Hi everyone,

 

I'm looking for some good games that are annotated for the beginner/advanced beginner, great if every move has a little explanation behind it, and preferably in .pgn format so I can download them. I've had a search around online and either the annotations seem a little thin on the ground, or I can't download.

 

Any good links?

 

~ Jordan 

Annotated games are usually copywrited, either by the author or the publisher.  That's why you don't see too many annotated games in some file in pgn format.  I can provide large databases of games, as long as they don't have other annotations in it, unless they are my own annotations.

Hi -- the two sites that I know of are:

http://www.logicalchess.com/resources/lc/index.html

http://www.50chessgames.freeserve.co.uk/indexsmall.html 

That should get you started - hope it helps! 

this is a nice chess page with over 3000 annotated games, good idea to scroll down the page and start with the New York 1924 ones:

http://www.angelfire.com/games3/smartbridge/

enjoy!

There are some annoted games at chesscafe.com in particular at http://www.chesscafe.com/archives/archives.htm#Inside%20Chess  although compared to the ones above it may not be as useful because they are not in .pgn format. There are some real top class games though.