This blog was created by enju, I just put it in alphabetical order and have added new videos not available when this list was originally made. Enju did most of the work and deserves all the credit here!

Do you recognize 2 of the greatest chess minds in history here? Both of them are featured in this series, the smiling player in an 8 part series and his cigar smoking opponent in a 5 part series. The photo is from the famous NY International Tnmt of 1924.

Click on the players name (if not followed by "part 1" etc or else click on "part 1" "part 2" etc) I mention this because they don't look like links in my browser, so maybe they don't in yours either.

Alexander Alekhine  

Viswanathan Anand   Part 1   Part 2  Part 3

Mikhail Botvinnik       Part 1    Part 2

David Bronstein         Part 1    Part 2

Bobby Fischer           Part 1   Part 2    Part 3   Part 4    Part 5  

Capablanca               Part 1     Part 2   Part 3   Part 4    Part 5   

                                 Part 6     Part 7   Part 8   Part 9    Part 10           

Efim Geller               Part 1     Part 2   Part 3

Svetozar Gligoric      Part 1     Part 2   Part 3  Part 4

Anatoly Karpov         Part 1    Part 2

Paul Keres                Part 1     Part 2

Viktor Korchnoi

Bent Larsen

Emanuel Lasker        Part 1   Part 2   Part 3   Part 4   Part 5

Aron Nimzowitsch   Part 1   Part 2   Part 3   Part 4   Part 5   Part 6

Tigran Petrosian       Part 1  Part 2   Part 3  Part 4  Part 5

                                 Part 6   Part 7  Part 8  Part 9                                 

Samuel Reshevsky

Akiba Rubinstein   Part 1   Part 2   Part 3   Part 4   Part 5   Part 6   Part 7   Part 8   Part 9   Part 10   Part 11   Part 12

Vasily Smyslov      Part 1    Part 2

Boris Spassky       Part 1    Part 2

Leonid Stein         Part 1    Part 2

Wilhelm Steinitz   Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5  Part 6  Part 7

Mikhail Tal              Part 1   Part 2

Siegbert Tarrasch   Part 1   Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5