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125 Selected Games by Vasily Smyslov Smyslov, Vasily. 125 Selected Games. Cadogan Press: 1995. 127 games, 1935-1982 200 open games by David Bronstein (part 1) from the book collection 200 open games from David Bronstein.More than 150 of these games appear in Chessgames.com. here is the link to part 2 Game Collection: 200 Open Games by David Bronstein (part 2) 101 games, 1939-1968 200 Open Games by David Bronstein (part 2) Game Collection: 200 open games by David Bronstein (part 1) From Bronstein book 55 games, 1944-1968 50 Ways to Win at Chess 39 games, 1935-2006 Art of Sacrifice in Chess, R. Spielmann Spielmann, Rudolf. The Art of Sacrifice in Chess, New York: Dover, 1995. ISBN 0-486-28449-2. 37 games, 1903-1934 Immortal Games of Capablanca, F. Reinfeld Fred Reinfeld. The Immortal Games of Capablanca. Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1973. 113 games, 1901-1939 A First Book of Morphy All the games from the book "A first book of Morphy" in the order presented in the book. Games 1 - 30: Opening. Games 31 - 52: Middlegame. Games 53 - 69: Endgame. 69 games, 1848-1984 All-time chess classics You will often read in chess books that we should study the classics. Outside of World Championship games, it is not entirely clear what authors mean by that. Telling an amateur player to play through every played game by every elite player is neither a fun, nor a realistic plan for a player trying to become acquainted with famous ideas. Improving players have asked me countless times what the classics actually refers to, because there is not an actual list put out by any highly-esteemed chess authors, coaches, or top players. Players are essentially left to their own devices and we know what usually happens then: due to an overload of information and games to study (here, study this 3 book series on one player...), nothing gets studied at all. I put together this compact list of classic games to highlight the most useful ideas to be aware of. Most lists of classics are plagued by featuring too many surprising checkmates (that even modern 2200 players, let alone top Grandmasters, would very rarely fall for) that occur at the end of an otherwise not particularly instructive game. I balanced this list with positional ideas, defensive ideas, and more slow-moving attacks than just the usual double exclamation mark sacrifice and stock mate. Useful plans to recall: Qa1 by Reti (game 7), d5 and Nd4-c6 by Reti (game 9), Qe3!! by Botvinnik (game 11), Bc5 by Alekhine (game 12), Be3 by Boleslavsky (game 17), Ba7!! by Karpov (game 29), and the king walk by Short in game 42. Additionally, games 8, 14, and 46 feature tremendous domination. Great defensive play can be found in games 18, 19, 35, 37, 38, 39, and 40. Lastly, take a look at the famous sacrifices of Qxe5!! by Gusev (14), Rxa1 by Bronstein (game 15), Ne5! by Botvinnik (game 16), Re6!! by Petrosian (game 19), Be6!! by Fischer (game 20), Rxf4!! by Nezhmetdinov (game 22), Nxf2!! (game 24) and Rf6!! (game 25) by Fischer, Rd5!! by Kasparov (game 31), f4! and Rxf5!! by Gufeld (game 32), dxe6!! by Polugaevsky (game 36), Nxf2!! by Zvjaginsev (game 50), Qg7!! by Ivanchuk (game 51), Bh3!! by Shirov (game 52), and Rxd4!! (game 53) and Rxc3 (game 54) by Kasparov. Please note that no World Championship games are given on this list intentionally, because every player should have a basic familiarity with World Championship games. I made this list to give helpful direction to players not sure what the chess classics refers to. Nearly every game in this list features a particularly memorable plan or idea beyond the scope of just a stock checkmating pattern. If you think any games belong on this list, please let me know which idea from your proposed game was particularly memorable and classic. While making this list, I looked through over 100 lists of games and numerous books, including one by Grandmaster Soltis and the games featured in the five My Great Predecessors books by Garry Kasparov. I have left out repeat ideas as far as possible (with the exception of the Qa1 plan). 57 games, 1834-2000 Attack The King's Pocket Blowing Away The Castled King 23 games, 1888-2005 Best Lessons of a Chess Coach :Sunil Weeramantry Created this to combine main games and supplemental games into a single collection. Reading this late 2010-early 2011. I plan to study this deeply and add comments to the game as I go along.This is an inexpensive book worth owning. 43 games, 1857-1992 Bobby Fischer Games Jogos de Bobby Fischer. 60 games, 1956-1992 Capablanca 24 games, 1921-1922 Caro-Kann : Move by Move 11 Games Missing 3, 10, 11, 18, 26, 33, 35, 44, 46, 52, 53 145 games, 1922-2015 Caro-Kann Advance 89 games, 1958-2015 Chess Fundamentals (Capablanca) 'Chess Fundamentals' by Jose Raul Capablanca. Algebraic edition. 24 games, 1907-1919 CHESS PRINCIPLES These games don't have the fancy checkmates, or the brilliant combinations other games are known for. They are, however, bound by timeless chess principles that work effectively! 29 games, 1858-1997 Classic Vienna A collection of vienna games played in classic times. 24 games, 1906-1944 Collected games 37 games, 1883-1997 Collected games 40 games, 1883-1997 Decisive Pawn Pushes The game hangs in the balance when a simple pawn push turns the tide. 40 games, 1942-2017

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