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The " Immortal Draw" between Carl Hamppe and Philipp Meitner, involving a queen sacrifice. Wilhelm Steinitz won the tournament's brilliancy prize for this game. "The Opera Game" Morphy shows the virtue of quick development and wins by sacrificing much material, mating on the 17th move with his last two pieces. 1858: Morphy–Duke of Brunswick & Count Isouard, Paris.Paul Morphy gains an advantage in development and transforms it into a powerful kingside attack with a queen sacrifice. "The Evergreen Game" Anderssen mates with what Savielly Tartakower called " combination second to none in the literature of the game."

"The Immortal Game" Kieseritzky neglects his development and Adolf Anderssen sacrifices his queen and both rooks for a win. Alexander Petrov wins with a queen sacrifice and a king hunt, in a game known as "Petrov's Immortal". Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant resigns in this unofficial world championship match game with Howard Staunton, in which Staunton remarked, "The latter portion of this game is conducted with remarkable skill by both parties." Perhaps the most famous win of the match (considered an unofficial world championship), La Bourdonnais shows how a rolling pawn mass can overwhelm all of his opponent's major pieces.

1834: La Bourdonnais–McDonnell, 62nd Match Game, London.

McDonnell sacrifices his queen for two minor pieces. Reuben Fine in The World's Great Chess Games describes it as the first great immortal game of chess.

1834: La Bourdonnais–McDonnell, 50th Match Game, London.

François-André Danican Philidor, who was quoted as saying "Pawns are the soul of chess", demonstrates the power of a superior pawn formation.

Thomas Bowdler offers the first example of a famous double rook sacrifice. Gioachino Greco mates on the eighth move with a queen sacrifice. The first documented chess game played with the modern queen and bishop moves the moves were described in the poem Scachs d'amor.