, 0-1

Kramnik
Kramnik vs Kasparov, 1994 
(E93) King's Indian, Petrosian System, 41 moves, 1-0

Anand
Kramnik vs Anand, 2008 
(D49) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran, 35 moves, 0-1

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