Favorite Famous Games

First match, in 1954.

For some reason I can't get some games to load.

I load the pgn in the usual way but when I post, all that appears is the board without moves. Does anyone know why this happens and if so, what the solution is?

Perhaps the PGN isn't quite in PGN format, so it won't parse correctly. For example, maybe the player's name contains a character that the parser can't deal with: Dos'Chomolsky, for instance.

Post it (just the PGN, I mean, not the game board), and I'll look at it.

@blueemu:  This was one that wouldn't post before but now it did. I didn't do anything different.

Fischer's best game of the 1972 match. This one wouldn't post either the first time I tried.

Game 13 was pretty interesting, too.

Yeah, the Alekhine's. I didn't have to look. I remember.

And here you go.

Just posted this in one of my other threads. Figured I'd post it here too.

I have a real problem considering game 6 Fischer's best of the match. A few months later, Geller demonstrated that Spassky had simply forgotten his analysis and played poorly. He convincingly beat Timman in the same variation as Black.

I know, game 6 is often touted as one of Fischer's best games from the match. But I agree with Blueemu that the Alekhine game (13) is better. I also enjoyed the titanic fight of game 10, where the two fought over the Breyer variation of the Spanish. That was more what I had expected from the match, great ideological battles that pushed our understanding of classic openings.

I do understand why game 6 is such an iconic game, but from Spassky's perspective, this was really a sign of just how poorly he had prepared for the event. He didn't even remember his own preparation.  

The original Marshall Attack. Marshall developed this gambit and saved it for several years to spring it on Capablanca. I first saw this game in Capablanca's My Chess Career.

This is a great game. I don't think anyone has already posted it here.

Actually, blueemu didn't say the Alekhine's is better. He just said it was pretty interesting too. By the way, feel free to post a game. Unless of course you prefer to register your disapproval of the ones I post.  

My problem is I don't have a single favorite game. I may well post several of my favorites later tho.

Here's one of my favorite rook endgames, by Capablanca. It made a deep impression on me when I was learning how to play the endgame. And yes, it's listed in the thread that Shirazi mentioned. Several of my favorite games are included in that list.

One of the reasons that I am a fan of Smyslov's chess is that he was a truly universal player. His endgame technique was the standard for about 20 years, but he also knew how to attack with the best of them, and play subtle positional ideas that confounded even the likes of Petrosian. 

Here's one game, played almost two decades after he competed for the world title. It was against one of the best positional players of all time, and yet Smyslov made it look easy. 

I particularly like this game because it's an extreme example of the power of the Isolated Queen Pawn. It actually promotes on d8 in the middle game and is immediately decisive!

Here's one of my favorite games by Fischer. His exchange of the good N for the Bad B shows an incredible understanding of the position!

I probably should rename this thread Favorite famous games because it's difficult to narrow it down to just one. Most of us have many favorites.