Can anyone recommend some books?

Hi Guys,

To augment my ever-growing chess library, I'm looking for books of annotated games of the following masters:

- 1) Alekhine 2) Capablanca 3) Morphy

Ideally what I'm looking for is books that:

- are in algebraic notation

- have many, clear diagrams

- contain good and instructive annotations by experts

Btw, I've heard bad things about "A First Book of Morphy" - it appears the book uses non-standard notation.

Can anyone recommend some titles that fit the bill?

Thanks very much :-)

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Well this book has some Capablanca Morphy and Alekhine but you probably have it. Its name is the ever-godly MY SYSTEM by Nimzovitsch its got lots of diagrams and is a staple in anyone chess library.

Thanks, I don't have My System - I think it's too advanced for me atm. I was thinking more of indivdual volumes of annotated greatest games for the three respective masters.

Can anyone recommend any specific titles?

I have also heard some good things about "A First Book on Morphy"! Also, Beims's Book "Paul Morphy: A Modern Perspective" (I Think?) got a fine review.

How about just learning descriptive notation and then the world of chess literature will open up to you?  Quit crippling yourself by slavish adherance to algebraic notation.

OK, revision:

The books can be in descriptive notation as well.

Any specific titles you can now recommend? Thanks :-)

There's Reinfeld's The Immortal Games of Capablanca for starters.

Capablanca's Best Chess Endings by Irving Chernev

There are a lot of books on Alekhine on Amazon, I just don't remember the titles. (Alekhine's not my favorite master.) 

Anyway, they all seem to have a lot of annotated games in them, so you could check them out.

Yes. Someone can recommend books.

Thanks guys!

you really probably can play through my system its really not hard

erm, is that page legal??...

streetfighter  I have to confess you that I wasn't thinking about that. I am sorry if I hurt you. I only wanted to help chessoholicalien, but now I will remove my previous post with that link

On this main page, go to "resources" under resources you will find books chess.com has reccomended.  Good list

I recomend you "How to Reasses Your Chess " from Jeremy Silman.