Famous games

Fifty of the most exciting games ever played. Pick one and replay it move by move.

#1 · 1851

The Immortal Game

Adolf Anderssen vs Lionel Kieseritzky
#2 · 1852

The Evergreen Game

Adolf Anderssen vs Jean Dufresne
#3 · 1858

The Opera Game

Paul Morphy vs Duke of Brunswick & Count Isouard
#4 · 1956

The Game of the Century

Donald Byrne vs Bobby Fischer
#5 · 1999

Kasparov's Immortal

Garry Kasparov vs Veselin Topalov
#6 · 1997

Deep Blue Beats Kasparov

Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov
#7 · 1972

Fischer–Spassky, Game 6

Bobby Fischer vs Boris Spassky
#8 · 1985

The Octopus Knight

Anatoly Karpov vs Garry Kasparov
#9 · 1912

The Gold Coin Game

Stefan Levitsky vs Frank Marshall
#10 · 1907

Rubinstein's Immortal

Georg Rotlewi vs Akiba Rubinstein
#11 · 1912

The Great King Hunt

Edward Lasker vs George Thomas
#12 · 1958

Nezhmetdinov's Queen Sacrifice

Lev Polugaevsky vs Rashid Nezhmetdinov
#13 · 1895

Steinitz's Ten-Move Mate

Wilhelm Steinitz vs Curt von Bardeleben
#14 · 1889

Lasker's Double Bishop Sacrifice

Emanuel Lasker vs Johann Bauer
#15 · 1938

Botvinnik–Capablanca, AVRO

Mikhail Botvinnik vs José Raúl Capablanca
#16 · 1910

Réti–Tartakower Miniature

Richard Réti vs Savielly Tartakower
#17 · 2013

Anand's Immortal

Levon Aronian vs Viswanathan Anand
#18 · 1998

Shirov's Bh3!!

Veselin Topalov vs Alexey Shirov
#19 · 1963

Fischer's Brilliancy

Robert Byrne vs Bobby Fischer
#20 · 1923

The Immortal Zugzwang Game

Friedrich Sämisch vs Aron Nimzowitsch
#21 · 1857

Paulsen–Morphy

Louis Paulsen vs Paul Morphy
#22 · 1960

The Blue Bird Game

Boris Spassky vs David Bronstein
#23 · 1970

Larsen–Spassky, Belgrade

Bent Larsen vs Boris Spassky
#24 · 1883

Zukertort's Immortal

Johannes Zukertort vs Joseph Blackburne
#25 · 1991

Short's King Walk

Nigel Short vs Jan Timman
#26 · 1991

Ivanchuk–Yusupov, Brussels

Vassily Ivanchuk vs Artur Yusupov
#27 · 2017

AlphaZero's Silicon Immortal

AlphaZero vs Stockfish
#28 · 2016

Carlsen's Queen Sacrifice

Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin
#29 · 1918

The Marshall Attack

José Raúl Capablanca vs Frank Marshall
#30 · 1935

The Pearl of Zandvoort

Max Euwe vs Alexander Alekhine
#31 · 1920

Adams–Torre

Edwin Adams vs Carlos Torre
#32 · 1934

The Peruvian Immortal

Esteban Canal vs NN
#33 · 1959

Tal–Smyslov, Candidates

Mikhail Tal vs Vasily Smyslov
#34 · 1960

Tal's Knight Sacrifice

Mikhail Botvinnik vs Mikhail Tal
#35 · 1986

Kasparov–Karpov, Game 16

Garry Kasparov vs Anatoly Karpov
#36 · 1994

Polgar's Knight to f3

Alexey Shirov vs Judit Polgar
#37 · 1834

McDonnell–La Bourdonnais

Alexander McDonnell vs Louis-Charles de La Bourdonnais
#38 · 1922

Alekhine's Hastings Brilliancy

Efim Bogoljubov vs Alexander Alekhine
#39 · 1925

Réti–Alekhine, Baden-Baden

Richard Réti vs Alexander Alekhine
#40 · 1872

The Immortal Draw

Carl Hamppe vs Philipp Meitner
#41 · 1999

Kasparov vs The World

Garry Kasparov vs The World
#42 · 1930

The Polish Immortal

Glucksberg vs Miguel Najdorf
#43 · 1896

Lasker's Double Rook Sacrifice

Harry Nelson Pillsbury vs Emanuel Lasker
#44 · 2006

Anand's Corus Brilliancy

Sergey Karjakin vs Viswanathan Anand
#45 · 2017

Ding Liren's Queen Sacrifice

Bai Jinshi vs Ding Liren
#46 · 2015

Wei Yi's King Hunt

Wei Yi vs Lázaro Bruzón
#47 · 2023

Ding Wins the Title

Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren
#48 · 1623

Greco's Miniature

Gioachino Greco vs NN
#49 · 1844

Petrov's Immortal

Alexander Hoffmann vs Alexander Petrov
#50 · 1978

The Chinese Immortal

Liu Wenzhe vs Jan Hein Donner