Annotated master games collection

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Hi,

I saw a video where Shahade analyzed a game in chessbase, when clicking the reference button, he got lots of annotated games. Having megadatabase 2011 myself, I started to look for the same games (with annotations) but I didn't find any of them.

So I then started searching at the chessbase site, didn't find any other collection of games. 

Can someone here recommend a good collection of games (annotated)??

Avatar of kco

try google it. like for e.g. "annotated games" 

Avatar of goldendog

There are plenty of annotated games in MegaBase, just not every game.

Avatar of JG27Pyth

Here's a link right from chess.com http://www.chess.com/download/view/600-annotated-games

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JG27Pyth wrote:

Here's a link right from chess.com http://www.chess.com/download/view/600-annotated-games


I'd rather have something commercial, with lots of games and high-quality annotations (top GMs)

I've googled, but nothing good has come up, thats why I'm asking. Seems strange to me that only megadatabase is available.

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thisjuan wrote:
JG27Pyth wrote:

Here's a link right from chess.com http://www.chess.com/download/view/600-annotated-games


I'd rather have something commercial, with lots of games and high-quality annotations (top GMs)

I've googled, but nothing good has come up, thats why I'm asking. Seems strange to me that only megadatabase is available.


http://www.newinchess.com/

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Well, if it's high quality master annotations you want, try this one: 

http://www.chessville.com/LessonsLearned/2004Mar.htm

It's GM Mark Taimanov's own very thorough and fascinating account of the game against Fischer that broke MT's spirit and ultimately led to his complete collapse against Fischer in the Candidates match run up to the 72 World Championship.  

These are amazing annotations. But it's worth pointing out that at key junctures, the positions in the game itself are so complex, it's hard for ordinary players to make heads or tails of them. Which is sort of the whole point -- GM Taimanov himself got lost in the complexity and it _still_ haunts him. 

When was the last time you read something like this in an annotation: 

"And here I was, I will admit, seized by a helpless state of despair - "What is this Fischer, like?  Is he invulnerable or bewitched?"  Again I returned to the maneuver 20. Qh3, and again sorted through tens of variations, and again unsuccessfully.  And time passed, time-trouble approached.  As measured by the arbiters I had considered this position for 72 minutes!  Perhaps in the entire half-century of my performances I never spent so much time on one move!

And I was simply psychologically broken.  Energy had run low; there was apathy; nothing made sense, and I made the first move that came into my head, which, certainly, was losing..."