past- H Pillsbury
current- M Adams
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.
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
Steinitz and Fischer (I don't really have one current GM that I study on a scheduled basis, but I like Anand the most)
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.
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! :)
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?