Anyone know the moves to some favorite Grandmaster games by heart?
As of right now, I know the score to Morphy - Duke of Braunschwieg/Count Isouard, Kasparov-Gheorgieu 1982, and the Frank Marshall - Amos Burn 'Pipe Game'. [Yes, I got them all from the annotated game section in Seirawan's 'Winning Chess Tactics']
It can be pretty fun to play over a brilliant game in your head in a boring situation [school, say], and it really increases one's admiration for an artfully played game. I'd imagine it does something for one's blindfold skills and board vision as well.
I've never memorised anyone elses games before, but recently i've found that i can recall my RHP games from memory. It's cool, i was lying in bed and i was thinking about a game i had against ivanhoe. I hadn't moved for over a week because i thought i'd lost a piece (if i've made a mistake i always wait until i've recovered my confidence before i move again, blunders come in two's you know...). I realized i had a move which let me off with going just one pawn down. I was really stoked when i opened RHP the next day to find, sure enouph, the move was correct! I lost the game but to this day it still feels like a win, just for that! 😀