Looking for a red chess book from the 80s or earlier

I know this is a long shot, but I'm hoping someone can help me. Back in the early 90s I read a chess book that was really helpful. I've since lost it, but I can't get another copy because I don't remember the title or the author! Here are the details I remember, and I hope one of you can recognize the book:

1. The hardcover version has a solid red cover.
2. The book is a detailed study of some 20-30 games (maybe 24 games?). Each game is very, very thoroughly explored and explained. 
3. These games are mostly by great masters. I remember there were a number of Fischer-Spassky games in addition to players like Capablanca & Tal, but this book is not just on world championships.
4. For a while the book had the reputation of being able to help you get up to the Expert level.
5. The book title is a bit on the lame side. The author isn't one of the super famous GMs.
6. I think the book must have been published in the 80s, but late 70s is also possible.
7. Since this forum might have readers from all around the world, I should say that this book was published in America, written in English. I think the author is American or British.

Thanks, everybody!

I really have no idea, but it's a fun puzzle. How about Think Like a Grandmaster?

Good try, JugglinDan! I looked at the preview, and it doesn't look like the same book. (1) The table of contents lists items by topics. But the book I have in mind lists the games -- so it's one game per chapter. (2) While Think Like a Grandmaster does have a red cover, it has design on it. The book I have in mind just has a solid red cover except for the title & author. 

But I do recall the title is a bit silly like that, though!

Unfortunately the only old book I have with a plain red cover doesn't match at all:

Yes, the same type of design, but definitely not the Lasker book! I would have remembered Lasker. You have a nice library, Dan!

I found this book "Lessons with the Masters", published in 1989, by obscure authors (to me at least). Contains 20 fully annotated instructive games. Mentioned here, 

Red cover too. And maybe no pattern under the dust jacket.

Chess Master Versus Chess Master

by Max Euwe

1977

McKay publishing

25 annotated games

FYI: Max Euwe happened to be the 5th world chess champion. He wrote books that became the building blocks of strong rated chess players of the 70s until the 2000s such as Chess Master Vs Chess Amateur (the template of future annotated chess game collections aimed for new chess students and low-rated players) and The Middlegame Books 1 and 2 (the first comprehensive strategy books that focused on the middlegame part of the game that strong players didn’t mention or share with other players to maintain their advantage) just to name a few of his most popular works. I wouldn’t consider Euwe a lame chess author.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Euwe#Chess_books_by_Euwe 

@chessroboto: Good find!

@catahoula2: Thanks. I actually have a very small collection of real chess books. Most of my books in general are electronic. Many years ago I got tired of packing dozens of crates of books every time I moved house. Been reducing the books ever since.

I'm going with Chernev's "The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played"

62 games including some by Fischer and Capa

Is there a prize if I've got this right?

Ignore me - this was first published in '66 so no Fischer-Spassky games

By Jove, Dan, I think you've got it! Lessons with the Masters seems familiar, and indeed I recall the authors weren't international stars. The cover photo is unfamiliar, but that could be the dust jacket which I didn't have. I cannot be sure until I look at the table of contents, but I think it's worth purchasing just to find out!

How did you do it? Did you just google the right keywords? Are you a bibliography expert? 

Thanks so much! I'll see if this is the book and go from there!

We don't know yet if Lessons with the Masters is the right book, so I will keep the champagne on ice for now

As for how I found it, I just searched on "chess game anthologies from the 1980s" and found the Caissa Editions Bookstore link on the first page. Once I saw that page was a massive wall of text, I did a find in page for "198" and eyeballed all the descriptions. There are others in there that might be a match, but they had the wrong number of games, like "BEST GAMES OF THE YOUNG GRANDMASTERS, C, Pritchett & Kopec, London, 1980, p, exc, 217p. covers Miles, Timman, Browne, Andersson, Hübner, Ribli, Ljubojevic, and Kasparov. How fast time moves! Except for Kasparov none of these players would be ranked in the top ten today. 87 games with interesting notes."

Masters of the Chessboard

by Richard Reti

1932

reprinted in 1977 

Any updates? This looks like a fun mystery.

It has to be Max's book. Only book that fits OP description .

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