The Game of the Century (chess) The Game of the Century (chess) In chess, The Game of the Century is a chess game played between 26-year-old Donald Byrne and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956, which Fischer won. The competition took place at the Marshall Chess Club. It was nicknamed "The Game of the Century" by Hans Kmoch in "Chess Review". Kmoch wrote, "The following game, a stunning masterpiece of play performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable opponent, matches the finest on record in the history of chess prodigies." Donald Byrne (1930–1976) was
Chess in the arts directly inspired at least two other works. The first is Jan Kochanowski's poem "Chess" (c. 1565), which describes the game as a battle between two armies, while the second is William Jones'" Caissa, or the game of chess" (1772). The latter poem popularised the pseudo-ancient Greek dryad Caïssa to be the "goddess of chess". Since the 19th century, artists have been creating novels and – since the 20th century – films related to chess. Sometimes, they are inspired by famous games, like John Brunner's "The Squares of the City", structured after the famous match between Wilhelm Steinitz and Mikhail Chigorin;