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Memorizing games?

Memorizing games?

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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.

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It's a good idea and you learn alot too!

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I've memorized several, but they only stay in my memory for a few weeks. Right now the only ones I have memorized are two draws from my own games in the past few weeks.

I've heard that top players can recall hundreds of games from memory.

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yea i've memorized some games that were pretty interesting.

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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! 😀