This selection is just amazing. I have the feeling you can spend your whole life going back to these occasionally and be perpetually flabbergasted.
The original website does not allow you to play through the moves. But you can solve that easily by pasting the moves onto this handy replayer site http://www.apronus.com/chess/wbeditor.php and then clicking "absorb PGN."
Here, for instance, Karpov comes up with the unbelievable concept to play Ng2 against Kasparov for the 1984 WC. The automatic gh4 we would have all played leaves no penetration points. Instead he gets his King in through the h-file and it's curtains.
Olafsson simply played Re6 here, and after fe6 Ng5 Black is completely lost, since Bg2 is met by Qe6 Kh8 NF7 Kg8 Nh6 Kh8 Qg8
But this may be my favorite. White to play and win.
This is just about as close to magic as it gets. If you can believe it, White, who has a kingside attack that would definitely look decisive with just a couple of extra tempi, procedes to throw both his Knights on... d7! Yes, on d7, into complete vacuum. The first one goes in just so that the second one can get to e5 with tempo, attacking Black's Queen, and then, he just throws himself onto d7 too, where again there is nothing. However, by maneuvering thus, the second Knight accomplishes two things: he clears the e3 Rook's path and distracts Black's Queen from attacking the f6 pivot. The game continued 23.Nd7 Qxd7 24.Ne5 Qd8 25.Nd7 Qxd7 26.Rh3 h5 27.gxh5 g5 28.Qxg5 Qd8 29.h6 Qxf6 30.Qg7+ Nxg7 31.hxg7+ Qh6 32.gxf8N+ Kh8 33.Rxh6 mate .
What's so aesthetically wonderful here is that, if someone were bored and trying to just lose material in the silliest possible way, they could have very easily played Nd7-Ne5-Nd7. The fact that in reality this process of saying "take my pieces" with no regard for anything is correct just slaps you across the face. It kind of sums up all of chess. In a game where logic is everything and competent players know more or less what their opponent is thinking, the greatest moves are the ones that just shatter expectations, sidestep common patterns and look wildly unpredictable... while, of course, remaining completely logical!
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