World Chess

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

List of chess games

This is a list of notable Chess games sorted chronologically.
Bowdler - Conway, London, 1788, Thomas Bowdler offers the first example of the famous double rook sacrifice;
The Immortal game between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky (1851);
The Evergreen game between Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne (1852);
The opera game between Paul Morphy and two allies, the Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard (1858);
Lasker - Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889, the first example of the famous double bishop sacrifice;
Levitsky - Marshall, 1912, widely considered one of the greatest queen sacrifices ever played;
Bogoljubov - Alekhine, Hastings 1922 was called the greatest game of chess ever played by Irving Chernev : "Alekhine's subtle strategy involves manoeuvres which encompass the entire chessboard as a battlefield. There are exciting plots and counterplots. There are fascinating combinations and brilliant sacrifices of Queens and Rooks. There are two remarkable promotions of Pawns and a third in the offing, before White decides to capitulate." (The Chess Companion, Chernev, Faber & Faber Ltd, 1970)
The Immortal Zugzwang Game between Fritz Sämisch and Aron Nimzowitsch, Copenhagen 1923;
The Polish Immortal, features Glucksberg vs. Najdorf (circa 1930). Black sacrifices all 4 minor pieces for victory;
The Peruvian Immortal (1934), sees Peruvian master Esteban Canal demolish his amateur opponent with the sacrifice of 2 rooks and queen;
The Pearl of Zandvoort. Savielly Tartakower gave this name to the decisive game of the Max Euwe v. Alexander Alekhine 1935 World Championship Match.
The Game of the Century between Bobby Fischer and Donald Byrne (1956);
The Immortal losing game occurred in 1957 between Bogdan Sliwa and David Bronstein. Black has a lost game but sets some elegant traps in attempting to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat;
The Octopus Knight, game 16 of the 1985 World Chess Championship match. Garry Kasparov as black gets a dominating knight (called an "Octopus knight" by Raymond Keene) on d3 against Anatoly Karpov.
Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1, the first game in which a chess-playing computer defeated a reigning world champion using normal time controls (1996);
Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1997, Game 6, the last game of the 1997 rematch, which Deep Blue won, making it the first computer to defeat a world champion in a match over several games;
Kasparov versus The World, in which the reigning world champion played, via the Internet, against the entire rest of the world in consultation (1999);
Kasparov - Topalov, Wijk aan Zee, 1999, rook sacrifice with a 15+ moves forced sacrificial combination. One of the most commented chess games ever, with extensive press coverage.

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