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Here are four of the greatest chess games ever played. These will display automatically!

1. Anderssen-Kieseritsky (London, 1851)
2. Steinitz-Tchigorin (Havana, 1892)
3. Anderssen-Dufresne (Berlin, 1852)
4. Morphy-Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard (Paris, 1858)

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Botvinnik-Bronstein, 1951
Botvinnik-Smyslov, 1954
Botvinnik-Smyslov, 1957
Smyslov-Botvinnik (rematch), 1958
Botvinnik-Tal, 1960
Tal-Botvinnik (rematch), 1961
Botvinnik-Petrosian, 1963
Spassky-Petrosian, 1966
Spassky-Petrosian, 1969
Fischer-Spassky, 1972
Karpov-Kortschnoi, 1978
Karpov-Kasparov, 1981