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The Grandmaster

Three pivotal positions from three eras of chess — a thirteen-year-old prodigy's queen sacrifice in 1956, the first time a reigning world champion lost a match to a computer in 1997, and Magnus Carlsen's birthday queen offer in the 2016 World Championship tiebreak.

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The Game of the Century — framed and displayed
DONALD BYRNE · ROBERT J. FISCHER · NEW YORK · 17 OCTOBER 1956

The Game of the Century

Byrne vs. Fischer · 1956

Bobby Fischer was thirteen years old. With his seventeenth move he offered his queen to Donald Byrne — a positional sacrifice no master of the era would have considered. Byrne accepted and lost a forced sequence ending in mate twenty-three moves later. Hans Kmoch published the game in Chess Review under a headline that named it for all time. The position shown is after 17... Be6 — the move Kmoch called "a masterpiece of conception, a glittering monument of artistry."

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Game Six — framed and displayed
GARRY KASPAROV · IBM DEEP BLUE · NEW YORK · 11 MAY 1997

Game Six

Kasparov vs. Deep Blue · 1997

On 11 May 1997, IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov 3½–2½ in the deciding game of their rematch — the first time a reigning World Champion had lost a classical match to a computer. The decisive moment shown here is after Kasparov's 7... h6, a known weak move played as the engine prepared 8. Nxe6 — a calm, deep knight sacrifice that broke through the Caro-Kann defense. Kasparov resigned on move nineteen and never played Deep Blue again. The machine was retired the next day.

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The Queen Sacrifice — framed and displayed
MAGNUS CARLSEN · SERGEY KARJAKIN · NEW YORK · 30 NOVEMBER 2016

The Queen Sacrifice

Carlsen vs. Karjakin · 2016

Game four of the tiebreak. The match score level, the world title within reach for either player. With seconds on the clock Magnus Carlsen played 50. Qh6+ — offering his queen to a king that could not take it and could not flee from what would follow. Sergey Karjakin resigned: ... gxh6 51. Rxh6 is mate, and any other reply loses immediately to Rxh7+. Carlsen retained the World Championship on his twenty-sixth birthday.

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