Morphy's Envy - The Game of the Century
D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956  (D92) Grunfeld, 5.Bf4, 41 moves, 0-1
Sac..sac..sac....checkmate!! - The Immortal Game
Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851  (C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 23 moves, 1-0
Chess theory 101: Check is the compulsoriest of moves
Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852  (C52) Evans Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0
A crash course on deflecting tactics
E Z Adams vs Torre, 1920  (C41) Philidor Defense, 23 moves, 1-0
Rock me NOT De Beus
G Tringov vs Fischer, 1965  (B97) Sicilian, Najdorf, 22 moves, 0-1
King“s Imperial March
C van de Loo vs M Hesseling, 1983  (C57) Two Knights, 48 moves, 1-0
That king must be nuts!
Nakamura vs J Fluvia Poyatos, 2007  (D80) Grunfeld, 43 moves, 1-0
Thinking Ahead
Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999  (B07) Pirc, 44 moves, 1-0
The Barber Of Paris
Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858  (C41) Philidor Defense, 17 moves, 1-0
Honey, will you please go and bring him to me? Thanks
Ed. Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1912  (A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 18 moves, 1-0
Herculean effort elegantly wasted
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1991  (E97) King's Indian, 114 moves, 1/2-1/2
White has 3 Queens ---> 0-1
Belov vs V Prohorov, 1991  (E97) King's Indian, 82 moves, 0-1
Please take all my minor pieces :) - The Polish Immortal
Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1929  (A85) Dutch, with c4 & Nc3, 22 moves, 0-1
Double Check and Mate
F A Hoffmann vs A Petrov, 1844  (C53) Giuoco Piano, 20 moves, 0-1
No Retreat, yes Surrender
Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961  (A07) King's Indian Attack, 21 moves, 1-0
When having a winning position is not enough
L Carranza vs Alekhine, 1926  (C79) Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense Deferred, 18 moves, 0-1
A reason for NOT playing P-KR3
Alekhine vs Vasic, 1931  (C15) French, Winawer, 11 moves, 1-0
Unexpected Checkmate
Reti vs Tartakower, 1910  (B15) Caro-Kann, 11 moves, 1-0
It's a king's hunt!
Polugaevsky vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1958  (A54) Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3, 33 moves, 0-1
13. Nxh8 # (that's right, WTF????)
Morphy vs Le Carpentier, 1849  (000) Chess variants, 13 moves, 1-0
Up the F
Beliavsky vs Nunn, 1985  (E81) King's Indian, Samisch, 27 moves, 0-1
Chekers! No, Chess! No, Checkers! All right...checker chess!
Alekhine vs NN, 1915  (C12) French, McCutcheon, 29 moves, 1-0
Akiba's King Exposed !!
Rubinstein vs Spielmann, 1912  (A84) Dutch, 42 moves, 0-1
The Longest Forced Combination
Alekhine vs Yates, 1923  (E62) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 50 moves, 0-1
Brute Force Overrunnning
Kramnik vs Kasparov, 1994  (E92) King's Indian, 39 moves, 0-1
Violence on the board
Karpov vs Anand, 1998  (D47) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 108 moves, 1-0
Destroying Alex
Maroczy vs Tartakower, 1922  (A84) Dutch, 35 moves, 0-1
Kamikaze Actions
J Gallagher vs S Conquest, 1988  (C34) King's Gambit Accepted, 35 moves, 0-1
Treachery
S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912  (B23) Sicilian, Closed, 23 moves, 0-1
No captures, no checks #1
A Medina Garcia vs Gligoric, 1968  (C93) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense, 29 moves, 0-1
No captures, no checks #2
R Nuber vs R Keckeisen, 1994  (A00) Uncommon Opening, 31 moves, 1-0
Black-Attack!
Tarrasch vs Alekhine, 1922  (E10) Queen's Pawn Game, 40 moves, 0-1
King goes marching
R Steel vs R Macdonald Ross, 1884  (C25) Vienna, 26 moves, 1/2-1/2
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