Best chess masters biographies?

Chess bios?  Here are ten highly useful books that interweave a chessplayer's games with his or her life and thought-processes:  

GM Alexander Kotov's 4-volume bio of Alekhine (1953-58), which appeared in 1975 in an abridged 218-page, 1-volume version, 

Tibor Karolyi's "Judit Polgar:  The Princess of Chess" (2004), 

J. Hannak's "Emanuel Lasker:  The Life of a Chess Master" (1952),

Raymond Keene's "Aron Nimzowitsch:  Master of Planning" (1974),

GM Eduard Gufeld's "Leonid Stein:  Master of Risk Strategy (2001),

Andris Fride's "Vladmirs Petrovs:  A Chessplayer's Story" (2004),

"Khalifman: Life & Games" by his trainer, GM Gennady Nesis (2000),

Elie Agur's uniquely insightful  "Bobby Fischer: His Approach to Chess"

the surprisingly objective autobiography "Karpov on Karpov" (1990)&

GM Valeri Beim's inner voyage probing the mental workings of a natural genius, "Paul Morphy:  A Modern Perspective" (2005).

I have an autographed copy of frank brady's Endgame bio on bobby fischer. He signed: To howard, may all of your pawns be promoted to queens in most positions!-frank brady. but yes, this a fantastic book. I reccomend that everyone should read it. its a very tragic story.

This is one of the most interesting, intelligent and informative threads I've read on chess.com. Has anyone read My Life by Vishy Anand? I would like to read it but it seems to be out of print. 

I agree with @CaptJaneway, I will look for MY life

I will too,does anyone know anything about it ?

I have Vishy Anand: My Best Games of Chess which was written by Anand and John Nunn. It won the BCF Book of the Year prize, but I do not recommend it as an autobiography. Anand states in the preface that this is a collection of games, not an autobiography. To the best of my knowledge, there is no such book as My Life by Anand.

Thanks for the replies. I saw the title (My LIfe) on Amazon.com about a year ago. It showed as a hard cover and out of print. I thought maybe they discontinued the hard cover in preparation to release a soft cover. No news yet...

This thread is about masters but as an aside, if anyone wants to read a light and inspirational chess biography, I suggest Queen of Katwe by Tim Crothers. It is a true and current story (on CNN & ESPN recently) about a teenage girl in the slums of Uganda who learned chess to get free food at the club. She soon became national champion and is now competing internationally (the youngest competitor at Moscow).

when I was starting to play chess 1968, the USSR and Yugoslavia were the biggest chess nations. GM Torre from the Philippines was the great eastern Asia chess player. Their were just a few western players of standing. Fischer, Larsen  and a few others. Mow chess is world wide. Africa needs a lot, but chess can help. (forgive the rambling)

Everyman Chess' 2007 catalogue lists a book called My Life in Chess by Vishy Anand and Devangshu Datta.  There is apparently a copy in the Vancouver Public Library.

Thx rigamagician.

Thank you globstup. And now the question no one has an answer to : where to find a website compiling commented masters' games (commented by masters too) ?

IM Mark Dvoretsky, GM Arkadij Naiditsch and GM Yasser Seirawan annotate games in columns for ChessCafe.com. Chessintranslation occasionally has annotations by GM Sergei Shipov taken from Crestbook.  GM Lubomir Kavalek writes for the Washington Post.  IM Malcolm Pein has his own newspaper column.  Sites like Chessbase, Chessdom, Chess Vibes and The Week In Chess often have annotations for world championship matches.  A search for GM Robert Byrne on the New York Times web site should turn up his old columns.  GM Alexander Baburin's old Coffee Break Chess columns are still online.

Thank you both. I forgot to say I have spent hours and hours looking for a hidden wonderful vast compilation... In doing that, I found all the games you are referring to, rigamagician. But the question is really : has anyone built a database or compilation of those commented games ?

Of annotated games from web sites?  Probably not.  As you may know, Chessbase and Chess Informant sell collections of annotated games in database form, and there are print magazines like New In Chess or e-zines like Chess Evolution or Chess Today.

Shady Side: The Life and Crimes of Norman Tweed Whitaker, ChessMaster by John Samuel Hilbert

"A chronicle of America's most notorious chess master based on many of his own papers. Includes a detailed story of his life, his loves, his cons, and his many chess experiences in a 60+-year career, along with 570 of his games (some with full notes). Much US chess history and some excellent photos are a notable part of the book. Yorklyn, 2000. This book won the ChessCafe "Book of the Year" award for 2000."

There is an excellent review of this book by Taylor Kingston on the ChessCafe.com Book Review Archives web site.

This is an interesting book, especially if you like to read about the darker side of chess players. Here's Wikipedia's link which has a little background information on Norman Tweed Whitaker - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_T._Whitaker

Do you mean : I want too much, globstup ?

Thanks for that link, I tried it yesterday, and cannot download those fomats... (mac user I am)

rigamagician, from websites or from real life, what I am looking for is a database available on the web, in PGN or e+books format (interactive)... It will be done, but as globstup put it : I pretend too much ;) (for the moment)

I have seen the e-magazines, yes, especially the great series annotated by Kasparov on ChessInformant. But it's a large database I am asking about, and I guess, from the threads found in chess.com forums about this, that nothin has been done for now. It will come.

@the400blows : thanks !

right, globstup, that's what I meant.

You could try the downloads on here.

There are quite alot, there's this one for example.

http://www.chess.com/download/view/gms-annotated-games-by-gms