Most INTERESTING game of all time

What do you think?My guess is Anand-Bareev 2004,Wijk Aan Zee.

vinniethepooh wrote:

What do you think?My guess is Anand-Bareev 2004,Wijk Aan Zee.

Why don't you post it and explain what you find so interesting?

[Event "Wijk Aan Zee 2004"]

[Site "?"]

[Date "2004.??.??"]

[Round "?"]

[White "Anand"]

[Black "Bareev"]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "C13"]

[WhiteElo "2766"]

[BlackElo "2714"]

[Annotator "vinniethepooh"]

[PlyCount "95"]

[SourceDate "2016.01.31"]

{I chose this game as my 'most interesting game of all time' as there are some

really fascinating variations.Anand-Bareev.} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4.

Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Be7 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 {The game has started out slow and it is not

easy to think that fireworks arise from this position.} 7. Nf3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nd7

9. O-O-O $1 {Ok!From here it is clear what is going to transpire.White is

coming all guns blazing with Bd3,Neg5,g4,h4 and whatsoever.Black will face an

incredible task of defending which is of course not impossible.} Be7 10. Bd3 b6

11. h4 $1 {White is starting out with h4 because he can play ideas like Rh3.}

Bb7 12. Neg5 $5 {White plays with the practical point of view.} (12. Rh3 $5 {

Is the idea I was talking about.But Black can counter with} c5 $1 {A very

rule-following counterattacking move.} 13. Rg3 $13 {And as usual these

positions are very unclear.}) 12... Nf6 13. c3 $5 {White prepares Qc2 but

there was another option.} (13. Ne5 {Was very interesting if you look at the

dangers for Black.}) 13... Bxf3 $1 {Bareev rightly gives up his Bishop for the

Knight.Arguably the Knight was better.} 14. gxf3 c5 15. dxc5 $1 {This is a

nice move.} Qc7 (15... bxc5 16. Qc2 $16 {And White collects a pawn.}) 16. Kb1

bxc5 {Of of the many critical moments.White has to decide between the normal

'which rook' on the g1 square.} 17. Rdg1 $6 {This is not the best.Another

critical moment.} (17. Rhg1 $1 Rfd8 $13 {All is unclear.}) 17... Rfd8 $2 {This

is a mistake.} (17... c4 $1 $15 {Nearly the only move.} 18. Nxh7 {Anand

planned this but noticed} Qd8 $1 19. Nxf8 Bxf8 20. Rd1 cxd3 21. Qxd3 Qa5 $15 {

Black holds the trumps.}) 18. Qc2 $1 {Are you ready for fireworks?} h6 19. Bh7+

Kf8 20. Nxf7 $1 {Yes!Playing in the spirit of Tal.} Kxf7 21. Qg6+ Kf8 22. Qxg7+

Ke8 {The third critical moment.} 23. Re1 $2 {A big miss.} (23. Bc2 {This was a

inncredible move.} Kd7 24. Qf7 $1 {Wow!White is winning.}) 23... Rd6 24. Qh8+

Bf8 25. Bg6+ Ke7 26. Rhg1 Rb6 27. Bf5 $2 {Again missing that!Crucial moment 4.}

(27. Bc2 $1 $16 {It is not clear what is happening another than fireworks!})

27... Kf7 $6 {Bareev was already in time trouble.} (27... Qf4 $1 28. Rg7+ $1

Kd6 $1 29. Rxe6+ Kd5 30. c4+ $1 Qxc4 31. Rd7+ $1 Nxd7 32. Qg8 $1 Rxb2+ $1 33.

Kxb2 Bg7+ $1 34. Re5+ $1 Kd4 35. Re4+ Kd3+ 36. Re5+ $1 {Have you seen any more

amazing counter-double-checks like this?Consider if this came in the real game?

}) 28. Bg6+ $1 {Anand doesn't miss.} Ke7 29. Bc2 $1 {Finally!} Kf7 $2 {The

final mistake.} (29... Ne8 $1 {Was the only chance.}) 30. Rg6 $1 $18 Qf4 31.

Reg1 e5 32. Rg7+ $1 Ke6 33. R1g6 $1 Rab8 34. Qg8+ Kd6 35. Rxf6+ $1 Qxf6 36. Rg6

Kc7 37. Rxf6 Rxf6 {White is winning because the influence of opposite coloured

Bishops is great.} 38. Qh7+ Kb6 39. Be4 Rd6 40. h5 a6 41. Qf7 Rd2 42. a3 Rd1+

43. Kc2 Rd6 44. b4 cxb4 45. axb4 Rdd8 46. Qe6+ Rd6 47. Qc4 Rf6 48. Qd5 {

Amazing game!} 1-0

Or else see the new Masterclass by Vishy Anand and you'll know why.

Article in Chessbase about Anand's Master Class about the game 

Link to video of the Master Class Anand gave in Gibraltar where he discusses this game in detail.

So here is your pgn and comments so that people can actually see them: 

These notes came after you watched the Anand lecture? (I haven't seen it yet.)

Yup,after that,but I didn't include many of the lines cause I didn't really feel like it....although I must say I included some of my own lines...well for information you can open ChessBase and see the Masterclass.

For example 12.Rh3!?,29...Ne8 and bla bla...

For me (not able to provide a PGN but it's obvious to all just why it's an interesting game)

Boris Spassky-Robert J. Fischer

World Championship Match, Game 3

Reykjavik, Iceland 1972

A complicated game where both sides are repeatedly choosing second best moves would not be my first choice. I love Fischer's game as white in the Queeens Gambit declined because he came up with a TN in a much analyzed position and then played superbly.

lenslens1,are you talking about the Anand game?If so,then note that this post is not for "amazing game".It is for the most "interesting game".

Nothing so complicated and "smilable" in Robert's game.You can see the sidelines of the counter check by me reposted by notmtwain.

dxe4 is very bad french move

i don't like the french

or women with hair under their armpits

Actually, this is the most interesting game:

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/the-most-interesting-game-of-chess-was-played-here-in-chesscom?page=1

Anand has a far better rapid game against the French. I think it was against Ivanchuck.

Isn't Ivanchuk Ukranian?

Here it is, it was against Shirov and it was amazing.

Are you blind? I put a period after French.

@macer75, I am worried about your rampant cheap ways of trolling. Spamming your threads in semi-serious chess.com threads, is cheeeaaaap.

As well you should. A comma would make it a run-on sentence, like the ones that you write in like 70% of your posts.

Seriously though, your run-ons are like your forum fingerprint at this point. They make it really easy to identify you every time you create a new account.