• 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.
  • 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 Immortal losing game occured 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 Game of the Century between Bobby Fischer and Donald Byrne (1956).
  • Match of the Century between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, 1972.
  • Deep Blue – Kasparov, 1996, Game 1, the first game where 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, huge press coverage.
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