Special Mention: Most amazing and Beautiful mate I've ever seen
Morphy vs Le Carpentier, 1849  (000) Chess variants, 13 moves, 1-0
Pillsbury shows Tarrasch you how to play real CHESS!
Pillsbury vs Tarrasch, 1895  (D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 52 moves, 1-0
"Let's see if you can defend against this!"
Larsen vs Petrosian, 1966  (B39) Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Breyer Variation, 30 moves, 1-0
Topalov shows why he was former world champ. (against another)!
Topalov vs Ponomariov, 2005  (E15) Queen's Indian, 30 moves, 1-0
A great example of Timman's finnese in the attack.
Timman vs Kasparov, 1985  (C93) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense, 41 moves, 1-0
Just a picturesque final position!
L Trent vs D Tan, 2002  (A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 27 moves, 1-0
Pushed of the board
Kramnik vs Topalov, 2003  (B45) Sicilian, Taimanov, 39 moves, 1-0
Jees how many consecutive checks can be made in a serious game!
Portisch vs J Pinter, 1984  (D41) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 33 moves, 0-1
The "Kitchen Sink" attack!
Malinin vs A Andreev, 1989  (A58) Benko Gambit, 32 moves, 1-0
Possibly the most artistic of Tarrrasch's career.
Tarrasch vs Marotti / Napoli / de Simone / del, 1914  (A03) Bird's Opening, 31 moves, 1-0
The Immortal Sacrifice game
L Milman vs J Fang, 2005  (B18) Caro-Kann, Classical, 31 moves, 1-0
Tal plays like a God (like but not so)!
Tal vs W R Chandler, 1974  (B01) Scandinavian, 22 moves, 1-0
Blindfold attack!
Ivanchuk vs Van Wely, 2006  (B80) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 29 moves, 1-0
Here kingy kingy kingy, here kingy kingy kingy kingy, good boy!
Krasenkow vs Nakamura, 2007  (A14) English, 28 moves, 0-1
Shirov!
J Saksis vs Shirov, 1985  (B99) Sicilian, Najdorf, 7...Be7 Main line, 37 moves, 0-1
!!!
Schlechter vs Meitner, 1899  (C54) Giuoco Piano, 34 moves, 1-0
Petrosian the Great!!
Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966  (E63) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation, 30 moves, 1-0
Mate in 13! Let's see if you can find it!
Schiffers vs Nolde, 1872  (C51) Evans Gambit, 27 moves, 1-0
"The Swindle of the Century"
Evans vs Reshevsky, 1963  (E55) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System, Bronstein Variation, 50 moves, 1/2-1/2
Black - 2, Queens White - 3 Queens = 0-1
Belov vs V Prohorov, 1991  (E97) King's Indian, 82 moves, 0-1
What it would be like if Morphy was a modern day player!
Bird vs Morphy, 1858  (C41) Philidor Defense, 29 moves, 0-1
Brutal attack! (White's queen looked like dead meat)
Polugaevsky vs I Bilek, 1969  (A30) English, Symmetrical, 32 moves, 1-0
Oll's Immortal
Oll vs M Ulybin, 1989  (C18) French, Winawer, 34 moves, 1-0
Here's my rook, here's my other and oh don't forget my queen!
Maczynski vs W H Pratten, 1948  (C53) Giuoco Piano, 22 moves, 0-1
The Ukrain Immortal
E Korchmar vs Y Polyak, 1937  (C62) Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense, 23 moves, 1-0
"The Uruguayan Immortal"
B Molinari vs L Roux Cabral, 1943  (D48) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran, 33 moves, 0-1
The Zugzwang Symphony! - Tartakower
Capablanca vs Kostic, 1919  (C42) Petrov Defense, 86 moves, 1-0
The Brazilian Immortal
J Caldas Vianna vs A S Paes de Barros, 1900  (C52) Evans Gambit, 33 moves, 1-0
And who said Correspondence games had to be boring!
N Tegelman (Johansson) vs R Rey Ardid, 1933  (C98) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 47 moves, 1-0
Best by PROtest........1.c4!
Fischer vs Spassky, 1972  (D59) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower, 41 moves, 1-0
Kasparov's King runs in the face of Kramnik's attack!
Kasparov vs Kramnik, 1996  (D47) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 35 moves, 0-1
A nail-bitter!
Bronstein vs Keres, 1955  (E41) Nimzo-Indian, 39 moves, 1-0
Possibly Reti's greatest game
Reti vs Capablanca, 1924  (A15) English, 31 moves, 1-0
How does Paul do it?
Euwe vs Keres, 1940  (E19) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3, 34 moves, 0-1
Nunn's Immortal
Beliavsky vs Nunn, 1985  (E81) King's Indian, Samisch, 27 moves, 0-1
16.Nd5! I bet you didn't expect that
Tal vs Larsen, 1965  (B82) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 37 moves, 1-0
Wow......................just wow
C Hoi vs Gulko, 1988  (A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 31 moves, 1-0
A sac that just looks so unsound
R Nezhmetdinov vs O Chernikov, 1962  (B32) Sicilian, 33 moves, 1-0
The greatest WCC championship ever??.....Maybe
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1990  (C92) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 41 moves, 1-0
Kramnik looks down and out but......
Ivanchuk vs Kramnik, 1996  (B62) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, 32 moves, 0-1
1...a6 and Miles goes on to win!
Karpov vs Miles, 1980  (B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 46 moves, 0-1
Play like Traxler!
J Reinisch vs Traxler, 1890  (C57) Two Knights, 17 moves, 0-1
You must be insane to do that!
Kramnik vs Kasparov, 1994  (E93) King's Indian, Petrosian System, 41 moves, 1-0
B greater than N? Nonsense
Sutovsky vs L Pantsulaia, 2008  (B18) Caro-Kann, Classical, 50 moves, 1-0
Very strange strategy
Petrosian vs Aronin, 1961  (A04) Reti Opening, 40 moves, 1-0
The zugzwanger is zugzwanged!
Alekhine vs Nimzowitsch, 1930  (C17) French, Winawer, Advance, 30 moves, 1-0
Under-appreciated beauty
J Perrier vs F J Wellmuth, 1917  (B01) Scandinavian, 22 moves, 1-0
Hecht never thought it was
Tal vs H Hecht, 1962  (E12) Queen's Indian, 49 moves, 1-0
Chigorin, the last romantic? No, Marshall is!
Marshall vs Chigorin, 1905  (A83) Dutch, Staunton Gambit, 30 moves, 1-0
NN was stupid to play the dragon against Tal!
Tal vs R Forbis, 1988  (B77) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 30 moves, 1-0
Tal drops a piece but muddies the waters and draws!
Portisch vs Tal, 1964  (A04) Reti Opening, 39 moves, 1/2-1/2
Christiansen shows Sereiwan how to attack
L Christiansen vs Seirawan, 1978  (B08) Pirc, Classical, 42 moves, 1-0
Steinitz fooling around
Steinitz vs Paulsen, 1870  (C25) Vienna, 36 moves, 1-0
Carlsen slays his own pet.
Carlsen vs Radjabov, 2008  (B78) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long, 37 moves, 1-0
You just wonder where white went wrong (as bxc3 is barely that)
L Gonzalez vs G H Perrine, 1943  (E33) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 24 moves, 0-1
22...Kh8 and all white's pieces are en prise!
Reshevsky vs A Vasconcellos, 1944  (C02) French, Advance, 26 moves, 1-0
THE most awesome endgame ever.........
Tylkowski vs A Wojciechowski, 1931  (A03) Bird's Opening, 40 moves, 0-1
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