Annotated Games Online

I'm reading Dan Heisman's "A Guide to Chess Improvement" and he talks about the importance of going over annotated Master games. He has dozens of books that he recommends. But, is there a free online source for this? Ideally on chess.com but I can go elsewhere. Thanks!

Try this

https://www.chessgames.com/

But it only has 1.9M games... :- ) Thanks for the tip!

I see Chessgames game search filtered by annotated games, Gameknot best annotated games, and legally free pdfs of classic chess books. I never used any of these resources. But they look good!

Chessgames.com has annotated games and also detailed member discussion of many games.

I stopped playing on GameKnot more than ten years ago.

Many classic chess books are available free, but you need to learn to read Descriptive Notation.

Jose Capablanca, Chess Fundamentals (1921), one of the best chess books for beginners ever written, is available free on Chess Tempo. It has a small number of annotated games.

Lots of blogs have annotated games.

I frequently use chesstempo. But I had no idea that Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals was available there! Thank you for sharing

I have read Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals to completion. It does make some good points. I liked the section about knights vs bishops endgames. But it did not help me much, presumably because tactics decide everything in my games anyway. Maybe once I reach a high enough level where strategy wins games, the book will become more powerful.

Some things that I especially like about Capablanca’s book:

the sequence—checkmates, endings, middle game, and then openings; repeat

he stresses tactics, but only provides a few examples

he tells the reader to work out many things, with a coach if possible. There is no better way to learn than to struggle to understand, rather than finding a video that gives you an explanation that you will forget in a day or two

I checked out this game: https://gameknot.com/annotation.pl/capa-il-capo?gm=72559

playing OTB, but not following the side lines. Then learned how to put the ending into chess.com/analysis to see the ending.

This took me about 25 minutes, but a some of that was figuring out chess.com/analysis and recalling my positional notation.

My plan is to put about 45 minutes of this into my study rotation. (The above was shortening since I watch part of Levy's analysis of his match and also Gukesh/Hiraku in the USA/India match.)

I prefer playing through the moves on a larger board, but I can see how that GameKnot feature could be useful.

Here’s an example of a game annotated by Alekhine on chessgamesdotcom: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1102104