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World Chess Championship Three star games

As a result of our researches into chess literature, we have linked many World Championship games from our highlights pages to our bibliography page, each link marked with a star. A number of games have received three or more stars, which is an indication of their popularity, importance, or interest to the chess world. These games are referenced on this page.

The links to the right of each game are to the corresponding reference in the highlights page for the event. This places the game in its historical context.

The links to the left of each game marked with a are to a page on Chessgames.com, dedicated to the game, where you can view the game using your browser.

View	Players	Event	Reference
	Labourdonnais - McDonnell	1834 Match	Game 17
	Labourdonnais - McDonnell	1834 Match	Game 50
	Zukertort - Steinitz	1886 Title Match	Game 9
	Steinitz - Chigorin	1892 Title Match	Game 4
	Lasker - Steinitz	1894 Title Match	Game 7
	Steinitz - Lasker	1896 Title Match	Game 3
	Marshall - Lasker	1907 Title Match	Game 1
	Lasker - Tarrasch	1908 Title Match	Game 5
	Janowski - Lasker	1909 Title Match	Game 2
	Lasker - Capablanca	1921 Title Match	Game 10
	Capablanca - Alekhine	1927 Title Match	Game 21
	Alekhine - Capablanca	1927 Title Match	Game 32
	Alekhine - Capablanca	1927 Title Match	Game 34
	Euwe - Alekhine	1935 Title Match	Game 26
	Euwe - Alekhine	1937 Title Match	Game 5
	Smyslov - Euwe	1948 Title Tournament	Round 19
	Botvinnik - Bronstein	1951 Title Match	Game 23
	Averbakh - Kotov	1953 Zurich Candidates Tournament	Round 14
	Boleslavsky - Keres	1953 Zurich Candidates Tournament	Round 21
	Botvinnik - Smyslov	1954 Title Match	Game 14
	Tal - Panno	1958 Portoroz Interzonal Tournament	Round 17
	Tal - Smyslov	1959 Yugoslavia Candidates Tournament	Round 8
	Fischer - Benko	1959 Yugoslavia Candidates Tournament	Round 10
	Fischer - Tal	1959 Yugoslavia Candidates Tournament	Round 27
	Botvinnik - Tal	1960 Title Match	Game 6
	Botvinnik - Tal	1961 Title Match	Game 7
	Stein - Portisch	1962 Stockholm Interzonal	Round 12
	Tal - Keres	1962 Curacao Candidates Tournament	Round 16
	Petrosian - Botvinnik	1963 Title Match	Game 5
	Geller - Smyslov	1965 Candidates Quarterfinal Match	Game 5
	Keres - Spassky	1965 Candidates Quarterfinal Match	Game 10
	Tal - Larsen	1965 Candidates Semifinal Match	Game 10
	Spassky - Petrosian	1966 Title Match	Game 7
	Petrosian - Spassky	1966 Title Match	Game 10
	Fischer - Miagmasuren	1967 Sousse Interzonal Tournament	Round 3
	Fischer - Stein	1967 Sousse Interzonal Tournament	Round 7
	Spassky - Geller	1968 Candidates Quarterfinal Match	Game 6
	Spassky - Korchnoi	1968 Candidates Final Match	Game 7
	Spassky - Petrosian	1969 Title Match	Game 5
	Spassky - Petrosian	1969 Title Match	Game 19
	Fischer - Larsen	1970 Palma de Mallorca Interzonal Tournament	Round 9
	Fischer - Taimanov	1971 Candidates Quarterfinal Match	Game 4
	Fischer - Larsen	1971 Candidates Semifinal Match	Game 1
	Fischer - Petrosian	1971 Candidates Final Match	Game 7
	Fischer - Spassky	1972 Title Match	Game 6
	Fischer - Spassky	1972 Title Match	Game 10
	Bronstein - Ljubojevic	1973 Petropolis Interzonal Tournament	Round 11
	Karpov - Spassky	1974 Candidates Semifinal Match	Game 9
	Korchnoi - Petrosian	1974 Candidates Semifinal Match	Game 1
	Karpov - Korchnoi	1974 Candidates Final Match	Game 2
	Korchnoi - Karpov	1981 Title Match	Game 9
	Karpov - Kasparov	1984 Title Match	Game 27
	Karpov - Kasparov	1985 Title Match	Game 16
	Karpov - Kasparov	1986 Title Match	Game 19
	Kasparov - Karpov	1986 Title Match	Game 22
	Ivanchuk - Yusupov	1991 Candidates Quarterfinal Match	Game 9
	Kasparov - Anand	1995 PCA Title Match	Game 10