Top five best games ever?

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checkmateibeatu

What do you think are the top five best games ever?

Here is the scoring system:

First or tie for first: 5 points

Second or tie for second: 4 points

Third or tie for third: 3 points

... and so on.

You do not have to have five games, you can simply have one or anything in between.  And, as always, cast serious votes!

Current poll results as of 8/18/2011 1:36 PM PST:

Kasparov-Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999- 14 points

 

 

Fischer-Spassky WCC 1972 Round 6- 8 points

 

Evergreen Game- 5 points

Morphy's Opera game- 5 points

 

 

Kasparov-Karpov, World Championship 1985 Round 16- 5 points

 

Spassky-Fischer WCC R1- 5 points

 

Topalov-Shirov 1998 It (cat.21)

 

Capablanca-Marshall 1918- 4 points

 

 

Glucksberg-Najdorf 1929- 3 points

 

Deep Fritz-Kramnik (the one with the huge blunder)

 

Byrne-Fischer 1956- 2 points

 

 

Spassky-Bronstein, Leningrad 1960- 2 points

 

 

Geller-Euwe 1953- 2 points

 

 

Bogoljubov–Alekhine, Hastings 1922- 1 point

 

 

Averbakh-Kotov Zurich 1953- 1 point

 

 

Kasparov-Kramnik 1994, Novgorod- 1 point

 

I copied and pasted the PGN of these games from chessgames.com without adding or deleting any annotations or variations.  The only setting I changed was adding the coordinates and making the board gray.

fburton
Kasparov-Karpov, World Championship 1985 ("Octopus knight")

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1067175 

Kasparov-Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1011478

Fischer-Spassky, Reykjavik 1972 (Game 6, for its beguiling simplicity and clean style)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044366 

Spassky-Bronstein, Leningrad 1960 (Blue Bird game)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1034110

Bogoljubov–Alekhine, Hastings 1922

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1012099
kvlc

Fischer-Spassky WCh 1972, Game 6

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044366

Kasparov-Topalov 1999, Kasparov's Immortal

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1011478

Najdorf's Polish Immortal

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1100774

Byrne-Fischer 1956, Game of the Century

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

Kasparov-Kramnik 1994, Novgorod

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070747

Crazychessplaya

Morphy vs Allies ("The Opera Game"), Paris 1858

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1233404

Capablanca vs Marshall, New York 1918

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1095025

Kasparov vs Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999

(link given by kvlc)

Geller vs Euwe, Zurich 1953

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1042835

Averbakh vs. Kotov, Zurich 1953

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1084375

checkmateibeatu

I got them up now.

trysts

Too many Americans in your list.

checkmateibeatu
trysts wrote:

Too many Americans in your list.


There was three who won and one who lost.

trysts
checkmateibeatu wrote:
trysts wrote:

Too many Americans in your list.


There was three who won and one who lost.


That's just too many.

checkmateibeatu

There are also "too many" Russians.

trysts
checkmateibeatu wrote:

There are also "too many" Russians.


Ha! I knew you were a Fischer-lover and this spurious "list" of yours is only to advertise the Americans, because you really hate the Russians! I call "SCAM"!

checkmateibeatu

Not a Fischer-lover, a Fischer-respecter.

checkmateibeatu

If you are reffering to that other thread with Kasparov vs. Fischer, that other person is a Kasparov-hater.  I am a Kasparov-respecter.

checkmateibeatu

Actually a correction: there are three americans that won, two that lost.

checkmateibeatu

I never said I was a Fischer-hater, the other guy accused me of being one.

checkmateibeatu

I was actually thinking of trying to figure out if the other guy was American-ist (like saying something like "what do you think of Steinitz and Marshall" or something like that).

checkmateibeatu

Because the only debate he considered was Morphy vs. Fischer.

trysts
checkmateibeatu wrote:

Not a Fischer-lover, a Fischer-respecter.


Same thing. Bzillions of chess games from all-around the world, but your small list has 5 Americans?! Don't you think that American flag next to your avatar gives away the scam?

checkmateibeatu

What? I didn't cast these votes.  The other three did.

checkmateibeatu

And none of them are even American.

checkmateibeatu

I give everyone in these types of debates fair judgement and then make my opinion of who is the best.  the other person on that other thread seemed to only respect the greatness of Fischer, but not anyone else (he went as far as to say Kasparov and Capablanca didn't dominate!)