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* Bobby Fischer had many, starting with [
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* Deep Blue versus Kasparov . Whether it is more awesome that someone could [[Gadgeteer Genius|build a robot that could take on Kasparov]] or that [[The Chessmaster|Kasparov could manage to take on a super robot]] you decide.
* The Turk, a supposedly robotic chess player that toured the courts of Europe in the Eighteenth century and convinced people that ''it really was an eighteenth-century robot that could play chess''. One story was that The Turk was hollow and had a midget or child in it who was taking signals from a hired ringer in the audience.
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* No consensus exists on the topic of the greatest game ever played but [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1011478 this] is a popular choice among aficionados.
* Nobody taught Capablanca to play chess. He learned the moves by watching his father play with a friend, and he played his first game because he spotted his father illegally moving his knight two squares diagonally like a bishop. Teased by his son for cheating, Papa Capa crustily told him that he didn't even know how to play the game. So they set the pieces up, and Capablanca won the first game he ever played. Later he was taken to the local chess club and matched up against a proper player, who very kindly gave the untrained four-year-old a Queen start. Capablanca [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1481959&kpage=1 hosed] him.
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* Just about any move marked with a double exclamation mark (!!). Especially those that result in checkmate. Some ! moves also count.
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