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[edit] July 15, 2007 to August 31, 2007
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Kasparov versus The World is a famous chess game played over the Internet in 1999 between world champion Russian Grandmaster Garry Kasparov and The World, of which the move was decided by the plurality vote of MSN Gaming Zone visitors; the match was conducted in a correspondence format in which each side was permitted 24 hours to move in 1999. Although The World, at the suggestion of two of its four advisors—International Masters American Irina Krush and German Elisabeth Pähtz—essayed a sharp theoretical novelty on its tenth move, forking two central pawns, Kasparov ultimately ground out a 62-move win amidst bickering amongst online voters.
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[edit] June 1, 2007 to June 30, 2007; September 1, 2007 to September 30, 2007
The immortal losing game was a famous chess game played between Soviet Grandmaster David Bronstein and Polish International Master Bogdan Śliwa in 1957 in Gotha, Germany. Named in allusion to the celebrated immortal game played 106 years thither, the game saw Śliwa, playing with the white pieces, earn the exchange and a winning position by the sixteenth move and thereafter avoid a series of elegant traps set by Bronstein in an effort to swindle a win or draw.
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[edit] April 21, 2007 to May 31, 2007
The Opera Game was a famous chess game played in 1858 between American chess master Paul Morphy and a team of two strong amateur players, German noble Karl, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and French aristocrat Count Isouard. Named for its having been played in Karl's private box at the Italian Opera House in Paris during a performance of Norma, the game, featuring a checkmate delivered by Morphy with the white pieces on his seventeenth move, is often adduced by chess teachers as demonstrating the import of one's developing his pieces quickly in the opening.
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[edit] July 24, 2006 to April 21, 2007
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A chess game between fictional astronaut Frank Poole and supercomputer HAL 9000 features prominently in the Stanley Kubrick-directed 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968 concomitant to the eponymous novel by Briton Arthur C. Clarke. The game, which follows the Worrall Attack (alternatively, English Attack) variation of the Ruy Lopez opening and which is ostensibly crafted by Kubrick, himself a chess player, is first shown at the fourteenth move, position pictured, when Poole, playing the white pieces and already in a position evaluated as inferior, blunders, capturing a poisoned pawn and permitting HAL to sacrifice a bishop to produce a position in which checkmate is forced in five moves. HAL, though, avers that he has mate in two, whereupon Poole resigns; the scene is understood to evidence either HAL's fallability or the computer's selfish duplicity, foreshadowing, in either case, the film's denouement.
[edit] June 21 to July 24, 2006
Image:And00278.png A game played at Simpson's-in-the-Strand in London, England, between German Adolf Anderssen, pictured, generally regarded at the time as the game's world champion, and Estonian Lionel Kieseritzky, considered to have been, behind Englishman Howard Staunton, the world's second-best player for much of the 1840s, not long after Anderssen had defeated Kieseritzky, 2½-½, in the first recognzied international tournament, is referred to as the Immortal game, so-called because Anderssen sacrificed a bishop, two rooks, and his queen before effecting checkmate with his remaining minor pieces on the 23rd move. The game has been featured on a Surinamese postage stamp, in the film Blade Runner, and in a Mark Coggins detective novel.
[edit] May 26 to June 21, 2006
A game played in New York City on October 17, 1956, between Donald Byrne, later titled as an International Master, and a 13-year-old Bobby Fischer is often referred to as The Game of the Century; Fischer sacrifices his queen on the seventeenth move but quickly achieves compensation.
[edit] March 11, 2006 - May 26, 2006
Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 was the first game to be won by a chess-playing computer against a reigning world champion under normal chess tournament conditions (in particular, normal time controls).
[edit] February 24, 2006 - March 11, 2006
In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the astronaut Frank Poole is seen playing chess with the HAL 9000 supercomputer.
[edit] January 11, 2006 - February 24, 2006
Lasker - Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889 - The chess game between Emanuel Lasker and Johann Bauer played in Amsterdam in 1889 is one of the most famous of all time on account of Lasker's sacrifice of both bishops to blow away the pawn cover around his opponent's king and win material.
[edit] September 5, 2005 - January 11, 2006
The evergreen game is a famous chess game played in 1852 by Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne.
[edit] August 22, 2005 – September 4, 2005
The sample chess game is a game where every move is well commented, nicely introducing the aspects to be considered in a chess game.
