Every past or present world-class player has a few stand-out games under his belt, which first come to mind whenever his/her name comes up. Some very strong players however are most famous for a spectacular defeat, for instance Kieseritzky, von Bardeleben and Rotlewi, or Bruzon and Bai Jinshi from recent times.
This got me thinking: Is there a player whose most notorious feat it was/is to be on the wrong side of a brilliancy more than once?
Suggestions would be very much appreciated :)
this NN guy gets beaten a lot. But seriously, Aronian has a few famous losses that I know of, and I hardly know any chess games at all.
Taimanov, spasski, and im not sure polugaevsky , i might mistake him for another russian gm.
Bernstein comes to mind, he had 2 brilliancy losses to Jose Capablanca.
Poor Aronian. He's such a great player but he's often on the wrong side of brilliancies like his game at the end of 2018 to Kramnik which I believe will end up being Kramnik's immortal game. Kramnik played Rg8 on the black side of a Berlin Ruy Lopez and crushed Aronian with two spectacular sacs. I think the game was less than 30 moves but it's just incredible.
Topalov (against Kasparov, Karpov and Shirov).
i too think it is NN but i have doubt for how many years was he alive i checked in chessgames of NN it says his recent game is against svidler in banter series 2020
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=12883#6, Topalov has come to my mind spontaneously. Also brilliant game lost to Kramnik.
