Best Matches In History

Amirani

Fischer v Spassky was 41 years ago this week.

There was a good piece on Pat Kenny's new show about it earlier, I thought some on here might be interested in listening back to it: http://www.newstalk.ie/player/podcasts/The_Pat_Kenny_Show/The_Pat_Kenny_Show_Highlights/31917/1/when_chess_was_about_more_than_just_chess

I've never been massive student of chess history despite enjoying the game a lot. I'm interested to hear what others on here think are the best matches in history.

The two most significant and influential in my mind are probably Fischer v Spassky and Kasparov v Deep Blue.

Ciaran

Kasparov - Short is the first I remember though I couldn't tell you anything about any of the games. Kramnik - Topalov a few years ago had interesting games but was spoilt by the toiletgate nonsense unfortunately.

mikhail

The Kasparov-Karpov matches were pretty epic, and sadly the last of the great World Championship battles before Kasparov split off from FIDE. The title's been reunified since '06, and Anand has proven a worthy champion by defending his title in a number of matches, but I miss the longer matches and epic candidates tournaments of the 80s and before. Unfortunately, it seems these aren't financially viable these days.

Ciaran

This year's Candidates was pretty good. 8 player double round robin is a good format, reasonably long without having too big of a gap between top and bottom.

rener

Garry Kasparov is my favourite player

I look at his games against Annand.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1018625

RQ_ennis_chess

McDonnell vs LaBourdannais was great and featured an Irish player too!