The Greatest Games of Chess

Post your favorite games here. Anyone is allowed to show up to three games.
At the end, we can vote on the greatest game of chess ever played. They can be tactical fireworks, hard fought positional battles, or anything else. You can post GM games, or the games of your friends, etc. No offence, but if you are lower rated, (like myself) you probably haven't played the greatest game of chess ever played.
Enjoy!

I'll start:

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An impossible task!But let's go for it 🙂
3 games that impressed me:

Originally posted by dzhafner
[pgn]1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.g3 Nc6 4.Bg2 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.d4 cxd4
7.Nxd4 Ndb4 8.Nxc6 Qxd1+ 9.Kxd1 Nxc6 10.Nc3 Bd7 11.Be3 g6
12.Rc1 Bg7 13.f4 O-O 14.Ke1 e5 15.Kf2 exf4 16.gxf4 Be6 17.b3
Rad8 18.Ne4 Bd4 19.Nc5 Bxe3+ 20.Kxe3 Rfe8 21.Kf2 Nb4 22.a3 Nd5
23.Nxe6 fxe6 24.e3 Re7 25.Rhd1 Red7 26.Rd4 Kf7 27.Bf3 b6
28.Bxd5 exd5 29.h4 Rd6 30.Kf3 Kf6 31.b4 b5 32.Rc5 a6 ...[text shortened]... 31.Nc8 Bf8 32.Qd8 Qg6 33.f5 Qh6 34.g5 Qh5 35.Rg4
exf5 36.Nf4 Qh8 37.Qf6+ Kh7 38.Rxh4+ 1-0[/pgn]

The aged former champion teaches the future great a lesson.

What lesson was that?

Originally posted by clandarkfire
Game one: Andersson - Leko, Ter Apel 1996
Game two: ??? - Please Post
Game three: Ivanchuk - Kasparov Linares 1991

yes, the second game was mattison-nimzowitch. White is about to lose the exchange at best.

The Ivanchuk-Kasparov game was extremely interesting. Maybe the tactics weren't ferocious but the players seemed both pretty astute! Ivanchuk (if he was white) played very well, loving the build-up. Definitely a contender, to put Kasparov in that end position is certainly something. 🙂

Originally posted by DawgHaus
Game two - I think it's a Nimzowich game. Maybe Reti was White.

This thread has been interesting - trying to guess the game just from the moves.

Here's another:

[pgn] 1.c4 e5 2.g3 d6 3.Bg2 g6 4.d4 Nd7 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Nf3 Ngf6 7.O-O
O-O 8.Qc2 Re8 9.Rd1 c6 10.b3 Qe7 11.Ba3 e4 12.Ng5 e3 13.f4 Nf8
14.b4 Bf5 15.Qb3 h6 16.Nf3 Ng4 17.b5 g5 18.bxc6 bxc6 19. ...[text shortened]... Nxg7 Nf2 34.Bxf4
Qxf4 35.Ne6 Qh2 36.Rdb1 Nh3 37.Rb7+ Kg8 38.Rb8+ Qxb8 39.Bxh3
Qg3 0-1 [/pgn]

yes ivanchuk is white; one of the three brutal games in which he dispaches kasparov.