All right, here are some hints:
1) One of the games was called "the greatest masterpiece ever created on a chessboard" by a well-know American chess book author
2) Another was called "a masterpiece for the ages" by a guy named Yasser
3) A 17-move miniature (not the Morphy game) is yet unsolved
I hope this helps...
well im too lazy to check but I would assume the one with 2 queens was in some totally constructed alekhine game...he pretended it occured but it never did...all i remember was that it was crazy and there ended up being a lot of queens on the board. Might end up being the odd one out in fact.
No, the games chosen are all legitimate, including the 2-queen ones...
Yes, it is 3 out of 3 for NM tonydal who is now the top solver!
...and the 17 move game... still unsolved?
All correct, NM tonydal!
OK, I can't figure out any of the others. The best I can do is guess that Nimzovich was White in VII and Alekhine was Black in XI (he's just played Qxf3 with a R on g8).
I'll give you a hint, in both VII and XI we have the same world chess champion, but he is losing in one game and winning in the other. Neither Alekhine nor Nimzowitsch are players in the two games.
One more hint: one unsolved game was called "X's Immortal" on the chessgames.com site, where X is a world chess champion's surname.
The last one is Kasparov's Immortal. Garry Kasparov vs Veselin Topalov
Yes, XVI is Kasparov vs. Topalov
Hint for IX:
Both players are nationals of a mid-sized European country. Neither player was ever a world chess champion.
Btw is the "odd game out" one of the solved ones? (or are you at liberty to disclose this yet?). :)
I can't disclose it just yet.
The last one is Kasparov's Immortal.
Like the guy only had one...lol
Well that's recorded as Kasparov's Immortal, but yeah, he has played more than one game you could call Immortal
A bunch of hints for the unsolved VII, IX and XI:
1) The games were played in 1984, 1976, 1977, and the order does not necessarily correspond to the games listed
2) At least one game was played in Las Palmas
3) A player losing at least one game was named Lajos (first name)
A hint for VII: A former world chess champion tried the French Defence only twice in his career (which spanned decades, by the way). VII is a fragment of one of the two games.
All right, more hints for VII, IX and XI...
1) One game was dubbed "Efimeral Advantage" on chessgames.com
2) In one of the games, the losing player's first name is Stefano
3) Some fans believe that"the greatest queenless combination ever played" took place in one of the three games
Hope this helps...
One of them is Geller-Karpov from 1976 but I am having trouble matching
the game to your diagram.
One of them is Geller-Karpov from 1976 but I am having trouble matching
the game to your diagram.
Correct! Now we're getting close to the final...
We need more hints.