Top 10 Games Of The 1990s: Ivanchuk's Golden Queen Sacrifice–Ivanchuk vs. Shirov 1996
Sam Copeland's number four game of the 1990s features maybe the greatest queen sacrifice ever played! Check out Ivanchuk's...
Top 10 Games Of The 1990s: Yusupov Goes All In For Checkmate!–Ivanchuk vs Yusupov 1991
In 1991 Artur Yusupov upset the number-two ranked player in the world, Vasil Ivanchuk, in a candidates match. In the first...
Top 10 Games Of The 1990s: Grandmaster Uses King To Deliver Checkmate!–Short vs. Timman 1991
Against Jan Timman, Nigel Short walked his king up the board and used it to help deliver a spectacular checkmate. Check...
Top 10 Games Of The 1990s: The Greatest Chess Game Of All Time Explained - Kasparov vs. Topalov 1999
Is this the greatest chess game of all time? In 1999 Garry Kasparov sacrificed multiple pieces to bring his opponent's king...
Top 10 Games Of The 2000s: The Immortal Bullet Game–Schmaltz vs Har-Zvi 2001
How could a bullet game by one of the best games of the decade? Check out this masterpiece by GM Ronen Har-Zvi and let us...
Top 10 Games Of The 2000s: Magnus Carlsen's Game Of The Century–Carlsen vs Ernst 2004
In our number 9 game of the 2000s, a young Magnus Carlsen won maybe his most spectacular game to date. Check out this attacking...
Top 10 Games Of The 2000s: Immortal Space Invaders Game II–Timofeev vs Khismatullin 2009
Rooks are better than pawns, right? In this astounding game GM Artyom Timofeev argues otherwise, as he builds an army of...
Top 10 Games Of The 2000s: Nakamura Shocks GM With Queen Sacrifice–Krasenkow-vs Nakamura 2007
GM Hikaru Nakamura won many fans in the 2000s, with his brilliant attacking play. Check out his most beautiful game of the...
Top 10 Games Of The 2000s: Sutovsky's Nf5 Dominates The Game–Sutovsky vs Smirin 2002
Emil Sutovsky is now the Director General of FIDE, but he's a strong Grandmaster in his own right. Check out NM Sam Copeland's...
Top 10 Games Of The 2000s: MVL Sacs Exchange Queen For King Hunt–Fontaine vs Vachier-Lagrave 2007
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is one of the great attacking players of the 21st century so far. One of his best moments came against...
Top 10 Games Of The 2000s: Hikaru Nakamura Crushes Computer In Blitz Chess–Rybka vs Nakamura 2008
In the 2000s top Grandmasters could still put up a fight against chess engines. In this ridiculous game, Hikaru Nakamura...
Top 10 Games Of The 2000s: Anand Wins A Sicilian Brilliancy–Karjakin vs Anand 2006
In 2006 Vishy Anand wasn't yet the undisputed World Champion, but he may have been the best player in the world. Check out...
Top 10 Games Of The 2000s: MVL's Zombie Rook Wins The Game–Morozevich vs Vachier-Lagrave 2009
GM Alexander Morozevich was one of the great attackers of the early 21st century, but young MVL defended like a lion and...
Top 10 Games Of The 2000s: Topalov Sacs 2 Exchanges, Overruns Aronian–Topalov vs Aronian 2006
Veselin Topalov dominated the mid 2000s and won the FIDE World Championship in 2005. Check out his greatest game, a win...
Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: Alireza Firouzja's Game Of The 21st Century–Firouzja vs Zarkovic 2019
Many people think that GM Alireza Firouzja will be the next World Champion. He played his first brilliancies in the 2010s...
Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: Magnus Carlsen's Most Spectacular Defeat–Aronian vs Carlsen 2017
World Champion Magnus Carlsen rarely loses a game. One of those losses came against the Levon Aronian in Norway in 2017....
Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: Ding Liren's Immortal Game–Bai Jinshi vs Ding Liren 2017
GM Ding Liren reached the number two spot in the rating list in the 2010s. He played one of the prettiest games of the decade...
Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: Most Ridiculous, Castling Move, Ever!–Dubov vs Giri 2019
GM Daniil Dubov is still getting better, but he first rose to the top in the 2010s, winning several amazing games. Check...
Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: Hikaru Nakamura's Best King's Indian Victory–Gelfand vs Nakamura 2010
Hikaru Nakamura rose to prominence in the 2010s, reaching as high as the second spot in the world ranking. Check out one...
Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: Magnus Carlsen's Perfect Chess Grind–Carlsen vs Karjakin 2013
World Champion Magnus Carlsen rose to the top by grinding out wins from nearly even positions. The perfect example was his...
Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: Vladimir Kramnik's No Castling Chess Attack–Aronian vs Kramnik 2018
World Champion Kramnik popularized the Berlin Defense as a way to reach an early endgame. However, in the 2018 Candidates...
Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: A New Kind Of Chess–AlphaZero vs Stockfish 2017
In 2017 the engine, AlphaZero, shocked the chess world with a whole new type of engine chess. Check out this amazing highlight...
Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: Wei Yi's Quiet Move Immortal–Wei Yi vs Bruzon 2015
It's not often that a chess game earns the monicker "Immortal." Young Wei Yi did it with his "Quiet Move Immortal" where...
Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: Anand's Immortal Chess Game–Aronian vs Anand 2013
NM Sam Copeland thinks that Anand's brilliant win against Levon Aronian in 2013 was the best game of the 2010s. Check it...
Stockfish Wins TCEC 19
This year Stockfish, with its new neural network won the Computer Chess Chess Championship. NM Sam Copeland demonstrates...