The original Immortal Game
Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851  (C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 23 moves, 1-0
Chess leave childhood following a prodigy child
Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858  (C41) Philidor Defense, 17 moves, 1-0
XIX century fireworks
Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883  (A13) English, 33 moves, 1-0
The man who teach us how to play, in his finest hour
Steinitz vs von Bardeleben, 1895  (C54) Giuoco Piano, 25 moves, 1-0
The Stone Guest
Pillsbury vs Tarrasch, 1895  (D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 52 moves, 1-0
Lasker begin to rule his new kingdom
Pillsbury vs Lasker, 1896  (D50) Queen's Gambit Declined, 30 moves, 0-1
The essential is invisible to the eyes
Pillsbury vs Lasker, 1896  (C11) French, 50 moves, 1-0
Chessboard Oddissey
Chigorin vs J Mortimer, 1900  (C25) Vienna, 27 moves, 1-0
The revenge is at the end of the way
Pillsbury vs Lasker, 1904  (D50) Queen's Gambit Declined, 30 moves, 1-0
Indisputable superiority in endgames
Marshall vs Lasker, 1907  (C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 50 moves, 0-1
The finest hour of an exquisite player
Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907  (D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 0-1
Release the Kraken
Capablanca vs Marshall, 1909  (C62) Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense, 39 moves, 1-0
Playing with the force of a world champion
Rubinstein vs Lasker, 1909  (D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 40 moves, 1-0
Burned by a beam
S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912  (B23) Sicilian, Closed, 23 moves, 0-1
Medusa's head
Lasker vs Capablanca, 1914  (C68) Ruy Lopez, Exchange, 42 moves, 1-0
The first encounter betwen classics and neoromantics
A Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1914  (D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 32 moves, 0-1
The invincible chess machine process a novelty on chessboard
Capablanca vs Marshall, 1918  (C89) Ruy Lopez, Marshall, 36 moves, 1-0
Promoting pawn race
Tarrasch vs Tartakower, 1920  (D08) Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit, 39 moves, 1-0
remarkable precission's clockwork
Lasker vs Capablanca, 1921  (D61) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, 68 moves, 0-1
The wizard begins to do his sorceries
Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922  (A90) Dutch, 53 moves, 0-1
The difference between combination and sacrifice
Maroczy vs Tartakower, 1922  (A84) Dutch, 35 moves, 0-1
The Immortal Zugzwang Game
Saemisch vs A Nimzowitsch, 1923  (E18) Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 7.Nc3, 25 moves, 0-1
It seems to be so natural when Capablanca play it
Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924  (A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 52 moves, 1-0
Master class of hypermodern concepts
Reti vs Bogoljubov, 1924  (A13) English, 25 moves, 1-0
A day in the horse races
Reti vs Alekhine, 1925  (A00) Uncommon Opening, 40 moves, 0-1
Facing to the windmills
Torre vs Lasker, 1925  (A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 43 moves, 1-0
Akiba in Wonderland
A Nimzowitsch vs Rubinstein, 1926  (A34) English, Symmetrical, 46 moves, 1-0
Giants's fight
Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927  (D52) Queen's Gambit Declined, 66 moves, 0-1
The Polish Immortal
Glucksberg vs Najdorf, 1930  (A85) Dutch, with c4 & Nc3, 22 moves, 0-1
Soviet school of chess begins his mass production
Lilienthal vs Capablanca, 1935  (E24) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 26 moves, 1-0
Modern time needs a new hero: Iron Man
Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938  (E40) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, 41 moves, 1-0
The sword in the stone
Botvinnik vs Euwe, 1948  (D49) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran, 36 moves, 1-0
The Knight who became in king
Tartakower vs Euwe, 1948  (C53) Giuoco Piano, 42 moves, 0-1
A model attack in king side
Alatortsev vs Boleslavsky, 1950  (A54) Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3, 27 moves, 0-1
The peasant's revolt
Botvinnik vs Smyslov, 1954  (E67) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 33 moves, 0-1
The Game of the Century
D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956  (D92) Grunfeld, 5.Bf4, 41 moves, 0-1
The magician from Riga
Tal vs Smyslov, 1959  (B10) Caro-Kann, 26 moves, 1-0
I play to win
Larsen vs Geller, 1960  (A00) Uncommon Opening, 39 moves, 1-0
Breaking the chains
Letelier vs Fischer, 1960  (E70) King's Indian, 23 moves, 0-1
From Russia with love
Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960  (C36) King's Gambit Accepted, Abbazia Defense, 23 moves, 1-0
Matter and energy
Fischer vs Tal, 1961  (B47) Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation, 47 moves, 1-0
Enter the tiger
Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961  (A07) King's Indian Attack, 21 moves, 1-0
The rebel
Korchnoi vs Tal, 1962  (A62) Benoni, Fianchetto Variation, 54 moves, 1-0
Time we don't have is more important than the material we have
Tal vs Larsen, 1965  (B82) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 37 moves, 1-0
Tiger's ambush
Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966  (E63) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation, 30 moves, 1-0
Stainless steel
Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968  (A22) English, 26 moves, 1-0
Cinderella's Tale
Larsen vs Spassky, 1970  (A01) Nimzovich-Larsen Attack, 17 moves, 0-1
Best by conquest
Fischer vs Spassky, 1972  (D59) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower, 41 moves, 1-0
Dragon's slayer
Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1974  (B77) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 27 moves, 1-0
Old man's wisdom
Smyslov vs Ribli, 1983  (D42) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 7.Bd3, 41 moves, 1-0
Kingdom's keys
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1984  (D34) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 70 moves, 1-0
British phlegm
A Beliavsky vs Nunn, 1985  (E81) King's Indian, Samisch, 27 moves, 0-1
A monster in the chessboard
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985  (B44) Sicilian, 40 moves, 0-1
Ancient magic
Tal vs Karpov, 1987  (B10) Caro-Kann, 30 moves, 1-0
KK Brainstorming
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1990  (C92) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 41 moves, 1-0
Morphy's style victory
Seirawan vs Timman, 1990  (E12) Queen's Indian, 26 moves, 1-0
The ogre caught in his cave
Ivanchuk vs Kasparov, 1991  (B51) Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack, 38 moves, 1-0
Way is done walking
Short vs Timman, 1991  (B04) Alekhine's Defense, Modern, 34 moves, 1-0
The separation of the waters
Kasparov vs Kramnik, 1994  (B33) Sicilian, 36 moves, 1-0
Man versus machine
Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997  (C93) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense, 45 moves, 1-0
Kasparov's Immortal
Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999  (B07) Pirc, 44 moves, 1-0
The bridge over troubled waters
Kramnik vs Leko, 2004  (B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 41 moves, 1-0
Topalov vs Anand, 2005  (E15) Queen's Indian, 52 moves, 1-0
Kramnik vs Anand, 2008  (D49) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran, 35 moves, 0-1
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