McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834  (B32) Sicilian, 37 moves, 0-1
Petrov's Immortal
F A Hoffmann vs A Petrov, 1844  (C53) Giuoco Piano, 20 moves, 0-1
The Immortal Game
Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851  (C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 23 moves, 1-0
The Evergreen Game
Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852  (C52) Evans Gambit, 20 moves, 1-0
The Opera Game
Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858  (C41) Philidor Defense, 17 moves, 1-0
Smother of Invention
Morphy vs Schrufer, 1859  (C56) Two Knights, 24 moves, 1-0
Schlechter's Immortal
B Fleissig vs Schlechter, 1893  (A00) Uncommon Opening, 18 moves, 0-1
Rubinstein's Immortal
Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907  (D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 0-1
Sucker Punch
Reti vs Tartakower, 1910  (B15) Caro-Kann, 11 moves, 1-0
Alekhine vs Levenfish, 1912  (A43) Old Benoni, 19 moves, 1-0
The Triple Queen Sacrifice
Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922  (A90) Dutch, 53 moves, 0-1
Rook Before you Leap
Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924  (A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 52 moves, 1-0
Seventh Seal
Torre vs Lasker, 1925  (A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 43 moves, 1-0
A Thing of the Passed
Botvinnik vs Capablanca, 1938  (E40) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, 41 moves, 1-0
Reshevsky vs A Vasconcellos, 1944  (C02) French, Advance, 26 moves, 1-0
The Game of the Century
D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956  (D92) Grunfeld, 5.Bf4, 41 moves, 0-1
Nezhmet Kismet
Polugaevsky vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1958  (A53) Old Indian, 33 moves, 0-1
Tricks are for KIDs
Botvinnik vs Tal, 1960  (E69) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line, 47 moves, 0-1
Tal vs NN, 1963  (B96) Sicilian, Najdorf, 19 moves, 1-0
A Bent Pin
Tal vs Larsen, 1965  (B82) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 37 moves, 1-0
Fischer vs Spassky, 1972  (D59) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower, 41 moves, 1-0
Bronstein vs Ljubojevic, 1973  (B03) Alekhine's Defense, 41 moves, 1-0
Pictures at the Exhibition
Tal vs J Miller, 1988  (C55) Two Knights Defense, 33 moves, 1-0
Special K
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1990  (C92) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 41 moves, 1-0
Serper vs I Nikolaidis, 1993  (E70) King's Indian, 48 moves, 1-0
Karpov's Immortal
Karpov vs Topalov, 1994  (A32) English, Symmetrical Variation, 39 moves, 1-0
Vlad the Impaled
Kasparov vs Kramnik, 1994  (B33) Sicilian, 36 moves, 1-0
The Pearl of Wijk aan Zee
R Cifuentes vs Zvjaginsev, 1995  (D45) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 35 moves, 0-1
Kasparov vs Anand, 1995  (C80) Ruy Lopez, Open, 38 moves, 1-0
Clash of Titans
Kasparov vs Kramnik, 1996  (D47) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 35 moves, 0-1
Tangled Up in Blue
Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997  (B17) Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation, 19 moves, 1-0
Kasparov's Immortal
Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999  (B07) Pirc, 44 moves, 1-0
Last Dance
Kramnik vs Leko, 2004  (B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 41 moves, 1-0
Topalov vs Aronian, 2006  (E15) Queen's Indian, 44 moves, 1-0
V Gashimov vs Grischuk, 2008  (C72) Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, 5.O-O, 33 moves, 1-0
So vs V Akobian, 2016  (C10) French, 24 moves, 1-0
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