How to analyze and study master games
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I did a search and did not find any previous threads addressing this. Can I hear from experienced players on how to analyze and look over master games, what do you look for, what approach do you take? Sometimes a single move is part of an entire trap or indirect threat. Suppose you don’t understand a sequence or single move, what do you do? Many of the annotated games only give comments after a sequence of moves and expect the reader to understand those sequence of moves prior or after their annotated comments(please don’t recommend the move by move series). Thanks in advance.
If I remember correctly, there is a chapter on this sort of thing in Studying Chess Made Easy by Andrew Soltis.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090448/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review750.pdf
Also, possibly of interest:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Simple-Attacking-Plans-77p3731.htm
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Some books are harder than others.