Famous games, framed.

London, 1851. Anderssen gives up both rooks and his queen, and mates with three minor pieces.

Berlin, 1852. Anderssen ignores the threat to his king and mates with a dazzling queen sacrifice.

Paris, 1858. Played in a box at the opera during Norma, against a duke and a count in consultation.

Amsterdam, 1889. Young Lasker sacrifices both bishops to tear open the king, inventing a classic attacking pattern.

Hastings, 1895. Steinitz's rook checks endlessly from the seventh rank; Bardeleben leaves rather than resign.

Lodz, 1907. Rubinstein leaves his queen hanging and unleashes a cascade of rook sacrifices against White's king.

Breslau, 1912. Marshall's queen lands on g3, en prise three ways; spectators reportedly showered the board with gold.

London, 1912. Edward Lasker's queen sacrifice drags Black's king from g8 all the way to g1.

New York, 1918. Marshall unveils his famous gambit, and Capablanca defends coolly through the storm before striking back.

Baden-Baden, 1925. Alekhine's rook and knights weave a deep combination he called the finest game of his career.

AVRO, 1938. Botvinnik's bishop sacrifice against the former world champion, a classic of positional attack.

New York, 1956. A queen sacrifice so bold the chess world named it the Game of the Century.

Rostov-on-Don, 1962. Nezhmetdinov gives his queen on move twelve for a long, deep attack: one of chess's greatest sacrifices.

US Championship, 1963. Fischer's knight sacrifice tears open the white king; Byrne resigns after just 21 moves.

Bled, 1965. In the deciding Candidates game, Tal's speculative knight sacrifice in the centre sweeps Larsen aside.

World Championship, 1966. Petrosian gives up the exchange twice, then a queen check ends Spassky's resistance.

World Championship, game 6. So perfect that Spassky joined the applause.

World Championship, 1985. Kasparov's knight on d3 strangles Karpov's position, a key win on the road to the title.

Tilburg, 1991. With the queens still on, Short marches his king up the board to trap Timman's king.

The real Biel Interzonal game Kasparov chose for Beth Harmon's final showdown with Borgov in Netflix's The Queen's Gambit.

New York, 1997. The game where a computer first beat the world champion in a match.

Shirov gives away his only piece to clear a path for his king: one of the most famous moves ever played.

Wijk aan Zee, 1999. A rook sacrifice and a king hunt across the whole board.

Judit Polgar beats the world number one in his own Berlin Defence: her first win over Kasparov.

Wijk aan Zee, 2004. The future world champion announces himself with a sacrificial attack.

Anand unleashes a torrent of sacrifices against Aronian, winning in just 23 moves in one of modern chess's finest attacks.

New York, 2016. The world title on the line, settled with a queen sacrifice: 50.Qh6+.

A self-taught neural network abandons a knight for long-term pressure and grinds down the world's strongest classical engine.

Ding refuses a repetition in the final rapid tiebreak and wins with Black to become the 17th world champion.

In the final classical game, Ding blunders in a drawn endgame and 18-year-old Gukesh becomes the youngest undisputed world champion.