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Chess Game

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A historical game of Chess between two players. more

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Poole - HAL 9000 HAL 9000 vs Frank Poole (Chess) Quotation Subject    
In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the astronaut Frank Poole is seen playing chess with the HAL 9000 supercomputer. As HAL is supposed to be infallible, no one is surprised when HAL soundly defeats Poole. The director Stanley Kubrick was a...
Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1     Feb 10, 1996 Philadelphia
Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 is a famous chess game in which a computer played against a human being. It was the first game played in the 1996 Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov match, and the first time that a chess-playing computer defeated a...
Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1997, Game 6 Kasparov vs. Deep Blue   May 11, 1997 New York
The infamous Sixth game of the Deep Blue - Kasparov rematch, played in New York City on May 11, 1997 and starting at 3:00 p.m. EDT, was the last chess game in the rematch of 1997 of Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov. It marked the first time that a...
The Game of the Century Fischer's game score, in descriptive notation.   Oct 17, 1956 New York
The Game of the Century usually refers to a chess game played between Donald Byrne and 13-year old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956. It was nicknamed "The Game of the Century" by Hans Kmoch in...
Immortal game Game animation.   Jun 21, 1851 London
The immortal game was a chess game played on 21 June 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. The very bold sacrifices made by Anderssen to finally secure victory have made it one of the most famous chess games of all time. Anderssen gave up...
Evergreen game     1852 Berlin
The Evergreen game is a famous chess game played in 1852 between Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne. Adolf Anderssen was one of the strongest players of his time, and was considered by many to be the world champion after winning the 1851 London...
Immortal Zugzwang game     1923 Copenhagen
The game Friedrich Saemisch – Aron Nimzowitsch, Copenhagen 1923, is sometimes called the "Immortal Zugzwang game" because the final position is widely accepted as being a rare instance of zugzwang occurring in the middlegame. (with notes by...
Immortal losing game     1957 Gotha
A chess game between the Soviet grandmaster David Bronstein and the Polish International Master Bogdan Śliwa in 1957 in Gotha is referred to as the "Immortal Losing Game" - an allusion to the more famous Immortal Game between Adolf Anderssen and...
Opera game     1858 Paris
The Opera Game was a famous chess game played in 1858 between the American chess master Paul Morphy and two strong amateurs, the German noble Duke Karl of Brunswick and the French aristocrat Count Isouard, who consulted, playing together as partners...
Polish Immortal     1928 Warsaw
The Polish Immortal is the name given to a famous chess game between Glinksberg and Miguel Najdorf played in Warsaw. Some sources give its date as 1930 or 1935, and give the name of the player of the white pieces as "Glucksberg." Garry Kasparov...
Lasker - Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889     1889 Amsterdam
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 bishop to blow away the pawn cover around his opponent's king and win material. The...
Peruvian Immortal        
The Peruvian Immortal is the name given to a spectacular chess game played by the Peru master (later grandmaster) Esteban Canal against an unknown amateur in a simultaneous exhibition he gave at Budapest in 1934. In just 14 moves, Canal sacrificed...
Kasparov versus The World     1999  
Kasparov versus The World was a game of chess played in 1999 over the Internet. Conducting the white pieces, Garry Kasparov faced the rest of the world in consultation, with the World Team moves to be decided by plurality vote. Over 50,000...