Twenty years ago New in Chess magazine introduced a back page column in which a chess personality is asked to name their favourite items in many areas food, drink, films, art, music, etc. One of the questions has always been What is the most exciting game of chess you ever saw After dozens of such questionnaires, a large body of games was nominated by chess greats such as Anand, Shirov, Short, and Ivanchuk and chess aficionados such as Jeremy Silman, Jennifer Shahade, and Tania Sachdev. This anthology presents the 45 most exciting of these most exciting games. Naturally, excitement, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. The reader will find some well-known games. Included are the classic tactical slugfest Kasparov-Topalov Wijk aan Zee 1999 and the immortal game Anderssen - Kieseritzky London 1851, but also a decisive last-round battles between Karpov and Kasparov Match24 1985 and a strategic masterpiece by Botvinnik versus Capablanca. Even more inspirational are the lesser-known