What Is The Best Chess Game Ever Played?

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.