Best books of annotated games?

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Hey guys, can you recommend any books of annotated games that helped you? What are the "classic" books of annotated games?

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Bent Larsen's 'Best Games' and Reti's 'Masters of the Chess Board' are the two classics that have inspired me the most.

Fischers 'My 60 Memorable Games' and Bronsteins "Zürich 1954' is also two all time classic, wich I have not read myself.

Kasparows 'My Great Predecessors' is also highly recommendable.

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Logical Chess by Irving Chernev

A First Book Of Morphy (Frisco Del Rosario)

 

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500 Master Games of Chess by Tartakower and DuMont.
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Some say Najdorf’s book on Zurich 1953 is better than Bronstein’s.
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Tal-Botvinnik 1960

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Many excellent annotated game collections listed here.   The so-called "classic" collections are located toward the bottom of the list under, and in the vicinity of, "My 60 Memorable Games" by Bobby Fischer...

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

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Mammoth book of greatest games, Life and Games of Mikhail Tal, Tal vs Botvinnik 1960, Anatoly Karpov My Best Games (Edition Olms), Zurich 1953 Interzonal (by Bronstein), Why Lasker Matters (Soltis).

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Judit Polgar's "How I beat Fisher's Record" is supposed to be excellent but I haven't read it yet.

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Judit Polgar's 3 volumes of her games is excellent. I would recommend John Nunn's 3 game collections and Korchnoi's game collections.

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Doesn't get much better than Reti's Masters of the Chessboard. Euwe's Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur is very instructive and worth a read.

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I agree with the titles collected in this relevant article by IM Silman

https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-best-chess-books-ever 

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I think one of the most overlooked tournament books and IMHO the best tournament book of the last two decades was the big volume on San Luis 2005 -- the chess championship FIDE tournament that Topalov won by a wide margin.  It has background, stories, analysis, and color photos.  A big, heavy book.

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Agree with San Luis 2005. I think it just got ignored based whether you liked Topalov or not. 

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It has to be Irving Chernev'e 'Logical Chess' , "The Art of Logical thinking" by Neil Macdonald and John Nunn's Understanding Chess Move by Move. I also liked mammoth book of words greatest chess games.

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Agree on all of these. I would add the Tartakower and du Mont follow up to 500 Games, 100 Master Games of Modern Chess, Timman's Titans and Art of Chess Analysis by same author. Finally, for a one player collection, how about 200 Open Games by David Bronstein?