Greatest game ever played- Kas vs Kar?

I wonder what was the greatest game ever played?

Originally posted by Chandradi
I wonder what was the greatest game ever played?

The Most Instructive is considered Morphy v The Allies in Paris 1858.
it's certainly the most re-printed game of chess.

The game I enjoy showing is Capablanca v Fonaroff 1918.

It is very easy to explain the moves leading up the critical position.
You can walk a student through this game move by move as you can
with the Morphy game.

Capa's 11 Qc3 hitting c7 vacating d4 so the Knight can hop from
d4 onto f5 is very instructive.

Then we reach here. Move 17, White to play.



The Sacrifice 17.Rxd6 looks obvious but Black has an amazing resource
with 18....Rd1. Capa must have have seen it and yet looked deeper.
Most players would have stopped when they saw 18....Rd1.

We are then treated to a beautiful and classic finish.

Forgot to add that if you are using this game to teach a student then
take time out to show the Tarrasch Trap.

Here Fonarov played 7....exd4 instead of 7...0-0



Because of the Tarrasch Trap given below.
The trap stops 11 moves later with 18.c4 and White wins the exchange.

Remember to add it was between Tarrasch - Marco, Dresden 1892
and that Tarrasch published the whole trap in a chess magazine about
4 months prior to the game being played.
(Marco resigned on move 17).

After showing the trap(s)-(you also have to show the trap working
with 10...Rfxd8) . You then move onto the main event and give
the Capa game.

In a later lesson, covering the dangers of relaxing in a won position,
you can return to this trap and show what happened to a lad in a class
I was teaching when I paired them up to go over what they had
been shown. He managed to lose this as White!

Here is the game. Tarrasch - Marco finished 1-0 on move 17 but we
continue with 'Smith - Jones' which finished 0-1 on move 23.

Yes

Topalov - Anand, Sofia 2005

I’m surprised no one has answered your question about the greatest game between Kasparov and Karpov. Personally I don’t know so I will continue the trend in this thread by giving what I feel is the greatest game of all time. Game 5880174 🙄

Originally posted by greenpawn34
The game I enjoy showing is Capablanca v Fonaroff 1918.

It is very easy to explain the moves leading up the critical position.
You can walk a student through this game move by move as you can
with the Morphy game.