I’m an advanced beginner switching my repertoire from e4 to d4. For purely studying opening lines I use Chessable, but I find the context of annotated game collections (full games, player biography, chess history) a motivating way to learn. So I’m not looking for a book for d4 theory specifically, but rather books about players or eras that have a focus on, or at least a large amount of d4 games https://showbox.tools/.
For example, I found the d4 section of Logical Chess Move By Move extremely helpful for adding context to the Chessable lines. I’ve heard that Zurich 1953 had a disproportionately high number of d4 games which sounds perfect, and I love the historic component, but it might be a bit above my level at this point.
So are there any beginner/intermediate friendly books that have many annotated d4 games? Particular famous players or eras to focus on? I don’t mind if the openings are a bit “out of date” as I find the history as interesting as the actual game, and I don’t mind if there are other openings included, just ideally d4 would be a majority.
Thank you!
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I’m an advanced beginner switching my repertoire from e4 to d4. For purely studying opening lines I use Chessable, but I find the context of annotated game collections (full games, player biography, chess history) a motivating way to learn. So I’m not looking for a book for d4 theory specifically, but rather books about players or eras that have a focus on, or at least a large amount of d4 games.
For example, I found the d4 section of Logical Chess Move By Move extremely helpful for adding context to the Chessable lines. I’ve heard that Zurich 1953 had a disproportionately high number of d4 games which sounds perfect, and I love the historic component, but it might be a bit above my level at this point.
So are there any beginner/intermediate friendly books that have many annotated d4 games? Particular famous players or eras to focus on? I don’t mind if the openings are a bit “out of date” as I find the history as interesting as the actual game, and I don’t mind if there are other openings included, just ideally d4 would be a majority.
Thank you!