Favorite Games Collection book

What are some of your favorite or recommended annotated games books that y'all have looked through? Always cool to look at y'know, ex; I wasn't born in 72, but its cool to playout a game from Fischer vs Spassky cause that's what lotta people following the match did on their own sets.

500 Mater Games of Chess is real good IMO. It covers about every opening you can think of.

The Art of Sacrifice in Chess by Rudolf Spielmann

Judit Polgar's First book How I Beat Fischer's Record (OUTSTANDING BOOK)

My Fifty Years in Chess by Frank Marshall

Currently enjoying John Nunn's Chess Course which is essentially an annotated game collection of Lasker's Games!  (much better than Soltis' book on Lasker)

9kick9 wrote:

500 Mater Games of Chess is real good IMO. It covers about every opening you can think of.

Seems really interesting, I'll check it out

For me it's fischers 60 memorable games, alekhines best games 1907-35 (I think those are the years) botvinnik hundred selected games and modern brilliances by Larry Evans.

For Karpov fans, Karpov collected games. Over 500 of his games and biography of his rise to the top of the chess world.

The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal by Tal and My Games with the World Champion by Seirawan.

I don't have many but I enjoy Chernov's "The Most Instructive Games Ever Played" and Keres' "Great Grandmaster Battles From Russia". I've heard that "New York 1924" by Alekhine is very good and I plan to buy it someday.

I have Karpov's book on the English Opening which seems more like a game collection than an opening repertoire book. I don't care for it much. Maybe I will after I push myself to go through it thoroughly but it doesn't seem it's what I wanted when I bought it.

edit: Oh yeah, and Fischer's "60...". That's a good one.

Yep, that's it. Keres is a good annotator and one of the best analysts.

Bobby Fischer: Complete Games by Lou Hayes. There's over 1000 of his games, no annotations though but you look over his games from when he was a young teen, to the rematch with Spassky.

Bobby Fischer: The Career and Comeplete Games by Karsten Muller. 700 something of his games, little annotations, but a great introduction in the book, about Bobby's life done by Larry Evans.

Even with almost no annotations, still good books, and with so many games, you can see what Fischer tends to play a lot of the time in certain openings.