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Which recent games are the new everlasting masterpieces?

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In this Chess.com article The Best Chess Games Of All Time there’s a list of 75 all-time great games, with dates ranging from late 19th century all the way up to 2017.

There weren't any games on the list from 2018 or later. The article was published in 2022, so it's not entirely up-to-date, but they we're also leaving out games played in the last 5 years. Perhaps there weren’t any good ones, but more likely it’s because games need some time to enter our collective minds as everlasting masterpieces.

My question is: when we look back in 15 or 20 years, which of the games that were played in roughly the last 5-7 years are going to end up high on the list of best games of all time?

VOB96

Carlsen vs Nepomniachtchi, Game 6 in WCC 2021, certainly deserved to be there

OnyxOrca

This isn't really my answer, because I'd need to see it again to confirm if it was really that good, but I remember a game where the knight was moved from and back to the starting square a few times. It was covered widely, but I'm drawing blanks on which event it was and who did it. My initial guess is Caruana, but I'm not sure.

Duckfest
VOB96 wrote:

Carlsen vs Nepomniachtchi, Game 6 in WCC 2021, certainly deserved to be there

Cool! This was also my first choice.