Where to find annotated games of old masters?

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fredm73

http://www.chess.com/download/view/guess-the-move comes with 500 annotated games of historic chess players

Coach-Bill

Check the publisher Dover. They have a lot of old classic books dating from the late 1800's to mid 1900's constantly in print.

goldendog

http://www.amazon.com/500-Master-Games-Chess-Dover/dp/0486232085

It's in descriptive though, not algebraic. Sad that so many are cut off from great, old books due to this.

The $5.99 price is super for those who can handle it though.

ajmeroski

@fredm73: thanks, I'll check that

 

As for descriptive notation, unfortunately, I can't read it. Is it hard to learn and is it even worth learning?

kemibl

I second learning descriptive notation. There are many a great chess books written using DN

Dover always takes the cake, in my opinion. I went on a hunt for annotated games published by Dover. There are some out there that they don't offer on their website anymore. If you go to Wikipedia's chess book list (link below), and use the Find function you can find some great titles. I once found books on the games of Rubenstein, Steinitz, and Colle this way. Keep in mind that these books will not describe every move played, so you may have to figure a few out for yourself. For the most part, though, the good moves and weaker moves are described.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_books