What Is The Best Chess Game Ever Played?

What Is The Best Chess Game Ever Played?

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There are many great games in the history of chess. But which one's the best?

Could it be Lasker's win against Bauer? 

Sure, that's a nice game, but can we really call it the best?

Is it the Immortal Game?

Yes...it's a good game, but it's flawed.

Wei Yi's Brilliancy against Bruzon Batista? The Game of the Century?

Well, it all depends on how you define a good game. Stockfish's definition of a good game is a game where neither side made any mistakes. 

So according to Stockfish, the best game ever played was this one:

Or this one:

You get the point. Yes, these games had absolutely zero mistakes. But they can't be called good games.

It all depends on how you define chess. Is it a sport, an art, a science? A game?

I think Mikhail Botvinnik expressed it best of all:

"Chess is the art, which expresses the science of logic."

So which game, flawless or flawed, beautiful or not beautiful, is the best game ever played? You decide.

Next week, I will post my answer to this question.





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