What are the best annotated GM games for learning?

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ponz111

I would think it interesting to make a list of the very best  annotated grandmaster games for learning.  If anyone has one or two candidate games post it or them here. Later, maybe we can make a list of the top 20?

moonnie

What do you mean .. the best games or the annotators ?

Almost anything annotated by Timman is very good. Also of course Bronstein Zurich 1954.

The most funny game annotated is by Donner in his briliant book "The King". He wrote a beautifull writeup of the game Donner - Velimirovic called pretty little thing with very nice sentences like (translated from Dutch)

"When I was younger i considered the Benoni as completly inferior and winning should be just a matter of technique combined with preseverence. Now I know better more than once i have ben kicked of the  board by this aggresive opening to know that chess is far to difficult for me and it would be wiser for me to play easier positions"

transpo

Bronstein Zurich 1953

ponz111

I mean the best annotated games so not anything by Timman but maybe his best one or two.

There must be many very well written and annotated grandmaster games which would possibly qualify for this list.

[It really does not have to be a grandmaster game as long as it was played very well and annotated very well] 

Scottrf

Surely it depends on the reader. A game annotated for masters wont be understandable to a beginner, and text aimed at beginners will be too basic for anyone else.

ponz111

transpo it would help if somehow you could give the actual game Bronstein Zurich 1953.

I will suggest one game myself--there was a famous Morphy game played in an opera--someone will know what I refer to.  It is very instructive and also fun to look at.

ponz111

Sure, it depends on the reader so I am suggesting  games that players rated 1600 and up will understand.

Scottrf

Bernstein-Mieses - weak colour complexes, Chernev annotates it in his logical chess, move by move book. Not sure if anyone else annotates it better.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1262408

ponz111

Yes, Scottrf--that kind of game is what I am looking for... There might be a copy right problem however?

rooperi

I loved the way Tartakower annotated. Sadly, my 500 Master games is many years disintegrated, but his annotations read lke a novel.

...duelling with rapiers on the edge of a precipice...

Scottrf
ponz111 wrote:

Yes, Scottrf--that kind of game is what I am looking for... There might be a copy right problem however?

I don't know any sources for good annotated games that are copyright free?

fredm73

500 famous games, annotated, is included in http://www.chess.com/download/view/guessthemove----training-program.  I don't know who the annotator was, but some comments are very sharp.

ponz111

fredm73 I am sure the 500 games are very good but the idea is to pick one or two or three of the very best...

KeyserSzoze

ponz111, this is the game you are talking about, "The classic opera game" (the link has the story included also). 

ponz111

Yes! Keyser that would be about #1 on the list of 20 best games for learning.

Also, the game suggested by Scottrf  Bernstein-Mieses =weak color complexes might be somewhere in the top 20.... 

ponz111

Also maybe the Bronstein game Zurich  1953 or 1954?

Andre_Harding

ponz111:

"Bronstein Zurich 1953" refers to the games of the Zurich-Neuhausen Candidates tournament of 1953, whose 210 games were annotated by Bronstein in one of the greatest chess books ever written.

Each of the 15 players in that event played 28 games.

SisypheanLife

Chernev is just brilliant. I'd suggest the Capablanca-Corzo 9th Match Game, 1901

fburton

Presumably "best" means "most instructively annotated" in this context (rather than "most accurately", "most deeply" or "most entertainingly")?

Andre_Harding

As far as instructive games go, here's a partial list of what I'd recommend (in no particular order):

Morphy vs. Duke of Brunswick/Count Isouard, 1858 (as mentioned)

Legall vs. St. Brie, Paris 1750 (time wasting moves, importance of development, coordination)

Rosenthal vs. Steinitz, Vienna 1873 (bishop pair, resticting enemy pieces, exploiting weak space)

Englisch vs. Steinitz, London 1883 (bishop pair, space, superior pieces in the endgame)

Marshall vs. Burn, Paris 1900 (Pillsbury Attack in Queen's Gambit Declined, using the h-file in an attack, understanding how to/how not to use pawn moves to defend the k-side)

Steinitz-Chigorin, WCH match 1892 (game 4) (Kingside attack, h-file attack, opening lines for the pieces, coordination)

Rotlewi-Rubinstein, Lodz 1907 (imporance of tempi in the opening, play in symmetrical positions, kingside attack with horwitz bishops)

Rubinstein-Salwe, Lodz 1908 (playing against isolated pawn couple)

Rubinstein-Marshall, Lodz 1908 (Four Knights Game, maneuvering for k-side attack)

 

Of course there are many more, but this is a decent starting point.