Train · Grandmaster games
Inside a Grandmaster's mind.
The greatest games by world champions and 2700-rated players, lived from inside both players' minds, in their own voices: what each one sees, fears, calculates four or five moves ahead and plans, and why each move is chosen. Every line is checked by Stockfish 19, the board shows the plans before they happen, and at every decision it is your move first.
- The settingWho played, what was at stake
- The thinkingMove by move, narrated
- Your moveThink it through first
- The lessonsWhat to keep and play
Morphy to move. What would you play?Morphy v Brunswick and Isouard, 1858 · move 10
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9 games, new ones added as members request them. Elite only: a world champion, a player whose peak classical rating reached 2700, or (before ratings) the recognised best player of their time.
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Consultation game, Italian Opera · 1858
The Opera Game
Morphy 1–0 Brunswick and Isouard
17 moves · 17 decisions
Seventeen moves in a box at the Paris opera: Morphy develops every piece, keeps the black king on e8, and mates with the last two.
Casual game during the London tournament · 1851
The Immortal Game
Anderssen 1–0 Kieseritzky
23 moves · 15 decisions
Two rooks, a bishop and then the queen, all given away so that three minor pieces could mate: the most celebrated sacrificial game of the romantic age.
World Championship match, game 6 · 1972
Fischer's Queen's Gambit
Fischer 1–0 Spassky
41 moves · 19 decisions
Fischer plays the Queen's Gambit for the first time in a serious game, wins by squeezing Spassky with e4 and f5, and Spassky applauds.
AVRO tournament · 1938
Botvinnik's Masterpiece at AVRO
Botvinnik 1–0 Capablanca
41 moves · 19 decisions
A pawn centre rolls forward, a bishop and a knight are offered to deflect the queen, and the king walks to h5: Botvinnik beats Capablanca in a twelve-move combination.
World Championship match · 2013
The Chennai Squeeze
Carlsen 1–0 Anand
58 moves · 18 decisions
A level queenless ending, no brilliancy, and a world champion who slips once in 58 moves: how Carlsen won game five of the 2013 title match.
World Championship match · 1966
Petrosian's Long Diagonal
Petrosian 1–0 Spassky
30 moves · 20 decisions
A knight on a5 that never moves again, two exchanges given away, and a queen offered on h8: Petrosian answers Spassky's plans before they are played.
Third Rosenwald Memorial Tournament · 1956
The Game of the Century
Byrne 0–1 Fischer
41 moves · 21 decisions
At thirteen, Bobby Fischer lets Donald Byrne take the queen, and every other black piece joins a mating attack.
Hoogovens tournament · 1999
Kasparov's Immortal
Kasparov 1–0 Topalov
44 moves · 22 decisions
A rook sacrifice on move 24, and a king hunted from a7 all the way to d1: the most famous attacking game of the modern era.
World Championship match · 1985
The Octopus Knight
Karpov 0–1 Kasparov
40 moves · 20 decisions
Kasparov gives a pawn at move 8 and steers a knight to d3. No white pawn can ever touch it, and for eighteen moves Karpov's whole army stands frozen around it.
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