Favorite Famous Games

I've got to post a game every couple of days just to keep this thread alive.  Oh well.  I've got a good one.

Kasparov considered this game his best.

The great thing about the above Kasparov game is that his opponent wasn't named Kieseritzky, Dufrense, Levitsky or Glucksberg.  A brilliancy against another top-tier grandmaster is especially cool.

Here's a great one by Nakamura.  Check out kingscrusher's YouTube video on this game. 

Thanks for your input.  

Come on, guys.  Get off your butts and post some games!  

Great game!  I would bet a lot of young American players know little about Spassky other than he was the guy Fischer beat.  He was a brilliant player.

I don't recall seeing this one before.  Sacrificing both knights on d7 was amazing!  I said previously that it's not necessary that a game be famous - as long as it's brilliant.  This game definitely qualifies.

That's another good one.  Keep 'em coming.  Hey, wait a minute!  You said he beat "Alekhine, Capablanca, Bronstein, Rubinstein and (you)."  I find that hard to believe.  Not that he beat those other dudes but that he beat even you?  You gave him odds, right? 

I just found this one.  I don't think I've seen it before.  Great combination by Nezhmetdinov!

'Players die, tournaments are forgotten, but the works of great artists are left behind them to live on forever in memory of their creators.' - Mikhail Tal writing about Nezhmetdinov shortly after his death.

Tal was right. Immortal games live forever. Adolf Anderssen and Paul Morphy would be astonished to know that games they played in the mid-19th Century are still well known and admired in the 21st Century. It's something special about chess. We remember the home run we hit or touchdown we scored but we can't experience it again.  We can only remember it. But we can experience our best chess games played many years ago; we've got the scoresheets.

Yes for us enthusiasts there is a joy in playing through these old games. As a 10 year old pretty much the first games I played through were the Immortal game and the Evergreen game. I remember being amazed that white could have won these games with so many less pieces than black at the end and how cool it was that such things were possible. Anderssen is probably responsible for what will be a lifelong hobby of mine.

Agree with the Opera game!

Also: Reti - Tartakower, Vienna 1910

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1250654

And Spassky - Bronstein Leningrad 1960, one of the best KGA games ever played

I cannot resist. Trump won because he had many more votes than his opponent. He had more electoral votes (the ones that matter). I always chuckle when I hear "Clinton won the popular vote." It makes as much sense as saying, "The Yankees won the World Series but the Dodgers won most runs scored in the Series." If it's not a contest, it cannot be won. The national popular vote is meaningless. It's not even used as a tiebreaker. If no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes, the presidential election goes to the House and the vice presidential election to the Senate.

Nice game.

I. A. Horowitz's All About Chess was one of the first chess books I read.  The game I remember most from that book was Anderssen's Evergreen Game.

Great game.