The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played

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Rook and Pawn Ending
Game 10
V.Smyslov - S. Reshevsky
FIDE World Championship, Moscow 1948
Ruy Lopez
 
On Smyslov in the endgame Chernev notes: "His skill in that department is now so evident as to find his name mentioned in the same breath with those of Capablanca and Rubinstein. There is no higher praise."
 
Ziryab
Micko27 wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
Micko27 wrote:

Does anyone have this book in algebraic notation? I am willing to buy it used if someone offers ?

 

You can get a PGN file of the games at http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com

Wall’s stuff always has errors, but can be useful.

Thanks, that's a great source! But I would like to have real book. I like chernevs writing

 

I read books in descriptive notation while playing through the moves on my computer screen.

AunTheKnight

Very good games for annotating!

KevinOSh
King in the Center
Game 11
S.Tartakower - M.Frentz
Paris 1933
English Opening
 

On 24.Bc5 Chernev says "a pretty move which renews the threat of winning the Queen Rook pawn (a-pawn). Obviously Bxc5 would lose the rook by Rb8+"
 
Game Review
94% Accuracy White
80.8% Accuracy Black
 
16.Bb5+ brilliant
19.Bxe6 great
22.Re7 great
24.Bc5 best
 
Black made 3 mistakes, on moves 10, 11 and 33
KevinOSh
The Shifting Attack
Game 12
S.Reshevsky - M.Najdorf
Dallas 1957
Nimzo-Indian Defense
 
 
Game Review
93.1% Accuracy White
84.5% Accuracy Black
 
Black makes 1 blunder which is castling on move 14. The best move there is 14...a4
 
Chernev begins with a definition of a strategist: "the strategist confuses the issue by keeping things in abeyance. He threatens to threaten!"
 
In this game Reshevsky shifts the attack from side to side, hence the title of this game.
 
Najdorf's last move is an obvious checkmate threat, and when Reshevsky avoids it, Najdorf resigns.

KevinOSh
Every Move a Threat!
Game 13
M.Porges - E.Lasker
Nuremberg 1896
Ruy Lopez
 
Annotations by Tarrasch
 

KevinOSh
A Touch of Jujitsu
Game 14
T.Petrosian - V.Korchnoi
Leningrad 1946
Dutch Defense
 

Petrosian was just 17 years old when he defeated Korchnoi in this game.
 
8 minute video - Chess School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3k3Ow9mKHM
 
26 minute video:
 
 
Towards the end of the Chess Knight Riders video they discuss the Caruana - Carlsen game where Magnus shows he learned from Korchnoi's mistake and plays Qe7 to prevent White from exchanging the bishops. He is that game in full:
 
KevinOSh
The King-Side Attack
Game 15
S.Tarrasch - T. von Scheve
Leipzig 1894
Queen's Gambit Declined
 
Annotations by Tarrasch:

 
6 minute Chess School Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkIBpWGp7hc
 
12 minute Better Chess Training video:
KevinOSh
Magnificent Outpost
Game 16
Smyslov - Rudakovsky
Moscow 1945
Sicilian Defense
 
 
 
8 min Agadmator video:
 
1 hour ChessBase India lesson by Sagar Shah:
KevinOSh
The Art of Exchanging Pieces
Game 17
V.Menchik - J.R.Capablanca
 Hastings 1931
 

13 minute video by FM Mike Ivanov
 

KevinOSh
The Isolated Pawn
Game 18
E.Lasker - S.Tarrasch
St. Petersburg 1914
Queen's Gambit Declined
 
Annotations by Tarrasch
 

 
KevinOSh
The See-Saw Check, Zugswang, and Other Tactical Tricks
Game 19
A.Kupferstich - J.Andreassen
Denmark 1953
Vienna Game
 

Happy  Birthday Sagar!

KevinOSh
The Two Bishops
Game 20
S.Rosenthal - W.Steinitz
Vienna 1873
Three Knights Game

In the book Chernev has a 34 move Three Knights game. This is not found in the online databases. Instead we have a 38 move game.

This game is featured in Jeremy Silman's book The Amateur's Mind. An extract of this book featuring this game is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140708094419/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/ammind.pdf

This game remains a model example for how to tame the enemy knights and use your bishops to dominate the game.

Here's the computer analysis:

And here's the full analysis from IM Sagar Shah

Donnsteinz

Why didn't you instead create a weekly (it doesn't have to be weekly) blog where you analyze each of the most instructive games? It's really hard to go through them in this format. And by the time you completed all the games, you would probably have become a top-blogger too.

KevinOSh
Donnsteinz wrote:

Why didn't you instead create a weekly (it doesn't have to be weekly) blog where you analyze each of the most instructive games? It's really hard to go through them in this format. And by the time you completed all the games, you would probably have become a top-blogger too.

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KevinOSh
Variety of Themes
Game 21
S.Tartakower - R.Domenech
Sitges 1934
Colle System
 
 
Kingscrusher video features several Tartakower games including this one
 

KevinOSh
Systematic Strangulation
Game 22
S.Tarrasch - J.Showalter
Vienna 1898
Hungarian Defense
 

KevinOSh
Good Knight vs Bad Bishop
Game 23
Barden - Rossolimo
Hastings 1950
Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen. Classical Variation Paulsen Variation
 

 

KevinOSh
Coup de Grace
Game 24
Alekhine - Yates
London 1922
Queen's Gambit Declined
 

KevinOSh
The Powerful Passed Pawns
Game 25
Aganalian - Petrosian
Georgian Championship, Tiflis 1945
Old Indian Defense