List of famous chess games

The list of famous chess games includes chess games that are very well known among chess players for various reasons. These include "immortals" and differently named games as well as games that became known outside the chess community, for example by being shown in a well-known film. Historically significant games can also be found here, such as the first defeat of a world chess champion against a computer.

• Naval Cadet Mat in the Café de la Regence , Paris 1750.
• McDonnell - La Bourdonnais , Paris 1834, avalanche of peasants in the center .
• Immortal match between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky , London 1851.
• Evergreen game between Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne , Berlin 1852.
• Game between Paul Morphy and Duke Karl von Braunschweig and Count Isoard in a box of the Paris Opera 1858 (→ Morphy - Karl von Braunschweig and Graf Isoard, Paris 1858 ).
• Analysis by Adolf Anderssen and Max Lange in Breslau in 1859 , in which Schwarz offers a queen sacrifice to force an opening of the line .
• Immortal draw game between Carl Hamppe and Philipp Meitner , Vienna 1870.
• Zukertort - Blackburne, London 1883 , Zukertort's pearl.
• Lasker - Bauer, Amsterdam 1889 , double runner sacrifice.
• Siegbert Tarrasch against Georg Marco in 1892 with the Tarrasch trap .
• Steinitz - von Bardeleben, Hastings 1895 , Steinitz '"Immortals" ( Emil Schallopp ).
• Pillsbury - Lasker, Saint Petersburg 1896 , the game after which Pillsbury broke down.
• Rotlewi - Rubinstein, Lodz 1907, Rubinstein's Immortal Part .
• Réti - Tartakower, Vienna 1910 , well-known and beautiful final combination .
• Lasker - Schlechter, Berlin 1910, 10th match in which Lasker still claimed his world title.
• Capablanca - Bernstein, San Sebastián 1911 , Capablanca's debut in the international arena.
• Ed. Lasker - Thomas, London 1912 , with the well-known combination in which even mate was possible through long castling .
• Lasker - Capablanca, St. Petersburg 1914 , the game that was about the coveted tournament victory in St. Petersburg .
• Alekhine's "five-women game" (allegedly Alekhine - Grigorjew, Moscow 1915): see MacCutcheon variant
• Adams - Torre, New Orleans 1920 , which was probably only composed.
• Bogoljubow - Alekhine, Bad Pistyan 1922 , is quoted as "Czentovic - adviser" in Stefan Zweig's chess novella
• Bogoljubow - Alekhine, Hastings 1922 , "The greatest masterpiece that was ever created on the chessboard" ( Irving Chernev ).
• Immortal forced play between Friedrich Sämisch and Aaron Nimzowitsch , Copenhagen 1923.
• Réti - Alekhine, Baden-Baden 1925 , Alekhine's most famous game.
• “ Polish Immortals ” Glucksberg versus Najdorf, Warsaw 1930
• Tylkowski - Wojciechowski, Poznań 1931 , with the combination that later became famous as "Ortueta - Sanz".
• Ukrainian immortals between Yefim Korchmar and Yevsei Polyak, 1937
• Kashdan's Immortals , Boris Siff versus Isaac Kashdan, New York 1933 (1948 according to other sources)
• Peruvian immortals , played by Esteban Canal , Budapest 1934.
• Pearl of Zandvoort (Euwe - Aljechin 1935).
• Botvinnik - Capablanca, Rotterdam 1938 , the best-known part by Mikhail Moissejewitsch Botvinnik .
• Uruguayan immortals between Molinari and Louis Roux Cabral, played in Montevideo in 1943.
• Game of the Century between Bobby Fischer and Donald Byrne , New York 1956.
• Kronsteen - McAdams, From Russia With Love ( 1963 ), alias Spasski - Bronstein, USSR Championship 1960 .
• Immortal long distance game in 1964 between Sundin and Andersson in the world tournament.
• Dr. Frank Poole - HAL 9000 , famous role in the film " 2001: A Space Odyssey ", real: Roesch - Schlage, Hamburg 1910 .
• Advisory game readers from Pionerskaya Pravda - Mikhail Tal ( 1969 ), where Tal skipped the victory.
• Larsen - Spasski, Belgrade 1970 ; Spasski's world-famous victory over Bent Larsen in 17 moves.
• Eduard Gufeld's Mona Lisa , 1973.
• Ivanchuk - Yusupov, Brussels 1991 , Artur Yusupov invents an irresistible mate.
• Short - Timman, Tilburg 1991 , “Shorts Königswanderung on full board”.
• Kasparow - Lautier, Linares 1994 , Joël Lautier defeated Garri Kasparow in 29 moves, leading the black stones.
• Deep Blue - Kasparow, Philadelphia 1996, 1st competition game . The first game loss of a reigning world chess champion against a chess computer under tournament conditions.
• Kasparov versus the World , game played over the Internet in 1999 .
• Kasparow - Topalow, Wijk aan Zee 1999 , Tower sacrifice, the most commented game in the world.
• Anand - Rəcəbov, Dortmund 2003 , Rəcəbov's lady sacrifice.

literature

• Graham Burgess , John Nunn , John Emms : The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games . Running Press, Philadelphia 2010. ISBN 978-0-7624-3995-9 .