The most celebrated games ever played — replay each masterpiece move by move with grandmaster commentary.
Adolf Anderssen 1–0 Lionel Kieseritzky · London (casual) 1851
Replay the Immortal Game move by move: Anderssen sacrifices a bishop, both rooks and his queen to mate with three minor pieces. Full board + GM commentary.
Adolf Anderssen 1–0 Jean Dufresne · Berlin (casual) 1852
Replay the Evergreen Game: Anderssen's quiet 19.Rad1 and the queen sacrifice 21.Qxd7+ crown an Evans Gambit with a two-bishop mate. Interactive board + analysis.
Paul Morphy 1–0 Duke Karl of Brunswick & Count Isouard · Paris Opera House 1858
Replay the Opera Game move by move: Morphy mates in 17 with a queen sacrifice while the opera plays. The classic lesson in development, explained by a GM.
Wilhelm Steinitz 1–0 Curt von Bardeleben · Hastings 1895
Replay Steinitz's Hastings brilliancy: the untouchable rook of 22.Rxe7+ dances along the seventh rank while back-rank mates guard it. Board + GM commentary.
Georg Rotlewi 0–1 Akiba Rubinstein · Lodz 1907
Replay Rubinstein's Immortal: with queen and both rooks en prise, 22...Rxc3 begins the most beautiful mating combination ever played. Interactive board + notes.
Stepan Levitsky 0–1 Frank Marshall · Breslau (DSB Congress) 1912
Replay the Gold Coins Game and its legendary finish 23...Qg3!! — a queen capturable three ways that wins on the spot. The full story, on an interactive board.
Fritz Sämisch 0–1 Aron Nimzowitsch · Copenhagen 1923
Replay the Immortal Zugzwang Game: after 25...h6, White resigns in a full middlegame because every legal move loses. Hypermodern strategy, explained by a GM.
Mikhail Botvinnik 1–0 José Raúl Capablanca · AVRO, Rotterdam 1938
Replay the most anthologized combination in chess: Botvinnik deflects with 30.Ba3!! and 31.Nh5+!!, then walks his king through a hail of checks to beat Capablanca.
Donald Byrne 0–1 Bobby Fischer · Rosenwald Memorial, New York 1956
Replay the Game of the Century: 13-year-old Bobby Fischer's queen sacrifice 17...Be6!! and the windmill that follows, move by move with GM commentary.
Lev Polugaevsky 0–1 Rashid Nezhmetdinov · RSFSR Championship, Sochi 1958
Replay Nezhmetdinov's Immortal: the queen sacrifice 24...Rxf4!! buys a king hunt from e3 to a5, ending in mate by minor pieces. Interactive board + GM notes.
Robert Byrne 0–1 Bobby Fischer · US Championship, New York 1963
Replay the Fischer brilliancy so deep that commentators thought White was winning when he resigned. 15...Nxf2! and 18...Nxg2!! explained on an interactive board.
Bent Larsen 0–1 Boris Spassky · USSR vs. Rest of the World, Belgrade 1970
Replay the most famous miniature of modern chess: Spassky's decoy 14...Rh1!! and the h-pawn's promotion run demolish Larsen in 17 moves. Board + GM commentary.
Bobby Fischer 1–0 Boris Spassky · World Championship Game 6, Reykjavik 1972
Replay the game so beautiful that Spassky applauded his opponent: Fischer opens 1.c4 for the first time and produces a positional masterpiece for the world title.
Anatoly Karpov 0–1 Garry Kasparov · World Championship Game 16, Moscow 1985
Replay the Octopus Game: Kasparov's knight lands on d3 and strangles Karpov's position on the road to the world title. Move-by-move board + GM commentary.
Nigel Short 1–0 Jan Timman · Tilburg 1991
Replay the most audacious plan in modern chess: with queens on the board, Short marches his own king Kh2–g3–f4–g5 to deliver mate. Interactive board + notes.
Vasyl Ivanchuk 0–1 Artur Yusupov · Candidates rapid tiebreak, Brussels 1991
Replay Yusupov's Immortal: facing elimination, he sacrifices a knight and a rook and lifts 27...Re6!! into a mating attack. King's Indian fury, move by move.
Garry Kasparov 1–0 Veselin Topalov · Wijk aan Zee 1999
Replay Kasparov's Immortal, widely called the greatest game ever: 24.Rxd4!! starts a 20-move king hunt from b8 to d1. Interactive board + GM commentary.
Levon Aronian 0–1 Viswanathan Anand · Tata Steel, Wijk aan Zee 2013
Replay Anand's Immortal: 16...Nde5!! leaves two pieces hanging and beats the world No. 2 in 23 moves. The modern Rotlewi–Rubinstein, on an interactive board.
Wei Yi 1–0 Lázaro Bruzón · Danzhou 2015
Replay the greatest king hunt of the 21st century: 16-year-old Wei Yi's 22.Rxf7!! drags the black king to the center of the board. Interactive board + notes.
Bai Jinshi 0–1 Ding Liren · Chinese League 2017
Replay Ding's Immortal: a queen sacrifice on move 15 and a flawless 17-move king hunt by the future world champion. Move-by-move board + GM commentary.