What's an ideal game for teaching a new beginner? I sent my nephew a chess set for his 8th birthday. He doesn't play yet.
When my children were small, I taught them to play by working through a simple game in which each piece was introduced in turn. I made it into a story (e.g. &quot;Now your queen is in danger! What can  we do about that?&quot;) until finally the child won the game with a checkmate (of course).
I had to make it up as we went along, but I am sure there must be some well-known games that would do the same job better, which is to say more excitingly and succinctly.
Can you suggest something suitable for a beginner's very first game? It doesn't need to cover things like en passant, pawn promotion or castling - just the very basics, to introduce the different characters and the plot.
(By &quot;well-known&quot;, obviously I mean well-known as a teaching game, devised for the purpose of introducing a complete beginner to the very basics. It's completely irrelevant whether the game is a famous example from the history of chess, since that will mean absolutely nothing to an eight-year-old beginner playing his first game.)
I vote for the Opera Game. It showcases the very basics of strategy (controlling the center, getting the pieces developed ASAP, and attacking the king), and ends with a fantastic combination to force checkmate.

This is one of the most well-known games ever played, and it has been covered by nearly everyone online, so you can definitely find a good overview of this game in many youtube videos. If you watch a few yourself, (such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKvUQpQWie0) you should be able to present it as a story to your kid too.