10 Great and Attractive Chess Game
There are a lot of chess games, which attracted its followers for a long time. Our team is discussing the 10 greatest and most attractive Chess games. which is still popular among junior players and Chess followers.
1. Kasparov vs. Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999
Despite losing a historic match to the computer engine Deep Blue two years earlier, Garry Kasparov was at the height of his powers in 1999. winning tournaments by big margins and recording the highest Elo rating ever at that time (2851). Kasparov has a long list of brilliancies to his credit, but the game Against Topolov was his virtually undisputed masterpiece.
Kasparov vs. Topalov is everything a chess game should be, a ferocious fight with brilliance from both players. numerous tactical themes, and a king hunt that drives the king from one side of the board to the other! It’s difficult to imagine any other game atop this list, but we eagerly await new contenders in the coming years.
2. Morphy vs. Allies, Paris Opera 1858
Often called the “Opera Game,” Paul Morphy’s informal masterpiece played against the Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard is the first complete game shown to many beginning and intermediate players.
it is a perfectly concise game to illustrate the beauty of chess. What chess player can fail to smile at 10?Nxb5!, 13.Rxd7!, and 16.Qb8+!!?
Morphy won this game amid his European Tour where he easily defeated the other great players of his day before virtually retiring from chess to pursue law in New Orleans.
3. Aronian vs. Anand, Wijk aan Zee 2013
The undisputed world champion from 2007 to 2013, Viswanathan Anand is one of the most fluid and intuitive players in chess history. Where Jose Capablanca’s intuition served him best in the endgame, Anand’s serves him best in the middlegame.
Played in advance of his coming 2013 world championship match against Magnus Carlsen (though Carlsen would not qualify for several months), Anand showed in this game the attacking skill that makes him such a beloved player; particularly at 16…Nde5!! sticks in the memory as Black’s pieces burst forth and cannot be contained.
4.Donald Byrne vs Robert James Fischer(1956)
This Game is considered the Game of the Century by so many experts. This is a chess game that was won by the 13-year-old future world champion Bobby Fischer against Donald Byrne in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City on October 17, 1956. In Chess Review, Hans Kmoch dubbed it “The Game of the Century” and wrote: “The following game, a stunning masterpiece of combination play performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable opponent, matches the finest on record in the history of chess prodigies.”
5.Karpov vs. Kasparov, World Championship 1985, game 16
The 1985 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov in Moscow, Soviet Union from September 3 to November 9, 1985. Kasparov won, to become the thirteenth and youngest world champion at the age of 22.
1985 World Chess Championship in isolation, following as it did only 7 months after the highly controversial finish of the 1984 championship between the same players. On 8 February 1985, after 48 games had been contested over 5 months, the 1984 championship was abandoned with no result, becoming the first, and thus far only, chess world championship to finish in this way.[2] Politics gave another angle to the Kasparov–Karpov encounters. Due to the changing political climate in Russia at the time, the matches were often depicted as a clash of ideologies,
The first 10 moves of game 16 were identical to those from game 12. Karpov was the first to deviate, but Kasparov had analyzed the position deeply in his preparation before the match and was able to take the initiative, despite playing with the black pieces.
Kasparov’s positioning of a knight deep in his opponent’s position as early as move 16 (see first diagram) was spectacular and ultimately decisive. The knight remained in place until move 34 when Karpov was forced to sacrifice his queen to remove it.
6: Ivanchuk vs. Yusupov, Brussels 1991
In 1991, Vasyl Ivanchuk, 22 ranked 2nd in the world, an incredible achievement. The Candidates’ quarterfinal match in that year between Ivanchuk and Yusupov initially favored Ivanchuk who gained an early lead and needed only a draw in the final game to clinch victory in the match. Drawing on demand would never prove Ivanchuk’s forte though as Yusuppov defeated him brilliantly forcing the match into rapid tiebreaks.
In the first game of the tiebreaks, Ivanchuk had White and gained an objective advantage against the King’s Indian Defense (a new opening for Yusupov), but Yusupov committed himself fully to the kingside and soon worked up some incredible threats.
A misstep by Ivanchuk allowed Yusupov’s threats to materialize. Ivanchuk gave back almost all of his massive material advantage, but even that was insufficient to stave off checkmate.
This is probably Yusupov’s finest game (though he was personally unimpressed), but for Ivanchuk, it proved an early indication of a lack of consistency that would plague this brilliant “Chucky” throughout his career.
7.Geller vs. Euwe, Zurich 1953
It is rare for a defensive game to be celebrated as a brilliancy, but Max Euwe’s prize-winning effort against Geller from the famous Zurich 1953 tournament has more than stood the test of time. Euwe seems to have his back to the wall when his sudden sacrifice 22…Rh8!! creates disorder in the white camp and allows his queen and rook to infiltrate.
8.Alexander Beliavsky vs John Nunn1985
Many experts consider the game between Alexander Beliavsky and John Nunn to be among the top 10 historical Chess games, which was played on January 19, 1985. Each of these players was champions of their country. Beliavsky was a champion of the Soviet Union and John Nunn was a British champion. Together, they each won many fine games in the 1980s and beyond and each had a combative and exciting style. In this game, we see Nunn punishing Beliavsky’s Saemish variation as the move 9.h3? provides him the opportunity to initiate an inexorable assault.
9.Short vs. Timman, Tilburg 1991
King walks are not unheard of in chess, but the seemingly out-of-the-blue advance of Nigel Short’s king with 31.Kh2!!, 32.Kg3!!, 33.Kh4!!, and 33.Kg5!! intending 34.Kh6!! with mate on g7 is unique in the annals of chess.
10.Mikhail Tal Vs Bent Larsen 1965
Mikhail Tal, the former world champion, and Bent Larsen, the Great Dane, met in a semifinal candidates match in 1965. Larsen was ahead after winning game one. Tal won game two. Games three and four were draws. Larsen won game five and Tal came back to win game six. After draws in the next three games, the match was still even. In game ten, Tal had white. On move sixteen, Tal offered a gift of a wooden horse. Just as the Iliad is read to this day, the sacrifice made by Tal and accepted by Larsen has been analyzed ever since. I have made some remarks and used the contributions of Tal, Larsen, Shamkovich, Kasparov, Boleslavsky, Nikitin, Burgess, Polugaevsky, Levy, and Soltis. Due to the size of this article, some readers may prefer to play through the moves of the game before delving into the analysis. This game is also among the top 10 chess games.