I have no idea if this will help you make up your mind but anyway here is Coach Heisman's book page. Note that if you click on the big blue "instructive game anthologies" , it will take you to one of Coach's articles where he goes on at length about the difference between an instructive game anthology and an ordinary annotated game collection. Could be worth reading...
http://danheisman.home.comcast.net/~danheisman/Events_Books/General_Book_Guide.htm#anthologies
I have loads of books but the closest I have to a game collection is How to Defend in Chess by Crouch and Big Database 2013... but I knew it had no annotated games when buying it.
How to Defend in Chess goes over Lasker (finds ways out of trouble) and Petrosian (staying out of trouble usually) games. I have My System, Think Like a Grandmaster, abunch of endgame books (Nunn's Understanding Chess Endgames is my basic one), Heisman's Improving Chess Thinker, Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual and his School of Chess Excellence 2-4, Aagard's Calculation (I'm waiting to round out my other abilities before working on it), Comprehensive Chess Endings: Rook vs. minor piece, bishop vs. knight, CCE: Queen endings (queen vs. rook and minors too in it), Shereshevsky's Chess Strategy, Bo Hansen's Secrets of Chess Endgame Strategy, How to Play Chess Endings, Soviet Middlegame Technique, Turning Advantage into Victory in Chess, Killer Chess Tactics, Secrets of Pawn Endings, Survival Guide to Rook Endings, Basic Chess Endings, Improve Your Positional Chess, Positional Sacrifices, and 1.b3 (the purple one by Everyman).
Plenty I haven't even read yet (of the chess endgames I only finished BCE, Survival Guide to Rook Endings, Secrets of Pawn Endings, and Endgame Strategy I still haven't touched the CCE's and the other strategic endgame books yet).
I noticed game collections were missing and need to fix the gap.
The reason for Petrosian is I'd have a better prophylactic understanding to fix any gaps there. It is a collection gathered over a few years sounds like a lot but spread out over time. Defense is a very overlooked skillset so defending very hard positions where I'm objectively winning (sometimes even up material) or not losing drawn positions would be great. Right Decisions and Fritz Technique Trainer have some great hands on positions for playing against computers but is lacking in prose and explanations.
One Hundred Selected Games by Mikhail Botvinnik is my favorite games collection from cover to cover.
Three Hundred Chess Games- Tarrasch
Capablanca move by move is a very very good book, second only to FIschers MY60MG, Im currently studying it forthe past 2 weeks, although lakdawa la have bias tendencies towards his idol he does give his observations about capas style of play and challenge the reader to find the move that wins.
Here what i observed:
Capa plays the opening just to get an equal position, then after the opening phase he sets targets and pursue the plan but doesnt burn bridges along the way, when his opponent rebuffed his attack he then sets little traps kinda 2-3 move combination thing then when his opponents find them he simplifies into a favourabel endgame.
Here is the problem,,,some of his attacks are so surprising that you wouldnt find it even if you stare at the board for 5mins. and amazingly simplifies even when he needed not to( make you wanna question his methods). Great games and great readable and understandable analysis.
What it says in the title. I'm thinking of buying these:
Are these good? Since game collections are a great way to work a thinking process these seem reasonable.