The Opera Game as a Swiss-style print in a black frame on a plaster wall, a bowl and two books on the sideboard below

Chess games, printed to be hung

The game you still talk about, on fine-art paper.

Every move drawn as a line, the players set in type, the result where it belongs. Your own game from Lichess or Chess.com, or one of the famous ones. Printed to order on 200 gsm matte paper, framed if you like, shipped worldwide.

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Paul Morphy vs Duke Karl of Brunswick and Count Isouard. Paris, 1858. Swiss, Signal red. 50 × 70 cm, Classic frame in black. Unframed €69, framed €159.

A frame from the film: the 3D board at move 13, the move lines drawn on it, the evaluation curve below — A frame from the Opera Game's film, 13... Rxd7, and the corner of a Swiss print at 30 × 40: the code sits beside the result.

The bottom right corner of a Swiss print: the footer rule, the QR code and the result 1 to 0 in red — A frame from the Opera Game's film, 13... Rxd7, and the corner of a Swiss print at 30 × 40: the code sits beside the result.

A code the size of a stamp in the corner. Scan it, and the game plays.

Each print carries a code set in its own ink. It opens a short film of the game: a board in three dimensions, the pieces moving at a walking pace, a score composed from the moves, the turning point marked. For the person who unwraps the gift, it is how they learn what the lines are. For the person who played it, it is the game, back.

LengthAbout a minute, one second a move

SoundA score generated from the game. No commentary

WhereOn our site. Nothing to install, no account

ReadyBefore the print arrives

Watch the Opera Game's film

Four ways to draw a game. Each one designed for a wall, then for a screen.

Pick the style, then one of its colour presets. No pickers, no sliders: every combination was designed and checked so the lines stay legible on paper at every size.

Swiss style print of the Opera Game — **Swiss**Strict grid, hairline board, one red. The names are the legend.Signal red, Night, Cobalt

Generative style print of the Opera Game — **Generative**No board. Each piece's journey is one flowing line that grows heavier towards the end.Night, Ultramarine, Paper

Data story style print of the Opera Game — **Data story**The board, the evaluation curve, and the move where it turned, named.Paper, Terminal, Slate, Archive

Letterpress style print of the Opera Game — **Letterpress**Old chess-book typography, hatched squares, the whole notation under the board.Cream, Library, Ledger

The same game, another style.

Every style is drawn from the same seventeen moves and nothing else. Switch between them: the frame stays, the print changes.

StyleSwissStrict grid, hairline board, one red. The names are the legend.GenerativeNo board. Each piece's journey is one flowing line that grows heavier towards the end.Data storyThe board, the evaluation curve, and the move where it turned, named.LetterpressOld chess-book typography, hatched squares, the whole notation under the board.

Make it with your own game

Made like a gallery print, not a photo order.

Enhanced Matte Art is a 200 gsm fine-art paper, natural white, with a smooth matte surface that removes glare. We render each print from vector at the size you order, at 300 dots per inch, so a hairline at 30 × 40 is still a hairline at 50 × 70. Frames are solid wood with a flat satin face and an acrylic glaze.

PaperEnhanced Matte Art, 200 gsm, natural white, smooth matte

PrintGiclée, pigment-based archival inks, 300 dpi from vector

Sizes30 × 40, 42 × 59 and 50 × 70 cm

FrameClassic, solid wood, satin finish, acrylic glaze: black or natural

Printed inNetherlands, UK or US, whichever is closest

DamagedWe reprint it. Send a photo within 14 days

Corner of the framed letterpress print: the glass, the frame's depth, the paper — Letterpress, Cream, behind glass in the black Classic frame.

The letterpress print at print resolution: the paper grain and the engraved type — The print file at 1:1. The paper grain is drawn into it, so the texture prints on any paper.

Swiss print close-up: the mating move ringed — Swiss. The mate, ringed. 1:1 at 50 × 70.

Data story close-up: the turning point on the evaluation curve — Data story. Where it turned. 1:1.

Three sizes, framed or not.

Nothing else to decide. Shipping is included to the EU, the UK, the US, Australia and New Zealand; elsewhere it is €10 for an unframed print and €35 framed, shown at checkout. Prices include VAT where it applies. Gift orders ship to the recipient with your note and no prices on the slip.

Printed within3 working days

Christmas, Europeorder by 10 Dec

Christmas, UK and USorder by 8 Dec

After thatgift card, instant

Cutoffs provisional: our own dates sit a few days before the printer's recommended last order dates (IT, FR, ES 15 Dec; DE, UK 17 Dec; US 13 Dec).

Size	Unframed	Framed
30 × 40 cm	€49	€119
42 × 59 cm	€59	€139
50 × 70 cm	€69	€159
Digital filePrint it yourself, any size	€15
Gift cardThey pick the game, style and size	from €49

Exact sizes: 30.5 × 40.6 cm (12 × 16 in), 42 × 59.4 cm (16.5 × 23.4 in), 50.8 × 71.1 cm (20 × 28 in).

Buying for a chess player and don't know their game?

You don't need to. Type their Lichess or Chess.com name and we show you their recent games with the result and the date; the one they beat their rival in is usually easy to spot. If you'd rather let them choose, a gift card lets them pick the game, the style and the size later. It works after the Christmas cutoff too.

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The games everyone learns from, as prints. Each with its story.

Every famous game has its own page: why it mattered, the move where it turned, the whole game to replay, and the print beside it in all four styles.

The Opera GameMorphy, Paris 1858 The Game of the CenturyByrne vs Fischer, New York 1956

The Immortal GameAnderssen vs Kieseritzky, London 1851

The Evergreen GameAnderssen vs Dufresne, Berlin 1852

Kasparov's ImmortalKasparov vs Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999

Read the Opera Game page