The Game of the Century (chess) Kg1 21... Ne2+ 22. Kf1 Nc3+ 23. Kg1 axb6 24. Qb4 Ra4! 25. Qxb6 25... Nxd1 26. h3 Rxa2 27. Kh2 Nxf2 28. Re1 Rxe1 29. Qd8+ Bf8 30. Nxe1 Bd5 31. Nf3 Ne4 32. Qb8 b5 33. h4 h5 34. Ne5 Kg7 35. Kg1 Bc5+ 36. Kf1 Ng3+ 37. Ke1 Bb4+ 38. Kd1 Bb3+ 39. Kc1 Ne2+ 40. Kb1 Nc3+ 41. Kc1 Rc2# Videos 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
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;