How does Dubov's stalemate rank amongst the greatest moves of all time?

I couldn't believe it when I saw it. It's an absolutely astonishing idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYHsi0qzdGE&lc=Ugz5BEMhwfOvfKT2V7t4AaABAg.9Kt948egisX9KtCPEnIvbB

It's a nice move for sure, but to be fair, the "greatest moves of all time" involve doing something just like that, except they foresaw it 10 moves in advance through numerous tempting sidelines, and forced their opponent into it.

For example if he's seen this stalemate idea before trading into this endgame 10 moves from that point, otherwise trading into that endgame was bad and dumb... that's the sort of thing that makes it a legendary move.

Do you have an example of such a move?

I guess people's Immortal games. Rubinstein's immortal, Kasparov's immortal. Stuff like that.

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Alekhine was famous / infamous for having a game with some ridiculously long complex variation, and then at the very end of it all a dazzling move like that with the annotation "the point" as if he'd seen it all 12 moves ago... which who knows, he probably did.

In the game I posted, it only works because 37...Rd7 and seeing the rook on h8 is hanging at the end of it all.

Of course Kasparov didn't see all the way to the end from move 24, but yeah... on move 24 would you point out the rook on h8 is the key to it all? No way.

In this game, black sacrifices all four of his minor pieces to give checkmate with a pawn in the end.

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You're talking about games though; This is a move. Apart from this move, Dubov didn't play particularly well in this game (after all, he didn't win).

That Najdorf games is amazing

Well, if you disconnect moves from the moves that came before and after then no move is any better than another.

Thinking of moves such as Shirov's famous bishop sacrifice, Marshall's American Beauty, Alekhine's Queen sacrifice on e6 etc.