Favourite Grandmaster Chess Game?

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VULPES_VULPES

Title says it all! 

apawndown

Fischer v. Spassky,  WC Match,  1972,  6th match game (if memory serves,  it was #6).  Fischer for the first time played the Queen's Gambit in a serious game.  And what a beautiful game!  Every move had that quality of Fischer at his best: "simple and good."  I remember playing over that game and saying, "My God,  I understand this!  I could play like this!"  But of course I couldn't.  But Fischer's play had that marvelous simplicity about it that draws you right into his games.

There was a standing ovation from the audience when this one ended - and Spassky joined in!

VULPES_VULPES
apawndown wrote:

Fischer v. Spassky,  WC Match,  1972,  6th match game (if memory serves,  it was #6).  Fischer for the first time played the Queen's Gambit in a serious game.  And what a beautiful game!  Every move had that quality of Fischer at his best: "simple and good."  I remember playing over that game and saying, "My God,  I understand this!  I could play like this!"  But of course I couldn't.  But Fischer's play had that marvelous simplicity about it that draws you right into his games.

There was a standing ovation from the audience when this one ended - and Spassky joined in!


Are you able to post the game?

It's encouraged!

dmeng
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dmeng
VULPES_VULPES wrote:
apawndown wrote:

Fischer v. Spassky,  WC Match,  1972,  6th match game (if memory serves,  it was #6).  Fischer for the first time played the Queen's Gambit in a serious game.  And what a beautiful game!  Every move had that quality of Fischer at his best: "simple and good."  I remember playing over that game and saying, "My God,  I understand this!  I could play like this!"  But of course I couldn't.  But Fischer's play had that marvelous simplicity about it that draws you right into his games.

There was a standing ovation from the audience when this one ended - and Spassky joined in!


Are you able to post the game?

It's encouraged!

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044366

 edit: Game #3 is a Benoni, Game #5 is a Nimzo, and those are Fischer's wins before #6, which is indeed a QGD. 

Daeru

1st game in Yasser Seirawan's "Winning Chess Brilliancies" book. Very well played by Fischer.

metacrash

Does Garry Kasparov vs. David Letterman count?

VULPES_VULPES
metacrash wrote:

Does Garry Kasparov vs. David Letterman count?

As long as there's a grandmaster in it.

qixel

Capablanca called this, in his own words, his "most finished and artistic game."  The march of the c and d pawns signals the start of trouble that ends with a devastating combination.  Beautiful stuff.



apawndown
qixel wrote:

Capablanca called this, in his own words, his "most finished and artistic game."  The march of the c and d pawns signals the start of trouble that ends with a devastating combination.  Beautiful stuff.

 



You're right!  A wonderful game.

apawndown
qixel wrote:

Capablanca called this, in his own words, his "most finished and artistic game."  The march of the c and d pawns signals the start of trouble that ends with a devastating combination.  Beautiful stuff.