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Seems like a question some non-chess player would ask. But if it means which game withstands analysis and shows both sides playing at a very high level, then probably one of the alpha zero-stockfish games. If it is restricted to humans...there are tons, many which ended in draws.
Garry Kasparov vs The World, Oct. 22, 1999
Emanuel Lasker – Jose Raul Capablanca, St. Petersburg 1914
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Robert Hubner has a book entitled “Twenty-five Annotated Games” (1996) in which, on 416 pages, he analyses 25 of his games in great depth. It is worth looking at for a game to fit this category.
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Finally, the first game of Spassky-Fischer 1972. Chessgames.com has 41 pages of kibitzing analysis on that game!
From the hazy memories of my youth the game Lasker - Napier from Cambridge Springs 1904 had a certain aura. I gather some of the play has since been trashed by modern analysts and computers, but in terms of difficulty it is a classic.
I'll make some nominations from among 26 of my favorite games, factoring in their importance, stakes, difficulty, and artistry:
1) Ivanchuk 0-1 Yusupov, 8th match game, Candidates, Brussels 1991;
2) Bogolyubov 0-1 Alekhine, Hastings 1922;
3) Spassky 0-1 Fischer, 13th match game, World Championship, Reykjavik 1972;
4) Averbakh 0-1 Kotov, Candidates tournament, Zurich 1953;
5) Botvinnik 0-1 Smyslov, 14th match game, World Championship, Moscow 1954;
6) Janowski 1/2 Ed. Lasker, New York 1924;
7) Pachman 0-1 D. Bronstein, Prague vs Moscow team match 1946;
8) K. Spraggett 1-0 A. Sokolov, 5th match game, Candidates, Saint John 1988;
9) Fine 0-1 Keres, AVRO, Netherlands 1938;
10) Botvinnik 0-1 Tal, 6th match game, World Championship, Moscow 1960;
11) Polugaevsky 0-1 Tal, Interzonal, Riga 1979;
12) D. Bronstein 1-0 Ljubojevic, Interzonal, Petropolis 1973;
13) Karpov 0-1 Kasparov, 16th match game, World Championship, Moscow 1985;
14) LeSiege 1-0 K. Spraggett, Canadian Zonal, Kingston 1992;
15) L. Day 1-0 P. Benko, World Open, New York 1980;
16) Yanofsky 1-0 Botvinnik, Groningen 1946;
17) Reshevsky 0-1 Yanofsky, Tel Aviv Olympiad 1964;
18) Fischer 1-0 Larsen, 1st match game, Candidates, Denver 1971;
19) Euwe 1-0 Alekhine, Zurich 1934;
20) Fine 1-0 Botvinnik, AVRO, Netherlands 1938;
21) Geller 1-0 Smyslov, 1st match game, Candidates, Moscow 1965;
22) Kasparov 1-0 Anand, 10th match game, PCA World Championship, New York 1995;
23) M. Bluvshtein 1-0 Epishin, Canadian Open, Kapuskasing 2004;
24) Wachtel 0-1 Nickoloff, Toronto Championship 1975;
25) Szabo 0-1 Yanofsky, Winnipeg Centennial 1967;
26) P. Johner 0-1 Nimzowitsch, Dresden 1926.
A definite candidate would be Robert Byrne - Bobby Fischer 1963 where the computer comes up with many complex variations that show counter resources to Fischer's forcing play. A real headache to edit and summarize.
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