but seriously, my favourite is

R.Byrne-R.Fischer 1963

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008419

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Thanks for the link! I did not know of this game. Amazing display by Najdorf!

Another polish immortal .... but probably was newer pleyed...

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1277959

henry55: great game, whether it was played or not! After black's move 32, whiite has R+N+ 4 pawns, black has only 5 pawns, two of them are doubled isolated pawns - yet white is helpless precisely against these double isolated pawns!

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1277959

 Probably this game was not played... Who know? In Dziennik Poznanski and another polish newspapers nothing about this game. Look at :

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylkowski_-_Wojciechowski,_Pozna%C5%84_1931

Some time ago I've try look this game in the polish newspapers but without results . Great game, great Wojciechowski

  Let's keep commenting on this and keep it up front, instead of being buried by new material.  It is so good.  People can find many of their favorite players here.

bump!

I can't believe nobody listed the "Game of the Century" -- Fischer's famous queen sac against Donald Byrne when he was only 13 years old:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008361

Polugaevsky vs. Petrosian 1961 is one of my favorite games.

Seriously, people. The Peruvian Immortal is by far the coolest. Perhaps not the greatest in terms of "chess masters", but truly the greatest in terms of sheer beauty.

Comments are from others.

The "Peruvian Immortal" is bogus -- the guy playing Black couldn't see a textbook tactic staring him in the face. This game does not even deserve to be called "good", since the opposition was substandard.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but I can't support that game.

Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922 Amazing string of sacrifices.

Check out:  Milman v Fang   from the list above... I thought "two players I've never heard of: must be a good game." I wasn't disappointed -- the mating combination at the end is pure magic.

Milman-Fang is a game I can support -- the finish is beautiful!

This has to be the best forum topic ever.

Their are some great games on this topic.

Almost a who's who's of chess greatness.

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 The double rook sac is merely a setup to the mating combination by deflecting the queen -- it is not very deep or difficult to see. The game is amateurish, and nothing to be particularly proud of.

Double B sac,King hunt and an X-ray mate.
Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1914  

 

Always has been one of my favorites...I was nice to see Nimzo outdone by his own style of play.

Tal vs Keres (who beated him 3-1)

What's so great about that game (Tal-Keres)? I mean, it isn't bad, but I wouldn't put it even neear the top 50 I've seen.