Favorite GM to study?

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electricpawn

Jeremy Silman recommends the study of master games for general chess improvment. He says that you should find a game collection of a player you like and play through those games.

I play through master games, but not routinely and not just one player. I have a collection of Capablanca's games, and they are truly impressive. I want to improve my tactical vision, so maybe I'll get a collection of Tal's games.

If you were to choose one or two GM's to study, past or present, who would you choose?

derpdederp

past- H Pillsbury

current- M Adams

Ziryab

Karpov

modernchess

Morphy

philidorposition

Kramnik & Carlsen.

Archaic71

George Mackenzie - Every bit as good as Morphy (sorry batgirl), with a lot of games available

Capablanca - just really good soild play and the endgame book with Chernov was one of the first books I read.

Judit - lots of '!' moves, creative attacking, plus I found an online collection with a lot of annotated games of hers.

Skwerly

I look at a LOT of Alekhine games.  That guy's style never ceases to amaze me.  :D

derpdederp
Skwerly wrote:

I look at a LOT of Alekhine games.  That guy's style never ceases to amaze me.  :D


do you have that Everyman's Alekhine puzzle book?

I thought it was pretty good. Impressed by how many games of his have domination tactics in the endgame

SoccerChess

Tal

Benja299

Capablanca and Kasparov

theimprovingplayer

Steinitz and Fischer (I don't really have one current GM that I study on a scheduled basis, but I like Anand the most)

themothman

Morphy and Steinitz made really lovely games to watch. I also like studying Fischer's game, there's books disecting how he destroyed all the top GMs.

mohawkdcg

I have enjoyed Capablanca and Fischer

dsmeaton

you know what ... i realised that i don't read enough about chess. LOL ... i'm too busy reading other stuff.

i ought to get into reading more chess moves, strategy, GM study.

maybe this is why i'm not really improving! :)

Tricklev

David Bronstein is a favorite atm.

nuclearturkey

I already have: Capablanca & Karpov (not exactly present, but not too far back).

Ziryab

Kramnik

JG27Pyth

Went thru Lasker last year... am working on Steinitz and Morphy now... next up Rubinstein. I'm not concentrating on any contemporary GMs yet.

chry3841

past alekhine, capablanca and smislov 

 

modern i like: Wesley So, Carlsen and Malakhov 

mattattack99

Kasparov!